“FRUIT TO “MORE FRUIT”.pptx for preaching
- 2. I AM THE TRUE VINE, AND MY FATHER IS THE VINEDRESSER 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. JOHN 15:1-2
- 3. THE PRUNING PROCESS #1 THE LORDS UNIVERSAL PRUNING SYSTEM
- 4. A. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD PRUNES YOU AT THE PERFECT MOMENT. 1. DOES HE START PRUNING YOU AT THE PERFECT TIME. 2. DOES HE PRUNE YOU FOR THE PERFECT LENGTH. 3. DOES HE PRUNE YOU TO THE PERFECT
- 5. B. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD PRUNES YOU WITH THE PERFECT METHOD. “AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD, TO THOSE WHO ARE THE CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE. ROMANS 8:28 1. DOES HE CAREFULLY SELECT THE ABSOLUTE BEST PRUNING TOOLS. 2. DOES HE WATCH OUT FOR YOU BY LIMITING UNNECESSARY PAIN. 3. DOES HE STAY INTIMATELY INVOLVED AS YOUR PRUNING COACH.
- 6. C. DO YOU BELIEVE GOD PRUNES YOU WITH THE PERFECT MOTIVE. WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY TO THESE THINGS? IF GOD IS FOR US, WHO CAN BE AGAINST US? “HE WHO DID NOT SPARE HIS OWN SON, BUT DELIVERED HIM UP FOR US ALL, HOW SHALL HE NOT WITH HIM ALSO FREELY GIVE US ALL THINGS? ROMANS 8:31-32 1. DOES HE TRULY HAVE YOUR BEST INTERESTS IN MIND AT ALL TIMES. 2. DOES HE EVER USE YOU THEN DISCARD YOU WHEN HE IS FINISHED.
- 7. 3. DOES HE EVER FORSAKE YOU WHEN YOU FAIL HIS PRUNING. WHO SHALL SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF CHRIST? SHALL TRIBULATION, OR DISTRESS, OR PERSECUTION, OR FAMINE, OR NAKEDNESS, OR PERIL, OR SWORD? “FOR L AM PERSUADED THAT NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS NOR PRINCIPALITIES NOR POWERS, NOR THINGS PRESENT NOR THINGS TO COME, “NOR HEIGHT NOR DEPTH, NOR ANY OTHER CREATED THING, SHALL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD. ROMANS 8:35,38-39
- 8. THE PRUNING PROCESS #2 THE LORD’S SEVEN PRUNING TOOLS
- 9. PRUNING TOOL #1: POSSESIONS MONEY, HOUSE, FURNITURE, JEWELRY, CLOTHING, RETIREMENT, RECREATION 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
- 10. PRUNING TOOL #2: POSITION POSITION IN THE FAMILY, CHURCH, ORGANIZATION, COMMUNITY, BUSINESS. 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!” “NOW THE MIDIANITES HAD SOLD HIM IN EGYPT TO POTIPHAR, AN OFFICER OF PHARAOH AND CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD. GENESIS 37:20, 36
- 11. PRUNING TOOL #3: PHYSICAL SICKNESS, WEAKNESS, DISCOMFORT, EXHAUSTION, PREGNANCY, BLIND, DEAF, AGING THEN THEY TOOK HIM AND CAST HIM INTO A PIT. AND THE PIT WAS EMPTY; THERE WAS NO WATER IN IT. GENESIS 37:24
- 12. PRUNING TOOL #4: PEOPLE FAMILY, FRIENDS, EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEES, CO- WORKERS, GOVERNMENT, STRANGERS “BUT IT HAPPENED ABOUT THIS TIME, WHEN JOSEPH WENT INTO THE HOUSE TO DO HIS WORK, AND NONE OF THE MEN OF THE HOUSE WAS INSIDE, “THAT SHE CAUGHT HIM BY HIS GARMENT, SAYING, “LIE WITH ME.” BUT HE LEFT HIS GARMENT IN HER HAND, AND FLED AND RAN OUTSIDE. “AND SO IT WAS, WHEN SHE SAW THAT HE HAD LEFT HIS GARMENT IN HER HAND AND FLED OUTSIDE, “THAT SHE CALLED TO THE MEN OF HER HOUSE AND SPOKE TO THEM, SAYING, “SEE, HE HAS BROUGHT IN TO US A HEBREW TO MOCK US. HE CAME IN TO ME TO LIE WITH ME, AND I CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE. GENESIS 39:11-14.
- 13. PRUNING TOOL #5: PROFESSION JOB TITLE, RESPONSIBILITIES, DEMOTION/PROMOTION, SUCCESS/FAILURE, COMPETITION ‘SO JOSEPH FOUND FAVOR IN HIS SIGHT, AND SERVED HIM. THEN HE MADE HIM OVERSEER OF HIS HOUSE, AND DL THAT HE HAD HE PUT UNDER HIS AUTHORITY “SO IT WAS, WHEN HIS MASTER HEARD THE WORDS WHICH IS WIFE SPOKE TO HIM, SAYING, “YOUR SERVANT DID TO ME AFTER THIS MANNER” THAT HIS ANGER WAS AROUSED. THEN JOSEPHS MASTER TOOK HIM AND PUT HIM INTO THE PRISON. GENESIS 39:4, 19-20
- 14. PRUNING TOOL #6: PLACE LOCATION OF HOME, EMPLOYMENT, TRANSFER, DESK LOCATION, CHURCH MOVE THEN JOSEPHS MASTER TOOK HIM AND PUT HIM INTO THE PRISON, A PLACE WHERE THE KINGS PRISONERS WERE CONFINED. AND HE WAS THERE IN THE PRISON. GENESIS 39:20
- 15. PRUNING TOOL #7: PLAN PLANS TO GET MARRIED, CHILDREN, EDUCATION, SUCCEED, FINANCES, RETIRE “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. “FOR 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. ““YE THE CHIEFS BUTLER DID NOT REMEMBER JOSEPH, BUT FORGOT HIM. “THEN IT CAME TO PASS, AT THE END OF TWO FULL