Key Scripture: John 15:8. “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. Key Idea: How can we glorify God? Not by adding to His glory or bringing Him any new glory that He has not. But simply by allowing His glory to shine out through us,… Continue reading The Father Glorified, Day 17
Month: January 2011
If You Abide, Day 16
Key Scripture: John 15:7. “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. Key Idea: Here is the difference between the branch of the natural and the branch of the spiritual Vine. The former abides by force of nature: the… Continue reading If You Abide, Day 16
What You Will, Day 15
Key Scripture: John 15:7. “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. Key Idea: The Whole place of the branch in the vine is one of unceasing prayer. Without intermission it is ever calling: “O my vine, send the… Continue reading What You Will, Day 15
Withered Branches, Day 14
Key Scripture: John 15:6. “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. Key Idea: The lessons these words teach are very simple and very solemn. A man can come to such a… Continue reading Withered Branches, Day 14
Can Do Nothing, Day 13
Key Scripture: John 15:5c. … for without Me you can do nothing. Key Idea: The one lesson of the parable is–as surely, as naturally as the branch abides in the vine, You can abide in Christ. For this He is the true Vine; for this God is the Husbandman; for this you are a branch.… Continue reading Can Do Nothing, Day 13
Much Fruit, Day 12
Key Scripture: John 15:15b. … He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; … Key Idea: A law can compel work: only love can spontaneously bring forth fruit. Work implies effort and labor: the essential idea of fruit is that it is the silent natural restful produce of our inner life.… Continue reading Much Fruit, Day 12
You Are The Branches, Day 11.
Key Scripture: John 15:5a. “I am the vine, you are the branches. … –NKJ Key Idea: Let us present ourselves before our Lord, until He speak to each of us in power, and our whole soul feels it: “I am the Vine; you are the branch.” — Murray Pray for revelation: Ye are the branches.… Continue reading You Are The Branches, Day 11.
Money Matters in Church
A focal point is something we acutely need in order to negotiate the maze of choices and all the tugs-both internal and external-concerning money and possessions. In his book Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster suggests, Inwardly modern man is fractured and fragmented. He is trapped in a maze of competing attachments. One moment he makes… Continue reading Money Matters in Church
I the Vine, Day 10
Key Scripture: John 15:5a. “I am the vine, you are the branches. … –NKJ Key Idea: … the lesson, simple as it appears, it is the key of the abiding life–that the only way to obey the command, “Abide in me,” is to have eye and heart fixed upon Himself. –Murray Pray for revelation: “I… Continue reading I the Vine, Day 10
Except You Abide, Day 9
Key Scripture: John 15:4b. … As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. –NKJ Key Idea: There is but one way for the branch to bear fruit, there is no other possibility, it must abide in unbroken communion with the vine.… Continue reading Except You Abide, Day 9