Pruning

Posted By jessi on October 25, 2011

Hello world!!!! Do you know that the year is just about gone? 2012 is almost here and what do we have to show for our lives? I believe that this is a time we should all set back and examine ourselves. Where have we come from and where are we going.

I never believed when I was younger that I would ever make the year 2012. Now that I am here, I look around and say WOW! God I can see your hand throughout my life. Thank you so much. I do have 4 children with 21 grandchildren who are my heritage. I realized for the upteen dozeneth time that I am the designated “Patriarch” for my family. Now you say, ‘what is that’. When my husband died he left me in that position. It was not something that I simply chose to be. In fact, I told the Father that I cannot be there…but He quickly said to me…”it is your responsibility for those whom you love.” WOW! That was sharp! What this makes for me is I must intercede for each member of the family. I must be with them and stand by them spiritually whenever they have needs. I should help when I can and be that firm foundation that they can lean on when they ask. I hope that I can live up to this title, but let me tell you that it is very hard at times. I am not a judge and should not be (praise God). If I judged myself I would have zapped me out of this world a long time ago. I am the worst sinner of all times but I know from whom mercy comes and I seek Him with all of my heart.

This has been family month at TWOC and the Pastor spoke yesterday about letting go of things in your life that have held you back such as SELFISHNESS, LYING, LAZINESS. These things are sometimes from ‘generational curses’ that come with the territory. Perhaps you lived in a household where this was dominate…perhaps you were raised where these things became a way of life. In Christ we become ‘new creatures’. It becomes a choice for the individual to put these things away. Now the Holy Spirit will begin to reveal things to us one day at a time. It is our job to recognize that this is what the Holy Spirit is doing and respond positively. As the pruning process takes place, we begin to squirm and become very uncomfortable. In fact, we get very angry, because these have become so embedded in our lives we are comfortable with them. This is ‘who we are’. How dare you take that from me! As I was telling my granddaughter who lives with me, anything that God did not put inside you is not good…anything that is not truth is a lie and must go. He does this because He loves us and wants for us to become more fruitful and beautiful. I wonder for so long why the rose bushes were always cut so far back but when they blossomed they were so beautiful. It was then when I understood, we needed to be trimmed in order to grow properly.

To become beautiful we must cut away all the ‘stuff’ that is holding us in darkness.

Although I grow weary in the flesh, I ask God to give me strength to keep on walking. I want to fulfill my destiny and be there for my family as long as I can. I carry a fulltime job and in the natural get tired. I think that this is why I am working so hard to build up my business in the Health and Wellness side (Exfuze) so that I can devote more time there. I have my children (most of them) taking the product now. It has soooo many valuable indications for use.
With the ShapeWay product, I have lost 13 pounds in the 4 weeks that I have been taking it. This is awesome. My son had cellulites in his legs and has been taking it. The inflammation has reduced but not gone. Sometimes it works behind the scenes and takes a while. The energy level in my family is improved as they take the product. If I can improve the health of my family, this is a beginning of a small portion of my responsibility.
God let me be a resource to motivate effective change in my family and those within my territory.