“Cultivate your Garden of Intimacy with Me Diligently” 10-22-25
I woke up and got my coffee and sat down in my chair to wait a few moments on the Lord. Immediately, I saw that I was in a garden. It was beautiful with all kinds of plants and flowers and trees and luscious fragrances. I was smelling the flowers and smiling as I walked around. I then felt the Lord next to Me watching me enjoying the garden.
He said, “This is what I want Sue. I want My people to delight themselves in Me continually. You each can taste Me, touch Me, smell Me and feel Me, see Me, hear Me, and know Me intimately anytime you desire to. That is why I died for all of you. I desire that you all would spend time with Me throughout your day. Turn your attention and your thoughts towards Me often, for I am always with you. Distractions and worldly demands will draw your inner life away, if you do not intentionally cultivate your garden with devoted focus.”
“The things that you focus on the most in this life will become the most precious to you, and if you allow it to replace Me, you will wander and you will slowly lose your way from the path set before you. It is My desire that you cultivate your garden of intimacy with Me diligently. This is not a time to wander, but to fully return to Me. If you do not take care of the garden within your heart, then other things will begin to crowd into it, and this will cause your thoughts to become confused and in turmoil and disarray throughout your day. Your heart is the garden where I walk and dwell with each of you. It is wisdom for you all to guard it with all diligence and with great care.”
“Your heart is your reservoir. What you allow to enter within it will be what flows through it. You hear My voice from within you, but if you have unnecessary cares of this life, the pressures, demands and weights, from other things will crowd into our garden, then you will not hear Me clearly. You will also lose sight of Me and your garden will begin to lose its brilliance. Return to Me in all of your ways, even throughout your days. Turn your thoughts back to Me continually. Talk to Me throughout your day. Make time to wait upon Me in silence and listen for My response back to you. Do not carry burdens that I do not give to you. Let go of everything that dims your heart. There is to be no fear in your garden, there is to be only My peace, love, and joy.”
“You and I create the garden together when you spend time with Me. As we enjoy each other’s presence, we also plant the fragrant fruits of My Spirit in your garden. We also plant My Words given to you deep into the soil of your heart, and as we both work together, we will also watch together as My Words grow to maturity into the beautiful plants and trees, and the flowers of My fragrances inside of you. I am the Life that your heart needs. My river flows throughout your heart as you continually yield to Me each day and as you allow Me to work inside of each of you. Strengthen your hearts in Me. Trust My hands as I cultivate you even more. My river is to be flowing throughout your gardens, and I am always working and restoring and beautifying you all from within.”
Notes:
Diligence, Diligently: (Dictionary.com)
1. constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.
2. the degree of care and caution required by the circumstances of a person.
3. care; caution.
4. with conscientious and persistent effort or attention.
Devoted:
1. zealous or ardent in attachment, loyalty, or affection.
Focus:
1. a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity.
2. the ability to concentrate one’s attention or to sustain concentration.
3. to direct one's attention or efforts.
Scriptures:
Proverbs 4:20 My son, attend to my words; consent and submit to my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from your sight; keep them in the center of your heart. 22 For they are life to those who find them, healing and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life. AMPC
John 4:13 Jesus answered her, All who drink of this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever takes a drink of the water that I will give him shall never, no never, be thirsty anymore. But the water that I will give him shall become a spring of water welling up (flowing, bubbling) [continually] within him unto (into, for) eternal life. AMPC
Isaiah 58:11 And the Lord shall guide you continually and satisfy you in drought and in dry places and make strong your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
1 Corinthians 3:6 My work was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos’ work was to water it, but it was God, not we, who made the garden grow in your hearts. 7 The person who does the planting or watering isn’t very important, but God is important because he is the one who makes things grow. TLB
See Mark 4:14-20 AMPC
Song 5:1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my [promised] bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam and spice [from your sweet words I have gathered the richest perfumes and spices]. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends [feast on, O revelers of the palace; you can never make my lover disloyal to me]! Drink, yes, drink abundantly of love, O precious one [for now I know you are mine, irrevocably mine! With his confident words still thrilling her heart, through the lattice she saw her shepherd turn away and disappear into the night]. 2 I went to sleep, but my heart stayed awake. [I dreamed that I heard] the voice of my beloved as he knocked [at the door of my mother’s cottage]. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my spotless one [he said], for I am wet with the [heavy] night dew; my hair is covered with it. AMPC
Revelations 3:19 Those whom I [dearly and tenderly] love, I tell their faults and convict and convince and reprove and chasten [I discipline and instruct them]. So be enthusiastic and in earnest and burning with zeal and repent [changing your mind and attitude]. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me. AMPC
Revelations 22:1 Then he showed me the river whose waters give life, sparkling like crystal, flowing out from the throne of God and of the Lamb 2 Through the middle of the Broadway of the city; also, on either side of the river was the tree of life with its twelve varieties of fruit, yielding each month its fresh crop; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing and the restoration of the nations. AMPC
- Susan G O’Marra
- 10-22-25