What are the fruits of abiding? How is fruit cultivated in your life?
Jesus said, “I am the true vine and my Father is the Vinedresser. Every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit...I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me and I in him, bears much fruit.” Both Jesus and the Father are closely involved with each other in your growth and fruitfulness.
Abiding is your total, joyful dependence upon what the Father and Jesus are doing together in you. They are working in you to elevate your identity in the image and likeness of God.
Abiding in God produces the fruit of relationship, fellowship, trust and faith. There’s no striving for a branch that’s living connected to the vine. There’s a natural flow of life and the outcome is the fruit!
In this episode we’re discussing:
+ How fruitfulness is a byproduct of THEIR power THROUGH you
+ How growth is the essence of their life IN you
Key Scriptures
+ Matthew 7:16
+ John 15
+ Matthew 11:28-30
Activations:
https://brilliantperspectives.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Activation-Abiding-Ep.-7.pdf
Can you recognize the evidence of a lifestyle of abiding? In the old man, behavior was seen as proof of relationship. In the new man, behavior is a natural outcome of an abiding relationship.
This episode describes the markers of a growing lifestyle of abiding. The relational process of transfo...
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