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Janet L. Smith ©gardenministries.org If you want to know who your real friends are and what your real ministry is, preach the cross and self-denial; but first apply it to your own life. Your crowds will quickly thin and only Lovers of Jesus will be left. Those few dear people are your real friends; in whom your real ministry abides. Matthew 16:24 CSB Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." ... continue reading...

Jesus empowers His followers to extend radical forgiveness toward others, even to the point of throwing away the record book about the offense. Radical forgiveness leaves room for reconciliation and some level of relational restoration with an offender who acknowledges, and who confesses their sin and purposes to ‘sin no more’. In Biblical Christianity, full forgiveness is not an option. If Jesus fully forgives sin and the Father forgets it, shouldn’t we who say we love and follow Jesus, ... continue reading...

Janet Smith – 4-19-2022 ©gardenministries.org Deuteronomy 8:2, 16 CSB Remember that the LORD your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 16 He fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper. Luke 12:32 CSB Don’t be afraid, little flock, ... continue reading...

Janet Smith – November 7, 2021 ©gardenministries.org Matthew 11:28-30 (CSB) Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest (tranquility) for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Romans 16:20 (CSB) The God of peace (Greek: eiréné) will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. What is an aggravated soul? ... continue reading...

Janet Smith – 9-19-2021 ©gardenministries.org “Jude is the vestibule [i.e., the lobby or passageway to] to the book of Revelation.” “Where the Book of Acts tells us about the Beginning of the Church and is the message of the Acts of the Apostles, the Book of Jude is the about the end of the Church Age and is the Acts of the Apostates.” – Dr. Chuck Missler, Koinonia House. Jude verses 20-25 (CSB) But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy ... continue reading...