Garden of Your Heart | Pr Sandra

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I don't ask you a question gardening. Anybody wants to

do gardening? No? No, no thanks. John likes gardening. Oh

uncle John? Is it?

Oh?

Anybody gardening? Yes?

Yes not Auntie. I'm like the all the retired people

are putting up their hands. Yeah when when we are younger,

no time to do gardening, you know, no time to

look at our plants. There's too much work. It's too

much work for me. But I have a garden, so

I have to look after the garden. But I'm very

bed at doing any form of planting because the food,

the fruit might not know, the plant may not live.

But gardening, anyone gardening?

Oh?

Because I kentugsy?

No, okay, no, all right, But I want to tell

you that.

God is into gardens. Did you know in the gardens?

Well, the first garden was the garden of Eden. He

made this beautiful garden, and he put a man and

a woman in this garden. He employed the man to

you know, take care of the garden. Must have been

a beautiful garden with lots and lots of fruit trees,

and all the animals there, and it.

Was a beautiful garden. Amen.

So if God wasn't interested in a garden, you wouldn't

have put them in a garden.

He would have put them in some you know, skyscraper

that's a city. But it wasn't. It was a garden.

And so I believe got like gardens and all his creation,

the greens all over the world. You go to different nations,

you see beautiful gardens. I don't know if you actually

go to any botanical gardens.

When you go to you go with you go.

My husband won't go loave, but.

But we did get to Busy because he say, he's

very good.

So you go and it's really really beautiful how people

take care of gardens, right, and those who are involved

in horticulture where they grow these plants and very beautiful.

So God is interested in gardens because the first garden

was planted or made by the Lord, and it was

at the garden that he, you know, had fellowship with

his two creation, his children. But it was also in

the garden that we lost our salvation. Sadly, I was

also in the garden because the serpent was also in

the garden.

Beautiful things that's where he will also be.

And we lost Adam lost that salvation, that relationship with

God at the garden.

But how can I say? It was also at the garden.

Of Gethsemane that our Lord Jesus prayed for us, also

at the garden, and it was also at the garden

tomb that the Lord has given us an empty toomb

a man.

So gardens have been in the vocabulary and in the.

Picture of the Word of God. Amen, did you know

it was the garden?

All right? So you have to like gardens now, all right,

like gardens now, but the garden.

So anyone likes gardening still, Okay, you get there, you

get there. I'll show you some gardens again, go ahead

with my photos.

Yes, we would all like to have a garden like this.

I shod like just green and then no, no wheeds,

nice plants. We're Balanese. I want to make my house

like he love But it's not happening. Okay, it's just

very hard. This on lovely garden. Right, it's clean, it's neat,

it's beautiful. Yeah, here's my house.

No it's not.

My house looked nothing like that. After my dog died.

Are you all the cow grass started growing. Do you

know why? Yeah, when the dog was around. It's not

a nice cup of grass that we grew the Japanese grass.

But after the dog, right, the cow grass came about

because I was being renovations, but not so pretty. But

slowly it's going back again. Wish my house looked like that,

but it doesn't yet, no time. But that's a beautiful garden.

All of us love would love to walk through that

or sit in your patio and enjoy the garden.

Right, but how about the next garden? All right?

Oh? Overgrown with weeds right, looking a bit? Yeah, whose

house is there? And then and then some people say

that are you? We got so much work in the gardener.

I just cement did right, seamen the whole things we

forget about the garden porth semen know need Sometimes we

thinking like that, maybe I should just seemen everything because

it's just too much work.

It's just too much work.

So but that's an overgrown garden when there's no time

to pick at, no time to water and let the

sun up and the sun and the rain just water

in and you know, cause it to naturally grow or

look like that. But that is not a garden you

will take photo in. You know it's not instagrammable, no,

because it's wild grass. Okay, But today I wanted to

ask us there is another garden that God looks at,

and there's the garden.

Of our heart.

Come on, yeah, the garden of our heart. I didn't

have a heart anyway. So the garden of our heart

is where the Lord will look at and ask us,

because if he's living in us, he's the Lord. And

maybe another day I'll talk about the lord ship with

Jesus Christ. But today the garden of our heart? How

is the garden growing?

Amen? All right? How is this garden growing? Now?

There's a verse in Isaiah fifth, Isaiah five and verse

one to two. Isaiah five, Chapter five, Verse one to two.

If you have your bibles, you can turn with me.

If you forgot to bring it. You have the verse

on the screen. But if you can, let's turn the Bible.

You don't always read Isaiah, So why don't you turn

to Isaiah chapter five. Bring your own bible. Remember the

campaign is still on it. Bring your own bible.

