The Sermon Weed N Feed Your Garden by Terri Rummel
Aug 11, 2013
Weed N Feed Your Garden (31:01)
Referenced Scriptures: John 15:9-11; Proverbs 4:23; Philippians 4:8; Philippians 4:4; John 16:33; 1 Corinthians 15:57; Matthew 15:18; Zechariah 5:6
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John 15:9-11
9) Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
10) If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father‘s commandments, and remain in his love.
11) I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
Proverbs 4:23
23) Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.
Philippians 4:8
8) Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:4
4) Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice!
John 16:33
33) I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
1 Corinthians 15:57
57) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew 15:18
18) But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart, and they defile the man.
Zechariah 5:6
6) I said, What is it? He said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land
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Him him past that you do that and then I thought you may like to pray about it. And the Lord said just do it. I'll be there with you. So whatever happens whatever comes out the faintest give me the words I had one message ready at the very beginning that thing God do something save me something that I was stupid and sometimes outside that is yet one plan that God has another for the title of my message today is we didn't feed you guard notes like sort of a quirky little title that all unsigned children can be dismissed for children's search did have that written in my nice RK targeting at K the first Scripture. I'll look at is John chapter fifteen, verse nine. Discussed the NIV version as the father has loved me, so I have loved you, and remain in my love, if you obey his commands, you will remain in my love, just that I have obeyed my father 's commands and remain in his. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. I was thinking about. Enjoy and sometimes we get so distracted with things in life, and with all the things going on in the world and in our lives, we tend to lose vaginally and I know that happens to me. It happens to all of us at one time or another. I'm sure sometimes it's due to circumstances or trial are there other times I think that is just one of those things that means as time goes by I'm talking today about the joy, the Lord is the difference between joy that makes us think that are making a happy and joyful that the real, lasting joy is a joy that we find in Christ, the words away means to delight in and rejoice, and if you think about it. The word joy is in the Galatians were talks about the fruits of the spirit. Julie is one of I think that the real to me that we have when we know that Christ is the one that transcends all, circumstances which there is a high. Now life for love. Life said, I think it that way and I thought have you ever had this feeling yourself that this is what I have taught myself what one feelings away. Why don't I have that QA sometimes you just get to that point, we so dry and that Hezbollah, nothing seems to get you feeling good about things. And remember that excitement, joy, when you first accepted Christ and how you are so excited that medical and most of me, and whether you've been saved for a long time horizon young child. I don't know about your story, but in my situation I've had time to go on experienced things that I felt like okay I'm not good enough to come to God 's love. So the one I really understood God 's love accepted him as the savior. I had real joy and at the kind of joy that we need to keep on remembering so little by little and as time goes by we can all experience this time. That's right& him ourselves, thinking, well, there is kindly get away from. Slowly, slowly we get away from spending time with the Lord. Slowly, slowly, we quit reading and praying man. Eventually, our hunger. Guys like Nina Hungerford God anymore. It's like, okay, you don't feel like being with other believers. He just sort of wanted withdraw. Go do your own little place and another time, she still condemn their depressed like your unworthy like I don't even like a church because I don't feel like I've been a good Christian. This week it's just like being a hypocrite. Why should I go, these are all these things are, even if burnt out if you're burned out doing the right things ministry. You can be involved in doing things that are right for the Lord that you're doing it and doing it and doing it the united strength and joy. That's kind of thing that I want to talk about today and so the next Scripture. I went to get to is Proverbs four twenty three Proverbs four twenty three it says above all else, guard your heart. Now, that's where I come to the title of my weekend siege regard, I believe that the garden is our heart and I was outside and I'm not a good gardener like pastor. He has beautiful flowers not unattractive. I bet I was out of my little patch of flowers. One day, which is very few and I realized, wow this is really overrun with these weeds and I tell you what happened long time ago when I I actually planted these little so-called flowers that I thought were so cute. While you guess what neither my weeds because they spend the whole like a little spiral over everything it touches. It will be the goal of my light pole and in both everywhere you know why I put that power. There, thinking it was a nice little flower that now I realize that was not the thing to put in herself. Sometimes we want to guard our heart is forgot our heart is regarding the delete really be careful about those weeds that come into our garden. Whether we think they are good or whether there that just stare and seventies weeds that we have