Ok, so there’s fruit on the vine; it’s Christ’s life your living. Praise God!  However, if you know anything about DADDY God, He’s the God of abundance.  He doesn’t do meager or just enough, He does everything BIG (see Ephesians 3:20).  So it makes sense that even when He sees fruit in us, He wants to see even more.  He wants to fill us with the fullness of Jesus (Ephesians 3:19)!

How does He set us up for even more success?  Well if you look at that word prunes and you think of garden shears, then let’s clarify that.  In the Greek, the original language of the New Testament, that word kathairo literally means to cleanse of filth or impurity.  It’s washing more than cutting and reminds me of Ephesians 5:26, where the Apostle Paul talks about Christ washing the church with the water of the word.  Jesus Himself says in…