Amen. Just quiet for now, it'll come back up again. Amen.

All right.

So this is Isaiah chapter five and verse one to two,

somewhere one just verse one to two.

Yes, okay, it says here, okay, can watch that.

Listen, okay, listening us in a in a crowd like this,

you look like you're looking at me and listening by Juli.

Your head is somewhere else. Yeah, yeah, so you know. Come, come, come, come,

come in, Come into the garden. Amen, come into the garden. Okay,

it says, now, let me sing to my well beloved,

a song of my well beloved regarding his vineyard. My

well beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

He dug it up and cleared out his stones, and

planted it with choicest vine He built a tower in

its midst, and also made a wine press in it.

So he expected it to bring forth good grapes. But

it brought forth wild grapes. All right, Wow, this, you

know is the writing series. Isaiah writes, Now, let me

sing to my well beloved, a song of my beloved

regarding his vineyard. The beloved is our lord, a man

who built a garden.

All right.

He had a vineyard, a vignyard's like a garden, and

he was on a very fruitful tree. Dugged it, cleared

out all the stones, all the you know, sand, and

you know, just what was needed. Built a howard did

a wine press. And the beloved was looking forward for

good grapes. And when the time came, he went to

look at the grapes and it was no good grapes, right,

it was wow, grapes come out.

Wow. All right, everybody say, wow, wow grapes. All right.

So the Lord made this garden, planted the garden looking

for fruit, good fruit, amen, and then came back and

found nothing.

Not very good, but wow, wow thing. You make my

heart sing. All right. Okay, you're not born yet, all right,

am I? Ah?

Oh dear, okay, anyone knows that's oh wow, dang, you

make my heart sing.

Okay, yeah, all right, so wild grapes.

So my question to us is when again you heard

me say this so many many times?

All right?

I always say this, God puts something in our lives.

He looks for fruit, which entrepreneur in this room puts

in an invest and just hopes that it will just die.

Come on, nobody, everybody wants a return on investment?

Hemen, what is my ROI? What is the bottom line?

If in life, in your natural life, you invest you expect.

Moms and dads you invest WHOA, I just found out

how much university costs.

I didn't go to university, so iry to pay my owners?

I don't know how much? Whoa private luggy?

WHOA.

I can't even say the number. It won't come out

of my mouth. Wow. Moms and dads, you know, save

up for your kids. Wow.

So at the end of the day you think, what

of course, lad daddy, mommy looking for return on investments?

All right?

Or maybe you say, don't come back, So don't come

back wherever you are. Just earn the money, bring back

the pounds, okay, all right, there's this investment and we.

Look for, you know, a return or fruitfulness.

If you have a fruit orchard, you you plant, you

ren I don't know how many years, then you hope

you'll get duty.

All right.

There is always a hopefulness, a looking forward. God look forward.

In an illustration here this story, God looking forward in

our lives as he places his seat of life in us,

that there would be good fruit. That's that's I believe.

That is what it is about us following Christ and

living in him to be transformed into the likeness of Christ.

Amen.

So I want to encourage us. It's half mark in

the year. Where in July? Can you believe it? And

I thought, where did January go? I was still celebrating

my birthday and it's July. Life has just moved so quickly.

And I think it's a good half mark to reflect

how the six months have gone by, and what can

you look forward to in these six months coming up

to the end of the year, because God has given

us seasons and times so that we appreciate. We number

our days, you know about you know, how we can live,

how we can enjoy all of God's goodness. Yeah, really

be fruitful for the glory of God.

Amen.

God starts off putting this vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

When the Lord starts with us, he sees all the

potential every anyone can say, Amen, he sees potential in

your life. No, no, he doesn't look at you like that.

I think God kiss.

No, maybe our parents will say that you are God

kiss you know. Sometimes our parents' not you like all right, mind,

all right, Gods.

Like, why are you like that?

But when God plants in you his life, he's he's

seeing fruitfulness already.

Amen.

This is our father, God he sees in us fruitfulness,

he sees in us the potential, he sees what he

believes that.

We can become. Amen.

And then we buy patience. We will see the growth

and the transformation. Hallelujah.

Amen.

So I want us to remember this. The Lord really

has placed a very precious treasure in our lives. Don't

lose it. Your faith is a very precious, precious commodity

faith that the devil tries to rob from you and

try to get us to turn our backs on God.

Every day as you walk as a child of God,

you are challenged on every side, truly you are. Whether

it's your faith, whether it's your health, whether it's your relationships,

whether it's your business. We're challenged on all sides. One

way or another. He tries to the enemy tries to

rob us of our joy. And that's why we must

hold on to our faith like because it's so precious.

