RAISING CHILDREN ON THE BALANCE SCALES OF PRUNING FOR FRUITFULNESS
You are My intercessors and I listen to your pleas and voice. What you have to say matters to Me and I listen when I AM weighing the balance scales of justice. Merciful ones, the truth is that if I were to raise My children with all mercy and no judgment, they would not learn accountability. No accountability to My Word would carry them off into apostasy.
I raise children upon a balance scale that builds up and tears down. I build My character within their lives and I tear down altars of sin. I build up My gifts within My children and bring the rod of correction to rebellion. I prune the dead works of flesh so that I may bring forth good fruit of My Spirit into their lives. In all ways because I love My children, mercy and forgiveness always reign over judgment. Even so, correction is a necessary part of My family. This needed correction produces the fruit of rightful living and walking in My paths of righteousness. Beloved ones, to accept this is to embrace Me and My ways.
Heb 12:6-7; 11-13 AMP
For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes. You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?
…For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness — in conformity to God’s will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God]. 12 So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, [Isa 35:3.] 13 And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet [yes, make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right direction], so that the lame and halting [limbs] may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured.
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Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life… and He died for you.
