LIKE A WILLOW TREE

Isaiah 44:3-4 For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children. They will thrive like watered grass, like willows on a river bank.

We have some lovely willow trees near us down by a fishing lake and when the branches break off I like to make willow wreaths of all sizes to decorate them up for Christmas.😊

I was reminded of this verse and how God has made us such wonderful promises, to not only quench our thirst but for our offspring, and for generations to come. Several years ago we had a giant willow tree in our back garden and you could sit under the shade of its branches for a picnic. Willows thrive and no matter how much you cut them back they’ll just keep growing and growing if you let them.

God wants us to believe for that kind of thriving and growing for ourselves and our offspring, even grown up ones, or nephews and nieces, or for any children in our care, that God will indeed pour His Spirit out on them and bless them till they grow strong and tall in Jesus just like willow trees do. 

Sometimes we sadly hear of parents, or those in authority over children, telling them how useless they are, or they’ll never amount to anything, but God wants us to tell them that they will flourish and do well, that they have huge God given potential, to know He has a purpose for them.

Isaiah 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children. Proverbs11:21 …But the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. 

We can be constantly praying these promises over our offspring, or the children in our care, and if they’re not following the Lord at the moment, instead of speaking fear of bad things happening, or negative things over them, let’s declare good things by faith and say, 

“God’s Word declares that the seed of the righteous shall be delivered. They’ll flourish like a willow tree and shall be filled with His Spirit and blessed. They are delivered from every curse, every power of darkness and every evil. In the name of Jesus, I call forth a great, bright and blessed future for my offspring, and for those in my care, to be taught by the Lord, and have great peace! In Jesus’ Name. Amen.