The Garden Vision- Vision Branding for Christian Business Owners

There is a Vision that Christ has given me as my Vision to walk in and you can translate the Vision to the kind of business that you do. The Vision is about the Garden, you know the Garden? Well which Garden are we talking about because there are three of them in the bible?

The Garden of Eden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (the fall of man)

The Garden of Gethsemane and the Cross of Christ (The Sacrifice for Man)

Then the Garden of God (Heaven) and the tree of Life (The Eternal Salvation for Faithful Men)

It's that last one we are concerned about. To get to the Garden in your life you have to get past the cross. That was a pretty big show that sacrifice Jesus did and we get so enraptured about that. It is hard not to. But we never get to more of the truths about the whole redemptive power of Christ being raised from the Dead revelation. It was such a huge gift that we are only beginning to understand its implication. Yes, after you receive the blood of the Lamb and you peel off layer after layer of your old garment and now you are busy learning how to put on the new garment of peace, joy, love, kindness or a good report... We could spend a life time learning about those items alone but there was more that God wanted to give us. We are talking about the promises of the bible and you are told that you have an inheritance coming and that is great but what is all that all about?

The Lord's Prayer

In the simplest terms it's about heaven here on earth. You know, like the Lord's Prayer? "Thy kingdom come they will be done on earth as it is in heaven?" He really did want us to have as much of the beauty of heaven on earth as we could learn to be Vessels for. This is part of the branding that we are to utilize as a Christian and there is a branding here that is like no other that will brand you company like His Vision and the one He has in mind that is only for you and your company.

See the Vision

See in your mind the beauty of a Saint that has been living in heaven who comes down to live on earth for a while. His/Her nature is gentle, simple and restful. It demands peace and a calm from those who would be in panic from some life situation. That would be the demeanor but now it is time to implement this spirit into, everything. Everything must align with this spirit of God, including your business.

Your in the process

Ok so you are walking your walk and you are keeping the armor of God on and you're repenting when you make mistakes and there are some really good blessings coming to you. You maybe get a job, or your health or love in your life for the first time in years or maybe He has even blessed you financially. How could things be better? What else could of this wonderful God possibly have in store for us? Some of you know very well the answer. A vision comes next and one specifically designed for you but that is not all, there is an environment He had in mind for us. An environment that contains your Vision inside of it. There is a Vision for your business that is made specifically for us, unique and taylor made, just for you. One that reflects all the struggles and lessons you have had to bare in the world and that was just the training, to help you move into position, for you to get it all is a master plan and for you to wake up to the Presence of Him. Now you are awake and you have this Vision in your hand and you are busy preparing the way if God is going to water it with the seed of increase. You have to be ready for it and it is all there and the pieces seem to be all fitting, somewhat, but not quite. Where to go from here? What could He possibly want us to get now besides actually putting the Vision together?

How I recognise the Garden

It's the way it was in my own Vision of seeing so much wilderness and wildlife in my youth and lots of glimpses and hints of Vision to help guide me. Even my gift of music was to help me recognize the Garden when I read it and realize this is what He has been hinting at for a lifetime. All my experience with poetry, literature, and communications in general was all just the model. Listen to the rhythm in Shakespeare's writing. You will hear the same passion, meter, and rhythm in the Songs of Solomon and finally if you have ever experienced the true passion between two people who love each other, you will recognize this passion between the Shulamite Bride and her holy Husband.

The spirit of the Songs Of Solomon

It was the beauty, the grace, and the purity that He was using in my life that would lead me into in that Garden. He is showing me the spirit of all of that in the Songs. When I read Song of Solomon for the first time, or maybe the 2nd, God revealed to me some of the mystery of this totally radical departure from anything else I had read in the bible, well, there was just more of it in the Songs. God makes reference to the garden all through out the bible and the reward He bestowed on those that He wants to reward many times came in the form of a good Vineyard and good fruits. That was still just a glimpse, a hint for us to turn to the pages that talk full on about the glory of His Garden and Come, Come, drink deep... beloved. This is in the Song of Solomon.

The Vision Environment

So we might even hear through some sermon at church about how we are a good fruit that god is blessing us but we don't hear about the Garden on earth here that He wants to develop with us. Not just a request for the total garden environment but to be a gateway for Him to join with others who have the gateway to Heaven to fill our lives with the Beauty of the Ultimate Garden.

So what the LORD revealed to me through the Songs is access to preparing ourselves to be the spotless Bride in this Garden. Here is the explanation.

The Parable

It begins with the parable to the 10 Virgins. Where do these 5 Virgins get the extra oil they need to make it all the way home? It's rather important since we are told that if we knock on the door without this oil Christ will say to us, " I don't know you. That is pretty important. So that means we have all been born again but we need an extra oil still and where do we get that? How do we prepare for being the spotless bride and which way is it to the Garden anyway?

