GOD CALLS US TO COME INTO THE GARDEN

 

GOD CALLS US TO COME INTO THE GARDEN

God is speaking to us, just as He spoke to Adam and

Eve in the Garden of Eden “Where are you, Adam?”

 But now, God keeps calling us, ‘Come into the Garden’.

This is the safest place to hide in this moment of time.

   Psalm 91:1

           He who dwell in the secret place of the most high
            shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

 

In psalm 139- it tells us that though God has created us,
but He yet needs to form us into Christ’s likeness.

 King David said that his soul (self) knows very well in

 the secret place, where he was taught by wisdom.

     Psalm 139:15

            My frame was not hidden from you, when I was made in secret,
            and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth (earthen body).

We are conceived by wisdom (mother)

SNS 8:5

       Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?

           I raised thee up under the apple tree Prov.7:2, SNS 2:3 (spiritual fruit):
           there thy mother(wisdom) brought thee forth (spiritual birth): there
           she brought thee forth that bare (stripped off all our worldly wisdom) thee.

  God brings us into the wilderness (in the dry season of our lives) to
  strip off all our pride where He can impart to us higher wisdom.
  Where in Proverbs tells us that:-

 

     Prov.3:13
                Blessed is the man who finds wisdom,
                        and the man who gains understanding

 

 And king David desired God to continue to transform

 him through testing when he cried out to God:-

    

      Psalm 139:23-2
         23“Search me , O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
         24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

 

As we go through ups and downs in our lives, as this is how life is in this
world, God breaks down our pride of life and teaches us higher wisdom.

 While we were born into this world, the spirit of this world had

  deceived us into sinning (in various forms/ways) against God (our Maker),
  just as he deceived Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.

 But in God’s great love, He gave His only Son to save us from the penalty

  of sins. He came to destroy all the devil’s works in our lives so as to restor
 what had been ruined or destroyed in the garden of Eden – That is the place
 where we can meet and have fellowship with God.

 The bible says, we are the temple of God and God dwells in us –

 Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of God is within us and He

  who is in us is greater than he who is in this world.

 What God wants to do with us, He does it in our heart- in the very depth of our

  soul. There is a secret place within us which God has created for His dwelling.

 Many times God has made known this verse to me:-

              Isa.45:3

                I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places
         Psalm139:11-13
                11If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me.” Even the night shall be
                light about me. 12Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You. But the 
                night shines as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
                13For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.

 This place is hidden in the depth of our soul (within us)

 

The Garden of Eden will be once again recreated in us, in the
very depth of our soul. This is where we will be taught and formed
into spiritual maturity by the Spirit of the Sovereign God.

          Psalm 51: 6

                Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
                    and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

 

In time of distress, we do not put all our attention on circumstances,
instead we turn away from discouragement and come to this place to
quiet ourselves in the silence of the secret place to wait upon God,
where we will receive wisdom to deal with situation.

 God gives us spiritual birth through wisdom that Christ may be formed in us.

          Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless

          he is born again.”   John 3:3

            Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. John 3:6

 

HOW TO BE BORN AGAIN??!!

Honestly speaking, to be born again is a process:-

But neither in the place of comfort zone nor can you control the time of it.
It is in the place of carrying the cross through the dessert and wilderness
in the testing.
There is where God will feed you with the true bread of heaven John 6:33-40.

        The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.

    The words I spoken to you are spirit and

         they are life.  John 6:63

                   “It is written, ‘man shall not live by bread alone,

                  but by every word that proceeds from the mouth

                      of God.’”   Matt. 4:4

                            

Read the Holy Bible… pray and seek God’s face every day

and night to build up the spirit man – essential!!

 

In our most trying times, don’t give your heart into the situation but come to God
1)  in a most solemn manner
2) examine your heart and judge yourself if there is any secret sins.
3) repent – for without holiness no one can see God

                 “In repentance and rest is your salvation’

                 in quietness and trust is your strength,…”  Isa.30:15

HOW TO HEAR FROM GOD TO RECEIVE GUIDANCE!!??

1)  Come to God with your whole pure heart

2) Wait upon God in the silent from the very depth of your soul

For we are the temple for God’s Spirit, we are going to meet with

God from within.  Jesus said, ‘The Kingdom of God is within us’

  While we are on earth…we can only limit to live in an earthly tent (body).

