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God’s original environment
By admin | October 15, 2009
Dear All
I hope that you all had a good summer break. I am sorry I have been off the radar for a couple of weeks and thanks to all of you who have asked about the newsletter. I took some time off over the summer holidays and took a well-deserved break.
Summer for me has always been a time for reflection. A time when I go over the life goals I have set, evaluate the success of my action points and set myself new challenges. I review my progress against last year’s objectives and make sure that my goals are moving me towards a successful and significant life. Summer is also the time when I tend to experience ‘spiritual rest’ – again evaluating my spiritual life and have a time of refreshing and waiting before the Lord. I hope that you do the same from time to time.
Whatever you did over the summer holidays, for those of you whose seasons are like mine, I hope it was an enjoyable one.
Just before I went on holiday, I was thinking of sharing with you some insights about a subject that I had been studying on the Garden of God. I started to think about what God’s original environment for man to live in must have been like. What were some of the characteristics that made it so special? I started to ask myself whether I was living in God’s original environment. I believe that God wants to reconcile us back to the living conditions that God initially wanted us to live in.
Many people mistakenly believe that God’s original environment where man was expected to live was a place where there was an absence of sin. We believe that because the world has been tainted by nearly 4000 years of sin and therefore it is impossible to live in that environment again. In reality the Garden of Eden was a place where the potential for sin was always present, because the enemy had access to the place.
Having cleared up this misconception, we an now ask ourselves, whether we are living in God’s original garden as He ordained us to. We need to know the original plans of God, in regards to what type of place the garden was and how God wanted to us to dwell.
I will continue to study the subject in depth and In my next post, I will send you a list of 31 things that I found out about the garden. The list will help us highlight whether we are living according to God’s original environment or whether we are living according to the natural environment of the world. One of my favourite prayers at the moment is for God to enable me to EXPERIENCE the truth in His word and not just know the ‘letter’. Why not make this your prayer also.
I would be sharing further thoughts on my social networking site www.purposeforchrostians.com. If you are reading this post on another site, then I suggest that you sign up to our social networking site
May the Lord keep you and guard you and continue to make His light and glory shine upon you.
Until I appear again in your in-box, stay blessed
Ola
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 am
Hi,
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I ran across your online magazine and thought Dr. Seger’s book may be of great interest to you, considering she wrote her book aimed for a specifically Christian business market. Dr. Seger and I are wondering if there is any possible way to submit a copy of her recently-released book to your site for review.
You can visit her website at http://www.spiritualstepsontheroadtosuccess.com. Please let me know at your earliest convenience. Thanks!
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