Showing posts with label The Vine and the Branches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Vine and the Branches. Show all posts

Sunday, November 12, 2017

BIBLEBUFFJOURNAL99 - LIGHTHOUSE BY THE SEA - ljuneslilaccorner

Lighthouse by the sea

                      Come along with me 

       Walking by faith, I will keep on climbing.

            

ABIDE IN ME

John chapter 15


That others may see and know
 That Life is in Me.
“If you abide in me, and my words
Abide in you,
Ye shall ask what ye will
And it shall be done
Unto you.”   John 15.7
Jesus knows I needed my life in Him
If I am to have a living vital life
And to win others  for Christ.
I am only His branch.
He sometimes prunes my life, and
It seems so painful.
Lord,  prune me that I might not just be as
Fruit
More fruit
But
Much fruit.
And that my joy will remain.  
With Him I will have J O Y 
“Apart from me, you can do nothing.”  John 15.5
Jesus wants my joy to be full.
          Therefore I must abide in Him, in His love, walking close to
          Him and not concerned with the fears of personal loss, possessions, friends and family.   My abilities, my expectations are all gifts from Him to begin with, so I ought to remember that 
               Forgetting
                         That which is
                          Behind me,
                Go forward 
                         Pressing onward
                          To the prize of the High Calling of God
                                    In Christ Jesus. 
                             Philippians 3.1 – 16  
Philippians 3.10   I  may  K N O W    H I M  and the power of His Resurrection and the fellowship of His Suffering

              Being made conformable to His death…

                         Living,   Loving,  Looking 

                To Him for His Strength, His Supply, His Provision.
 Philippians 4.19   My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Jesus Christ.
Galatians 2.20  I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave His life for me. 
Galatians 3.11 The just shall live by faith.
Romans 1.17  The just shall live by faith.  
Luke9:23  If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 
2 Cor. 3:18    We all, with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lor, are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord. 
Paul’s prayer was for Believers – those who are born again – born of the Spirit – to have  F A I T H  that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.    Ephesians 3.17 



                         It is said that the Albatross can live long periods of time
                          just over the water, with no land in sight.    Amazing.
                          Yet we can not L I V E  without abiding in the Vine, for
                          Christ said He is the Vine and we are the branches.