The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, he will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green. Psalm 92:12-14.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived. A beautiful life is not wandering in the wilderness but is planted firmly, with its roots deep downward, in My house.
Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. Psalm 23:6.
And you have a part in that. A lifestyle of praise and worship lifts you up and brings Me down, so that you touch the divine and the divine touches you. It is good to sing praises for it is pleasant and praise is becoming. Psalm 147:1, Psalm 33:1. The word that is translated “becoming” is the Hebrew word “naveh ( נָאוֶה),” which means beautiful, suitable, dwelling, habitation, pasture, abode. It is from the word “naah (נָאָה),” which means to be beautiful, befitting, suitable and the word “naveh (נָוֶה),” which means to rest or dwell for man or beast, such as a sheepfold, but it means a lovely place to inhabit. That describes My house.
How lovely are Your dwelling places, O LORD of hosts! My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God . . . How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Psalm 84:1-2;4.
You enter My gates with thanksgiving, My courts with praise, and you plant in My courts when you worship. I am looking for those who worship in Spirit and truth. That is, with faith in My Word. And remaining in My Word and My Word remaining in you, that flow is worship. Worship is a flow, a lifestyle, based on mutual respect and honor that is faithful and true because of the beauty each sees in the other. I honor those who honor Me.
Rejoicing in Me, that is, in My magnificent promises that are all “yes” to you in Jesus, praying without ceasing, i.e., always talking with and consulting Me, and giving constant thanks for the abundance of things given you by My goodness, honors Me immensely. For all three show ultimate faith.
So today, in order to make your life beautiful, I want to talk to you about being planted in My House.
In Psalm 92 I tell you that the righteous man shall flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon (both trees are strong and majestic and are green all year, live long and are very useful to man for many products and provide wonderful building material), planted in the house of the LORD (Yahavah) they will flourish in the courts of God (Elohim) and will bear fruit in old age. They shall be full of anointing and very green (youthful and fresh). Psalm 92:12-13.
It is most important for your life and growth where you are planted. You do not want to be like a bush planted in the desert that will not see prosperity when it comes, but lives in stony wastes in the wilderness, a salt and empty earth. Jeremiah 17:6. And the one who trusts not in Me but in his own flesh and other men while his heart is turned away from Me is like that barren bush in the desert.
But how blessed is the one who trusts in Me and whose trust is Me, for he shall be like a tree planted by the water that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes, but its leaves shall be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8.
The one who delights in My Word and meditates in it day and night is like a tree planted by streams of waters which yields its fruit in due season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers. Psalm 1:3.
Just considering trees, it makes a tremendous difference where they are planted in how fruitful, healthy, and strong they are.
And it also makes a tremendous difference in your life of how fruitful, healthy and strong you will be.
So how do you get planted in My House so you can flourish there all the days of your life? Remember David? He sang “And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.” And he longed to be hidden in the abode of My temple. He would rather spend one day on the threshold of My tent than a thousand in the tents of the wicked.
Planted in My House you will never lack and you will be attached to the source of living water forever.
So how can you be planted in My House even now before you have entered the great Kingdom of Heaven.
I tell you very simply how to do it. Be rooted and grounded in Christ.
AS you received Christ Jesus the LORD, walk in Him, ROOTED in Him, and being built up in Him and established in the faith in the Gospel of grace and overflowing with gratitude. Abounding in thanksgiving. Colossians 2:6-7.
Rooted in Christ, living in Him and being built up in Him. And He gives you living water, just like the tree planted by the running waters so that it never fears a drought when it comes for it has another source. And Christ is My Word, My anointed Word, your Messiah and Lord, made flesh and dwelling among you. And you living in Him, Him living in you, and I living in Him and Him living in Me and you living in Me through Him. All of us joined by the One Spirit, My Spirit and the Spirit of Christ. The Spirit of adoption for you.
And how do you get rooted and grounded in Christ? How do you get planted in My House of which Christ is the permanent member. A Son is established in the house forever. How is it that you as living stones are being built into the temple of the Spirit?
Let us go deeper for it is all in My Word. My apostle Paul prayed it for you: “ For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, the Father may grant you in accord with the riches of His glory to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, ROOTED AND GROUNDED in LOVE may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 4:14-19.
In Christ you become a partaker of the divine nature. You can be filled with My fullness through Him. All the fullness of the Divinity dwells in Him bodily. Colossians 2:9.
But do you see? Rooted and grounded in love. This is the same as rooted and grounded in Christ. Why? I am love and so is My Son, as is the Spirit for We are one God though we are three divine persons.
Love. That is My House. I bring you into My banquet hall and My banner over you is love. Song of Songs 2:4. That is the hallmark and nature of My Kingdom. For I am love and My domain takes on My characteristics and nature. That is My house. It is filled with love. It pervades every area of it, every nook and cranny.
I liken My Kingdom to a wedding feast. It is a house filled with celebration, song, and unity. It is about becoming one spirit with Me.
He who abides in love abides in Me and I in him. 1 John 4:15-16. And love consists in this, not that you have loved Me but that I have loved you and given My Son as the propitiation for your sins, and not your sins only but those of the whole world.
My Son told you how to be planted in My house. You abide in Him. And how do you do that? By attaching to Him as a branch to the vine. You will then be fruitful at all seasons and bear much fruit just by virtue of the vine to which you are attached to receive all your sustenance and more.
And He tells you that you remain in Him by remaining in His Word and letting His Word remain in you. And that Word is love.
My Word to you is love. All commandments hang on that one word. All life and joy and goodness hangs on that one word.
And I am love. My Word is love. And My Word is Salvation (Jesus).
I so loved the world that I gave My only Son. Live in Him. Rule and reign through Him. Be planted in Him. Receive eternal life in Him. Draw all you need from Him. Receive all He has done for you.
And watch your youth be renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 103:5.
Yes, the righteous man (and all you who have confessed Jesus as Lord and believed in your heart I raised Him from the dead (which means all your sins have been justly put away) are righteous with My own righteousness, 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 1:30, Ephesians 1:4,7; Romans 4:11; Romans 1:16-17), will flourish like the palm tree, will grow like a cedar in Lebanon, PLANTED IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, they will flourish in the courts of God, they will yield fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap (the anointing, the Holy Spirit, and the Messiah) and very green!
My Son came to bring you life and bring it to you abundantly, till it overflows! Come and be planted in Him. Wherever the Lamb is, is where My church is.
And when you keep My Word, I come to you with My Son and make My dwelling place with you.
Happy are the ones who dwell in My House. Continually they are praising Me.
Do you want to be planted in My House? Then remain in My Word, and meditate in it day and night. And be filled with thanksgiving. Look about each day and thank Me for everything good that you see and that comes to you that day. Do not miss anything. Do not be like the barren bush in the desert that cannot see prosperity when it comes but lets it pass by and stays in a salt and empty earth. Jeremiah 17:6. How sad when I want to bring you into My banquet hall where My emblem over you is LOVE. How sad when My Son suffered so much to give you His riches in glory beginning now.
Come plant yourself in My House. The gate is always open for Jesus is that gate. And you enter My gates with thanksgiving and My courts with praise. And that will open to you the Holy of Holies, the innermost room of My House, the throne room of power, mercy and grace just when you need it and that is the place of worship, of truly knowing who I am and who you are in Me.
I love you. The feast is prepared and you are invited. Just come. I have paid the price with the life of My Son.