  When we are fed with God’s word (the Truth)…our spirit man is built up.
  God is Spirit and we are going to meet/communicate with God through
   our spirit man.

And our soul (we) will be willing to subject to the will of

God through understanding in the knowledge of Christ.

When our spirit man is built up strong through the Word of God,

He will lead us into all truth, and wisdom will be our path.

     Rom.8:14

          For many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

 

I HAVE A STORY TO TELL YOU

I will give you a short description of my experience about my own new found Garden.

*When I came to know God, firstly He baptized me into His 

   Spirit dramatically like the day of Pentecost in Acts (I think).

                                       * And as I read His Word in a habitual way, day and night,
                                          He called me to write down what He wants to show me.
                                           I obeyed!!
*And to my surprise; I have seen that in fact, my life is
   written in His Word !!   He has spoken about my life !!!!!....
  ..My life is spoken by Him..!!
                                        * He showed me who I am, all my pass and what is to
                                            come, and what is His will  and destiny for me!!
*And as I persisted in studying the Word of God every day and night,
  unexpectedly, I have come to find/develop a secret garden
  where I meet Him in spirit, communicating/hearing His voice
 speaking to my heart and having sweet fellowship with Him in
  this secret place.
                                              *As days gone by, we have developed a close     
                                                  relationship with one another.
*And one day in the garden He said to me, “Keep on praying,
 don’t stop praying, and you will be a shining star someday”.
   (Later I have become a prophetic intercessor)
                                     *And as I obeyed and persisted in coming to the
                                        garden to gain spiritual nourishment
*Then one day in the secret garden,
  He taught me how to dance !!!
                                    * In the garden He said to me, “dance…lady…dance…Keep
                                        on dancing, don’t stop dancing…and you are going to
                                        dance for me someday” !!
                                      (This also has come to pass when God included me in a
                                         prophetic dance for our nation, and I know that this prophetic
                                         act is very significant in the spirit realm. The steps are just as
                                         how God has taught me)
 *And after a while, I began to learn the plain difference between
   the things that can be seen with the natural eyes and the
   things that can be seen with the spirit eyes.
                             *And I learned the unlike between the love of Christ and the
                                love of man…the wisdom of God and the wisdom of man.
*And I learned that I really can be a winner, strong
   and undefeated just as He thinks about me
                              *And in this secret place, I have learned to love and trust Him
                               despite all those hard times I have gone through and I am getting
                               more and more into the process of  transforming  into the image
                                of His Son (Christ).
*So I begin to sow my seeds to decorated my own secret garden,
    to prepare for eternity where my soul and the spirit will dwell. 

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Our soul + spirit (Word) – A new creation – The two become

one just as Adam and Eve – The two became one Gen. 2:24.

What we (our soul) have been fed in the secret place is the spirit of life.

        John 12;24

               I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
               it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

This verse tells us that we need to strip off our pride and ego, and carry
the cross to sow the kingdom of righteousness e.g love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
First of all, love God and secondly, love people.

We plant the garden for God to come to taste its choicest fruits. SNS 4:16;5:1

 God is the Lover of our soul.

 The Bible tells us so…we cannot afford to lose God, read
 the book of SNS in the bible, then you will understand.

As human we don’t see it now,

but after awhile, when we die,
then we (our Soul) will be desperate for God so..so…much more.
In the plain, without God, we perish,
unless we are born again by the Spirit of God while on earth.
 

       Jesus said, 

            25“I am the resurrection and life. He who believes in me will live,
            even though he dies; 26and whoever lives and believes in me will
            never die. Do you believe this?” John11:25-26

God is as real as any person to us in our lives on earth as we open ourselves

to Him and seek His face (Love Him without any selfish purpose).

            Heb. 12:2

                 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,
                 who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning   
                 its shame, and sat down at the right hand of God.

 

            John 3:8

             The wind blows wherever it pleases.

               You hear its sound, but you cannot
             tell where it comes from or where it
               is going. So it is with everyone is born
                            of the Spirit.

 

  God is great!!

   Ritapearl

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