What it's like in the Garden

It's about Mediation on the Songs and getting that in our spirit for the truth to be revealed into the garden, spiritually. It's about knowing the fragrance, spiritually, of the lilies of the valley and you know the taste of the rip juicy mandrakes or feel the breeze as you rest with Him under His apple tree. It's about dwelling with Him in that spiritually, now, praying and speaking specifically about the Garden and its beauty in our prayers and asking god to help us develop His Garden here on earth. We need to Speak Allowed in His beautiful rhythms from the Songs and calling for the blessing of the bridegroom and to guide us in the journey to be the bride. ( at least among ourselves) To be enraptured with His beauty, life, and environment that make it easy to see any malevolent spirit that comes to us that does not fit in the environment of health, abundance, and joy. You would know to question anything that does not have some reflections of His spiritual light going on. Or any thing coming to us that that would have more than that normal ugliness to it from the earthly realm. We would know how to act to assess and support and empower the situation with His love. Or leave and go to a better possibility of finding those who wants His love, life, protection and the Bride- ship and are striving for that. Yes, we are to be kind and loving and give our lives if the Savior requires it for others that but even in service develop a healthy boundary until we know where our sisters and brothers are at spiritually and if we can empower them or not.

We want to invest our time with those who want to walk in a committed journey with Christians and interested in purifying themselves more to obtain bride-ship status as the end-time draws near.

The Transformation

To read the Songs and feel that spiritual beauty for the first time I knew it was the only thing that could save my comeliness as a women that had been so devastated in the world. No diet, not pill or surgery or anything worldly could heal and repair what had been blown apart and that was the temple of my women hood that the Lord Christ has designed for me from birth. Only He could rescue and save my soul with His blood but also only He could return me to that child like innocent, self esteem, and beautiful comely woman hood state that is the bride. That is the extra oil.

It's about coming to a place of purity and meeting the Unicorn in the spiritual. And it truly is like the myth from the secular stories about that is you have to be pure to touch and ride and have the Unicorn rest its head in your lap. Yes that really did happen for me in the spiritual. If you have never read the verses in the Bible about the Unicorn, there are three of them I believe, just so you know they are there if you have never realized that. The concordance will lead you. That was a stepping stone to finding the Garden. There was the passage from Jeremiah 18:13 regarding the reference of Israel as a Virgin. God was referring to Israel as a Virgin. The people He coached in love and struggled with them for a level of purity and provided for them in the 40 years in the desert. So this was the prototype of things to come to develop the Spotless Bride. This was the pattern and course being set to develop all His children to come to a level of purity that would leave us worthy of our a relationship as a Virgin with Him, A Spotless bride if we followed it. The Blood of Jesus makes this possible and much easier to repent and be replenished and to give us strength to sustain and maintain the quest for that Bride-Ship that He is looking for from us.

It's a Dialogue

So here we have the Songs and they are so passionate, almost as if between a man and a women or Solomon and the Shulamite Bride, in this case but in the spiritual it is truly a dialogue between the Bridegroom and His bride being readied for the Banquet. So how do we behave in the spiritual place of bonding with our Bridegroom? It's not a sexual place, I will give you a clue, even so it is very much like we are being wooed by a lover. It's a perfect, beautiful, love and the more we dwell in that beauty; the more that the energy of the world can no longer thrust it self upon us or attack us because we have grown strong in His Garden. We need to develop a complete environment that aligns with His world, His beauty - His resting place, His Garden- here on earth. We will grow in this environment and nothing will be able to stand or come against such a strength as His Garden manifested here on earth when we start to manifest this Garden and grow in strength through multiplication. It is where He will give life and beauty and turn deserts into fountains springing forth with blossoms and beauty.

The Unicorn

Riding in His pasture as He leads the Unicorn that you are riding on in a slow walk through His pastures and His Garden. Or you watch your perfect Savior walk undefiled through the lilies of the Valley. He FEEDS there says the bible and so should you. Surely much more than we already do and now that we are aware we can bring our intention to create a gate of His Heavenly Garden to land here on planet earth as a place craved out as one of His business, home, family.

There is another blessing that is lighter from the Songs that transform you to the true language, imagery, and beauty as you begin to glimpse the garden (Heaven) and your bridegroom.

The Walk

I was someone whose soul was not only dismayed from the normal earthly turmoil that we all have to endure but was someone extraordinary challenged as a women. There were rapes, molestations, much persecution and a punishment mentality from living under the letter of the law in a punitive, religious environment growing up. I developed a profoundly severe eating disorder. I was not just bulimic; I was belligerent bulimic. This means, for those who do not know, I never put my finger down my throat to throw up food. My body needing a release valve from holding on to so much and stuffing so much that my brain just started to automatically twist and harden to manipulate my body all the way through my mid section to be able to pull the esophagus off of the esophageal flap to be able to throw up food, well almost. It would look like me just kind of adjusting to a burp when inside my throat I was very effective at pushing food up and down to numb my completely broken heart. Many women are lucky to just live through this process let alone maintain it for a time or recover from it. I bought all the lies from the devil that my body was me and I was my body and everything I was going to gain was through my beauty because that was the only thing any one was interested in me from and when that all failed what else was there for me as a women?

