The Garden of God

Earlier I made mention of the Garden of Eden and said I'd come back with the Garden of God. Well, here I am.

Garden (web) is defined as a place for growing vegetables, fruit, or flowers, and it is natural. But let's see what God's "garden" is.

This "garden" means fenced [a protective or confining barrier of posts, wire, etc; to enclose, within]; to hedge about.

Jesus said in St. John 14:17, "For He dwelleth WITH you and shall be IN you." Verse 23 "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and WE will come UNTO him, and make our abode with him!" "Greater is he that is IN you"! (1 John 1:4).

You become and are the "garden", the body that God dwells in! It's like putting a letter into an envelope. We encapsulate Him! He lives WITHIN us!

In Genesis 2:7 the "forming of man" was not him being scooped up out of the ground and being shaped into a form and breath breathed into some holes poked into his nose. No! No! No! This "man" [adam(male & female)] was already here, but he was dead. He was walking around breathing, but "dead" [in a state of ignorance, misery, darkness, sorrow, destruction, wickedness, obscurity, death]! This was the "dust" he was in! The LORD God formed him as a potter with clay! He squeezed him into shape through a pressurized process of trials and testings until every thing that was not like God was out of him (male & female) to make them like himself! He brought him out of the darkness into light, or from death to life, by breathing the very "blood" of God into his face!! MAN, or ADAM, means to show "blood" in the face - God's mind, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, health, dominion, authority, power, and all that he (male & female) needed that pertained to life to sustain LIFE within themselves!!

This is the same thing God is doing to you and me now! He is putting us through a pressurized process of trials to get out of us what is not like him so we too can be him in the earth!! Ephesians 2:1 "And you hath he quickened [make alive], WHO WERE DEAD in trespasses and sins." Verses 5-6 "Even when we WERE DEAD in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, and HATH raised us up together, and made us to sit [established] together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus"!!

In Genesis 2:8, the PLANTING of this garden eastward was God mending, adjusting, establishing, settling, stabilizing a definite place that He could eternally or forever dwell. So "man" is the garden that's "eastward" [eternally made] that houses GOD! He chose, God chose, to DWELL IN MAN!! Hallelujah!! God is Spirit (St. John 4:24), the invisible God! But He is the VISIBLE God IN you! Was He not Jesus in flesh form? Yes, He was! And He's still in flesh form IN you! That's the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations but is now made manifest to His saints: "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is CHRIST IN YOU, the hope of glory"!! (Colossians 1:27).

We the church must come to the place Adam was in Genesis before he fell - a place of dominion, authority, and power! They (male & female) were ruling the creation by the power of God! We MUST come to this place because the CREATION is waiting FOR US, the SONS OF GOD (male & female)! (Romans 8:19).

- Pastor Gracie Perry