Job 14:7-9 ‘ For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.’

DAILY READING; 1 Corinthians 2; 1 Kings 15:1-32; Joel 2:12-32

In September 2020, a landmark harvest in southern Israel was celebrated by the global media.
This harvest was from a 2000 years old palm tree which produced a sample variety of palm dates, last tasted back in the times of Jesus.
In Biblical times, the Judean date palm had deep cultural meaning in the land of Israel. King David named his daughter Tamar, which is the Hebrew word for the plant.
For thousands of years, the date palm was a staple crop in the Kingdom of Judea. It was a source of food, shelter and shade. So valued was the tree that it became a recognized as a symbol of good fortune in Judea. It was the cure for a wide range of diseases including cancer, malaria and toothache. However, its value was also the source of its demise and eventual extinction. The tree so defined the local economy that it became a prime target when the Roman army attacked the Jews in AD 70.
They destroyed the date palms in an attempt to cripple the Jewish economy. By 500 AD, the once plentiful palm had completely disappeared from Judea and was almost driven to extinction.
But it was rediscovered in 1963, during an excavation in Israel, when archeologists unearthed a small stockpile of seeds in a clay jar dating back 2,000 years. Thinking that the seeds could not germinate after so long, the archaeologists abandoned them in a drawer at Tel Aviv’s Bar-Ilan University.
But then in 2005, a botanical researcher named Elaine Solowey decided to plant them and see if they would sprout. After eight weeks, a small green shoot emerged from one seed, producing a sapling no one had seen in centuries and becoming the oldest known tree seed to germinate. The plant was nicknamed “Methuselah,” after the longest-lived person in the Bible.
In September 2020, it produced its first harvest which was tasted by a handful of the scientists involved in the revival project and was celebrated globally as an agricultural wonder.

Though the enemy may sometimes try to destroy the seed of your vision or dream, it is never over as long as you remain connected to God. As long as you have Christ, there is hope for you.
Despite how long it had been dormant, the 2000 years old palm seeds still came alive after being planted and watered.
This validates what the Bible says in Job 14:7-9 ‘..Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant’
Spiritually water refers to the Word of God. Ephesians 5:26 says ‘That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word’.
An encounter with God’s Word will surely cause any dormant situation to come alive.
The Word of God can bring about new beginnings. There is no situation so dead that The Word of God cannot revive it.
In Ezekiel 37, in the valley of dry bones, the situation had looked utterly hopeless. But once the prophet began to release The Word of God, there was a shaking. At the coming of The Word of God, things began to move. Suddenly, those age old dry bones came alive and became a mighty army.
As a child of God you are destined to be ever fruitful. If for any reason you find yourself in a dry season, through connection to God’s Word, you can experience divine revival and restoration.
To see growth and progress, let us take up the responsibility of consciously studying God’s Word daily. Through faith derived from the Word, we shall surely experience our desired miracles of amazing open doors, restoration, revival and rejuvenation.

PRAYER: Lord, by the power from your Word let every dead situation in my life be revisited and revived, let the good seed You have planted within me come alive for manifestation in this season in Jesus Name.
QUOTE;
When God places His hand upon a man in life nothing can come against him, this is because the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. WORDBITE 222

Shalom!

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