our I've come up with some of these weeds that we allow in our garden. The first weed. I think his doubts you may be thinking while I don't think God can ever answer this prayer, this is too hard for him. He may be answered in everyone else's prayer, but I found out about this one, or I don't know if I can do with this. Another thing, if one more thing gets put on my plate. I don't on video. I can't take it. I'll think that's an enemy through this one. I just can't do it will guess what we can't do it like for megamergers thinking round. Those miracles and those things were for the Bible times, not for today. You start doubting God 's word and what it says in there what he says about himself or we start doubting what he says about us in his word. Another weed is a weeded discontentment on discontent, meaning it just not really happy and enough I get that new job or forget that house. We get married or I find the right person. That's an easy means your committee, said Joyce Larry King to make great visages all empty promises. The real joy is named that we are content with whatever God blesses us with. He blesses us with every singly connected to him us with this amazing bravery agrees were able to walk were able to come here without being persecuted semi- things to be thankful for the week and get into that discontentment for not careful. Another thing and they think is a weed is works of the flesh. Did you say to yourself. I cannot believe I'm still doing this. I overcame this adventure in a true time I thought I was past this kind of thing when you don't stuff they think why did I do that I can't ever trying so hard to be good for China be a good Christian that we are to be. But you know what Zechariah for success not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the Lord to me that says that only guides power in his spirit can change things and I don't know that you billing each other change things on your and you really get worn out. They get tired, you get discouraged and then always other things with the doubt how it on top of that starts to take hold producing your garden start and finish again. The other thing is another. We went on weeds here that don't worry Bergen has some solutions to feed. We have with our readers anger and unforgiveness. Sometimes words are angry the other people have done to us were hurt were wounded another times we don't forgive ourselves as we all make mistakes. We all slip up, we all messed up him hasten even on herself and we get mad when we don't pool through mirth in for a failure that that's not shooting at another weed that's a lie. Guys always working on this, so we have to be careful to realize that he is merciful with us, so we need to be merciful, forgiving for other people heard us and it doesn't happen every night. It's a process that sometimes we want to justify why were angry. Well she knew it. David Nathan, you understand why I'm still mad on my can of forgiven. I don't care what God says to give, and it's not easy, but more on my unforgiven. Among these are not here, and God loves me for gave me several may remember that the next time we choose not to forget. Remember how Godfrey gave us what Jesus did for us. And of course we've got. This is one of my favorites because I deal with this and I'm sure many of you do. Now the approval of others. Well we start getting distracted in line to be approved and accepted by other people and we start allowing that to be our main focus were not focusing on what pleases God and his approval is more important. So we don't want to be rejected guiltless that I don't like rejection. I want everyone to like me, and I want everyone to agree with what I'm doing in Salem, that's great, but sometimes even when God telling you to do something and you know in your heart that this is what you need to do what he's calling you to do something I think this is great considering me that I'm supposed to do this come down lower like San Juan firemen someone's date, you know, say anytime all about it and they say your vanity. What you think you can do that. Can you or you have the education and the that were allowed to act as so if you think so all of a sudden that you're you're worried about what they're thinking; so we start worrying about God or of other people trying to tell us it might be the enemy, speaking to them, chided the foil the plans of God, but that fear of rejection is a strong thing because you're living in expectations of other people instead of just one intent live for the Lord and he is not one, not theirs. With this armed fist saying he'll get it right. I'm learning that you were united in my way. He is allowing us in the free choice to do things willingly, I will out of a willing heart and once we learn the how God 's character isn't anybody says, looking to be more concerned about what God thinks, not what other people think. And then of course there is sin and disobedience am talking about. We all stand is not about a kid, we said we all do every moment where sinning somehow some time I am talking about. Deliver it since then. This is deliberate and unrepentant to be dealt to the Lord, and repent of these things continue to do it, and defiance. They got that swing that we starts coming in its commitment in our relationship with the Lord. It's been a take away from our our fellowship with the Lord. And then you wonder what was wrong. I flick my present even get past the you know, because there is that repenting then the same. If you have not repented of and it already is, as God wants us to repent so that we can be free from knots, then, and walk in freedom, and fellowship. It's for our good, not because he wants to make is still batting, condemn us. Which leads me to the last one self condemnation self-condemnation is what we live in the past mistakes( ever can't get past it and it just starts