Do Not Stunt Your Growth
I knew God had given me revelation about the trajectory of my spiritual life in a recent dream I had. With prayer, wisdom, discernment, and obedience, I am allowing myself to be trimmed and uprooted by my Heavenly Father. When God decides to uproot you, it means He’s about to plant you in new soil! It’s not easy being uprooted but it’s for our benefit. The season of pruning is where God wants to trim off any excess or trim off dead things. Pruning is not fun in my opinion, but it is very beneficial. Just think about how a tree, plant, or shrubbery looks like after they’ve been pruned…they look a little bare! When we lived in my grandma’s house, there was a crape myrtle tree I liked very much. Every now and then, my Dad would say, “we gotta prune it soon”. I would ask him why and he would respond, “so it could continue to bloom, it’s a little overgrown”. I used to think that doesn’t make sense because it’s already blooming in all its glory. If it gets trimmed, it will look unatt...