John 15:1-8 NLT I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 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. You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 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. 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 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.
The last part of the relationship series will be the pruning process. In John 15:2 it states that the branches are pruned. Pruning is trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to increase fruitfulness and growth. Every worshiper has to go through the flesh pruning process. No flesh will come in God’s presence! This means that we have to allow God to cut away the layers that are blocking good fruit within worship. As a worshiper, you operated as a gardener you are to (Jeremiah 1:10) uprooting, tearing down, building up, planting, overthrowing and destroying spirits that hinder or block Gods’ presence within worship. You can’t be effective in this if YOU ARE THE ISSUE! When we don’t allow God to prune us we risk contaminating the atmosphere with our issues. Transparency is needed before God. We have to allow him to cut away issues or take away things that are blocking the fruit!
Lord, I ask you to prune me. Trim every dead or overgrown issue that is stopping me from increasing my fruitfulness and growth. Show me areas where I am weak. Give strategy on how to overcome these areas. Help me to trust you in the pruning process. I call forth every good fruit in me to be manifested this season.