We will be looking at something that I believe will be helpful to us as disciples, and it will become a catalyst for our change. So, what are we looking at? We are looking at, “Cultivate Your Personal Garden.” And, in case you want to put a little subtitle to that, we will add “Strategies for Exceling in Discipleship”. It is one thing for us to be called into discipleship. It's one thing for us to be invited. It's another thing for us to excel in the discipleship.

At the last Believers’ Fellowship, there was something in the message that is very relevant for us to have at the back of our minds as we seek to excel.  Elijah, a younger one, became the mentor, the discipler for an older disciple called Elisha, do we remember the story? Even though he was busy on other things, even though he was an Agric businessman, his life was moving forward. He had to come into an experience of discipleship, and he didn't just come into that discipleship to become one of the sons of the prophet, he stood out; he excelled. So, there must be certain strategies that he put in place; that he adopted, that made him to be different from other sons of the prophet.

So, we are looking at things that we must do if we want to excel. It is not enough that God has called us out of darkness into the marvellous light of Christ. It is not enough that we have become born again. It is not enough that we have become followers of Jesus Christ. We need to know what we must do as disciples, what we must do as followers of Jesus, what we must do as a people that have been favoured by God with the gift of salvation.

So, let's begin our study from Genesis chapter 2, and I will read verse 5 and verse 6 to start with. The Bible says, “Before any plant of the field was in the earth. And before any herb of the field had grown, for the Lord had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.”

 Now, before we are introduced to the bigger things that took place in Genesis, the Bible says, there was a time that there was no man on the earth. No man! The question is no man to do what? The Bible says, no man to till the ground. And because of that, the Bible says, God did not cause it to rain on the earth. Rain brings so much refreshing experiences for us, without rain it is difficult to experience growth. In fact, without rain, it becomes harsh to live on the earth. But the Bible says, the reason why there was no rain, it was because there was no man to till the ground. The ground represents the earth. Or you could say the land. There was no man to till the land, there was no man to till the space on the earth that God has created and God has arranged. And because of that, there was no rain. Because there was no rain, there was no growth.

So, beginning with that understanding, let's go to verse 8. Genesis chapter 2 verse 8, “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed”. Verse 9, “And out of the ground, out of the earth, out of the garden, out of the land, the Lord God made every tree grow, that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The Tree of Life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.”

The Lord God, in verse 8, planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there, in the garden, He put the man that He had formed.”  So, we are looking at, Cultivate your Personal Garden. In the story that we are reading, it was about a man called Adam, just like we are seated in this place, and we are either men or women. So, as it was for Adam, it could be and it must be for each one of us. There must come a time in the life of every man that that man comes to realize, or connect with the garden that the Lord has planted for him or for her.

So, if Adam was not led by God to plant his own garden himself, it is very clear to me that God will not leave the matter to you and I to figure out. I don't know how many people that give birth to children, and they allow the children in their first month to begin to wander around to find what to eat. You don't even expect that child of six months or one year to begin to look around for where to sleep. So, when you give birth to a child, responsibility comes upon you as the parent, to shelter the child; to put the child in the house. You will get the child an accommodation and you will feed the child. Those are very important things that every parent does for their children.

Now, God is much more than a Father to us, He is our God, that is, He is our source. He is our provider, He is our sufficiency. From His fullness, we have all received grace for grace. So, everything we are and we have, we source in Him. And so, if our parents in their carnality or their weaknesses can be so faithful to ensure that they provide us with accommodation, with feeding when we were born, when we were brought into this earth. So, we must understand that God is also mindful of us. And He is committed to making sure that for every man that is brought forth into His kingdom, there is a provision for them, for their feeding, for their accommodation among other things.

The Bible says, the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed and the Bible says, out of the ground, the Lord God made every tree grow. You know, it is one thing for God to plant a garden and say, “My son, Adam, go and stay in the garden, here is your garden”. It's another thing for God to say, my son, I have put you in the garden, I will help you in the work that you are going to do. The Bible didn't say Adam made the trees to grow. The Bible says, the Lord God made the trees to grow. So, we must understand that as God was committed to planting the garden, God was also committed to making growth to happen.