checking out all of our joy and you know why I was. I think that we continue to doubt where God 's grace is that we keep condemning herself because whatever we did in the past. That's yesterday that the we need to live for day-to-day. This is today. This is the day the Lord has made. I will be guided rejoicing at his mercies are new every morning. Okay, so neither will believe it. I thought of and for my careful to weed out those weeds will be in big trouble. And then were gone. Wonder how did I get here why am I feeling this way will we can weed and feed our garden by Arafat in second Corinthians ten five ago. They are it says we demolish the arguments and free pretensions that set itself up against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. This is what it is. Things were. We have to do it all the time. The honor guard to be careful. Every thought that comes into our mind is not of God. So in order to leave days negative thoughts of our garden him. For when they first come into our thoughts because whatever there is in our heart, which is our garden lifetimes comes through here. First, our head in our thoughts and there is a battle going on in our mind so every time there is this negative thing coming to my head for a thought. I weighed out that when I would say I caught a five second rule. That's my motto for me after that waited on God. That's how many down cast it down because we have to fight that warfare that is in our mind with the battlefield in our thoughts and take it captive to what does God say about us. It is it lighting up with what God says about us. If it's not then casted doubt taken captive and replace it with what is to which is the next Scripture which pastor talked about last week. The Libyans for a finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, lovely, and whatever is admirable. Anything excellent or praiseworthy think on these things so once we realize that's not of God, cast it down because he replaced that with what is lovely. What is pure. What is true. What is true about what God says and we need to meditate on the word meditate means to ponder upon. Think upon deeply stirred over and over again so in order to take these negative thoughts at the garden. We've got to meditate on the word of God, and we got a nineteen what is true and lovely and pure appraiser in all this him as though please are alive and wrong mindset and we could even have mindset that we've been taught. Every time their form from way back when we were little and it doesn't mean that we have a mindset that we had this is the way things are. But if we look at it a lot of these things were handed down in Suez were taught to us or formed in our minds and perceived as being right. They may not necessarily be treated. They may be live, so that's when we got to figure out by reading God 's word and knowing him, and it's a journey. We learned more and more about ourselves and God every day as we look into his work, so we need to meditate on what is good because that's what cannot sink into our come from our thoughts and plant that seed of positive things into our hearts to feed their garden. We need to feed it with the word seated with meditation on a prayer and crazing and coming to gather with his Saints. These are all things that are going to feed her garden with the word of God into your heart, not just by your head that anything can believe in. There's a lot of power in what you believe, think because whenever we live Shays, what we believe it for a living like this. I know now, things are just not good. It's showing that I had not trusting God, and we all do it. I do it for me. I'll be at first to admit it's one thing that Reed had this exists, but then when you have to say something. If I can like I walk in the promises of God, and I can mistake to what worried him. I keep walking in faith and continuing on to praise in any way ponds. However, in the prison praising how think I be coming. That's a rough thing to be Dylan with your feet and start and a stockholder with the dungeons of the jail they had been that they were still praising the Lord, and I think a lot of people will see your test may feel how your living because they asked you can see your faith and actions and how your living tickets is what you believe. Another thing that we can feed our garden out with is praise and Thanksgiving daily recounting things and all the blessings that God gives us, and I like that sometimes you need and how to pray. He started like okay Laura, you're herewith delivered by yourself and you start how I start you know what I just started listing all the good things he's done all the blessings he gives you then nice that the allowance rate you enter that prayer. Sometimes I forget about the truth that I had requested before, and the ED Amsterdam is that one out. Thank you, Lord, you answered my prayer. And I just totally just, it has caught my money, so it's good to thank you for always answered prayers and thanksgiving, thanksgiving, and it's it starts during when you start bringing forth all the good things of God effects during the out and minister film really good ninety starting a cake. This power is power. I have that joy. I trust the Lord. Thank you God for what you've done it when you talk with the Lord 's prayer is another thing praise and Thanksgiving being in the wording. Another one is prayer. We should make personal hard, but sometimes we do, and it's just talking with God. You could be praying a lot times on train drive down a road were in the shower or just talking film that Flickr is since giving to gratitude back to him and talking with the Lord that you know what we'll have to make it some day fancy pair in a certain way in these of the steps to pray if you want that this is the steps in way of praying you want this. It's just being real. God wants us to be real