Secret Of The Vine - Part 5

 

Principle #1 Pruning Principle #1 Pruning puts pressure on you to PRIORITI change your ES. major ___________ A. Pruning releases you from STRENGT using your weaknesses to using HS. your ____________ B. Pruning leverages your life STRATEGI by focusing you on the C. ___________  

Principle #1 C.Pruning stimulates you to RESOURC reallocate your ES.____________ primary 1. Pruning reprioritizes the way youTIME. invest your _____ See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16

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Principle #1 C.Pruning stimulates you to RESOURC reallocate your ES.____________ primary 2. Pruning reprioritizes the way youTALENTS. invest your _________ “‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’ 21His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. 20

 

Principle #1 C.Pruning stimulates you to RESOURC reallocate your ES.____________ primary 3. Pruning reprioritizes the way you TREASUR invest yourE.___________ But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. 8And God is 6

 

Principle #2 Pruning Principle #2 Pruning increases your productivity PURPOSE by clarifying your life __________ 12 I press . on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15Therefore let us, as   many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise,

Principle #2 A. Pruning seeks to help you discover YO why God laid hold of _____ U. B. Pruning forgets the past failures FUTU on to focus theRE. ________ LEGACY C.Pruning causes you to focus upon your . lasting ________  

Principle #2 Pruning Principle #3 Pruning transforms and intensifies yourPASSION. heart _________ Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed purify lessens for Himself A. and Pruning theHis own special people, zealous for goodfrom works. ACTIVITIE pleasure you experience Titus 2:14 14

S. unfruitful ___________

 

Principle #2 B. Pruning intensifies your passion by requiring personal ___________ SACRIFIC 7 E. things were gain to me, But what

these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may to gain C.Pruning increases your desire Christ. Philippians 3:7-8

bringHEART. great joy to God’s _______  

Conclusion A. God wants you to know if He is disciplining PRUNING or ._________ 1. Ask yourself if there is any SI known major ____ WN. 2. If unclear, ask God to reveal sin EEK. REVEAL in one ______ ED. and B. God disciplines his children 3. You may REPENT. desires you be in pruning if no sin is __________ to ________ RELEAS C.God prunes His children and   E.

 

 

 

 

Introduction “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2Every 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.” John 15:1-2 1

 

Process #1 The Pruning Process #1 The Lord’s Universal SYSTEM. Pruning ________

 

Process #1 A. Do you believe that God prunes you atMOMENT the ? _________ perfect 1. Does He start pruning you atTIME ? the perfect _____ LENGT H? 2. Does He prune you for the DEPTH perfect ________ ? BREADT 3. Does He prune you to the H? perfect _______ 4. Does He prune you at the   perfect __________

Process #1 B. Do you believe that God prunes you with the perfect _________ METHO 28 And D? we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according tocarefully His purpose. Romans 1. Does He select the 8:28 TOOL absolute best pruning _______

TOOL absolute best pruning _______ S? watch out for you by 2. Does He PAIN? limiting unnecessary _______ 3. Does He stay intimately COACH? involved as your pruning   ________

Process #1 C.Do you believe God prunes you with the MOTIV perfect E? ________ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare His own Son,He buttruly delivered upbest for us 1. Does haveHim your all,interests how shall in Hemind not with Him______ also TIMES at all freely give us all things? Romans 8:31? He ever use you and then 2. Does 32 31

 

FINISHE discard you when He is _________

Process #1 3. Does He ever forsake you when you fail PRUNNIN His __________ 35 G? Who shall separate us from the love

of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 38For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39nor height nor depth, nor  any other created thing, shall be able

Process #2 The Pruning Process #2 The Lord’s Seven Pruning Tools Pruning ToolPOSSESSI #1: _____________ 23 ONS So it came to pass, when Joseph

had come to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the tunic of many colors that was on him. Genesis 37:23

 

Money, house, furniture,

Process #2 Pruning ToolPOSITION #2: _________ Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say, ‘Some wild beast has devoured him.’ We shall see what will become of his dreams!” 36Now the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard. Genesis 37:20, Position in the family, church, 36 20

organization, community, business  

Process #2 Pruning ToolPHYSICAL #3: _________ Then they took him and cast him into a pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. Genesis 37:24 24

Sickness, weakness, discomfort, exhaustion, pregnancy, blind, deaf, aging

 

