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Matthew 3:10 And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

is laid -  to be laid, applied

hewn down - to frustrate , cut down , (off out) hew down hinder

Matthew 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

bringeth - bring about , form , produce , external act as manifested

Luke 13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

Cumbereth - to make without effect, make vain , fruitless void

Luke 13:9  and if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit

Purgeth - to cleanse , to prune, to expiate cleanse from filth, purify clean without stain or spot. from useless branches, cleanse from sin , make atonement

John 15:6 If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Matthew 15:13 But He answered and said, Every plant, which My heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

Planted - to set out in earth, implant , to instill doctrine - plant

1 Corinthians 3:12-15) 12  Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;  13  every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.  14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.  15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God

Judge - to form and express a judgement or opinions as to any person or thing more commonly unfavourable in an absolute sense

Time - appointed time or set

will bring to Light - shine light upon , impart moral and spiritual light , illuminate make one know see or understand, make known

1 Peter 1:7 that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ

Trial - a testing (by implication) trustworthiness trying

be tried - put to proof , examine by fire

1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you

Try -  trial of one character by implication trial of ones virtue, temptation, solicitation to sin

Luke 2:35 (yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

James 1:3 knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

James 1:12  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Job 23:10 But He knoweth the way that I take when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalms 66:10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Hast proved - investigate examined try trial prove

Tried is referring to the purifying effects of external trials

Biblical writers sometimes compared God's testing to the refining of precious metals like gold and silver

Proverbs 17:3  The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts

Isaiah 43:10 Behold I have refined thee but not with silver : I have chosen thee in the furnance of affliction .

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

think about it

ya ever wake up to an alarm and not want to get out of bed ? just want to lay there in comfort of self and keep telling yourself just one more minute then I'll get up ? that's how it is spiritually sometimes for the lost for the carnal minded Christians and for those who are just plain weary from the battle. but regardless of how comfortable ya are when that alarm goes off ya know you got to get up and go forward with the day. why is it that we can do that we can press in thr...ough not wanting to get up and press in through our comfort saying if we don't get up nothings going to get done but spiritually it can seem too hard to get up press in and move forward ? it comes down to a mindset a stronghold that needs to be broke a stronghold where the enemy has plant and built deceptions in the mind of not just the lost or carnal minded Christians but also those who are just plain weary from the battle . those who drive check their oil and fuel and put oil in the car because they don't want a cracked blocked and they put fuel in the car because they have a destination in mind. spiritually we need to do the same routine checks , check our helmet our breastplate our feet our shield . all it takes is a little crack in our shield the devil doesn't need a wide open door. if we take off our helmet of salvation and in place put on a helmet of worry and fear then we have left the door of our minds open to the enemy to make an unsound battlefield waging war in our minds. and so the enemy sets forth with his mission to make us comfortable and complacent not wanting to get up or wake up to go forth in God's plans. we say I will later or maybe tomorrow but not today because I just don't feel like. in those times we gotta get outside of our feelings and get out of our carnal flesh and put on Christ so we may go forth in God walking in the newness of life He has given us

Good word many may need to hear right now

The enemy may have stolen your joy he may have mentally pounded you to the point where you feel like you're stuck and nothing is going to ever change, the enemy may have beaten you to a place where you're consumed with all the wrong things , your faith & strength may be weak at the moment, weary and wounded you may feel like you can't take another step because the enemy has so coiled his deceptions around your mind that python may be applying pressure and squeezing you chokin...g the life out of you . but I gotta tell you it's not over just because the enemy says it is, Because you're a child of the most High God and the Lord is about to renew your strength to go forward in prayer and be refreshed ! the enemy is telling you that it's over it's time to quit and give up but that devil is a liar and the father of lies. God is saying take up your bed and walk be healed and made whole In the Name of Jesus Christ , it is time to go forward, it is time to Go forth in what the Lord has for you and God is going to give you the strength to do it !

how would we react

how would we react how would we respond if tonight the Lord gave us all a vision showing us all the opportunities He placed in our paths that we have missed because we were too busy . we see them but we don't always recognize them. we see the illness we see the sick we see the addiction the sin we see the homeless the hungry , but too many times we just see the condition the diagnosis so to speak but we don't see the person like we need too . why ? because often we are too bu...sy or we have already planned our day and can't fit them in our schedule or routines . we are called to represent The King whose love is selfless . how are we showing Christ to the world ? some lost souls have a mindset that God doesn't have time for them or God wouldn't want anything to do with them , some have a mindset that they are just too much of a mess God wouldn't want them and their baggage . so many complicate the Gospel when the Gospel should be so simple in message form and action that even a young child can understand . we can only give what we have ! if we have hope if we have joy if we have love why don't we have time ? lost souls who are searching for hope watch Christians like children watch their mom and dad they learn what we show them by our actions the examples we set . if we don't have time to listen why would they believe that God would have time for them if we who represent Christ represent that we don't have time to listen or time to help or time to reach out ?