Is eternal. Your life eternal begins the day you accepted Christ.

Eternal life.

Now not only then, but now you receive the Kingdom

of heaven. And so you and I, while we go

to our lot of trials, we go to and wondering, God,

are you with me? The fact that you are here.

He is with you, and he makes you the overcomer.

Amen.

You are the very tough tofo remember my message on

to tough too. And you're resilient. You've got to be resilient.

Don't just fall back. Me will fall, but we come

back up again because God is with you.

Amen.

So today as I share with us about the gardens,

about the garden of your heart, how is your heart doing?

How is your faith doing? Amen? So I give you

the sun.

I give you the sun today, s u n not

so son, Sorry, So I give you the sun to

help you grow your garden. Don't we all need the sun? Yeah,

for those in thisase, way, for those in disease, we

need the sun. We need the water, right, we need

fortilize all that to grow your garden. Well, So I

offer you the sun as you grow the garden of

your heart. Amen. So first one s do they go back?

You remember the sun forever? S And it says search, search,

And that comes from some one three nine verse twenty

three twenty four, which says search me, oh God, and

know my heart, try me and know my anxieties.

Are we anxious?

And see if there's any wicked way in me and

lead me in the way. Ever last thing. Come on, amen,

Well we need to ask the Lord is search my heart?

Lord search our Heart's why because in Psalm twenty four

the Summis encourages us that regardless what happens, we are

to live with clean hands and pure heart. I have

to tell this to myself all the time, clean hands,

pure heart.

The hands might be clean, but.

The heart might not be pure because we get her,

we get let down, we get disappointed, we get rejected.

We go to a lot of things that we didn't

expect people to do, to use, so the heart might

not be pure. After a while, it can get clouded.

So we have to say to the Lord search me.

Oh God, would you ask the Lord to search your heart?

This is one way to jugg out your garden, all right.

We want to take care of our garden. We need

the sun. Oh. We look to the sun so o n.

But I couldn't get the oh somewhere, so I put

you there, all right? So the sun search our hearts

a lot daily when you wake up and you do

your quiet time, you know, a good time. I asked

the Lord by my prayer, like this will be like

search me, Oh God daily or regularly search my heart.

Oh Lord, it's my heart clean pure, it's my.

Hands, you know, clean because we'll think of thoughts when

someone may have hurt you or things in the past

that happened, and it keeps coming back.

And am I really transformer? I don't know. So I

have to search my heart.

Our garden of our hearts need to be searched in

order to keep it, you know, without the dirt, the

weeds and yeah, just wild.

Thing right, how grapes.

We have to ask God to search our hearts. Search

search our hearts because how did we treat so and

so yesterday? Right where we will we rude to someone?

Search my heart? I avoided somebody. I don't like that person.

Search my heart, oh Lord.

Our thoughts. Sometimes I get all kinds of thoughts.

I don't know what our brain I have, but he

are Sometimes I like I'm wishing the worst one it

personally read?

Did this thought come from right out of the blue?

Nothing like we were thinking like that?

Not me, you know, And thoughts come search my heart

because I'm only human in the flesh, but the spirit

of God is living in me. Who convicts me and

who wants me to be aware of guarding this heart. Amen,

So I want to bring be forward to you that

you know now and then on regular basis, and at

the half mark of this year, ask the Lord to

search our hearts.

Where where have we gone to with our hearts? Amen?

Search our hearts friends very important because if you don't,

if you and I don't search our hearts and find out,

you know, what's actually hiding in it, we might grow

old and then later discover Alama, there's one big rock

now that cannot come out, you know, like some growing

dumer day. Hello, we don't want to remain those things

that are hurting us, that are affecting our walk in Christ.

And you say I don't have a full breakthrough. Maybe

search our hearts first. I always search my heart first

about you know, whenever something happens, Lord, is it me?

Because I am patty to something that can happen. But

search me, search me, Oh Lord, search my heart? And

I believe this Psalms written by David Search me, Oh Lord,

would you ask the Lord to search your heart, every

corner of your heart?

Just what are those things?

Sometimes we because in searching, in searching, he will reveal

and as the Lord reveals, hallelujah, we can do the

you we can you, we can you turn, we can

up root, we can uproot all the weeds that.

Are growing in our hearts.

Ah, weeds what natural? In the natural, there are weeds.

They actually kill your plants. One now we're bad. I

have to weed. I tell the gardener, please weed. He

always doesn't do it, so I have to do it.

It really spoils your garden. So there are weeds that

are in the supernatural, meaning the weeds of our hearts.

It could be sadness, it can become a weed if

you allow it to dwell. It could be disappointment, failure, offenses.

