Key Scripture:
John 15:8. “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
Key Idea:
Bear much fruit: so shall ye be My disciples–Let me beg every reader to consider these words most seriously. Be not
content with the thought of gradually doing a little more or better work. In this way it may never come. Take the
words, much fruit, as the revelation of your heavenly Vine of what you must be, of what you can be. Accept fully the
impossibility, the utter folly of attempting it in your strength. Let the words call you to look anew upon the Vine,
an undertaking to live out its heavenly fullness in you. Let them waken in you once again the faith and the
confession: “I am a branch of the true Vine; I can bear much fruit to His glory, and the glory of the Father.”
— Murray
Pray for revelation:
say to Him that you are His branch to bear much fruit; that you are ready to be His disciple in His own meaning of
the word. My disciples. Blessed Lord, much fruit is the proof that Thou the true Vine hast in me a true branch, a
disciple wholly at Thy disposal. Give me, I pray Thee, the childlike consciousness that my fruit is pleasing to
Thee, what Thou countest much fruit.
— Murray
Key words:
Bear Fruit, Be a Disciple.
It may seem overwhelming to just jump in and totally be a disciple. But that is what needs to be done. To decide to
be atached to the vine or not to be. A branch with a damaged connection is doomed to eventually die off. At the very
best it may live in the vine, but its damaged connection will take away from its fruit bearing ability.
All that anybody can do is choose to make a daily decision to be attached just for today. Through the course of the
day, keep the idea of remaining attached in mind. Let the concept of doing each little thing in your life be a
chance to touch base with Jesus the vine.
Don’t think about all those bushel basketws of fruit. Don’t think about all those spiritual gifts and fruits that
the Bible talks about. There is nothing that you ever can do to make it all happen. They all can only be achieved by
a force much bigger than anybody on earth. Only God can make those abundant fruits happen.
Does that thing that you do honor Jesus? Is how you handle a situation a way that would be pleasing to God? In those
small ways, and in just staying prayerfully attached, let God work to produce fruits. Don’t worry about fruit. You
will be amazed at what God can do when you stop trying to make fruit of your own, and let him produce it through
you.