Earlier in that same chapter 2 verse 5 that we read, the Bible says, God had not caused it to rain on the earth. And the reason was, there was no man to till the garden. And we realized that when God causes rain to come on the earth, that rain will cause growth. So, do you ascribe the glory of the growth to a man or to the one who provided the rain? So, we must understand the responsibility of God. God gives you a garden, in the midst of the vastness of the earth. The earth is very big, and I'm sure our countries are very big. For those of us in Nigeria, Nigeria is big. Abuja that is the capital of Nigeria is very big. Where we are right now is a very big city.

And so, it is difficult oftentimes for an average man to find a garden for himself or herself in the midst of many gardens or many possible gardens. If there is only one garden in the world, then we will all be fighting for a space for that garden. If there's only one garden that is available in this earth, then we will have no trouble looking for our garden, we just know this is our garden. Where is your garden? Everybody is pointing to the same garden. So, if we happen not to kill ourselves and fight, we don't have trouble. What's your garden? This is my garden. Where is your garden? That is my garden, everybody is clear. But gardens are not like that.

The earth, our local areas, our cities, our countries, our generation is so huge, is so big, is so large, so it is difficult for a man to find a place for himself or for herself. And that is where God comes in. God knows that the responsibility of figuring out your garden is enormous, is difficult. So, He doesn't allow you to go about carrying the burden all alone. He guides you in finding your own garden. That is very important. But haven found your garden. God ensures that, that garden grows. It is God's responsibility.

Now let's read verse 15. We‘ve been seeing God's responsibility. Now let's jump to verse 15. Genesis chapter 2 verse 15, “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and to keep it”.  We've seen instances of where God planted garden and put a man there. We've seen a situation where out of the ground, God caused every tree to grow. They are able to produce fruits and good things for man to eat. So that a man does not think in the garden that God has planted for him, he has no duty there. So, the Bible jumped to Genesis 2:15, Bible says, God took the man, God puts the man in the garden, and the responsibility is very clear; to tend and to keep it. When you tend something, the word is you are taking care of something. You are taking charge of something. And it could also mean you are cultivating. So that tend also carries in it the capacity to cultivate; to care for.

So, when God gives you a garden, even though the garden is God's idea, even though you were sleeping when God was figuring out a garden for you, even though you didn't do so much before you just suddenly found yourself in that space. Even though you are seeing the hand of God upon your life in the garden, there is a duty for you and the duty is simple. You have the responsibility of tending and keeping your garden. That is not God's responsibility. God is your Father, He loves you, but He will not tend the garden for you.

Now, just imagine those of us that are a little bit older, and we are not children; young children anymore. There was a time that our parents were responsible for cleaning us when we get ourselves dirty. They take us to the bathroom, they bathe us, they feed us, they do all manner of things. But we get to a point in our lives that we take responsibility for our lives. So, when we become dirty, it is because we have chosen to be dirty. No parent is therefore wrong for the state of our bodies anymore.

 So, there was a time when we were children, we were in primary school, when you don't know how to read ABC, your parents will feel ashamed, they will feel that they have failed in their responsibility to tutor you, to take you to school, to train you. But when you get older, and you are 35, you are 45, and you don't know how to do one or two things, your parents don't get to feel ashamed. No responsible parent that is maybe 65, 75 will be ashamed for a child of 50 years or 48 years, who does not know one or two things. You are like, if you don't know one or two things, it is no more my fault. It is now your fault, why? You have allowed the man; the child to grow to a point that he takes responsibility for the state of his mind.

How come when ‘yahoo boys’ are caught; ‘yahoo boys’ of 18 years and above, their parents are not arrested? How come it is the child that commits a crime that is taken to court? If a child of 11 years does something bad, in our villages, the first thing the community people will do, is to go to the child's parent and be shouting, “you did not train this child very well. What kind of parent, what kind of mother; what kind of father are you? You are here, see how your children are getting spoilt. See how they are doing bad.” You say, “I'm sorry, I'm sorry”. They can go and then, you start flogging. But you will still be accepting responsibility for the failure of the children or the child, why? The person is young. But when the person grows up, when the person does something bad, people can even put tyre on the neck of the child. So, they don't blame the parents that much, they don't curse them, they don't say, the parents are going to jail. No! They expect every child to take responsibility.

