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Here
A poem describing the importance of staying here in the present with God. A Father and Creator who wants to move, encourage, guide, deliver, and empower you in the now, not only in the past or the future.

Avis Sparks
6 days ago1 min read


Gifts for the Garden
You have been intentionally fashioned by God with gifts meant to serve His Kingdom and cultivate His Garden. As we yield our gifts, passions, skills, and lives to God, He uses us to bring beauty, healing, and fruitfulness to the world around us—and He faithfully rewards those who continue doing good without giving up.

Avis Sparks
Aug 267 min read


Intentional Gardeners
Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. -Proverbs 4:23 We are here to watch, guide, and prepare our hearts and the hearts around us to live this life well, and that takes intentional effort and work to nurture good soil, yielded hearts. The Word tells us to guard our hearts, for our life flows from it, and as parents and influencing adults, it is our job to guard our own hearts and those of our children. Even if some children are beyond

Avis Sparks
Aug 185 min read


THE SHIFT
Now that I’ve spun my wheels in the mud of flesh,
Heavily bogged down by the weight of worldliness.
I have lost my strength and failed the test.
I didn’t wear Your armor or choose what was best.
No longer filled with the Joy of the Lord that empowered me
Because I was busy appeasing the flesh with worldly things;

Avis Sparks
Aug 113 min read


Nurturing the Garden of Humanity: Cultivating Hearts and Minds
From the beginning, God gave humanity the responsibility to cultivate and tend His garden. Jesus later teaches that we are a part of His garden and our hearts are like soil, capable of receiving seed and producing fruit (Matthew 13). That means we have stewardship, a responsibility over our own hearts and influence over the hearts of those entrusted to us. God calls us to help create lives that are healthy, fruitful, and well-tended.

Avis Sparks
Aug 44 min read


Let God Narrate Your Story
In our lives, we may have started out with our parents' voices, the world, and our desires, narrating our lives. However, upon receiving salvation, God wants to be the only voice that continues and consistently narrates our lives.
God wants to be the One who sets the tone, directs the path, reveals the plot, and uncovers the hidden, infusing His wisdom, grace, peace, comfort, and joy along the way.

Avis Sparks
Jun 234 min read


His Story
God did not lose His attention to detail or His penchant for forethought when it came to writing your story and creating your purpose. So, where does that leave us? Using the Word of God that has been written, we are prepared and trained to embody the character He has empowered us to have, and then we should faithfully fulfill the purpose He has chosen for us to complete, to His Glory and our benefit.

Avis Sparks
Jun 94 min read


Focused Faith: God Cares
In our journey of healing and deliverance, God wants to show us what is possible in Him and then invites us to experience it. We know what is possible because when we read scripture, we see Jesus performing spiritual, physical, and emotional healing and deliverance. And we do not have to question whether healing and deliverances are for us because He died so they would be available to us.

Avis Sparks
Jun 14 min read


Permission to Feel
God wants us to be aware of who we are and what we are dealing with because He wants to minister to us where we are and not where we think we should be. God cares about every part of us. And He is not ashamed of our emotions, nor does He look down on us because we struggle. Instead, He cares and is moved with compassion, wanting us to bring them to Him so that He can comfort, guide, strengthen, help, and heal.

Avis Sparks
May 244 min read


Place Your Oxygen Mask First
Let us begin to prepare our hearts and minds for the restoration and freedom that God wants to establish in our lives by building our faith, repenting, receiving and giving forgiveness, and releasing the things in our hands that have had us preoccupied and hindered from receiving Christ’s healing and deliverance, which will usher in abundant life.

Avis Sparks
May 206 min read
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