S03 Episode 03: Pruning
Abiding Together
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🗓️ 29 January 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we talking about spiritual pruning and how its a difficult part of the process, but necessary to bring about growth and good fruit.
One Thing We Love This Week:
- Sr. Miriam's One Thing - Safe
- Sr. Miriam's Other One Thing - Beyond The Blue
- Michelle's One Thing - Print from Katie Fitzgerald - Sr. Miriam quote
- Heather's One Thing - Lifepoint Worship "Closer"
Discussion Questions:
- What areas in your life is God pruning or wanting to prune right now?
- Fruit can be good or bad. What are the fruits that are growing in your life?
- What areas do you need to let God shift your perspective that you are not a victim, rather you are a "strugglers" and with God we are "overcomers"?
Journal Questions:
- What areas do you distrust that God has your good in mind?
- What are the motives behind the choices you make in the big areas of life?
- What areas do you need to repent and begin again?
Quote to Ponder: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the keeper of the vineyard. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does beat fruit he prunes to make it even more fruitful." - John 15:1-2 
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Pasco Media Production. Please visit PascoMedia.com. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the Abiding Together Podcast where we desire to provide a place of |
| 0:16.8 | connection, rest and encouragement for those of us on the journey with Jesus Christ. |
| 0:21.3 | And I am Sister Miriam James and we are most excited to welcome you to episode three. |
| 0:27.2 | I am actually at the beach. I do have to say I'm not complaining. I've got a beautiful |
| 0:30.5 | view outside of my window and we woke up Heather very early this morning because she's |
| 0:34.3 | she took one for the team again but that's what happens when you live in the Pacific |
| 0:37.2 | time zone and joined with Michelle as well. So ladies we're gonna we got a good we got |
| 0:43.6 | a good episode today about pruning and it's hard to tell when I'm like drinking coffee at |
| 0:48.7 | the beach but you're not in that season of life right? |
| 0:54.3 | The second look I've been there for years. I was like just have some coffee. Okay Heather how |
| 0:58.8 | are you? You're up early so I'm gonna give you the first first dibs here on greeting our |
| 1:02.5 | listeners on episode three. Well yeah I'm doing well this morning and I have a little update |
| 1:09.7 | because in our last episode I was telling everybody that we're considering getting a puppy. |
| 1:15.6 | Oh so we made a decision and we're getting a puppy. I were so excited. Well yeah so we're |
| 1:25.0 | we're getting a mini a mini Australian shepherd and our kids have been watching Lord of the Rings |
| 1:31.9 | for the first time and so they have aptly named the dog Samwise Gamji. Of course they have |
| 1:37.2 | because there's no other names but the name. Because there is no name. Yeah so anyway we're |
| 1:43.4 | super excited. He's not here yet because he's still a little pup so we're waiting a couple more |
| 1:47.9 | weeks so we get him. So yeah that's the new news around our house. How are you Michelle? |
| 1:51.9 | I am good like we said we were recording early really early for Heather but eight o'clock early |
| 1:57.4 | for us and so I have kids that are have a bajillion games today so I'm like get a gate raid get your |
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