Our scriptural lesson today comes from Genesis chapter 2, verse 4 through 9, reading from the new living translation of the scriptures.

Notice there these words, this is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth.

When the Lord God made the heaven, the earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains

were growing on the earth, for the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth,

and there were no people to cultivate the soil.

Instead, springs, King James Version says, a mist came up from the ground and watered all the land. And then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and he breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils and the man became a living person. And then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made.

The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground, trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit.

In the middle of the garden, he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

I'm speaking today simply from the subject, plant it for purpose.

Plant it for purpose.

It is interesting to note here that God planted the first garden.

The Bible says God planted the garden. He created the earth, but he planted the garden. He created the earth, but he planted the garden. The Bible says God planted the garden. He created the earth, but he planted the garden.

And then he planted a man in the garden because God always creates the place and then he sends

the person to the place. The reason that we are oftentimes called the seed of Abraham, seed is totally insignificant

if it has no place to be planted.

So that's why God said to Abraham, Abraham, get up and go into a place, a land that I will show you.

Because he was the carrier of the seed, but he had no land.

And God says, I'm going to take you to a place.

Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you so that where I am there you may be also.

God always creates the place and then he'll back up and create the person for the place.

He formed the woman's wound before he put the baby in the wound.

He got the place, the birthing transformation chamber ready first. Then the seed

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