Allow God to prune your life to maximum fruitfulness.

It’s obvious that a diseased plant needs to be pruned to allow it to grow strong. Even a healthy plant needs to be pruned so channel the growth into flowers and fruit. So we should also expect the same.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away, and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (Jhn 15:2) We all have areas of our life that need to be pruned. Not necessarily because of sin, but because of direction and wastefulness. If we are to be as effective as possible for the kingdom, we need to know that we are spending our time and resources in the best possible way.

Jesus spoke of seed falling and sprouting. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. (Mat 13:8) The same seed that yielded thirty-fold had the potential of yielding a hundredfold. Why didn’t it? The ground, the heart, was not yielded enough for maximum growth.

Ask God to show you where your life needs to be pruned. Are you wasting time in areas that are not proving fruitful for Him? When you spend your life in Him, He blesses all your concerns. Be pruned and fruitful and strong in the kingdom.

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You will harvest tomorrow what you sow today.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. (Gal 6:7) There is a warning in that, but also a lesson. We are living today on the actions of yesterday.

We live in a progression of seasons, just like the earth. The things we sow into now will come to harvest in our future. If we are miserly with our giving, the we will reap a miserly reward. If we are generous today, we will receive a generous reward.

We are responsible for our own blessing. It’s easy to blame God for not doing enough for us, but when He stands us in front of the mirror of our lives, we’re shown how much we’ve “paid forward”. He who lives by the sword will die by the sword. He who gives will receive. We are forgiven by the same measure that we forgive others.

If we chose to be stingy in our lives, we rob ourselves of an abundance of blessing. Sow with more than you have in the past and see what happens in the future. Give your time, your money, your kindness and you will harvest good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

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Today is a day of preparation for a greater tomorrow.

Do you ever remember David being called the Bear Killer or the Lion Killer? Why is that? He certainly did those things. Oh, it’s because after that he killed a giant. Killing a bear and a lion prepared him for saving a nation.

We may think that what we’re dealing with now is a pretty big deal. It may be, but it could also be preparing you for something far bigger. God is always preparing us for greater work. It’s up to us to cooperate with Him to see those results.

You may be on the opposite spectrum. Maybe nothing at all is happening in your life. Moses spent forty years shepherding sheep before God sent Him to deliver His people. Moses probably thought he would live and die as a shepherd, but he may have been gaining skills needed to lead a million people across the wilderness.

What ever you are doing now is not wasted in any way, regardless of the decisions you’ve made. God will use whatever you put in His hand, and your life is in His hand. Today is a day of preparation. Today is a another day of experience and talent to be used for His purposes when the time is right. Hang in there and watch and see what happens.

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