And if it takes root, that weed, no the weeder okay, no,

woww all right. The weeds that take rude and then

it really will cripple your spiritual walk, your joy. Many people,

as I again, doing ministry for thirty years and more

and watching, how you know those who have gone before me,

those who are older, how something's just so stuck in

their hearts they never let it go.

And that weed has been there.

For thirty years, thirty years because of that disappointment, thirty years,

because I'm angry with my husband. Now, all the wives

in the house better forgive your husband. Yeah you have to,

even though he's just killing you.

But anyway, just forgive.

It's recorded, hallelujah, because I get complaints from many wives

telling me how sad.

How upset.

I said, let gola go. It's okay, it's yours. You

chose him, all right, yeah, all right? Remember do you remember, right?

Why did you marry this person?

Husband? Also, because I'm watching the young fellows getting.

Married, right, I'm looking at all these fellers and all men,

how they were so in love.

When I tell her, are you sure this is the

man for you? Of course? Fast? Have you prayed about it?

Yes?

Ten years down the line, tell you, I don't know

what is wrong with my son?

You know?

All right? No?

No, no, uh? What did twenty years I know that

I'm talking to elderly that those who are being mature, older, married,

thirtyars still got things.

Holding inside sia.

Women especially will come out at the wrong time, poor husband,

wondering why are you scolding me?

That thing happened twenty years ago? Yeah right.

All the men will go like, why are we talking

about this that happened twenty years ago? But the wife

will say, yeah, but you did you let me down?

You did you shift gold personal from didn't lock the

gate to remember ten years ago you didn't pick me up?

No, what ah means? Are you still inside?

There?

Swed weeded inside roots all?

Wow?

Wow, have you seen? I don't know what you call

interlocked roots?

You grow up plant married, very long time like that

radio so until today now fifty years married till saying yeah, yeah,

your father did this to me. I don't know too

much information. But that's the thing, right, the why search,

because sometimes we forget some things.

Are there there?

There are many herds. We are only of flesh. We

are only of flesh when we when we come to Christ,

we receive Christ the person.

We are cardinals.

Still we need the Holy Spirit to work in us

so that from the carnal men we become the spiritual men.

But the carnal men needs to go through the trials.

The carnal man will say yes today anything that makes

you happy and pleases your flesh. But the spiritual man

says no, not going to give in. So we want

to grow from being carnal to being spiritual in the Lord.

Because we are spirit, being holy spirit, living in us.

So this uproots is very important. And the verse for

you is Ephicients chapter four, verse thirty one thirty two.

Ephicians Chapter four, verse thirty one thirty two. It says,

let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor evil speaking be put

away from you with all malice, and be kind to

one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God

in Christ forgave you.

Amen. Amen, look at this verse.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor evil speaking be put

away from you with all malice. Whatever is dark, and

it eats your joy up, just put away, amen, and

be kind to one another. We forget to be kind

to one another, be tender hearted, forgive one another, because

God has forgiven us in Christ, brother and sisters.

Aunt the uncle.

We have to allow the searching of the Holy Spirit

of our hearts so that we can see what.

Is still stuck. It's very difficult and.

Interlocking roots the root probly the roots of trees. I

can I see that in my own plants that grow.

And then they tell me pastly, you have to take

out the whole thing and re clear and replant, and

the plant and grow further. Otherwise it is stunted. Hey,

you want to be stunted. Not I don't want to

be when you call it stunted. I don't want be

hunchback of not too dumb. I want to grow tall.

Amen.

I'm only five foot two. I think I wish I

was three two and a half. But I believe. And

you look at me, you think like wash it's six

foot yeah, like the giant in Christ. But if I

have all these roots, I don't think I can grow

because interlocking roots, roots have gone deep, will stunt your

spiritual growth to an art.

Amen, think about it. Natural. Everything that's natural is parallel

with the spiritual. They go together.

You can understand natural things, you can understand spiritual things.

Amen.

So we gotta uproot it that I use the word abrula,

pull out all.

These little little weeds.

If you leave it longer, it becomes very deep, roots,

so deep.

Then you say, I shall not be moved.

It's good to be not moved in your faith, but

I shall not be moved with my unforgiveness.

You cannot because you cannot forgive.

Can't forgive your father, you can't forgive your mother, You

can't forgive yourself.

You have to forgive yourself.

Because Jesus forgives you. You may have made a big

mis your life, you may have let somebody down, but Jesus,

whom you look to and seek his mercy, he forgives you.

Now you must uproot that, your own unforgiveness to yourself.