So, there must come a time in your life that you find the garden that God has prepared for you, and you accept responsibility for tending it and keeping it. So, God has called you into the marvelous light. You are a believer. You are a believer that means there has been an invitation to bring you into your own garden. Do you come to that state of being a believer and fold your hands and say, everything is done by Jesus, all I do is to wash my teeth and sleep and eat? No! I just remember the story of Esther, when the Bible says, you have been brought into the kingdom for such a time as this. So, you cannot be sleeping. You cannot be wishing yourself, “oh, how I wish I have nothing to do.” No! There is a responsibility for each person over his or her garden

One of the things that I’ve come to understand from what we have read thus far; Genesis Chapter 2 that we've read is that, when we talk about the garden, this garden that we say you have to cultivate, which is your personal garden, I've come to realize, and we will soon see more in the message that the garden is the Lord's. And I also came to understand that the growth of the garden, your garden, is also by the Lord. However, the last thing I concluded is that the cultivation, the tilling of that garden is your own responsibility.

I imagined a king who has a child, a son of 29 years. 29 years is not young. And the king is rich, so much money, so much everything and the king says, “my son, prince, it's time for you to get a wife.” I'm sure we all know that the child, the prince is not supposed to be looking for money to organize his wedding. It is the king that does the wedding. The queen, the king, they will go all about inviting their friends, spend a lot of money. From that particular day that they get married, the child is like he is being pushed out of the palace. Go and be a husband. That father; king, will no more be responsible for the day to day sustenance, day to day welfare of that prince anymore.

I don't know any parent that gets their children married, and also are the same people helping their children to do the daily activities of marriage. “See, this is how you will hold your husband's neck this morning. Now, come and hold him. You! This is how you will touch. Now, two of you, start, stop now! Have you seen any parent that does that? So, when they dance on the wedding day, they are like, “oh, thank God oh, you are going, go and take responsibility for your life. I've tried for you for the last 35 years, 32 years, 30 years, go and start your own life.” So, if the husband chooses to wake up by 12pm the second day, that’s his business in the marriage. That's why it is not everybody that gets married that succeeds in life. For many people, once they get married, they start coming down because for the first time, they are confronted with the reality that they have to be responsible for their lives. And since they’ve not been well tutored, well prepared, they often fail.

But you must not forget, even though there can come a time in your life that you come into Christ Jesus as a child. I will show us something in that Genesis, it was not the day that God formed Adam that God brought him to the garden. It was not the same moment God formed him, and as he rose up from being formed, and God said, this is your garden. No! If you see the whole thing, it took place over time.

See Genesis 2:7, when God was done. When the man became a living being, verse 7, then God planted the garden, there was a planting! Verse 15, and God took. In the same verse 15, and God put. See things that God was doing. That's to tell you please, that when you are born into the kingdom, there is a process that you must go through that must prepare you for your own garden. God does not give a man his garden the day he becomes born again. Even though your garden had been prepared by God before you were even created by God, God does not lead you into the garden the day you get born again. You will be unable to handle it.

Just like a father does not take a 10-year-old and get him married to another 10-year-old. They say, somebody has gotten to a marriageable age. There is also an age that a man, a woman must get to, that that person will now be eligible to find his garden or her garden. Somebody could have said, why is it that I've been born again for 10 years, for 15 years, I've not been able to find that thing that looks like what Bro. Gboyega is describing, my garden. The reason why you have not found your garden is because you have not been prepared yet. It is because you have not matured yet to a point that you can take responsibility.

Because when you come to your own garden, there are two things that you must do in it; you must keep it, you must not lose it and you must not tend it. People will not tend your garden for you. People are not obligated to tend your garden for you. And that is why many times when people fail in life, in ministry, in marriage, in whatever they are doing, they want to blame somebody, “I wouldn’t have failed if somebody was there for me. I wouldn't have failed, if my mother helped me. I wouldn't have failed if my father helped me. I wouldn’t have failed if my uncle showed up.” No! Nobody is obligated to show up. When they show up, they show up at their own will. And that is why it is not convenient; it is not good for you to jump into your garden without being prepared for it.

I see God doing so much in the life of Adam, and when God was sure that Adam was ready. And the Bible says, and God took, and God put, and God told him, I didn't just take you because I want to just take you, I have not put you in this space, in this place because I just want to put you, it is so that you can cultivate, you can keep your own garden. Your failure in life will not be about the things that take place outside your garden. You will not be judged by the things that did not take place in your garden. I will not look at the earth and say you are a failure. No! I will look at your garden and conclude that you have done well, or you have not done well.

