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THE GARDEN OF OUR HEARTS
ANDRÉ & JENNY ROEBERT
In the garden of Eden, God wanted to walk and talk with So as we personally spend time with the Lord, where He
Adam and Eve daily. He gave His life through His Son, so walks with us and talks with us and pours His love into us,
that we can be redeemed and reconciled to walk with Him in the brain of our hearts, everything we agree upon and
daily too, just as He did with them. choose to hold onto, immediately gets planted into the gar-
den of our hearts, being our minds.
Our relationship with the Lord, is just like a garden. Writ-
ers in the Bible refer to our hearts as the place where we Spending time with the Lord, whether it’s reading His Word,
commune with God. Dr Caroline Leaf reveals in one of praying, worshipping or listening intently to a teaching, re-
her bookshow, from a scientific and medical point of view, ally any way we learn more about Him and His ways, di-
our physical hearts have a section in them called a brain. rectly influences our souls. As we meditate on the things
This is in fact, the heart’s own central nervous system that is we learn in our hearts, they are like seeds that begin to take
directly connected to our minds. She suggests that this is root in the garden of our minds. They form strong holds, like
where our reborn spirits are connected to and commune a hedge of protection around it. The truth of Who God is be-
with the Spirit of God (in the brain of our hearts). This means comes our belief system, our reality, and an impenetrable
that whatever we choose to believe or hold onto, during barrier that blocks the lies and fearful, doubting thoughts
the time when we commune with the Lord, and spend time the enemy uses to penetrate our minds.
in His Word - will in fact have a direct influence on our minds
(our souls). Our minds are in fact just like gardens, ready In Mark 4:24, we learn a very important key to nurturing and
to receive whatever we choose to agree upon. They are growing our gardens of intimacy with the Lord. It says that
known as the gardens of our hearts. the measure of attention we give to the Word of God, will