Uproot that and say, Lord, I receive that forgiveness. I

forgive myself. Many people live with their own self condemnation

because we failed to do something. We failed or you know,

we just didn't meet up to certain expectations. So we

cannot forgive ourselves forever. We take that blame. But God

does not want you and I to live in that

kind of grip of fear, of failure. It's not from

the Lord. He wants us to learn from that, to

grow up from that.

Amen.

Yeah, it is hard, but it is very real in

our lives.

Amen. We have to uproot that.

Whatever it could be, It could even be fear, you know, fear.

Fear is very grip. You know.

It can cripple you in so many ways. It can

cripple you. How can you cripple me? You're gonna laugh.

I'm so old, No, and I have to studies are

more right? You just had a hand up assignment. Last night,

they're asking myself, why am I what did I sign

up for? Why am I doing my masters? I'm like

at this age, you know, but sometimes, guys, I told

you last time the result came out b it that

you copd whoah, feel grip your heart. I read a

hundred times where I want to submit. No to me

after I get B I don't. I must get a

the roller.

Hello. The process is more important than the product.

Come on, that's part of education, the learning process, not

just the end product.

The process. Scared no, scared no, scared too.

Send sum me because I feel like I didn't write

well enough. Whatever. It can grip you that you can't

even write your new assignment because of what you thought.

So I tell myself, like how I tell all of you,

It's okay, I didn't even fail.

You know what's the jack you? You said plus? Very good? Really?

You know? Are you like one of those parents who

come and tell me my son got B plus?

Why B B plus is very good? So parents, don't

put pressure on your child. Okay.

Sometimes fear can grip you. You have to uproot those things.

What are those things? Can you think about it?

Reflections very impersonal reflection, even the mistakes you must you

might You might say I wish I didn't do that.

I did that, I said it, I upset that person. Uh,

this is what you might have done. You yourself also

have to uproot your own fear, your own personal I

let someone down kind of spirit. Yeah, real, right, realna real.

Not not only people hurt you and you this an

a it's anything that holds you back from the freedom

of walking in the lot.

Amen, thank you Jesus. Amen. A long time.

I mean when I was a young teenager eighteen years old,

I think I told you eighteen nineteen, I had a

boyfriend behind my mom's back. Cut it all right, and

she said, no, cannot by head boyfriend anyway. And then

she lost the trust in me because I liked her

one day. And you really feel bad that you have

failed your parent. And while I seek God's forgiveness, it

took mom a long time, I feel to trust me.

If I allowed that to stay, it's very hard for

me to move forward. So I to seek the Lord

for forgiveness, apologize, and even though it took her a

while and she said it, I have to move on

because God has life for me, I ask for forgiveness. Friends,

we also can bind our own selves in our own jail.

Why this message is important because this garden that God

is looking at, he gave his life one hundred percent

blood and all shed into a life that he believes

is beautiful potential. Who will love him, who will serve him.

But those pasts can grip us. Amen, no ouch ouch,

So time for some uproot.

I'm uprooting. Yeah.

If there's anything hidden, as angry with somebody, someone hurt you,

angry with your government, forgive. We just prayed for Malitia. Okay,

after you pray, we have to let go. Let go

and bless militia. It's so important to search our hearts,

search me, oh Lord, and then scripture as you read scripture,

as you read the Bible, if you read it every day,

if you believe this is the word of God, if

you read it, the word of God is like water.

It will wash us. That's where you're searching of the heart,

and then his word will come and wash you and

really bring that conviction, to change conviction, to seek his mercy.

Amen.

He washes us, pure water of the Lord washes us

so that we can then be kind to one another.

Hello, judge.

We need to be kind to one another, although I

know some people not kind to you, but we are

in Christ. We learn to be kind to others and

to be tender hearted.

We learn, we learn.

We're not there yet, but we're learning, and to forgive

one another. If anyone asks for your forgiveness, please freely forgive. Okay,

don't say not going to forgive you.

You forgot my.

Brother's and butsery, all right, alright, No, you forgot our anniversary.

You ask for it. So even all those.

Things we mass up root because if you let anything stay,

it will stay. The things that are not of God

like to stay. It's like having cockroaches in your house

and lizards kill it. Don't keep. Don't allow them to stay.

Shoot them away, spray them away, because it will dirty

your house.

You believe me or not? You want more adventures? I have, okay,

and am I?

So let all bitterness get rid of it. Bitterness very strong,

it's a very strong root. When it takes root, it's

very hard to come out, and people get sick. They

grow tumorus. We get sick and ill gas STRITEI is

our illnesses. Sometimes many times it's tied to how we

are feeling.

Friends.

Our health depend on our spiritual wellbeing as well, so

we want to not let anything pushes down. We want

the freedom to walk in Christ.

Amen.

