July 23, 2016   ABIDE IN CHRIST AND HE WILL ABIDE IN YOU!

As the days grow darker, the body of Christ must become brighter and truly united to ensure that the purposes of God are accomplished loving one another as family and revealing His love to the lost.  Much work remains to be done for the Harvest to come in.  We must come to a position of unity and oneness with the body of Christ as well as total submission and surrender to The Lord.  Submission comes from that place of intimacy with The Lord and waiting upon The Lord in the secret place on a consistent basis.

The Lord says, I am the vine My saints and you are the branches; and the branches have to work together in unity as part of the One Creator who owns all things.  We must learn to be one as the Father and the Son are one …  [Jhn 17:11, 22-23 NKJV] 11 “Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are. … 22 “And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 “I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

The Lord cries out, be intimate with Me my children for I long to prepare My Holy Army.  Seek Me earnestly, humble yourselves and Abide in Me, and I will abide in you. If we abide in Him, we will imitate His nature, we will walk in His ways and do His will.

[Jhn 15:1-21 NKJV] 1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every [branch] that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you [are] the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 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. 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. 8 “By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and [that] your joy may be full. 12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 “These things I command you, that you love one another. 18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before [it hated] you. 19 “If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 “But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.

Blessed be His Holy Name, Jesus!