More of the Walk

I was living in a age where to have a baby in the secular world was pretty much considered inconvenient. We were all suppose to have careers now and for an educated women in the 80's generation we were so pushed to join ranks and be like a man in business. The devil was so trying to kill off women-hood, mother-hood, and with an abortion on top of many rapes and molestations from my child hood that I had stuffed, it just about pretty much succeeded with me, almost. It gets worse for a long time until I found Christ but when I read the Songs as a fairly new Christian I recognized the beauty in my spirit as a women that the devil was trying to destroy. With all kinds of tools like there was no need to wait for marriage and you know all the sliding scale of lies from men who one wanted less and less responsibility toward women for anything except showing up for the sex act. I had been demeaned and lied to and I thought that I had failed as a women. The legalism in the religious background of my youth kicked in and I was one big self-punishment machine. I was diagnosed in 1984 as as classic anorexic: That means: a youngest child of a two alcoholic parent family and raised Catholic. (I guess we Catholic Girls ranks 2nd to your Jewish women who also don't have the blessed blood available to them.)

The Songs of Solomon

So here were these pages, The Songs of Solomon, that believed in love and beauty and the rightful place for me as a beautiful women of God. Jesus knew that I was so damaged and hungry that I would not mistake the call of the Garden as mere poetry or some kind of confirmation in the Songs that God does allow sex in marriage. If you live in the spiritual as a born again it is the next step to grow into. It is the extra oil to outwardly confirm Him as your bridegroom in our prayers, our speaking with the beauty and rhythm (at least between our selves) of the Songs to be able to tell the real beauty and grace the Lord has in mind for us. Even if you can't remember bible verses you can remember a song, right? Think of His word as a song and begin to sing-speak it that way to yourself and others especially the Song of Solomon verses.

The Positioning Toward the Garden

It's an environment that must be manifested in the soul first to be a well- watered Garden as we claim our positioning as a beautiful Daughter or Son of God. Yes we shed years of old angers and resentment and our soul gives way to this generous abundant blessing from God as we are continually washed over and over again by the Holy Ghost anointing. And as these blessings begin to unfold in our life and our relationship to our physical environment should start to reflect His blessing and His beautiful spirit, it should reflect the environment of Song of Solomon. The book used to be referred to as the Song of Songs, not Solomon. Because it is the Song of all Songs. It's a love song from our bridegroom to us and it must be recognized as such.

Our Savior wants us to create and manifest the Garden here in our businesses in our lives and with our families. It has a certain energy and simplicity all it own. The more you dwell in your positioning as a blessed Bride of the Lord then it is time to dwell in the beauty in your life that is more akin to His style. This means not to just throw out items out of your house that you know would not agree with Him but elevate our home and business in a form that would be liken to His environment. His bounty is rich and His blessings many. In the garden His yoke is light and His burdens are.... even fewer because now you are going beyond the blood and all the salvation that all that brings. Now you are entering the time to create or scale down your life in environments into a simple beautiful abundant garden-like presence of His rest and peace and beauty that will be a postmark for others to hear, see and feel His presence.

What that looks like around us

It is simple to see the energy that takes over a home and landscape when you look upon the Buddhist life style, even their trees and landscape are a refection of that energy force that of course we know is not from Christ. But certainly Christ would want us to reflect His beauty, abundance, grace, peace, and rest in the home and businesses where He is growing the fruit of the spirit. And there is a spirit that is certainly and distinctly reflective of the energy of the one and only true light of Jesus Christ. What is that? You have to dwell in the Songs to understand. Christ has a distinct wonderful expression He wants to be expressed and manifested in our business as well. He wants Heaven manifested here on earth. Where the environments are not expressly corporate in its core nature in our businesses but there is a gentle, calm patience, in all our business dealings.

His Garden is a spring-board for YOUR vision that He has uniquely designed for you.. And it must be present in the way we handle our negotiations with fair play and love or in our dealing with our employee that we hire and the environment that we create for them to work in. His environment has the feel of fresh air as if after a rain and the leaves of the plants sprinkled the water and they come to life because they are refreshed. And frankincense and camphor that were used in the time of Christ; these plants were used to extract not ordinary oil but perfumed oils- the extra oil. This is what Christ is trying to say, come here for my extra oil so that I may anoint you. Here is the place to dwell as a spotless bride. So even though we are not perfected as a bride yet we are to surround ourselves with the artwork, beautiful worship music, or any imagery or beauty that is Garden like and of course we endeavor to align our own spirit to this as well. Once you start to build you will be able to see what does not belong. Your spirit as a Bride will tell you. Be open to the water of living life flowing through your business or home and create the Garden for your home, or your business to be a vessel for something like:

Come, my beloved let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the Villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth; there will I give they my loves.

Distinct Enviroment

So this environment is distinct and for what He wants us to design here on earth. It is a signpost to the weary traveler for rest, or business people looking to be able to trust you as partner, employee, client. Or in our life a refreshing to all who enter, and our spirits are unmistakably imprinted with Him as we find this way and help others on our way-to the Garden.

Paula Mary was a results coach in the secular world for 10 years. Her experience through a worldly humanistic coaching experience lead her to a experience with the demonic which lead to Christ. She has coached teams, small businesses, start-ups, and one fortune 500 company. She has doubled results many times and in many environments but now she lets the Master Gardner do the increase.

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