Let's just look at Genesis chapter 3 verse 17 to 19, the Bible says, ¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. ¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.” Verse 23 Therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden, we know what he did, right? to till the ground from which he was taken.”

When God judged Adam, something happened in that garden that showed that Adam did not tend the garden very well, and he did not keep it very well. And so, when God wasn't happy with what happened in the garden, God sent him out of the garden. But something is clear, before, God had said, He didn't send rain to the earth, because there was no man to till the ground. So, tilling the ground was not a sin. It was not a problem that I'm tilling the ground, it is not a curse.

Now, when the ground was cursed for Adam’s sake, the Bible says, God still reiterated, “although I have told you to till the garden, I'm sending you out of the garden. But whatever you were doing the garden, you must continue outside the garden.” So that means God was expecting him to build another garden. And what he was doing in the garden was that he was tilling the ground, and God said, you will till the ground again.

The Bible says, “And God sent him out of the Garden of Eden to…...” For those who are familiar with vision statements, mission statements, usually they start with ‘to’. Our mission is ‘to…’ And so God said, you are sent out and the mission is to till the ground. That's it. The only challenge is before, the land that you were tilling is blessed. The rain comes from heaven from God and waters the garden, God causes and commands growth on your garden but this time around, God didn't promise him any blessing. Do we see that? He says, the ground itself is curse. So, the assignment didn't change, the terrain was changed. What man was created to do didn't change, but the place where he could now do it has changed; the atmosphere has changed. So, the responsibility for us today is not just to find our garden, is to ensure that we function in our garden in the right atmosphere. What are the things that did not follow Adam that must follow you and I?

We say the garden is the Lord’s Garden. And we said, growth in the garden is made happen by God. So, if you now go to start a new garden, the first thing you must ensure, if you will not suffer, is that the garden that you want to start is the Lord’s Garden. Let me say it, in our contemporary world, the ministry you want to start, let it remain the Lord’s ministry. The marriage you want to start, let it be the Lord’s marriage. The business you are just planning to start right now, let it be the Lord’s business.

Let me show us where this thing can be messed up. Initially the garden was the Lord’s Garden. Why we are emphasizing it, if it is the Lord’s Garden, that means every garden is the Lord's. What do you think happened to Adam and Eve, and that their ownership of the garden when the serpent deceived them? Now, what has happened is that as they were being sent out of the garden of the Lord, the place where they were going out of the garden, the chance and the capacity of their own ownership of the land was very slim.

The Bible didn't mention that the Lord planted another garden for them somewhere else. Don't forget that they were going as people that have been punished by God for obeying the devil. So, the devil could have told them, “don't forget, your eyes are clear now. So, you can now look very well, as far as your eyes can see. Forget what the Lord has done”. I begin to perceive even the devil speaking pidgin, “forget wetin God don do, Him don do Him best. He don do Him worst. No worry, I go help una get a better place. (Forget what God has done. He has done His best. God has done His worst. Don’t worry, I will help you get a better place). In fact, see what I'm planning for two of you, the garden that I will build for two of you, it will be finer than the one that God built for you”. And this is what happens to us.

So, how can a man, a woman who are now in a garden that was facilitated made happen by Satan, how can they ensure that the garden becomes the Lord's garden? It is what everybody must do. You started a business and you knew God was not having anything to do with it. You either close the business or you transfer the ownership of the business to God.

Let's see this man, the Bible says, there was a rich man that came to Jesus, “good Master, what can I do that I can inherit eternal life?” So, we see him like a man whose garden is not the Lord’s. Jesus said, alright! After talking to him, Jesus said, “this is what you will do, this is what you lack.” “Everything that you have, go and sell it. Give the money that you gained from it to the poor. And then come and follow me.” What was Jesus saying? Transfer your business and your properties to God! When it gets to the hand of God, then you come because that is the moment that you can then start a relationship with God, that whatever you own henceforth will be the Lord’s. And when it is the Lord’s, the second condition can then be guaranteed. If it is the Lord’s Garden, then God must cause increase on his garden. If it is the Lord’s business, God must cause increase on it. If it is the Lord’s ministry, God must cause increase on it.

