When Is It Pruning?Sample

When is it Pruning?

Day Three – Can you identify where you are being pruned?

Learning to listen to God when things are unclear is a tremendous need when our life is being bombarded with discouragement. But the best way to know if you are being pruned is to determine where you hurt. Why are you hurting in this particular area? Now here is a big and relevant question: What are you holding on too tightly? Remember the idol thing? God often prunes us to encourage us to advance in our walk with Him and something that we hold more important than Him has to go to do this. We remain discouraged until we can trust God’s end game.

Discouragement is not only a challenge to our peace, it also causes us to often miss something important that God wants us to see about our self. If there is a particular area of concern that causes this discouragement, we most often react by clamping down and trying to protect it or control it instead of entrusting it to the Lord. We do the opposite thing that God is leading us to do by not loosening our grip on the issue. The key challenge is to trust Him and loosen our grip. Then He replaces that which we have entrusted to Him with something of far greater value.