God gave us Jesus so we could connect back to God. When we get connected to God, we need to stay connected. If we ever drift from God, we must remember that He never gives up on us, and we can continue in the Vine, our Lord Jesus, and reconnect back to God. Invest a few minutes with Fruit of the Vine podcast and your hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network, and discover what it looks like to trust God through life-changing blessings. 

God is real and is changing lives every day as He works through us. Naomi learned this firsthand when her middle-school-aged daughter began having behavioral problems in class. An otherwise bright and successful student, Naomi's daughter also came from a solid and stable home, but one that did not have Jesus in its foundation. Naomi was an educator and knew what disruption a challenging student could cause in a school. Her daughter's Dean tried to help, but eventually a breaking point arrived. Naomi’s daughter purchased alcohol from a classmate. Naomi had enough. She packed her daughter’s belongings in a trash bag and took her to wherever they might find help. Finally arriving at a local church, she believed a solution was about to happen. But the church was closed. Naomi finally broke. She sat down on the church steps and wept. But she resolved to come back to the church the next Sunday morning. Naomi was returning to familiar territory, having grown up a pastor’s kid in the Pentecostal church. She was going back to church, believing “Come on God, help me do this.” After several weeks her husband began attending with Naomi and their two daughters. Little by little their household grew into a home seeking God and His wisdom. “The devil is not allowed, and we’re not going back to where we were,” Naomi declared. Her new church encouraged and nourished her.