we need to be in prayer

we need to be in prayer for one another not just for our families & friends brothers & sisters in Christ but for the lost the hurting the broken . so many out there in this world right now are lost some are one decision away from taking their life some are drinking to drowned their pain and the biggest threat that is stealing lives is a demonic epidemic called heroin . there are neglected and abused children, domestic disputes . men and woman going from one partner to anothe...r and thinking they're in love because for the moment to them it feels good feels right they're not truly happy
when Jesus saw the multitudes He moved with compassion He saw the sick He saw the demon possessed He saw the Hungry and He moved with compassion. whatsoever we do to the least of these we do unto Him ! when we see the multitudes or just a soul do we just see the sick the lost '' the sinner '' the addict the thug etc.. or do we see a human heart beating in panic searching for hope for life for love . the world sees and stereo types them as hopeless we as Christians should know the hope they can have because we were given the very hope that they need too. we should see an opportunity to be about the Fathers will we should seek to walk as Christ walked if He be in us ! we should reach out to them and not just tell them but show them the way to life . do we hear their cries for help can we see it in their eyes or do we just pass by too busy for them with our focus on what we have planned and what we want to do . our lamp should be full shinning bright our cup should be running over into their lives . let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth

Jesus came to give us what we could not accomplish in our own abilities.

Jesus came to give us what we could not accomplish in our own abilities. He came to give us life , it is in and through Christ that we have life more abundantly. more abundantly ? He gave us sufficient Grace and His perfect strength to persevere endure and overcome all through His Name and By the power in His Blood. His example of selfless love laying down His life for us paying a debt that you and I could never pay mercy and Grace we didn't deserve mercy and Grace that we could never earn. washing us in His Blood cleansing us from all unrighteousness clothing us with garments of His righteousness adopting us as sons and daughters .
 He gave us power to become children of God. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God, And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. life more abundantly He gave us a new heart made us a new creation in Christ daily walking with us His presence consuming us His peace His joy His love His forgiveness , His goodness leads us to repentance , nothing of our own ability He calls He draws He compels us to come He gives us ears to hearing and in Hearing our eyes were enlightened to the Gospel, truly there is nothing too hard for God. life more abundantly is a promise in Eternity spent with God treasures in Heaven . life more abundantly is the sufficient Grace given through His perfect strength making it possible for us to endure until the end to finish the race and keep fighting the good fight of faith laying Hold on Eternal Life. His mercy endures He loves us with an Everlasting love, if you're feeling down feeling like it is too hard to stand or too hard to take another step think on these things and seek His face. if your feeling like you have fallen to far away you can come back to His love. the Lord seeks to save . if you feel like you haven't done enough for God don't allow a religious spirit from satan try to destroy your faith and your calling. stay in covenant with the Lord, fellowship and commune with the Lord be refreshed resting in Him.

deep longing

there is this deep longing in all of us to know the Lord more and more to walk closer and closer to Him each waking day, it's overwhelming in a good way because it provokes us to search and examine ourselves sometimes we don't always like what we see when our eyes are enlightened in the mirror of Truth while we examine and so it causes us to weep over our imperfections taking them to the Throne of the Most High God crying out as David did create in me a clean heart . Jesus said blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. sometimes we put so much pressure upon ourselves when we feel we don't measure up and if not careful we can end up abiding in a mind that is not sound sometimes we may panic after failing and ask the Lord fifty times to forgive us for the same thing over and over though we didn't repeat or continue in the sin. and because our heart is heavy from the pressure our own heart begins to condemn us and hold us hostage in a state of feelings not feeling forgiven but the Lord hears us and He is faithful and just to forgive and cleanse us from all unrighteousness but sometimes we just can't seem to forgive our self knowing we hurt the One we love who is our first Love. have ya ever experienced that ? where ya fell short you were convicted you quickly confessed and repented to the Lord but ya just couldn't forgive yourself ? I have been there before and the enemy tried to mentally pound me and drowned me.