{"id":2031,"date":"2014-06-06T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/what-grows-in-your-garden\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:00:23","slug":"what-grows-in-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=2031","title":{"rendered":"What Grows in Your Garden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-GBv1qA0PBLI\/U5G0znEFTJI\/AAAAAAAAFkE\/VQ_8NKx3nwc\/s1600\/Garden+-+combined.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Garden-combined.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I saw a friend\u2019s post a couple of days ago where she was asking for advice for getting rid of weeds in her garden. Comments to her post included: \u201cPut newspaper around the plant \u2013 it will suffocate the weeds\u201d; \u201cPut grass clippings around the plant\u201d; and I loved this one \u201cDon\u2019t plant a garden!\u201d LOL!<\/p>\n<p>That made me think about the weeds that may have grown in our heart\u2019s garden \u2013 weeds of selfishness, pride, self-centeredness, laziness, bitterness, anger, envy, etc. Here&#8217;s my advice: 1) First, cultivate the soil and add in a get mixture of fertilizer (prayer) ; 2) Plant the seeds of God\u2019s Word (Bible reading and meditation); 3) Give the plants plenty of sunshine (speaking the light of God\u2019s Word over the situations that may be troubling or concerning us); 4) Give the plants plenty of water (thanking, praising, trusting in God\u2019s goodness and mercy to complete what He started, Proverbs 3:4,5 \u201cTrust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Then, get ready for an abundant harvest of sweet and beautiful fruit: \u201cBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control&#8230;&#8230;.\u201d Galatians 5:22,23<\/p>\n<p>St. Paul said it perfectly in I Corinthians 3:6,7 \u2013 once we plant the seed\u2026..God will make it grow! &#8220;I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.&#8221; God is the Master Gardener, and what He plants, always yields a great harvest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a friend\u2019s post a couple of days ago where she was asking for advice for getting rid of weeds in her garden. Comments to her post included: \u201cPut newspaper around the plant \u2013 it will suffocate the weeds\u201d; \u201cPut grass clippings around the plant\u201d; and I loved this one \u201cDon\u2019t plant a garden!\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2669,9208,6011,11753,11664,11942,3403,2674,7024,3625,11943,3171,31,2681,2682,11944],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-corinthians-36","tag-9208","tag-6011","tag-11753","tag-cultivate","tag-fertilizer","tag-fruit-of-the-spirit","tag-galatians-522","tag-harvest","tag-plant","tag-proverbs-34","tag-seed","tag-trust-in-the-lord","tag-water","tag-weeds","tag-what-grows-in-your-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}