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Growing up you may have heard of the large Sequoia trees that cover a vast portion of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in the state of California, and how they can grow to over 300 feet in height and 30 feet in width. What you may not have known is that these massive trees have a remarkably shallow root system. So how do Sequoias withstand storms and strong winds and not simply topple over? The answer is their roots stretch out for hundreds of feet just beneath the surface and intertwine with the roots of other trees in the area. Not only do Sequoias find stability with other Sequoias, but they also find great resilience through what scientists refer to as a mycorrhizal network, which is an interconnected root system. Through this root system, Sequoias can communicate with each other and pass along distress signals when drought, disease and dangerous insects are looming nearby.

As marvelous and fascinating as the sequoia root system obviously is, the God Who made the world and all things in it, clearly did not intend for the communal strength found in the Sequoia root system to remain in a forest full of trees… to be clear, the Triune God who created the universe designed men and women as relational beings, and wired us to connect with others. Indeed, the very first mention in scripture of anything that was “not good” was “for man to be alone” (Genesis 2:15)… and if it was not good for man to be alone in paradise, how much more unnatural and against God’s design to be alone in battle?

That is why at Fortify Christian Counseling, LLC we stress community and encourage all our clients to join a group and become a member of a team.  The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote that “two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor, for if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion, but woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up. Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart” (Ecc. 4:9-12).

To fulfill God’s calling in your life you must be prepared to fight, and to fight well and win the battles before you, you must not go out as a single rogue warrior. Instead, you must be intertwined with other believers and you must go out as an army.

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