You are God's husbandry. That is not a poetic metaphor: it is the apostle Paul's precise theological declaration in 1 Corinthians 3:9, and it carries a weight that most believers have never fully received. The word husbandry in the Greek is georgion, a tilled field, a cultivated place, a garden. Your spirit, your soul, your body have been claimed by the Creator of heaven and earth as sacred soil in which He intends to grow the very nature of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the same verse that declares you God's garden also declares you His co-labourer. He has not placed you in a greenhouse of passivity. He has handed you the tools and said: come, labour with Me.
In this Sunday morning Bible study, Pastor Olubi Johnson builds the message around four things every garden must have: watering, weeding, fruit, and tending. The watering is the daily praying of life scriptures over your own soul and those you love, drawing from the wells of 2 Peter 1:4, John 7:38, and Ephesians 3:16-20 until rivers of living water flow from your innermost being. The weeding is the daily, sustained practice of praying in the Spirit in tongues and in groanings, the Holy Spirit reaching into the deep places of the heart where understanding cannot go, pulling up by the root the residual sin nature that coexists with the good seed. The fruit is what the well-watered, well-weeded garden automatically produces: the character of the fruit of the Spirit, the wisdom of the Pauline prayers, and the power of signs following those who believe. And the tending is the drip irrigation of the body of Christ, washing one another's feet at every six-hour interval through forgiveness, life, and Spirit-prayer.
The eight landmarks of the Path of Life are mapped onto each practice, giving every believer a planting calendar for the soul.
You are God's husbandry. That is not a poetic metaphor: it is the apostle Paul's precise theological declaration in 1 Corinthians 3:9, and it carries a weight that most believers have never fully received. The word husbandry in the Greek is georgion, a tilled field, a cultivated place, a garden. Your spirit, your soul, your body have been claimed by the Creator of heaven and earth as sacred soil in which He intends to grow the very nature of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the same verse that declares you God's garden also declares you His co-labourer. He has not placed you in a greenhouse of passivity. He has handed you the tools and said: come, labour with Me.
In this Sunday morning Bible study, Pastor Olubi Johnson builds the message around four things every garden must have: watering, weeding, fruit, and tending. The watering is the daily praying of life scriptures over your own soul and those you love, drawing from the wells of 2 Peter 1:4, John 7:38, and Ephesians 3:16-20 until rivers of living water flow from your innermost being. The weeding is the daily, sustained practice of praying in the Spirit in tongues and in groanings, the Holy Spirit reaching into the deep places of the heart where understanding cannot go, pulling up by the root the residual sin nature that coexists with the good seed. The fruit is what the well-watered, well-weeded garden automatically produces: the character of the fruit of the Spirit, the wisdom of the Pauline prayers, and the power of signs following those who believe. And the tending is the drip irrigation of the body of Christ, washing one another's feet at every six-hour interval through forgiveness, life, and Spirit-prayer.
The eight landmarks of the Path of Life are mapped onto each practice, giving every believer a planting calendar for the soul.
You are God's husbandry. That is not a poetic metaphor: it is the apostle Paul's precise theological declaration in 1 Corinthians 3:9, and it carries a weight that most believers have never fully received. The word husbandry in the Greek is georgion, a tilled field, a cultivated place, a garden. Your spirit, your soul, your body have been claimed by the Creator of heaven and earth as sacred soil in which He intends to grow the very nature of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the same verse that declares you God's garden also declares you His co-labourer. He has not placed you in a greenhouse of passivity. He has handed you the tools and said: come, labour with Me.
In this Sunday morning Bible study, Pastor Olubi Johnson builds the message around four things every garden must have: watering, weeding, fruit, and tending. The watering is the daily praying of life scriptures over your own soul and those you love, drawing from the wells of 2 Peter 1:4, John 7:38, and Ephesians 3:16-20 until rivers of living water flow from your innermost being. The weeding is the daily, sustained practice of praying in the Spirit in tongues and in groanings, the Holy Spirit reaching into the deep places of the heart where understanding cannot go, pulling up by the root the residual sin nature that coexists with the good seed. The fruit is what the well-watered, well-weeded garden automatically produces: the character of the fruit of the Spirit, the wisdom of the Pauline prayers, and the power of signs following those who believe. And the tending is the drip irrigation of the body of Christ, washing one another's feet at every six-hour interval through forgiveness, life, and Spirit-prayer.
The eight landmarks of the Path of Life are mapped onto each practice, giving every believer a planting calendar for the soul.