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The Planting Of The Lord

 Isaiah 61:3

Our text informs about being the planting of the Lord.

In the scriptures we see plants used in parables, used to describe, pass messages across, and Jesus and His people referred to as plants.

We are spiritual plants.

God's own planting!

Plants are useful to humanity and they benefit the environment.

They beautify the environment, they help the ecological balance, and they are a part of the cycle of life.

How well a plant develops has to do with the diligence and care of the husbandman/vinedresser towards the plant.

God's people are referred to as His plants.

Isaiah 60:21

God is our husbandman/vinedresser/gardener, Jesus is the vine, we are the branches.

John 15:1-6

God cultivates our life like a farmer cultivates His farm land, and He nurtures us like  a gardener his plants and a farmer his crops.

The result is that we flourish.

Psalm 92:12-14

The outcome of God's nurture is that we become fruitful.

Jeremiah 17:7,8

Plants are useful to us in  three major ways:

1) they beautify our world and homes as part of nature.

2) they produce the fruits we eat, and they are food we consume.

3) they give out oxygen which we breath.

As spiritual plants we are useful to God and humanity, just like plants are useful to man.

As God's plants we are His people, His children, and we are beautiful in His kingdom.

Psalm 144:12

Jesus is called the Branch and the tender plant, He was a planting of the Lord on the earth.

Isaiah 11:1, Isaiah 53:2,3

A planting of the Lord is a prosperous life, a life that glorifies God.

Isaiah 60:21

A plant of the Lord is a person who will let God have His way and let God do His work in him.

If you are a follower of Jesus Christ it is God's responsibility to nurture your life.

God is a responsible husbandman.

He cultivates our lives, gives us attention, and protects us from pests and parasites.

A plant of the Lord is a follower of Jesus Christ, a kingdom citizen, a born again Christian, a son/daughter of God.

A planting of the Lord is a beautiful person and life.

The result of being the Lord's plant is your life becoming like a well watered garden.

Isaiah 58:11

Your days will become like the days of heaven on earth as a plant of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 11:21

You will enjoy beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for heaviness, and a nature of righteousness as the planting of the Lord.

Isaiah 61:3


Olutosin Ogunkolade, a Teacher-Pastor shares this message.

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