This "visit" occurred on Aug 20th, as I was running that morning (yaaay for me--exercising !), I was listening to Joyce Meyer's podcast.  She was doing part of her Battlefield of the Mind series.  As she was speaking, I heard the old thoughts coming into my head "God won't bless me, that's for the 'good' ones..." and so on.   And right away Joyce starts saying very firmly.  "God wants to bless YOU.  Heal YOU.  Prosper YOU."  Emphasis on the YOU, hers not mine.  Hmmmm, message loud enough for me?  

After listening to the podcast I prayed.  I asked the Holy Spirit to reveal to me the idea of being "the branch".  This is something I have been reading about in Andrew Murrays's "True Vine"  And as I walked along He showed me the tress.  Branches were attached, and they stay attach.  They don't jump off and on at whim (picture that in your head LOL).  They produce leaves, flowers, fruit just by staying attached to the trunk.  Then I saw a dead treat with dead leaves, He told me this was a tree of Satan, from a distance it looks like something is there, but it is false fruit.  Then I saw a tree that was dead, with nothing on it, and this tree was representative of those who are attached to the world.  There is only deadness, emptiness when the world crowds out God in my life.  

Lord, thank you for revealing Your plan to bless us. It is because of who You are, not because of what we do.   Help us to stay attached to You.