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Monday... This could be that time.


Monday... This could be that time.

Here in the desert where we live, we do have different seasons and there are different water cycles which make such a difference. Now we only have on average 4 inches of rain in a year. We are a desert. So if are going to have any green we need water and so we are on a cycle of how much. In the winter months we get water one day a week in the spring and the fall we get three days of water and then in the summer we get six days. 


Now there isn't any growth in the winter for us like it is also true of you and your winters but then the growth starts to happen when we get three day of water. And I am in the process of doing trimming the wild branches on our bushes and shrubs. And it will make such a difference in them. They need it and we love to see the difference.

Now Jesus talked about us in John 15:1-2 (NLT). He says, "I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardner. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more." This pruning that we may be going through is very important. We need it but it isn't always fun but there are things in us that need to be taken care of us in order for our lives to be effective and for us to mature and to be more like Christ.

He goes on in verse 3, "You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you." His teachings makes such a difference in our growth. They really do. 

He then says in verses 4-5, "Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing." So don't run away during these difficult times.

Those branches that I cut off change. They get brown and have no life and they have to be thrown away in the trash or burned up in a fire.

Verse 6 says, "Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned."

But then verses 7 & 8 says, "But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father,"

So don't run from God in your troubles which is happening for a reason but remain connected to God. Let him take care of those things in our lives which hinder us in being what God has created us to be. There will be pruning if we are to mature and grow and to be productive and to live, really live.

Yes, whatever we are going through right now could be that time. So, let's trust him and remain connected to him and see what will happen. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning  

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