📖 ABIDE IN ME...

THE SON FLOWER🌻

John 15:4-5

"Abide in Me (you in Christ) and I in you (Christ in you).

 As the branch (extension of the vine) cannot bear fruit of itself 

(apart from the vine Itself) unless it abides in (remains apart of and attached to)

 the vine (to Him), so neither can you (bear much fruit) unless you abide in Me (in Him).

 "I am the vine (what sustains life to the branch) you are the branches 

(an extension of Me if we abide in each other) who abides in Me and I in him

 (then you are totally surrounded by Me from the inside~out,

 completely covered and protected) he (or she is the one that ) bears much fruit, 

for apart from Me you can do nothing (of eternal value that passes through the fire... 

doesn’t become hay and stubble).

John 15:10

"If (conditional) you keep My commandments

 (obey Me out of your love for Me), you will abide in My love

 (experience My presence and great love personally and) just as I have kept

 (obeyed) My Father's commandments and as I abide in His love.

Obeying God is an issue of the heart.

 God says if you love Me

 you will obey Me and keep my commandments 

and do My will.

We will lay down our will for another’s only in love.

The fear of the Lord (the reverence and love of Him)

 is the beginning of wisdom. 

What we fear or reverence we bow to or surrender

 (to the desire of the One we love instead of what we want ourselves).

And it is for Whom we are willing to give up 

our own desires that determines Who we really love.

John 15:7

"If you abide in Me, and My words 

(Jesus is the living Word Himself) abide in you, 

ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

This is when His Words become your Words through appropriating 

and becomes what is in His heart

 and you speak forth the very Word of God 

that originates from His life being in you. 

You no longer live  (in the sense your own desires control you) 

but (now it) is Christ that lives in you!

Galatians 5:22-23

But the fruit of the Spirit (His

 fruit which manifest in us when we abide in Him)

 is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law

 (no other requirement to walk in a place of

immunity from the enemy- 

he cannot touch you because you are abiding in Him and bearing much fruit)

Notice the scripture says the fruit of ...

fruit that belongs to the Holy Spirit. 

it is not our fruit but manifest in and through 

us as we abide in the Vine Himself.

In Him we live and move and have our being. 

Our life becomes one that is hidden in Christ 

but revealed and made manifest to everyone as they see Christ in us.

This is what the world needs to see,

for us to be a walking and a living expression of His life shining forth through us.

There is a scripture that says as He is so are we in this world.

As we are in the world now...

So can He be once again ...

as we allow Him to move and live and have His being in us. 

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