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Fruit / Abiding

John 15

      Jesus said:        “He is the vine, God is the vinedresser, and we are the branches.”

God removes branches that do not bear fruit and prunes the ones that do, so they can bear more fruit.

Jesus said;      we are already clean because of the word’s He has given us (all we have to do is except Him and have faith in Him and His word to be cleaned.)

So we can abide in Him and He in us for we cannot bear fruit by ourselves (who can add a single cubit to their life span?) we cannot bring fourth good fruit unless we abide in Him.

If we as Christians abide in Christ we will bear much fruit, Those who do not or no longer abide in Christ will be thrown away.

If we are not abiding in Christ, we will become dry and brittle and only good for the fire.

     Jesus also said:     "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you".

If i abide in Jesus and His words abide in me, then what i wish for will be in line with what He has for me.

The Father loves Jesus for He keeps the Fathers commandments, if we will keep Jesus’s commandments we will be in His love.

If we obey Jesus, believe and have faith in Him and His words, His joy will be in us and our joy may be made full.

If we obey Him we are His friend, not servants.

Jesus chose us, and appointed us to bear fruit, and fruit should remain so that we may ask the Father in the name of Jesus, and He may us give what we ask to us.

But we have to be in Him and if we are and He is in us what we will ask for will be in His will, it is not a name it clam it game, we have to do our part to receive from the Lord.

Abiding in Christ, that is spending time in God word (the Bible) and talking with Him, in faith without doubting, in that faith our fruit will grow, our lives will have meaning and be fulfilling.

Our 18 day journey is being interrupted i am leaving tomorrow early am:, going out in to the wilderness of Montana for a week, hiking, camping and if we make it to the high lake even some ice fishing, should be back by May the 11th. So keep the faith, get your bible out and spend the week abiding with Christ.

Lord blessings see you in a week.

Will be back Thursday May 11th    Day 9 Duty