Similarly your marriage needs this kind of care for you to realise the best from it. Pruning is a positive thing, it allows you to evaluate your relationship from time to time and cut back those areas that are dead or overgrown.

You need to do away with the excesses, the needless, the redundant, the unnecessary and the unwanted. Even though pruning is a positive thing it could be painful. You need to set your priorities right so that you can, with the help of God, positively look into your relationship and humbly make those needful adjustments.

You need to prune to make room for the things that are really crucial and important to the well being of your marriage. God will provide the wisdom, but you need to do the pruning. For instance, it could be that a financial decision you made 12 months ago is due for a review because of a change in circumstances.

We want to challenge you this week, to evaluate your life and relationship so that you can produce the best for yourselves and to the glory of God. Every relationship is unique and so the type of pruning required will vary, but we trust that God will give you wisdom to discern what He is saying to you personally so that you can take the right action.

Your marriage relationship is precious and God wants to use you as a great blessing in this generation. You will need to periodically prune your marriage to get the best out of your relationship.