How is our heart a garden?

• It is where we grow things from.  
• God created a garden when he first created the world.  It was filled with trees that produced fruit and he left Adam to tend to it and care for it. 
• Genesis 1:8-9 “ Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he played the man he had made.  The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground- trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit.  In the middle of the garden he played the tree of life and the knowledge of good and evil. 
• I want us to picture our hearts and all its content as a garden that needs to be tended.  
• It is unique and special to each person and only us and God knows its contents and knows the best way to tend to it.  
• Genesis 1:15- The Lord God placed the man in the garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. 
• This is just like our hearts and the job God gave to us to care for it. 
• Galatians 5:22-23: But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love , joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.  There is no law against these things!

Weeds in our gardens 

• We all have weeds in our gardens in our hearts
• What are WEEDS?
• Definition:  A plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth, especially:  one that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants.  (Merriam-Webster dictionary.com) 
• Galatians 5: 19-21:  When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear:  sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, another sins like these.  Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.  

Tending to our hearts gardens

• I worked on a farm for 3 years 
• In order for plants that you want to thrive  and survive you have to pull out/ de root the weeds in the garden.  
• The weeds in our hearts are not different and will cause the same effect as they do in an actual garden 
• When our gardens aren’t tended to properly we cannot expect ourselves to give what christ needs us to give, and do what he intended for us to do. 
• Galatians 6: 4-5:  pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else.  For we are each responsible for our own conduct. 
• Focus on our own gardens and don’t worry about what the other person is or even isn’t producing. 

Start growing your hearts garden according to His will

• Ephesians 5: 22-24:  Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.  Instead, let the spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.  Put on your new nature, created to be like God- truly righteous and hol

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