As you move further into this new year, I want you to settle something in your spirit: God has expectations over your life. He is not an onlooker, He is a planter and an investor. Jesus told a parable about a certain man who planted a fig tree in his vineyard and kept coming year after year to look for fruit. For three years he came and found nothing, then he said, Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground. In the same way, you did not get born again just to occupy space in church. God saved you, planted you in His vineyard and He is coming from time to time to check whether anything is coming out of all His investment over your life.
God is not only interested in you being saved and speaking in tongues; He is asking, What is the reason for your salvation. What did I give you the baptism in the Holy Spirit for. Why am I pouring word, anointing, corrections, opportunities and resources into your life. The fruit He is looking for is manifestation. Jesus said He is the true vine and His Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Him that does not bear fruit, the Father takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, He purges so that it can bring forth more fruit. That means God is not indifferent. If you stay barren after all His labour, there are consequences. If you begin to bear fruit, He starts another serious work on you, removing things that are competing with His resources in your life so that you can bring forth more.
Many times what you call a hard season is actually the scissors of the Husbandman cutting away weights, relationships, habits and distractions that are swallowing the sap meant for your destiny.
So I want you to sit down and look at your life in the light of this truth. What has come out of the last three years of church, teachings, prophecies and experiences in your walk with God. Has your character changed. Has your prayer life grown. Has your obedience increased. Is there any soul, any department, any assignment, any fruit that you can point to as a result of His dealings with you. If not, then this is not the year to joke again, it is the year to respond. Cooperate with His purging. When He begins to touch that friendship, that habit, that use of time, do not argue with Him. When He calls you into deeper commitment in a particular area, respond. Abide in Christ deliberately; stay where the word can clean you and where the Spirit can correct you. If you will allow the Husbandman to work on you this year, you will not just be a planted tree, you will become a fruitful branch that answers God’s expectation and blesses the people He has tied to your manifestation.
THOUGHT TO PONDER: If God were to come to inspect your life as His tree, what fruits from the last few years could you honestly lay before Him. How will you respond this year to His purging and dealings so that you move from being a consumer in His vineyard to a truly fruitful branch.
PRAYER: Father, help me to take Your expectations seriously, to submit to Your purging and to bear the fruits that answer Your investment in my life. Amen.
BIBLE IN A YEAR:
Genesis 35:1-36:43, Matthew 12:1-21, Psalm 15:1-5, Proverbs 3:21-26
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