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Season of Crushing
Today I will be sharing with you guys my personal season of CRUSHING.
So about a month ago I prayed
“ a dangerous prayer”
If you never heard that term before, basically what it means is you think you know what you are asking but you actually don’t fully comprehend.
Like you don’t think about the process that something like that would take.
So......
I said God I want more of you but like really really more of you, new depths to you and your love for me.
(This one saved me)
Rid me of myself (oooof this one wasn't fun at all!)
Show me every area that needs more of you.(Lets just say God went for the main vein on this one)
Should off stopped there but no! Overachiever here....
The grand finale was.
Reveal every hidden place in my life, where you are not fully in.
And well let’s just say God didn’t wait long at all, in fact he didn’t waste a second.
You see making New Wine has a process.
You need be connected to The Vine to bear any fruit
You must go through Pruning to bear more fruit and become a new wineskin
Grapes must be crushed to make wine Crushing must happen.
It all began with pruning
So for me it started what might sound silly to you and it sounded silly to me in fact I didn't even think it was pruning until it came time to doing it.
He asked me to remove my hair extensions.
You're probably thinking are you serious but if you know me, you know that I love all the things beauty, fashion, and designer.
That one wasn’t hard at all.
Then he said and now remove your eyelash extensions
Y’all now I am like are you serious God?! I’ve had these bad boys for 3 years, I can’t live without my lashes and what am I going to look like without them.
Ok! Fine....
And then what sounded petty and silly wasn’t silly.
I remember coming home and he said look at yourself in the mirror and I looked and my first though was
I look hideous!
Hair gone, lashes gone
All Holy Spirit said was.....
“Remember what you prayed.”
He said lets work on your self image.
You see.
He started with the outward that then led to my heart and my belief about myself.
As I was ready to walk away (Cause I was done staring at myself)
Holy Spirit said no I want you to keep looking at yourself until you can look past your flaws and find the beauty.
I remember standing there and five minute in something shifted I stoped knit picking every flaw and actually saw the beauty in myself.
Some of you might need to do that.
You need to stare yourself in the mirror long enough to see the beauty in yourself and your worth.
In that moment I knew God gave me new eyes through which I was seeing myself.
BUT
What I didn’t know is that he was preparing me for the crushing.
You see what I also didn’t know was that in just a day or two, I will need to be able to see myself the way God sees me and not the world.
And my confidence can’t come from my hair or lashes but it has to come from within.
Let’s read......
John 15:1-5 ““I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.
He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.
You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.
Remain in me, and I will remain in you.
For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.
“Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches.
Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit.
For apart from me you can do nothing.”
““I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.
He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.”
So we must go through pruning to bear more fruit.
God had to remove a couple of things out of my life to produce more fruit.
I got to see that my value was placed in all that vs in who I really am.
The branches that produces zero fruit in my life had to go.
And I hope you are hearing me,
This has nothing to do with hair extensions or lashes.
I am not saying you can’t have hair extensions or lash extensions.
We are not being religious here
But if there is something in your life that gives you more value than God he will remove it.
Here is what pruning also does
It prepares the wineskin for the New Wine
Before God makes new wine he has to prepare the wineskin
In Luke 5:37-38 ““And no one puts new wine into old wineskins.
For the new wine would burst the wineskins, spilling the wine and ruining the skins.
New wine must be stored in new wineskins.
Story about wineskins:
A little bit about wineskins....
The reason that new wine needs to be poured into new wineskins is because new wineskins are flexible by nature so as the wine keeps fermenting and building up gas the wineskins are stretching
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Old wineskins are dried up and hard and they will simply crack and leak out the new wine.
So you see God had to first make sure that he dealt with the dead, dried up things in my lives because I could off gone through the crushing only to be a leaky vessel.
Also if I ignored Gods “Silly” instructions I can promise you I would off ended up bitter, broken women when the crushing came
We have to deal with the dead, dried up things in our life
So now....
That he changed my perspective it was time to work on my belief.
A. We must learn to hear the voice of God for ourselves
B. Having a trusted voice in your life is so important and if you need help
Jana is an incredible spiritual life coach.
C. Understanding that our identity doesn’t come from the world but form God.
He gave me two Identity names for this season of my life which was “Beautiful” and “Perfect”
When he gave me those two names I was in a coaching group session and I remember feeling so cliche as my time came to share in the group.
I didn’t even feel like uttering those words.
Because you know what I heard right away?! Accusations
Things like.......
She thinks she is “perfect”
I thought no one is perfect but God.
And I heard the Holy Spirit say google the word perfect
So I did.....
Perfect: having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics;
Verb: make (something) completely free from faults or defects, or as close to such a condition as possible.
The Holy Spirit said “ Isn’t that what Jesus did for you?”
That’s why your Father calls you perfect.
I remember tears started streaming down my face because it hit me to my core.
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