All that you hold back a lot of unhappiness and

just just I don't know what they call it stress.

Stress not good for your health. You must say to

the Lord, take it, Lord, I exchange for your my

heavy yoke for your yoke that is light. A man

spending a little bit more time on uprooting, because roots

will cause you to stunt your spiritual growth. Just like

the pot with the with the interlocking roots, the tree.

Cannot grow further. We want to grow further. Amen. Amen.

But only the Lord can speak to you and tell

you what exactly it is that is taken route. But

please would you allow Holy Spit to search your heart?

Amen? Yeah.

With brother sisters in Christ especially, you may need to

forgive your spouse. Your spouse a big one forgive, Amen,

don't change gold posts when you fight suddenly, because poor husband,

when was.

That husband's got short memory? Amen?

Hallelujah, wife's very long memory. So we want to quickly

forgive and let go.

Amen, hallelujah.

And the end for us is nurture, Amen, nurture we

need How any garden can grow, You need to nurture it.

Amen.

Anyone yet that you want to see happy, You need

to nurture. All right, Husband and wife, you don't nurture?

Where where is the love?

Yeah? There? Yeah there? From there?

That's how I said. I watch everybody get married. I know,

well first firsts?

Who look khaki? Have you seen as we're walking?

Very first wife and the kido is coming behind? Learned

what happened last time?

Close?

Closed?

And you learned?

No?

What once? I don't know who she is? All right?

I walk so fast, you know, to the pastor's luggy

bers no fasters who are not? Everyone pass, but sometimes

pastors are a purchase busses.

Oh busy? You know the wife calling no, Daniel, Daniel,

you're not here.

No cannot hear no, not so many years past, I

mean thirty forty fast? Yes, who's so used to hearing

them the word paster? Because we forgot to call her

husband's name. Ah, remember yours were n No, don't call

daddy forever, no daddy, daddy, Papa, Papa. Then when the

children live the nest, you papa, who forgot my wife's name, Mama, Mama, Oh, Emily.

Nurturing is very very important. You need to feel the

tank of you know, all the good electrolytes, electrolytes, all

the budget budge in English fortilizer, whattilights, too much of

indul fertilizer, all right, good fertilizer. The words of encouragement,

words of forgiveness, words of peace, words of joy.

Amen so John.

So we go to John chapter fifteen, and we've read

this many times. One of my favorite favorite chapters, uh

in the Bible is John chapter fifteen, fourteen and fifteen

got me saved forty four years ago? John fifteen, Yeah,

remember yes to spoke on don kita chabangya. All right,

Jesus is the I'm the branches. Jesus the vine, and

that's the whole. I'm the true vine.

Father's a vine dresser.

And then he goes to verse four and says, abide

in me and I in you. As the branch cannot

bare fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine,

neither can you unless you abide in me. I am

the vine. You are the branches. He who abides in

me and I in him bears much fruit. For without me,

you can do nothing. Everybody saying nothing wild grapes. No,

we don't want to have war grapes. We want to

have something. We want bare fruit. Your life is tied

to the Lord. So as you ask the Holy Spirit

to search, we all ask holits search our hearts. He

shows us we uproot it, we uproot. So you take color,

you root, You're up rout right, you out, you eat out?

Oh your unhappiness anger, Oh people got anger manish when

I always get angry, and don't get angry for it?

Nothing loud small smiles will get angry anger rabler. You

was speaking loud, joking, loved too much, joking? Okay, maybe

okay broad Then nah, you plow the ground wa very nice, ready, right,

very loose, already in the ground or the sand.

What happened?

You have to do something. You've got a nurture, Amen,

you've got a nurture. Put the fertilizer KERTI ready so

that you can plan afresh.

Amen.

Right, So you nurture by abiding in the Lord. You

and I can do nothing unless we abide. We stick close.

We are stuck as a branch to the vine. Don't

walk away. Don't walk away from the Lord. You say

for a moment, Lord, let me do my own thing.

I walk away.

No, you are stuck to the vine as the branch

is stuck to the You and I are, you know,

stuck to Jesus. Abiding. Abide in him, wait in him,

Stay in the Lord. Amen, so that we are able

to bear fruit. Without Christ in us. We cannot bear fruit.

Without the transformed life of Jesus in us, we will

not bear fruit.

We will be like we were just carnel.

We cannot be baby forever. Yeah, yeah, Church, you cannot

be baby Christian forever. I think a lot of you

here are quite mature enough enough time for some meat. Okay,

I cannot give you susue all the time. Susue, you

gotta no muscle. Only meat will build proteins, build your bones.

I'm learning that because of my husband's late. Yeah. I

didn't know, but now I have to do meat.

