Branches

Good evening everyone!
I heard a message recently about the vine and branches.
Here’s the passage from the Message bible, John 15.
1-3 "I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of me that doesn't bear grapes. And every branch that is grape-bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more. You are already pruned back by the message I have spoken.
4"Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me.
5-8"I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon.

Years ago I read a book that said, or at least implied, that the Lord sometimes prunes us with bad things. I have seen no scripture to confirm this and I have read in Acts 10 that everyone Jesus healed was oppressed of the devil, not ever pruned by the Father. In fact, this very passage from John says how we are pruned; by the word of God. Friends, God never ever uses anything from the law of sin and death for any reason whatsoever!! It is His enemy. See 1 Corinthians 15.
The message I heard was about the vine… if the vine is healthy and strong, won’t the branches be healthy and strong? Is Jesus a healthy and strong vine? If we are in Him, we draw from His strength and health. That is another reason we can be sure that it is always God’s will that we all be healed today. Praise God! We are Jesus’ branches.
I love you all. Live long and prosper. J
healed by His stripes,
Nancy