Flourishing and Growing Daily
Our garden has been up, finally after redoing the soil, tilling the dirt yet again, starting with seeds once more, and watering every other day.
We have seen an abundance of growth the past few weeks of the “new” redoing. Though it had been some work, we see the beauty in it all.
Gardening takes work. We can’t expect to plant and then it flourish without watering the plants, removing lingering pests, or creating healthy soil.. it needs our hands daily to be kept alive, flourishing and growth to be done. It needs our abiding in the garden. Not once, not twice a week, but daily.
Everyday I found myself attending the plants, watering, nurturing, removing dead leaves for new leaves to grow, and clearing the pathway for the plants to spread.
We flourish by what has been planted and watered daily. We don’t flourish on our own, rather we flourish when we abide in Christ daily, allowing Him to tend to our very needs, roots, and lives. This isn’t a once-a-week only on Sunday’s thing. This is an everyday thing to be done.
Imagine for a moment you had a garden, a beautiful garden that is flourishing so well and growing abundantly. Now imagine that you decided “its growing well I’ll go ahead and attend to it once a week since its flourishing and producing good fruit/food/flowers.” Days pass and you say “okay today is the day I will attend to my garden.” As you walk outside, what do you think you will see? A garden full of harvest? Or a garden filled with pests and leaves dying for thirst and life?
A garden left unattended is a garden seeking for life, water, and nourishment slowly withering away in hopes to have someone to save their very life.
When we leave our gardens unattended without the pruning, without the water, without the food, they whither and cry out for help! They can’t bloom without life or nourishment.
You see the growth happening, the blooming beginning, and the abundance of labor coming through. But it doesn’t stop here sis. We must come to the Father everyday to get pruned, nourished, fed, and watered with life! We have a Savior who came to save those who come to Him. He is our rescuer in times of help! His name is Jesus.
Nobody can nourish us the way our Father does.
Nobody can water our life, the seeds planted in us, the way our Father does.
Nobody can remove the pests that linger (the lies the enemy speaks or tries to plant) in our lives only our Father.
Nobody can give us the daily bread that feeds our souls, only our Father.
And Nobody can uproot any bad roots within our lives, only our Father.
If we attend to our physical garden daily, we see the fruit of our labor. In the spiritual lens, this happens too. When we allow the Father to attend to our garden daily, we begin to see the fruit bearing MUCH fruit.
We can’t go a day without being fed, watered, and nurtured sis. It hurts our spiritual growth. Though some days can be hard when things have gone wrong. But what if we immediately switch on the grateful switch and abide in Him, rather than focusing on the “bad day” that happened? Shifts are then made and our spirit is then getting fed. Oh how beautiful this is.
Let’s not be women who get fed only on Sunday mornings. But let’s be the women who are deeply rooted in God, abiding in our Savior every day for the rest of our lives. Then, we will grow and flourish in the most beautiful ways.
Challenge Questions:
- How has your garden been tended?
- Do you attend church occasionally, weekly, bi-weekly? Please don’t view this question through the religious view but rather the spiritual view.
- Do you abide in Jesus beyond Sunday mornings?
- How is your garden looking?
- How can you courageously live for Jesus everyday?
- Who needs to hear your story of how Jesus changed your life?
A deeply rooted woman of God doesn’t get fed only on Sundays, but gets fed beyond Sunday mornings. She knows she cannot grow or flourish daily without abiding in christ. This deeply rooted woman of God leans into her Savior everyday allowing Him to tend to her garden, uprooting and planting, watering and nurturing, flourishing and growing all in her walk with Christ.
Verses to Ponder:
- John 15:4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.“
- Psalm 1:1-3 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.”
If you missed last week’s message, visit it here, and if you missed the whole series, view the lineup below!
I am forever grateful to have you join this series! Though it is the last day, my prayer is that you walk away from this series encouraged walking daily in Christ by abiding, surrendering, and taking every thought (and lie) captive to take it obedient to Christ!
Lessons in the Garden Lineup:
Week One: Deep Within The Soil God Breathes
Week Two: Lessons in the Dirt
Week Three: It Begins with the Foundation
Week Four: Rotten Roots and Good Roots