good. That's where our heart. His, we went opening up to and be sincere. He knows are hard anyway. Just be honest with God. And another thing that we can feed our garden with an fertilizer, starting with the good things to speak his praise is in promises out loud. I'm a strong believer in the power speaking things out loud. It's like speaking to drive down and bring them back to life an easy now you can speak today's drive guns and get back to life, because when you hear it, it just does something. There's power in the word. The word, gaze forth just like God spoke things into existence. There's power in the word on that same work in a speech the world into existence. But we can bring forth phase promises and his beliefs out loud and that could be an a weapon against the enemy, placing his negative thoughts in our life, our words will actually reveal what's going on in our heart. If you want to know what's going on in your heart and really know what's going on. Take time to really think back and listen what you what you've said, sometimes you'll be surprised as I find something at work. I say that not necessarily bad, but that's a shame. What's really in my heart, give or have an issue where you just have an explosion. It's not about the dirty socks in power think and hung up. It's about underlying things that are early through and on Ontario and sometimes just takes that one little thing that this exposes everything that on lowered that come from something going on here, Betty Matthew fifteen, eighteen, and even says that it says that the things they come either the mouth come from the heart, so that the latest survey, just like one of my believe and why might think. And what's in my heart really well. You'll find out a few weeks. I think we took a look at the quarter on with this everyday we be surprising at all. We say if you like that yeah, but we got a be careful. It's a scary thing. Sometimes we don't realize they do things in our hearts that are unresolved. There's things in there that maybe were not addressing are bringing to the Lord. Maybe we just refuse to deal with them right now, weeding and feeding our garden isn't a one time thing. As you know, wow. I met him lazy with the gardening thing I took time to weed out all the men, leaving the that I've done that day, that looks really nice like three, four weeks later another and back again with it. I really think that they work in a comeback after I did that. Now they are very strong-willed weeds when we cannot fail. We got a be careful that we have to maintain our garden. We have to weed out those negative things on a constant thing we have to be aware of these things and then we have to feed them with the positive things and things that are from God. So when I think about joy, joy is a decision. It's how were going to act and how were going to respond when things are tough him us. We don't respond the way we should. But maybe it's because we don't have actually of the Lord keeping half-gallon at the joy they join the Lord is our strength. That's what the word says so. If you use this either strength, and he'll get us through it. He will never leave us or forsake us. He will go through all these things with us whatever's going on in your life. We know that he'll be with us. Our next Scripture. I want to bring into mind is John sixteen thirty three. I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace in this world you will have trouble. But take heart, I have overcome the world. Jesus already told the disciples. These time I forgot how troubles in the world. The take work as he's already overcome the things of that, he's conquered death. We have victory and in first Corinthians, it even says that for fifteen fifty seven but thanks be to God, he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. So I just laugh challenge you to tend a garden of your heart and Philippians four four three seven is our last Scripture will be rejoiced in the Lord always. I will say it again rejoice that we need to rejoice in him was such a joy coming from that coming from things success or what at least are we having real joy in our lives in Christ and I will have victory so that is my challenge and let the learned say may because I struggle with this, and sometimes reaches REM and one for this, I get a little bit lax on turning to God for strength instead of going to the Lord. Praying about it once in the Bible and see why he's encouraging with. I start fretting her start wearing start thinking too much and then I start getting down cast like why my downcast while it's going on in my heart is that being said, is it being overrun with the weeds without negativity because really we are supposed to be able to be set apart from the road. Everyone should see that join our lives and it should did you ever meet someone you just know that their Christian Big East had that countenance about them something different. And I've even had people go through horrible things be, yet there are still joyful nets and that's the thing that I tried. I am trying to keep mind of myself so we don't want to get distracted by the things of the world and all the things and events on TV and that can bring it down and then mixing in never discouraged, depressed and were ready that just get it and so that's what I felt the Lord led me to share with you today and I hope that something will just help you to keep your joy, and it's not by my words, but by his words. It will help you get the point. It's pretty father God reaches thank you guys for your joy. But you have given us so much to be joy for about. We have eternal life with you we will be with you for her even if we gave to child things on this earth and circumstances and hardships starving no, that every tear will be wiped away. There will be next year with one with you Lord, how things will be new. Just thank