no defeat today. none!

"May you delight yourself in God,

your Father,

in His love, and in His words.

May you think of Him by day,

and fall to sleep with Him still

on your mind and in your heart.

May you be like a strong and beautiful tree,

rooted deeply in the rich

and nutrient filled earth,

placed strategically by streams

of clear, calm,

life-giving waters.

In your season, may your produce and reap

an abundant harvest, beyond anything you

could dream or imagine!

May your leaves be broad,

and a most luscious green,

fluttering in the breezes of God's love.

May He prosper and multiply whatever

you do in His name!"

~a prayer of blessing from Pslam 1

today is a day of blessing!

no defeat today!

today we celebrate our placement!

our strength!

today we rejoice that we are not in a parched

and barren dessert...even if it may feel as if we are.

we have been planted strategically by the

life-giving waters.

we WILL NOT be thirsty!!!

even now, my roots, and your roots,

are deep. and they are drinking and pulling

life from the nutrients provided by the hand of GOD alone.

no striving today, children of God.

NONE!

feel the strength.

let it come over you.  allow it to penetrate

deep into your spirit.

you are an over comer!

we. are. overcomers.

our leaves are such a deep green.

they are broad and beautiful.

not dry and curled up at the edges as the enemy

would have us to believe.

indeed not!

they offer shade.  they are a sign of life

and health!  strength!

our trunks are not skinny and bent.

indeed not!

they are wide and strait.  so very strong!

they grow as though they know their purpose.

and so they do.

because it is the strength of the Lord Jesus Christ

within us, making these trees what they are.

strong!

and the fruit.  OH the fruit!!

it is everywhere! 

a crop unstoppable!

unimaginable.

unfathomable.

it comes forth and comes forth!

and still it continues to come forth!

our fruit surrounds us.

today is a day to claim the harvest!

to claim the joy of producing fruit unstoppable!

the enemy is powerless over this fruit!

the hand of God protects it.

protects US.

our tree is being sheltered.

its strength being preserved.

the promise remains...

we. will. prosper.

in the name of Jesus Christ!

claim His name!

hold tight to it.

it is your strength and your victory!

no defeat today,

children of the King!

none. at. all.

God, your Love is over.

it's underneath.

it's inside.

it's in between.

we are undone.

and we receive.

take our breath away,

Father.

in YOU alone we live.

we thrive.

we will drink of you deeply.

give us eyes to see our strength.

to understand that weakness is a lie of the enemy.

he hates that you make us untouchable.

he wants us to feel defeat.

But defeat is a lie!

weakness, for the believer, is a lie.

we claim truth!

YOU. ARE. TRUTH.

victory is the truth on which we stand today!

hold on to us tightly.

hem us in.

no defeat today!

NONE.

now GO!

and be strong!

walk in the strength you

possess.