And now, when it has now become the Lord’s Garden, and the increase of the Lord is coming upon it, if that increase will not be suspended, look at what must happen, you! must cultivate that garden. “Oh! don't say it's the Lord’s business, let the Lord do His business Himself. It is God that owns this marriage. It doesn't matter how I talk to my wife or how I talk to my husband. It is the Lord’s marriage.” There is a responsibility on you as a man, responsibility as a woman to cultivate your marriage in such a manner that it grows. So, we can conclude that if your marriage collapses, if your ministry collapses, if your business collapses, we shouldn't blame God, we should blame you. There must have been something you did or didn't do in that enterprise that made it not to go forward.

You know, in the Proverbs, Solomon was sharing the wisdom, he said, I passed by the vineyard of a lazy man, and it was filled with thorns. And do you know what God had said already in Genesis 3:18, He said, both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you. So, we can see that even though God cursed the ground, there is something that can overturn that curse. What is that? A man cultivating his garden! He said, when I passed through the garden of a man that is lazy, it is filled with thorns. So, if I am lazy, my garden will not be neat; it will not be tidy. So, we can't blame God for the lack of tidiness of my garden. We must blame me for not taking responsibility; for not being serious with my garden.

What is that assignment that God has committed into your hands? It has a capacity to grow only if you cultivate it. If every time you spend time on other people's gardens, their gardens will be busy and be flourishing but yours will not. There is a place I love to quote, oftentimes, Songs of Solomon chapter 1 verse 6. It says, “Do not look down on me because I am dark, because the sun has tanned me. The children of my mother, they've made me the keeper of the vineyard.” That is not the assignment that God gave man. God didn't say, man, take responsibility for the gardens. No! He says, “Your garden”. They made me the keeper of the vineyard, but my own vineyard I have not kept. So, our problem is not that we don't even do anything. Our problem is that we do too much on too many places.

So, it is not just about us being busy disciples. We must be men and women that are busy on their assignments. If your assignment is to intercede for people, if you do other things outside interceding for the people, you are not cultivating your garden, you are not preparing your soil, the soil of your life, the soil of your ministry, for the growth that God has in store for you. Whatever assignment that God has for you, no matter how insignificant that assignment is, you must take responsibility for it.

I want us to open our Bibles to Matthew chapter 25, and we will read verse 14 downward. We may not read the entire place, but we will start. Matthew 25, verse 14 to verse 30. The Bible shares with us the story, the parable of the talents; a man had a lot of goods, but he traveled to another kingdom. And Jesus said, this is like the kingdom of heaven. So, he gave his goods to his servants. To one he gave five talents, to another 2 talents, and to another one talent. You know, I said the garden is the Lord's, the garden is not yours. The talent belongs to the master. But the talents have been handed over.

See, the one who got five, the total talents were 8, the master will not be ask him how did you do the 8 talents? No! You will be asked only what you have been assigned within the Lord’s responsibility or the Lord's authority. There is always something allocated to you and that is where you will be asked, how faithful you have being over time. So, I listed 4 things that you will have for your own garden. And all these 4, you will have 100% of them.

The first thing is, reward or you can call it profit; 100% profit on your garden. Number 2: 100% punishments. Number 3: 100% praise and Number 4: 100% blame. When the master returned, and the one that got five talents came to the master and said, “Oh, I have traded, I took responsibility for my garden. I knew the five talents were my garden. So, I began to trade with them, I began to use them, I began to cultivate them, I began to till the ground. And my master, here is another five.” The one that got two said the same thing; here is another two. I have something to show for it. And the master was pleased with the first two servants, and he told them, “Enter into the joy of the Lord your God”.

So, when all is said and done, after everything, you will get 100% praise, 100% profit, 100% blame, 100% punishment for your garden; the state of your garden. Should your garden be your marriage, you will get 100 percent blame for it. If your marriage should collapse, people will not share the blame and give you certain percentage, they will give you 100.

I imagine a father whose child has become the best student in the entire country. People will not give him small percentage of praise. They will say, “I celebrate you, Sir. You are a great father, you are a great man. See how you you raised your children. See how you have raised your children, they are doing so well.” And if your child does badly, people will also blame you. But God does not just stay at the level of blaming or praising, God will reward, and God will punish.