you for the opportunity to be yours for a child of you were in your family Lord, you've adopted us. That's so much right. There were thankful for. Help us to always have an attitude of gratitude toward what you've done for us, Lord, and give us the strength of its three-year jail joy in knowing you in the confidence knowing you that we can do all things. Thank you Lord, I pray a blessing for each one here. I pray for the victory to be in their lives are in that they would walk in that join such a large, we thank you again for your wording for your love. Jesus, amenHim him past that you do that and then I thought you may like to pray about it. And the Lord said just do it. I'll be there with you. So whatever happens whatever comes out the faintest give me the words I had one message ready at the very beginning that thing God do something save me something that I was stupid and sometimes outside that is yet one plan that God has another for the title of my message today is we didn't feed you guard notes like sort of a quirky little title that all unsigned children can be dismissed for children's search did have that written in my nice RK targeting at K the first Scripture. I'll look at is John chapter fifteen, verse nine. Discussed the NIV version as the father has loved me, so I have loved you, and remain in my love, if you obey his commands, you will remain in my love, just that I have obeyed my father 's commands and remain in his. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. I was thinking about. Enjoy and sometimes we get so distracted with things in life, and with all the things going on in the world and in our lives, we tend to lose vaginally and I know that happens to me. It happens to all of us at one time or another. I'm sure sometimes it's due to circumstances or trial are there other times I think that is just one of those things that means as time goes by I'm talking today about the joy, the Lord is the difference between joy that makes us think that are making a happy and joyful that the real, lasting joy is a joy that we find in Christ, the words away means to delight in and rejoice, and if you think about it. The word joy is in the Galatians were talks about the fruits of the spirit. Julie is one of I think that the real to me that we have when we know that Christ is the one that transcends all, circumstances which there is a high. Now life for love. Life said, I think it that way and I thought have you ever had this feeling yourself that this is what I have taught myself what one feelings away. Why don't I have that QA sometimes you just get to that point, we so dry and that Hezbollah, nothing seems to get you feeling good about things. And remember that excitement, joy, when you first accepted Christ and how you are so excited that medical and most of me, and whether you've been saved for a long time horizon young child. I don't know about your story, but in my situation I've had time to go on experienced things that I felt like okay I'm not good enough to come to God 's love. So the one I really understood God 's love accepted him as the savior. I had real joy and at the kind of joy that we need to keep on remembering so little by little and as time goes by we can all experience this time. That's right& him ourselves, thinking, well, there is kindly get away from. Slowly, slowly we get away from spending time with the Lord. Slowly, slowly, we quit reading and praying man. Eventually, our hunger. Guys like Nina Hungerford God anymore. It's like, okay, you don't feel like being with other believers. He just sort of wanted withdraw. Go do your own little place and another time, she still condemn their depressed like your unworthy like I don't even like a church because I don't feel like I've been a good Christian. This week it's just like being a hypocrite. Why should I go, these are all these things are, even if burnt out if you're burned out doing the right things ministry. You can be involved in doing things that are right for the Lord that you're doing it and doing it and doing it the united strength and joy. That's kind of thing that I want to talk about today and so the next Scripture. I went to get to is Proverbs four twenty three Proverbs four twenty three it says above all else, guard your heart. Now, that's where I come to the title of my weekend siege regard, I believe that the garden is our heart and I was outside and I'm not a good gardener like pastor. He has beautiful flowers not unattractive. I bet I was out of my little patch of flowers. One day, which is very few and I realized, wow this is really overrun with these weeds and I tell you what happened long time ago when I I actually planted these little so-called flowers that I thought were so cute. While you guess what neither my weeds because they spend the whole like a little spiral over everything it touches. It will be the goal of my light pole and in both everywhere you know why I put that power. There, thinking it was a nice little flower that now I realize that was not the thing to put in herself. Sometimes we want to guard our heart is forgot our heart is regarding the delete really be careful about those weeds that come into our garden. Whether we think they are good or whether there that just stare and seventies weeds that we have our I've come up with some of these weeds that we allow in our garden. The first weed. I think his doubts you may be thinking while I don't think God can ever answer this prayer, this is too hard for him. He may be answered in everyone else's prayer, but I found out about this one, or I don't know if I can do with this. Another thing, if one more thing gets put on my plate. I don't on video. I can't take it. I'll think that's an enemy through this one. I just can't do it will guess what we can't do it like for megamergers thinking round. Those miracles and