Welcome to the Planting Place!
The heart and goal of The Planting Place is to encourage commitment to meet with the Lord daily, via planned, purposeful Bible reading, journaling, and surrender to His spiritual cultivation.
The inspiration for The Planting Place came from Ezekiel 34:25-31 (NASB):
“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. 26 I will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. And I will cause showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of blessing. 27 Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. 28 They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will live securely, and no one will make them afraid. 29 I will establish for them a renowned planting place [emphasis added], and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore. 30 Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,” declares the Lord God. 31 “As for you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God,” declares the Lord God.
In this passage we see God’s heart for His people: that they would live securely, that they would be a blessing, that they would yield fruit, that they would know He is the LORD, that they would live unafraid, that they would be established as renowned, that they would know the LORD their God is with them, and that they would know they are His and He is their God! And while this was written to the nation Israel, believers can certainly draw many applications for their life in Christ!
God desires so much more for us than we can even ask or think (Ephesians 3:20), and the best way to take hold of all He has for us is to take root in Him by taking hold of His Truth.
The Planting Place aspires to offer support and encouragement in cultivating our trust in the Master Gardener to do what only He can do:
“that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God,” (Ephesians 3:17-19).
The truth is God wants us to know Him, to know His love, and to be firmly planted in these truths. It is my prayer The Planting Place will offer you support through His Word and by His Holy Spirit. I pray the Lord will grow us to know Him and His love so that we are filled up and strengthened to love and obey Him, that He might be glorified in His renowned planting place!
is there any way to make the beginning of this 3 year Consider Him study more accessible? I wanted to start at the beginning and I’m having a tough time searching Genesis then having to go to the bottom of that page and go forward to backward to get to the day I’m on… It just wants to revert back to current day?week.
I know I’m asking a lot. Especially since you are doing this out of the kindness of your heart, but I just don’t want to miss anything 🙂
Hello and thank you for your question and I’m grateful that you’re finding this study helpful. Technology is not my strong suit. The only thing I know to tell you to do is to use the search bar. You can type the book and the chapter number and it will bring you directly to that chapter. You cannot use abbreviations, you have to type out the entire name of the book of the Bible, then a space, and the number of the chapter (ie., Genesis 1). I hope this helps and I’m sorry I can’t offer more than that.
Blessings…