This word is submitted by Traci Morin (sea.otter@mindspring.com)

I am the True Vine

I see you children and where you are today. It hurts to see you where you are for some of you who are hurting or don't understand this pressure My children are under. These pressures, you are feeling, My children, are bringing things up you didn't know existed in your life. This is good and this is My work. I know you feel pressed from all areas of your life. You might even feel like exploding and don't understand. I want to explain to My children what I am doing. The things that have come to a surface need to be removed. I want to pour more of my spirit on My children. The latter rain is coming soon and My children need to remove some things from their life to be prepared. That is what the fire is all about when you feel like you are in the fire. The fire brings up impurities to the surface. These impurities are sick or diseased habitual mind sets that My children need to see and have them removed. I allow it to all My children so that they may be set free. If My children are willing to see them and deal with them and deal with pride that kept them from coming up, My children will soon be a free child of God so that I can use My children even more powerful than before.

Remember how My Word talks about the sword as part of your armor in Ephesians 6:17 "the Sword of the Spirit", I use this to prune all My children because my children live in a fallen world and pick up so much, but when My Children submit and are willing to be pruned and go with it and not rebel against Me or blame the devil for all their wows, then I'm able to set them free. The body of Christ has been under tremendous pressure because of the time my Children are in and time is short. Your sword is an offensive weapon against the enemy. I also use it to prune the diseased mind attitudes from your past: insecurities, self hatred, rejection, loneliness, unforgiveness from someone that has hurt you, abandonment issues, not being able to abide in me because you feel unworthy, etc. See that you are My children, accepted and adopted by me. Remember I chose you first, you didn't choose me.

Again, My sword prunes and pierces the heart of attitudes to convict My children so that it will lead them to repentance. It hits the deep places of the soul. When going through the process it's like being in the dark night of the soul. Nobody like it there and when My children are there the true attitudes of the mind are exposed and revealed, so that My children can confess it to Me. Some get very angry and never return and some of My children come to Me and give it to Me. I'm the life giver! It may seem harsh, but its another step to maturity and growth of who I really Am. A good Father that truly loves My children to see all lose and free so that all My children can truly produce even more fruit than before.

Children, you are coming to a new level that you've never been before. Let freedom ring My precious Children. Children, see yourself as precious. I'm proud of all My Children who are will to pull down pride to see what has caused them to go into reaction instead of action. My children can then grow more confident of who they are in Me because I created you to be who you are. Abide in Me, and also grow and know more of who you are. I will take My Children deeper and higher than before like eagles soaring high in the sky with much more anointing and power than ever before. Give Me your past that hold you as prisoners. If My children are willing to see, give them to Me and see My Word as truth and not believe the lies of your past or the old tape that is playing in your head, then you will be much freer.

Some of my Children are satisfied where they are in their walk and some want to go much higher but there is always a cost. That is the pruning process I take My Children through to remove the chains that are holding My children back. To some it scares away because of lack of trust and rather stay in what is familiar. Some of My children are willing to embrace My work in them to get set free.

I encourage all my Children to embrace in this hour what I'm doing to them so that I can put on my Children new wineskin and remove the old wineskin. The old wineskin are sin attitudes my Children develop over the years because of hurts from someone in the church or outside of the church or from hurts as a little child.

Peace be with you.

Children, know I love you and I'm coming soon for a bride. Come to me and abide in me and embrace a season of pruning because soon the latter rains are coming and I want all My children to receive a new wineskin.