those things were for the Bible times, not for today. You start doubting God 's word and what it says in there what he says about himself or we start doubting what he says about us in his word. Another weed is a weeded discontentment on discontent, meaning it just not really happy and enough I get that new job or forget that house. We get married or I find the right person. That's an easy means your committee, said Joyce Larry King to make great visages all empty promises. The real joy is named that we are content with whatever God blesses us with. He blesses us with every singly connected to him us with this amazing bravery agrees were able to walk were able to come here without being persecuted semi- things to be thankful for the week and get into that discontentment for not careful. Another thing and they think is a weed is works of the flesh. Did you say to yourself. I cannot believe I'm still doing this. I overcame this adventure in a true time I thought I was past this kind of thing when you don't stuff they think why did I do that I can't ever trying so hard to be good for China be a good Christian that we are to be. But you know what Zechariah for success not by might nor by power, but by my spirit says the Lord to me that says that only guides power in his spirit can change things and I don't know that you billing each other change things on your and you really get worn out. They get tired, you get discouraged and then always other things with the doubt how it on top of that starts to take hold producing your garden start and finish again. The other thing is another. We went on weeds here that don't worry Bergen has some solutions to feed. We have with our readers anger and unforgiveness. Sometimes words are angry the other people have done to us were hurt were wounded another times we don't forgive ourselves as we all make mistakes. We all slip up, we all messed up him hasten even on herself and we get mad when we don't pool through mirth in for a failure that that's not shooting at another weed that's a lie. Guys always working on this, so we have to be careful to realize that he is merciful with us, so we need to be merciful, forgiving for other people heard us and it doesn't happen every night. It's a process that sometimes we want to justify why were angry. Well she knew it. David Nathan, you understand why I'm still mad on my can of forgiven. I don't care what God says to give, and it's not easy, but more on my unforgiven. Among these are not here, and God loves me for gave me several may remember that the next time we choose not to forget. Remember how Godfrey gave us what Jesus did for us. And of course we've got. This is one of my favorites because I deal with this and I'm sure many of you do. Now the approval of others. Well we start getting distracted in line to be approved and accepted by other people and we start allowing that to be our main focus were not focusing on what pleases God and his approval is more important. So we don't want to be rejected guiltless that I don't like rejection. I want everyone to like me, and I want everyone to agree with what I'm doing in Salem, that's great, but sometimes even when God telling you to do something and you know in your heart that this is what you need to do what he's calling you to do something I think this is great considering me that I'm supposed to do this come down lower like San Juan firemen someone's date, you know, say anytime all about it and they say your vanity. What you think you can do that. Can you or you have the education and the that were allowed to act as so if you think so all of a sudden that you're you're worried about what they're thinking; so we start worrying about God or of other people trying to tell us it might be the enemy, speaking to them, chided the foil the plans of God, but that fear of rejection is a strong thing because you're living in expectations of other people instead of just one intent live for the Lord and he is not one, not theirs. With this armed fist saying he'll get it right. I'm learning that you were united in my way. He is allowing us in the free choice to do things willingly, I will out of a willing heart and once we learn the how God 's character isn't anybody says, looking to be more concerned about what God thinks, not what other people think. And then of course there is sin and disobedience am talking about. We all stand is not about a kid, we said we all do every moment where sinning somehow some time I am talking about. Deliver it since then. This is deliberate and unrepentant to be dealt to the Lord, and repent of these things continue to do it, and defiance. They got that swing that we starts coming in its commitment in our relationship with the Lord. It's been a take away from our our fellowship with the Lord. And then you wonder what was wrong. I flick my present even get past the you know, because there is that repenting then the same. If you have not repented of and it already is, as God wants us to repent so that we can be free from knots, then, and walk in freedom, and fellowship. It's for our good, not because he wants to make is still batting, condemn us. Which leads me to the last one self condemnation self-condemnation is what we live in the past mistakes( ever can't get past it and it just starts checking out all of our joy and you know why I was. I think that we continue to doubt where God 's grace is that we keep condemning herself because whatever we did in the past. That's yesterday that the we need to live for day-to-day. This is today. This is the day the Lord has made. I will be guided rejoicing at his mercies are new every morning. Okay, so neither will believe it. I thought of and for my careful to weed out those weeds will be in big trouble. And then were gone. Wonder how did I get here why am I feeling this way will we can weed and feed our garden