Meat, meat, meat, meat helps you roll those muscles.

Amen.

So nurturing is very important. To nurture our spirit, we

have to abide, to abide, we have to know what

we're abiding. We have to read, meditate, meditate on God's word.

So a question have you read anything this week of

the Bible?

No?

No, this is not like on them. No, this is

asking ourselves in the whole way. Are so busy? Did

I for me? Like it was?

I've got work, I've got patient at home, I've got studies,

We studied things.

Once I've done you, you celebrate me. Okay, one more year

to go?

Oh my God, so you know, and then things to

go through, different things, a lot, a lot. So we

can say that is priority. So we need to make

priority for Jesus. Wake up, do your quiet time. I

don't know when is the best time abiding in him.

But as you abide, you need to hear. You need

to hear from firstly the written word of God, the logos.

And as you abide you read not one line love.

I always say one chapter, one passage, after one passage,

graduated to one chapter, one chapter, go to two chapter

after that, one book.

All right, now, the wooman is mark.

Because without this nurturing we cannot be fertile. The garden

won't look good to bear the fruit that resembles Christ.

What fruit is he looking for in our lives? Sorry?

Not jamboo? Sorry not do the end? Sorry it's you.

He doesn't want to seek and a chin in your face.

Roger, you want to see Rogers, Who's fruit? The fruit

that Christ put in you, Christ in you. That is

what he's looking for himself in us. That's why we

have to abide by that by him. Stay close to Jesus,

oh bite, stay remain stuck to him. Amen, don't sometimes

we There's an old line Richie Song says, I'm stuck

on you.

People in love all say that I'm stuck on you.

Baby.

You can't move me.

Thirty years later, stay away from you, don't touch me.

Okay.

So the realities of marriage right if you don't eyeing

things out. Stuck on Jesus, Amen, stuck on him. Let

the word of God glue us. Amen, But we have

to read it. He I can bring the Bible to

you here, but if you don't read it.

Nobody can help you. Amen. So the sun we need

the sun. We need to search our hearts. Many times.

I've had to search my heart, and I'm aware of

why am I having this insecurity? Why am I having

this insecurity? The law will reveal. Get over yourself, girl,

I've got bigger plans for you. Stop looking at this

and that and want to be like somebody else, be you.

My own insecurity is fearful, I thought older again we

get over it, No, we're.

Coming back again. Crazy. So we got to shut our

ears but here and remain in Christ.

Right if there's anything that holding us back, many people

live with a lot of deep roots of bitterness, unforgiveness,

of fences, and we don't realize because we don't take

the halftime reflection.

Self reflection is one of the most powerful things.

I don't like to self reflect because it makes my

brain work. But when your brain works, you begin to

search truthfully about what did you do today?

At the end of the day, you say, what happened today?

Was I nice to my dad? Maum? Was I nice

to my kids?

How was it at work today? What was that thought

that I thought about that person? Or what kind of

you know, we get all kinds of thoughts out. So

if we reflect, if we even if we couldn't do daily,

there's a half time check right now, just okay, whatever

is now, ask a lot to help us because we

really want to grow. We want to be people that

are wholesome. Yeah uh yeah, some peigner, some peorner, wholesome,

fit filled with nothing the care of the past, just

filled with the focus of God's beautiful plans for us. Yeah, Amen,

really really that they no matter how you catch on

with age. As one auntie said to me a few

weeks ago, she's she's was she ninety Laura Laura Laura

Laura Lung's auntie mother in Laura ninety eighty something, she said, Passa,

I'm very happy and I'm very well because I don't

keep any unforgiveness in my heart. So old she's still

cooking eighty something or ninety something like that.

Wow.

As we get on, actually in age we get on,

but also a spiritual age, we should be more Graciousler,

don't keep saying are you? As I go older, I

get more impatient. I must stop saying there. No, as

I grow older in my faith, I become more patient

because God is patient with me.

Amen.

Sometimes I feel like I grow older and not patient.

Maybe I won't stand for rubbish, Lian, come on, I won't.

I won't stand for this gossip. Yes, I don't stand

for that. No time for gossip. But to be patient

with somebody, to be kind to somebody, we have we

dig it.

Out of our wells.

Of ourself, wells of our soul. If we put in

God's word, Amen, hallelujah. As we get on in life again.

You're not gonna be sixteen forever.

You won't. You won't.

I used to think I'll be sixteen forever. Oh my words,

beyond that. But Jesus gives us the sixteen year old energy.

A man, clean hands, pure heart, search our hearts. Get

those things that are hurting us to be uprooted. Weed

out the weeds, because if we don't, we'll be stunted

and we cannot grow and become the giants that God

has called us to. Yeah our enemies, I'm the only giant.

