Garden of The Heart

Friends... Today I thought for a while about how plants grow from a seed planted in the ground. Of course they must be nourished in those early stages when they break forth from the tiny seed and make their way up through the dirt. From the time they ascend, their roots dig deep in the ground, they are rooted. It is then, that work is most vital. The dirt shouldn't be packed too tight around it, because it will have a hard time growing. Without water it will shrivel up and die out, and it must be weeded. For when weeds grow around the plant they will undoubtedly take the nourishment from the plant and smother it out.


But if you water it, cultivate around it and take care of it daily, it will grow to produce great fruits. But what happens when a worm comes along and gets inside the plant? It eats from the inside out, and the plant dies and it's fruit along with it.


Think of it this way my friends. When you become a Christian, you plant that seed. If you take on the troubles of the world, and let them pack that seed down, it won't see the light of maturity. If you don't weed out around that plant when it does come through the top-soil, then the weeds will overtake the plant. And if you don't refill that plant with worship, praise and faith, then it won't grow. A plant that doesn't grow, only dies off.


Finally, if you sprinkle bug dust around your plant, the worms and bugs cannot get into the plant and kill it.


To sum it up. When you plant that seed friends, take the utmost care to make it grow and continue to flourish. For things of this world will try to kill that seed before it ascends to the top. The Accuser will throw everything he can your way to try and kill that plant as it grows, it will try to stunt it's grow. But with Worship, Praise, Faith and Prayer we can weed him out of our Garden. Amen?


We have to pray, we have to work daily to keep on track, we must protect the plant which grows in all of us. When you feel that you cannot work that garden anymore, pray for help, the Heavenly Father is there to assist anytime, night or day, in the valley or on the moutain top. He is our Father, and we are His Children, if you ask for His help, He will not turn you away. Ask Him, He will surely tell you it's true.


We have a Father in Heaven who is the greatest of greats, the almighty, the king of kings and lord of lords. You know the greatest thing about that? He will be there tonight, in the next four hours, the next four years, the next four hundred centuries. He is the ONE and ONLY, TRUE and LIVING God. Give him a try, He will not fail you.


Did you know, it is not God that fails us, it is We who fail Him. God is incapable of failing us. Take that as a promise that He will always be there for you. You see Jesus said that He wouldn't leave you, nor forsake you. And before he ascended he said, And Lo, I am always with you, even until the end.


Friends, that is a wonderful promise, even as much as the promise that He went to prepare us a home and that He will return for us in due time. The question is, Are you prepared to go home? Most of you are, but I implore you, just as I have to check myself, to look inside yourself and make sure you are ready. He will come when we least expect it, and that is why he told us to be ready, like the Virgins and their lamps.


If you are not ready, or you don't know God or His Son, and you want to have a closer relationship with Him, ask Him to forgive you, to wash you clean and to fill you with His beautiful and wonderful spirit. You want Him in your life, and you know you cannot live without Him. You believe in Him, and that He sent His only Son in the world to Save you from Sin. You accept Him in your heart and in your life.


It's just that easy. Now I will leave you with a prayer.


Dear God, I pray that You will bless those reading this and that You will protect them as they grow in You Lord. Father, I ask that you touch those who do not know you, and those that are in need of financial and health help. Lord you told us to ask you and believe, you told us that you would give unto us what we need. So Father, as the person reads this now, touch them, and bless them in a mighty way. May they find you and begin their relationship with you and their garden of the heart. In Jesus name I ask and thank you for everything. Amen.


~Matt.