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WELCOME TO GOD FOCUS THIS MORNING

The title of today’s episode: WHAT IS IN YOU GARDEN?

I was reminded today of something that a friend told me they experienced in a vision. They had been feeling guilty about the things they did when they were backslidden. Months after they had asked for forgiveness the enemy was still throwing up the sins of the past.

To God, once we have asked for forgiveness, he sees it all through the blood. Our sins are forgiven.

Heb 10:15-17 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Does this mean that God has a bad memory? No, it means that he chooses to look at us through the blood of Jesus and those sins, He chooses to not count them against us. They are erased and, as far as God is concerned, are not there to be remembered against us.

Heb 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

How can the enemy still use something that is wiped away? Because we still have a memory of what we have done. He tries to make us believe that we are really not forgiven. As long as he can torment us with the past, we are distracted from concentrating on God’s plan for today.

God gave her a vision of two gardens. One was the garden of the past and one was the garden of now. God said to her, “Quit trying to plant seeds in the garden of the past. That garden is now empty.”

In other words, don’t beat yourself up for things you cannot change from the past. Today is a new day. What kind of seeds are you going to plant in your garden now that you have chosen to walk with God?

She saw another garden full of vegetables and flowers in all states of growth with some ground left to still plant seeds. It is in the fruitful garden that we plant seeds of righteousness, love, kindness, forgiveness and grace.  

I want to be found planting seeds in the garden of God’s will for my life. I want to plant all the good things. I never want to be stuck in the things of the past. Today is a new day, he will be with us to help us plant only good seeds.

We often talk about the parable that Jesus shared about the seed we sow. It can be found in Matthew chapter 13, if you want to read it.

The enemy will try to steal our seeds. This is what happens when he is trying to distract us from the good garden and get us to pay attention to the barren plot of the past. God has uprooted what we planted there so that it will not grow.

When seeds fall on good ground the plot that is under the blood of Jesus, they will take root and grow in our lives. We nurture them by watering them with prayer.

Hosea 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Fallow ground is a plot of land that has been left unplanted for a season. Farmers used to rest the land and allow it to absorb nutrients. They would often burn the plots to help the earth be more productive when something is planted there. God is saying that now is the time to seek him. He will give us righteousness.

Do not look back at what is behind, the past is gone. But look to the future and plant good seeds in your good garden. There was a quote that I want to share with you. I don’t know who said it first, if I did I would give them credit. But it goes, “He who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see, believes in God.”

When we plant seeds they do not grow immediately. Some spiritual seeds take years. But we are still called to plant them and let God do what he does to make a miracle happen. He takes that tiny seed and multiplies it into much fruit.

Until next time,

BE BOLD, BE BRAVE AND KEEP YOUR GOD FOCUS

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