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I Am Like A Green Olive Tree
Contributed by Jeremy Poling on Dec 30, 2007 (message contributor)
Summary: Spiritul Pressing Produces Fruit.
The ones that are not moved or do not fall to the ground are the most unripe and are of the poorest quality.
The tree only gives up what is ready to be used.
If you force the olive into the press it gives very little oil.
Psa 128:1 Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
Psa 128:2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Psa 128:3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psa 128:4 Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
Psa 128:5 The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Psa 128:6 Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
Do you know how cranberries are harvested? When the fruit is ripe, the cranberry bog is flooded with water. As the water covers the bush, the ruby red berries separate from the bush and float to the surface where they are gathered and distributed to cranberry lovers around the country.
When the flood waters of trouble and trials sweep over your soul, what is the result? Is fruit "meet for the Master’s use" released to bless and meet the needs of the hungry world around you?