The servant that did not do anything with what he got, who had a garden. Don't forget, we all have gardens. He did nothing with his own garden. The master did not praise him, the master blamed him, and then the master punished him. So, it's better to be gardenless than to misbehave with your own garden. It is better to be a purposeless man which is impossible, than to be a purposeful man who does not achieve his purpose. It is better people don't identify you with God, and you have nothing about God about your life, than to be identified with God and there is nothing to show for it. That servant was thrown into the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

In Revelation chapter 22 verse 11 to 12, Jesus was speaking, he who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is unjust, let him be unjust still. He who is righteous, let him be righteous still, whatever you are doing be doing it.  Verse 12, “Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me”. My reward is with the Lord. Say it! My reward is with Jesus. He said, my reward. He said, your reward is with me. So, Jesus is also saying, your punishment, 100% is with me. I'm coming quickly. Your blame and your praise, they are with me.

I remember the story of Cain and Abel. They were going to offer sacrifices to God. And when they did it, God accepted Abel, and his offering But God didn't accept Cain and his offering and he got angry. And God said, if you do well, will you not have been accepted? But if you don't do well, sin lies at your door and its’ desire is for you but you should rule over it. Sin lies at your door! For every sin, the bible says, the wages of sin is death. What God was also telling him, punishment!

It is like a father that is saying, “see, this is ‘koboko, oh.’ It is at the back of my room. If you like misbehave, if you like behave, your reward is with me. There is ‘koboko’ at the back. I have serious cane and I have good praise. I have a pat at the back for the child that does well. You know, modern day fathers, I don't know if we have time for canes now, we are using our hands to slap now.

You know, in those days when I was young, I can't remember how many times my father slapped me if it ever happened. But ‘koboko,’ those tiny sticks that are very long and strong, no matter how many times they beat you, the thing will always bounce back. It doesn't break. So, those things are there. But do they beat us every time? When we do well, they will say, good boy, good girl. Good boy, come here, and you too, you are happy. But when you don't do well, you are withdrawing. Very soon we realized that we can’t outrun our fathers. If they want to beat you, they will beat you.

We cannot for anyone that says I will sin so much, when God wants to punish me, He will throw me beyond hell, He will throw me into heaven. It can’t happen. And you can't do so much good and God is confused about your good and accidentally throws you into hell. No! Those who do good, they enter eternal life. Those who do evil, they enter eternal punishments. So, there is a reward, and your reward is according to your manner of approach, manner of handling your garden. God will not judge you for my garden, God will judge you for your own garden. Your failure will not be from my garden, your failure will be from your garden.

There is a place that God has placed you. There is a person that God has made you. Are you fulfilling that place? Are you fulfilling that person? Are you becoming the person? Are you doing the responsibility assigned to you, if that is the case, there is a reward for you 100%. But if you don't do it, there is punishment. And the Bible says in the book of Corinthians, it is required in stewards that a man, a woman be found faithful.

Faithful servants continue to tend their gardens, they continue to cultivate their gardens even when they don't see the wind, when they don't see the rain, they keep doing it. Because they don't know the hour that the master can come with the reward. You see, the master that comes with the reward also has with him the punishment. Such a situation, that the same person that can punish you is the same person that can celebrate you, the same person that can lift you up is the same person that can bring you down. God is able to do all these things.

 So, when God comes visiting, as He came for Adam and Eve at the cool of the day, to see what they've done when he was in heaven, Bible says, when they heard the voice of the Lord walking, I'm sure God came to praise them that day. Because He praised them yesterday, the day before, the week before, He had praised them. So, He came as the other days to praise them, to reward them, 100%. What happened? They were running away. They said we heard the sound of your voice, and we were afraid and we ran away. God said, have you done what I didn't ask you to do in this garden that you are there? Adam said, yes, it is the woman.

So, did God say, now wait for me on the earth, let me quickly go to heaven, let me go and bring your punishment? No! He comes with both reward and punishment every time He comes. So, don't say, let me continue to enjoy my life. No! Don't enjoy your life. You don't know when the master will come and when He comes, He will reward you on the spot or he will punish you on the spot. My prayer is that what will be ours will be reward; the crown of rejoicing in the name of Jesus.

Thanks for the gift of your time, I am Gboyega ADEDEJI!

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