{"id":1727,"date":"2025-12-06T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T17:48:49","slug":"pruning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/pruning\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:49% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pruning.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1732 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pruning.jpg 692w, https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pruning-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pruning-600x498.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>some seasons are hard to understand<br>no big signs, just the Father\u2019s hand.<br>no clear voice or loud reply,<br>just stillness and questions why.<br>the answers, i want to know,<br>but the Father gently tells me to \u201c let it go.\u201d<br>while wrestling with a lot of things unknown,<br>the Father draws near and His patience is shown.<br>i feel Him cutting my branches away,<br>wanting to run, John 15:4 says to stay.<br>to stay near the Father through pruning seasons,<br>without having to know all of the reasons.<br>He prunes to produce more fruit in me,<br>and cuts down branches that need to flee.<br>slowing down and sitting still,<br>reminds me to trust in the Father\u2019s will.<br>these seasons are hard yet i know,<br>that pruning is vital for me to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some seasons are hard to understandno big signs, just the Father\u2019s hand.no clear voice or loud reply,just stillness and questions why.the answers, i want to know,but the Father gently tells me to \u201c let it go.\u201dwhile wrestling with a lot of things unknown,the Father draws near and His patience is shown.i feel Him cutting my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agsnuwebegin.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}