05/31/2026
✨ Sunday Recap ✨
This Sunday, Evangelist Leslie continued our Fruits & Flowers series with a powerful message titled:
🌱 “What Are You Planting?” 🌱
Evangelist Leslie began by teaching on the difference between insulation and isolation. While isolation can leave us feeling alone, insulation is being intentionally cocooned with the Holy Spirit. She reminded us that many times we want to send out an SOS, but God does not allow it because He desires uninterrupted time with us. Just as a butterfly cannot emerge before its appointed time without becoming defective, God often uses hidden seasons to develop us.
She reminded us of the prophet’s reward: insight, direction, and provision. Like the sons of Issachar, who understood the times and seasons, we too must discern where we are in God’s timing. Too often we want to move before the season is right. Yet every seed has a specific season, duration, and soil.
Using examples from nature, she explained that fruit picked out of season never tastes right. In the same way, we must be able to identify what we are planting.
Turning to Galatians 5:22-23, she reminded us that the fruit of the Spirit is:
“Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”
She taught that when we operate in the fruit of the Spirit, we cannot break God’s law because we are functioning within His nature. The struggle often comes because every seed attracts an opposite environment.
Plant peace and chaos may surround you.
Plant kindness and rudeness may greet you.
Plant goodness and manipulation may appear.
Plant patience and suddenly every situation seems designed to test it.
The question becomes: Can you identify the seed God is calling you to plant?
When you can name the seed, you can prepare correctly and pray accordingly.
Evangelist Leslie reminded us that the environment does not always smell good. Fertilizer and manure never do. Yet both are necessary for growth.
She referenced Genesis 2:19, where Adam named the animals, reminding us that naming something establishes dominion. We must be careful not to name situations based on our emotions, fears, or feelings. Instead, we must go back to God’s Word.
Don’t call something dead that has simply not emerged from the ground yet.
Go back to the seed packet.
Go back to the instructions.
Go back to the Book.
Before declaring failure, assess whether the seed has been given enough time to do what it was created to do.
She then pointed to the fig tree that Jesus cursed because it appeared fruitful but produced nothing but leaves. The warning was clear: don’t spend your entire season looking productive while producing no fruit.
Can you produce just one fruit?
Just one scripture?
Just one act of obedience before your time is up?
The fig tree did not know Jesus was coming by, and it missed its opportunity.
Moving into the Parable of the Sower, Evangelist Leslie challenged us to examine our soil. Some soil allows birds to steal the seed. Some is dry and shallow. Some becomes choked by the cares of life. But good soil produces a harvest thirty, sixty, and one hundredfold.
Pay attention to your seed.
Pay attention to your environment.
After planting, growth should follow. What God plants in your life is designed to make room for you, provide for you, and bear fruit beyond you.
She then challenged us with Philippians 4:8:
“Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable… think on these things.”
Whether you’re at the doctor’s office, the bank, in the courtroom, or facing uncertainty, get your mind aligned with God’s truth.
In closing, Evangelist Leslie reminded us that in every season of need, whether sickness, loneliness, poverty, grief, court battles, fatherlessness, motherlessness, or any other hardship, we must continue to plant relationship with God.
Because whatever you are planting today will determine what you harvest tomorrow.
🌱 So the question remains:
What are you planting?
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