If you watch sunflowers in a field, you will notice how full of life they seem. 
Yet none of that vibrancy and life comes of itself. It is the goodness of the soil 
and the food from the sun that makes them radiate with such beauty. You should take 
a lesson from the sunflower.
 
For you are called to also shine and radiate GODS  beauty. TO be something of joy 
that others around you can be drawn to. So just as the sunflower is dependent upon 
the goodness of the soil and sun, realize that you are no different.
 
You cannot try to find this joy and life in yourself. You cannot try to find the 
goodness and make yourself into something lovely. Rather it is for you to just stay 
rooted in the soil and it is I that will bring GODS beauty. The soil that you must 
be rooted in is GODS Word and the sunshine is GODS spirit. 

Between these two things your life will begin to have color and will start to attract 
everyone around you.
 
You are trying so hard to do things right and to find a way to be an example. You know 
what you should be doing and often you try to even change yourself. But don’t you 
realize that you cannot become something lovely without GOD?
 
Only with GODS  power and with HIS word can you grow into something vibrant. So put 
aside your own striving and trying now and come back. Get back into the presence  
of GOD daily and just soak up HIS  anointing. Get back to reading HIS  word and letting 
the words enter into your heart.
 
Be rooted like the sunflower that stays in the same place and then blossoms for the world 
to see. Do not run around trying to fix the things in your own heart. Do not run around 
trying to make things happen in yourself. Instead stop and let your roots sink down deep into GOD.
 
Take the time to hear the voice and to experience HIS  presence. 

If you can concentrate on this every day, the problems that are around you will begin to 
fade away. Soon you will find the need in your heart waning and it being replaced with a 
new strength and authority.
 
So come to  now. Sink down your roots and then wait as GOD will shine on you and cause 
you to flourish Galatians 6:1-5. 

(As received from Pastor Enoc of Kenya, Africa)