by Arafat in second Corinthians ten five ago. They are it says we demolish the arguments and free pretensions that set itself up against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. This is what it is. Things were. We have to do it all the time. The honor guard to be careful. Every thought that comes into our mind is not of God. So in order to leave days negative thoughts of our garden him. For when they first come into our thoughts because whatever there is in our heart, which is our garden lifetimes comes through here. First, our head in our thoughts and there is a battle going on in our mind so every time there is this negative thing coming to my head for a thought. I weighed out that when I would say I caught a five second rule. That's my motto for me after that waited on God. That's how many down cast it down because we have to fight that warfare that is in our mind with the battlefield in our thoughts and take it captive to what does God say about us. It is it lighting up with what God says about us. If it's not then casted doubt taken captive and replace it with what is to which is the next Scripture which pastor talked about last week. The Libyans for a finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, lovely, and whatever is admirable. Anything excellent or praiseworthy think on these things so once we realize that's not of God, cast it down because he replaced that with what is lovely. What is pure. What is true. What is true about what God says and we need to meditate on the word meditate means to ponder upon. Think upon deeply stirred over and over again so in order to take these negative thoughts at the garden. We've got to meditate on the word of God, and we got a nineteen what is true and lovely and pure appraiser in all this him as though please are alive and wrong mindset and we could even have mindset that we've been taught. Every time their form from way back when we were little and it doesn't mean that we have a mindset that we had this is the way things are. But if we look at it a lot of these things were handed down in Suez were taught to us or formed in our minds and perceived as being right. They may not necessarily be treated. They may be live, so that's when we got to figure out by reading God 's word and knowing him, and it's a journey. We learned more and more about ourselves and God every day as we look into his work, so we need to meditate on what is good because that's what cannot sink into our come from our thoughts and plant that seed of positive things into our hearts to feed their garden. We need to feed it with the word seated with meditation on a prayer and crazing and coming to gather with his Saints. These are all things that are going to feed her garden with the word of God into your heart, not just by your head that anything can believe in. There's a lot of power in what you believe, think because whenever we live Shays, what we believe it for a living like this. I know now, things are just not good. It's showing that I had not trusting God, and we all do it. I do it for me. I'll be at first to admit it's one thing that Reed had this exists, but then when you have to say something. If I can like I walk in the promises of God, and I can mistake to what worried him. I keep walking in faith and continuing on to praise in any way ponds. However, in the prison praising how think I be coming. That's a rough thing to be Dylan with your feet and start and a stockholder with the dungeons of the jail they had been that they were still praising the Lord, and I think a lot of people will see your test may feel how your living because they asked you can see your faith and actions and how your living tickets is what you believe. Another thing that we can feed our garden out with is praise and Thanksgiving daily recounting things and all the blessings that God gives us, and I like that sometimes you need and how to pray. He started like okay Laura, you're herewith delivered by yourself and you start how I start you know what I just started listing all the good things he's done all the blessings he gives you then nice that the allowance rate you enter that prayer. Sometimes I forget about the truth that I had requested before, and the ED Amsterdam is that one out. Thank you, Lord, you answered my prayer. And I just totally just, it has caught my money, so it's good to thank you for always answered prayers and thanksgiving, thanksgiving, and it's it starts during when you start bringing forth all the good things of God effects during the out and minister film really good ninety starting a cake. This power is power. I have that joy. I trust the Lord. Thank you God for what you've done it when you talk with the Lord 's prayer is another thing praise and Thanksgiving being in the wording. Another one is prayer. We should make personal hard, but sometimes we do, and it's just talking with God. You could be praying a lot times on train drive down a road were in the shower or just talking film that Flickr is since giving to gratitude back to him and talking with the Lord that you know what we'll have to make it some day fancy pair in a certain way in these of the steps to pray if you want that this is the steps in way of praying you want this. It's just being real. God wants us to be real good. That's where our heart. His, we went opening up to and be sincere. He knows are hard anyway. Just be honest with God. And another thing that we can feed our garden with an fertilizer, starting with the good things to speak his praise is in promises out loud. I'm a strong believer in the power speaking things out loud. It's like speaking to drive down and bring them back to life an easy now you can speak today's drive guns and get back to life, because when you hear it, it just does something. There's power in the word. The word, gaze forth just like God spoke