Social Seniors 2023 Past articles
AUGUST 2023
"Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. ..."
LUKE 6:44 NIV
Date-fruits are known for being sweet. This leads to another perspective that some seniors may be sweet in character because they have DATE palm trees in their land (symbolically). And for those that are a bit more rough pray date-fruits will grow on their palm trees.
JULY 2023
Victory
"... you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand."
Ephesians 6: 13 NIV
JUNE 2023
Be victorious ... No matter the storm, Stand TALL !
" You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you..."
2 Chronicles 20:17 NIV
MAY 2023
God made all kinds of trees for healing....
April 2023
You can regrow from the stump!
" But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose substance is in them, when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. "
Isaiah 6:13 KJV
March 2023
" They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good."
Jeremiah 10:5 KJV
February 2023
Be deeply rooted
like a palm tree
" As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving."
Colossians 2: 6-7 KJV
God is amazing. I just can’t get over the care He took in creating everything. God designed the palm tree to prove a point. The palm tree is a deeply rooted tree that will withstand 100 mile wind forces, while other strong trees will topple over. That is how our Father in heaven wants us to be. We must be deeply rooted in His word. Because if we are not then we can easily be led to temptation at even the first thought of an earthly desire. In Colossians 2: 6-7 KJV Paul says " As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving."
-Author: Alicia Gonzalez
Colossians 2: 6-7 KJV
January 2023
LIVE LONG
like a
DATE-PALM
The palm-tree figure is especially intriguing. In Scripture, the date palm, stately and beautiful is used as example. Its roots are extremely deep, which is why it can flourish in the desert, growing tall and living long. It is perhaps the most useful of all trees, because it produces dates, but also sugar, wine, syrup*, oil, resin, rope, thread, tannin, and dyestuff. Its seeds are fed to cattle and its leaves are used for roofs, fences, mats, and baskets. Its fruit gets sweeter as the tree grows older.
May God enable each of us to flourish like the palm tree—beautiful in the Lord, useful in His service, bearing good fruit to His glory, even into old age!
-Author: Alicia Gonzalez
Psalms 92: 12-13
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing.
PSALMS 92: 14 KJV