My Father is looking for fruit on His vine
Ones He can crush to make His fine wine
He selects only the best for His own pleasure
Hand picking those He considers a treasure

His vineyard is kept and pruned with much care
Vines bearing fruit delicious beyond compare
The branches cut off will be sent to the fire
The full yield of the harvest is His desire

Be fruitful and multiply over the whole earth
A new day is dawning and now giving birth
Knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth like a flood
A great harvest of souls reaped, bought by the Savior’s blood

Debbie Furey
November 14, 2020

Colossians 1:24 – “Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.”

1 Peter 4:1 – “Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin.”

Luke 13:6-9 – “Then he told this parable: A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
8 ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.”’

Galatians 5:22-25 – “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”

John 15:1-21
Habakkuk 2:14
1 Peter 4:12-19