things into existence. There's power in the word on that same work in a speech the world into existence. But we can bring forth phase promises and his beliefs out loud and that could be an a weapon against the enemy, placing his negative thoughts in our life, our words will actually reveal what's going on in our heart. If you want to know what's going on in your heart and really know what's going on. Take time to really think back and listen what you what you've said, sometimes you'll be surprised as I find something at work. I say that not necessarily bad, but that's a shame. What's really in my heart, give or have an issue where you just have an explosion. It's not about the dirty socks in power think and hung up. It's about underlying things that are early through and on Ontario and sometimes just takes that one little thing that this exposes everything that on lowered that come from something going on here, Betty Matthew fifteen, eighteen, and even says that it says that the things they come either the mouth come from the heart, so that the latest survey, just like one of my believe and why might think. And what's in my heart really well. You'll find out a few weeks. I think we took a look at the quarter on with this everyday we be surprising at all. We say if you like that yeah, but we got a be careful. It's a scary thing. Sometimes we don't realize they do things in our hearts that are unresolved. There's things in there that maybe were not addressing are bringing to the Lord. Maybe we just refuse to deal with them right now, weeding and feeding our garden isn't a one time thing. As you know, wow. I met him lazy with the gardening thing I took time to weed out all the men, leaving the that I've done that day, that looks really nice like three, four weeks later another and back again with it. I really think that they work in a comeback after I did that. Now they are very strong-willed weeds when we cannot fail. We got a be careful that we have to maintain our garden. We have to weed out those negative things on a constant thing we have to be aware of these things and then we have to feed them with the positive things and things that are from God. So when I think about joy, joy is a decision. It's how were going to act and how were going to respond when things are tough him us. We don't respond the way we should. But maybe it's because we don't have actually of the Lord keeping half-gallon at the joy they join the Lord is our strength. That's what the word says so. If you use this either strength, and he'll get us through it. He will never leave us or forsake us. He will go through all these things with us whatever's going on in your life. We know that he'll be with us. Our next Scripture. I want to bring into mind is John sixteen thirty three. I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace in this world you will have trouble. But take heart, I have overcome the world. Jesus already told the disciples. These time I forgot how troubles in the world. The take work as he's already overcome the things of that, he's conquered death. We have victory and in first Corinthians, it even says that for fifteen fifty seven but thanks be to God, he gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. So I just laugh challenge you to tend a garden of your heart and Philippians four four three seven is our last Scripture will be rejoiced in the Lord always. I will say it again rejoice that we need to rejoice in him was such a joy coming from that coming from things success or what at least are we having real joy in our lives in Christ and I will have victory so that is my challenge and let the learned say may because I struggle with this, and sometimes reaches REM and one for this, I get a little bit lax on turning to God for strength instead of going to the Lord. Praying about it once in the Bible and see why he's encouraging with. I start fretting her start wearing start thinking too much and then I start getting down cast like why my downcast while it's going on in my heart is that being said, is it being overrun with the weeds without negativity because really we are supposed to be able to be set apart from the road. Everyone should see that join our lives and it should did you ever meet someone you just know that their Christian Big East had that countenance about them something different. And I've even had people go through horrible things be, yet there are still joyful nets and that's the thing that I tried. I am trying to keep mind of myself so we don't want to get distracted by the things of the world and all the things and events on TV and that can bring it down and then mixing in never discouraged, depressed and were ready that just get it and so that's what I felt the Lord led me to share with you today and I hope that something will just help you to keep your joy, and it's not by my words, but by his words. It will help you get the point. It's pretty father God reaches thank you guys for your joy. But you have given us so much to be joy for about. We have eternal life with you we will be with you for her even if we gave to child things on this earth and circumstances and hardships starving no, that every tear will be wiped away. There will be next year with one with you Lord, how things will be new. Just thank you for the opportunity to be yours for a child of you were in your family Lord, you've adopted us. That's so much right. There were thankful for. Help us to always have an attitude of gratitude toward what you've done for us, Lord, and give us the strength of its three-year jail joy in knowing you in the confidence knowing you that we can do all things. Thank you Lord, I pray a blessing for each one here. I pray for the victory to be in their lives are in that they would walk in that join such a large, we thank you again for your wording for your love. Jesus, amen