{"id":7196,"date":"2026-08-19T10:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7196"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:58:37","slug":"blow-upon-my-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7196","title":{"rendered":"Blow Upon My Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>\u201cAwake, O North Wind; and Come, Thou South; Blow Upon My Garden\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em>\u2013 Song of Solomon 5:1<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The people of God are called the&nbsp;<em>temple<\/em>&nbsp;of God, the&nbsp;<em>city&nbsp;<\/em>of God, the&nbsp;<em>garden&nbsp;<\/em>of the Lord where the Lord dwells and walks among them.&nbsp; Just as the Lord first put man in a garden and walked with him there, the Lord Jesus often resorted to a garden with His disciples, and here in Solomon\u2019s Song of Christ and His church, the beloved people of Christ are called His&nbsp;<em>garden.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the heart\u2019s cry and desire of every child of God that the Lord send His Holy Spirit, Who is the&nbsp;<em>Wind&nbsp;<\/em>or&nbsp;<em>Breath&nbsp;<\/em>of God, which blows from the&nbsp;<em>North&nbsp;<\/em>(Heaven)and<em>&nbsp;south&nbsp;<\/em>(in the earth below).&nbsp; It is the prayer of every true child of God that the Holy Spirit of God will&nbsp;<em>blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em>The spices, being the fruit of the Spirit,&nbsp;<em>\u201cLove, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Gal.5:22),&nbsp;<\/em>which we see and admire in our Beloved, and makes Him so appealing to us, and makes us long to be filled with those same spices that we might be a sweet smelling savour of Christ to our God.&nbsp;&nbsp; Call upon Him this day, that He would come and blow upon this garden, this church, this gathering, your own soul . . . that the glorious gospel perfume of Christ would fill this place and fill our hearts and lives.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Paul Mahan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAwake, O North Wind; and Come, Thou South; Blow Upon My Garden\u201d&nbsp;\u2013 Song of Solomon 5:1 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The people of God are called the&nbsp;temple&nbsp;of God, the&nbsp;city&nbsp;of God, the&nbsp;garden&nbsp;of the Lord where the Lord dwells and walks among them.&nbsp; Just as the Lord first put man in a garden and walked with him there, the Lord [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,61,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-paul-mahan","category-believers-assurance","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7197,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}