In August, we began a new focus for HOPE’s youth meetings, looking at the Secrets of the Vine from John 15:1-4. Rania had been praying and reflecting on recent revelations on the current season of sifting and threshing (see her vision of the Bride in the Field of Wheat), and preparing for a new series on the testing of our faith. During this time, one of HOPE’s intercessors had a dream about a vinedresser cutting and pruning a vine:

She saw herself standing in a farm where a farmer was pushing a cart full of branches. These branches were large, green and fresh vine branches. The man pushing the cart was the vinedresser. He was picking the long vine branches and gathering them in bunches and then placing them in the cart. She asked, “Why are you cutting off these branches, they look so beautiful? Why are you in such a hurry to cut and prune this vine?” He answered, “I have given it some time.” It seemed to her that these branches had been given time to bear fruit yet they did not yield any. The vinedresser put all these branches into the cart and took them away from the vine. She pleaded with the man, “Please, give it more time, give it another chance!” Then another man appeared and he was gentle, standing before the vinedresser with loving eyes. She felt that this man was the Lord Jesus. He spoke to the vinedresser and said, “Give them another chance!”

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes a so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.”
John15:1-4