Process #2 Pruning ToolPEOPLE #4: ________ But it happened about this time, when Joseph went into the house to do friends, his work, andFamily, none of the men of the 12 house was inside, that she caught employer, him by his garment, saying, “Lie with employees, come.” But he left his garment in her workers, hand, and fled and ran outside. 13And so it was, when she saw that he had government, left his garment in her hand and fled strangers outside, 14that she called to the men of her house and spoke to them, saying,   “See, he has brought in to us a Hebrew 11

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Process #2 Pruning Tool PROFESSI #5: ____________ 4 So Joseph ON found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority. 19So it was, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me after this manner,” that his anger was aroused. 20 Job title, responsibilities, Then Joseph’s master took him and demotion/promotion, put him into the prison. Genesis 39:4,   19-20a success/failure, competition

Process #2 PLACE Pruning Tool #6: ______ Then Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined. And he was there in the prison. Genesis 39:20 Location of home, employment, 20

transfer, desk location, church move  

Process #2 PLAN Pruning Tool #7: _____ “But remember me when it is well with you, and please show kindness to me; make mention of me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this house. 15For indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews; and also I have done nothing here that they should put me into the dungeon.” 23Yet the chief butler did not 1 remember Joseph, but forgot him. Plans to get married, children, Then it came to pass, at the end of two full   education, succeed, finances, years, that Pharaoh had a dream. 14

Process #3 The Pruning Process #3 PREPARAT The Lord’s Pruning Cycle of ______________ ION

 

Process #3 A. Pruning prepares you to step into more ROLES. significant _______ Cycle 1: Youngest Son Cycle 2: Overseer of Potiphar’s House Cycle 3: Overseer of the entire Prison Cycle 4: Leader of the Nation of Egypt   40

Process #3 56 prepares you to handle B. Pruning The famine was over all the face of the more RESPONSIBILITI earth, and Joseph extensive __________________ ES. opened all the Cycle 1: Menial tasks including storehouses and sold watching the sheep to the Egyptians. And Cycle 2: the Managed faminePotiphar’s became home affairssevere and family business in the land of 57 Sothe allgovernment Cycle 3: Egypt. Managed countries to prison, prisonerscame and personnel Joseph in Egypt to buy   Cycle 4: Managed the nation, grain, because the

Process #3 Now Joseph was C.Pruning prepares your to handle governor over the major tests with godly ____________ RESPONSE land; and it was he S. 1: Brothers Cycle sell who betray sold tohim, all the 6

 

him for profit, becomes slave people of the land. And Joseph’s Cycle 2: Potiphar’s wife betrays brothers came and him and sent to prison bowed downbetray Cycle 3: Butler and baker before himdream with him after interpreting their faces to the Cycle 4: Brothers who betrayed earth. Gen 42:6 him come asking for food

The Pruning Precept God prunes all fruit-bearing believers by various methods throughout their lifetime in order to maximize the quantity and quality of their fruit.

 

Conclusion “But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life. 7And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.   Genesis 45:5, 7-8 5

Conclusion Now therefore, do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. Genesis 50:21 21

 

Conclusion A. You can choose to actively REJECT. rebel and ________ B. YouRELUCTAN can chose to passively resistT. and REJOIC remain ____________ E. C.You can choose to proactively rest and _________

 

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                 e turn to God for help when our foundations  are shaking, only to learn  that it is God who is  shaking them. Charles C. West

 

 

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      udge a tree from its fruit;  not from the leaves. Euripides

 

 

        saint’s life is in the hands of God as a  A bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. 

God is aiming at something the saint  cannot see; he stretches and strains, and  every now and again the saint says,  “I cannot stand any more.” But God does  not heed; He goes on stretching until His  purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. We are  here for God’s designs, not for our own.  

Oswald Chambers  

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      n the Kingdom of God,  the surest way to lose something  is to try to protect it, and the best  way to keep it is to let it go. A. W. Tozer

 

 

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           he mark of your ignorance  is the depth of your belief in injustice  and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls  the end of the world, the Master  calls a butterfly. Richard Bach

 

 

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       f we study the lives of great  men and women carefully and  unemotionally, we find that, inevitably,  greatness was developed, tested, and  revealed through the darker periods of  their lives. One of the largest tributaries  of the River of Greatness is always  the Stream of Adversity. Cavett Roberts