You are the spiritual giants who tell the enemy to

take your hands off you and those who are being bound. Man,

God uses you to also pray for other people, Minister,

and nurturing is so important. Nurturing you understand that in

the natural right. You understand that to your child, to

nurture your.

Your garden, you go and dreamline, gudline water and all that.

You understand.

Nurturing with your marriage, you speak well, your wife, your

your husband, your children. You nurture and then there is growth.

Then the garden of your heart becomes well watered.

Amen.

Oh, the Lord wants you to have a well watered

garden that's found in Isaiah fifty eight, a well watered garden.

After you've let everything go through the fast thing you

read that, you become a well watered garden and you

are flowing with the grace of God over your life.

Amen, hallelujah.

I just have to say the reality is we do

live with pains and accidents, and people offend you and

we say the wrong thing, and life happens. La.

But thanks to God for his unspeakable.

Gift, the gifts of Jesus in us mercy and forgiveness,

that we can forgive ourselves first as God forgives us.

Then to forgive those who have offended us, or hurt us,

or disappointed us or made life really difficult for us.

We can forgive.

We have to, because you don't want it to root

and clog up your life stream. As we unclog uproot,

weed out, we create that ground that is ready and

soft to receive the nurturing of God's Word, God's Holy.

Spirit in our lives. Amen. Amen.

I again, as I said, I don't know what I mean,

not that I don't know. I meet so many people.

I hear their stories and I see how God has

delivered them. I see those who are stuck and undelivered

for so many years being a Christian, yet still stuck.

Don't be stuck. Don't be stuck in things that don't matter.

They go to heaven, don't matter. Ready, now we want

to make it to the finishing line. Yeah, things that

we think, this is it, this is I, this is

it's not. There are greater days, a hit, greater opportunities,

hope in the Lord. The pleasure of the Lord is

upon you as his children. Let us therefore please him.

Let us stare for when he looks at this garden,

the vineyard, let that be sweet grapes for the Lord

to enjoy a man, not the sour grapes, not wild things,

but the sweetness of the Lord, just outflowing our lives.

Amen, I'm a man. We will, we all will go

to it.

I have to ask myself this time time in again,

search my own heart, why I feel like this towards

a certain person. Why I'm afraid to see some people? Yo,

Because I scared you say this to me, and may

might miss the opportunity for the Lord to use you

to even be friend people we are afraid, so I

stay away from them.

But who knows what God wants to teach me.

As I face my own you know, fears and ask

the Lord to uproot those things in my life, as

I willingly surrender. Surrender, Amen, and then the carnal begins

to transform into the spiritual men. Amen, Praise God, hallelujah.

So let us look to the sun.

Amen.

Gos your eyes on Jesus the sun, because we need

the sun and that God gave us the sun to

just shine on us.

Amen.

Search our hearts, Search our hearts, o Lord abroud if

there's any roots of weeds and nurturing by the word

of God, prayer. Fellowship of the Saints is also a

part of nurturing, you know, because when you share your

testimonies of your hardships, I hear it and hear what

God has delivered you. It brings encouragement to me. Amen, hallelujah.

Being in the fellowship of the Saints is part of nurturing.

That's why we do church. But we don't complicate matters.

Lah okay, I say to all the women in our

church here, Auntie, Auntie, we have a church to fellowship.

Don't complicate it by creating women's fellowship that causes gossip. No,

always not happy with one another, Lady the antie, get

over it. Love forgive be friends, clean hands to your heart. Amen,

I don't I don't like the anti fellowship. Son. I've

been doing so many I have to heal so many,

I mean walk through healing. So I say no better,

we all just serve the Lord and don't have tea

and bless each other. Don't get to say that lady

hurt me and that anti say this. Auntie will say things?

What Auntie will say things? One for God memory short laps.

I said it.

I didn't know I said it.

So then you you create those hubs of gossip and pain.

No please, ex church. We already said no gossip in

this house long time already. Oh, no gossiping, No gossiping.

If we're going to gossip, but it's going to be

how good Jesus is you know how good he is?

Oh my goodness, heal my uncle can sir?

Gone? You gossip? There are no problem. But I don't

like gossip adding. You know daughter of first Boogie too?

That one not good.

That one can't have to uproot, have to uproot, Amen,

and then nurture with the healthy, healthy, healthy fertilizer, the

Word of God, love a man, and joy and hopefulness,

patience and kindness, and and you know, long suffering. Everybody

is very long live Jesus, very long suffering with you

and me, you know, so long I see Jesus very

long suffering with me.

How much more for me and my brothers and sisters.

I'm learning to amen. Hallelujah.

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