
by Pastor Tim Burt
I’m a gardener. I love to garden. My mom helped instill that in me when I was young. I never realized at the time the spiritual lessons God would teach me from gardening and how much it would impact my life.
You’ll find that in every garden, weeds that you never planted spring from the ground. Your heart and your garden are the same. Weeds―that is, fears, worries and evil imaginations frequently attempt to invade your heart and mind. They often come randomly and seem to come from nowhere. Jesus in trying to teach His disciples about how our heart and mind works used gardening and farming illustrations. Jesus taught, "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.

Satan is always trying to plant seeds of fear in our heart. It’s by design. He would rather have you have faith in your fears than faith in God’s promises. Why? Because your faith is what brings forth its crop. When you allow weed seeds of fear to grow in your mind and heart, then fear, discouragement, and hopelessness is the crop you will reap. Consequently, you have to work to keep out things you do not want in growing in you. You have to dig up what shouldn’t be there and cast it out! What does a heart with weed seeds planted in it look like? Mark 4:19 (NKJV) paints that picture saying, "and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful."
The voices of fear, whether from the enemy of our soul that come randomly, or from those that speak cares, worries and fear, are voices NOT to listen to. Jeremiah 17:5-6 NLT reveals this saying, “This is what the Lord says: "Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans and turn their hearts away from the Lord (and from His promises.) They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, on the salty flats where no one lives.”


God’s Word is our riverbank for our roots to go down into. Remember today that the promise He promised you is this: “Plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of my love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and shower righteousness upon you.” Hosea 10:12 (NLT)
P.S. Here is my real garden! http://bit.ly/1AGx193
In His Love,
Pastor Tim Burt
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