Prayer Wednesday am

I had a picture of God skipping through His vineyard, leaving a deposit of His blessing as He goes. Every now and then He stops and breathes gently on a bunch of grapes [they expand]. Then He stops and snips off a withered, brown branch. Some of the vines lean towards God, others shrink back and hide their 'dead' bits under a leaf. As the prayer moved to the children, I saw the smaller vines, and felt that the little foxes would choose to chew on their tender shoots. Then the Lord came and threw a net over them as protection against all predators.
He went back to the part of the vineyard where the vines had the biggest, most ripe fruit. Gently He lifted them out of the ground,[roots all intact] and ushered them 1 by 1 out of the vineyard into the world.

The word 'yield' was key throughout . The vines that yielded to Gods care and breath had the fruit [yield] that was mature enough to be sent out. Those that refused to yield [that hid their dead bits] remained in the ground. The Lord would continue to pass by, but would not force pruning or breathe on the fruit until the vine chooses to yield.