Close Connection
Ye are the Branches, and you cannot Bear Heavenly Fruit unless you are in Close Connection with Jesus Christ.
Ye are the Branches, and you cannot Bear Heavenly Fruit unless you are in Close Connection with Jesus Christ.
In Him they are Already Crucified and Dead – all unknowing, at Conversion they Became Partakers of His Death.
But what they need now is to Give a Full and Intelligent Consent to what they Received ere they understood it, by an act of their own choice To Will To Die With Christ.
When I Go In The Name of Another, I Deny myself; I take not only His Name but I also take Who He Is Instead of myself and who I am.
PSALM 50.23
He who is sacrificing praise honors Me, || As for him who makes a way, || I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
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JAMES 1.5-6
And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all generously, and not reproaching, and it will be given to him; but let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he who is doubting has been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed;
JAMES 4.2-3
You desire, and do not have, [so] you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, [so] you fight and war; and you do not have, because of your not asking; you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.
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PHILIPPIANS 2.3-4
nothing in rivalry or vainglory, but in humility of mind counting one another more excellent than yourselves—do not each look to your own, but each also to the things of others.
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ROMANS 7.18
for I have known that there does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and I do not find to work that which is right,
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JOHN 14.13-14
and whatever you may ask in My Name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; if you ask anything in My Name I will do [it].
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2 CORINTHIANS 1.12
For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
We do not live on earth by doing what is right; we Live to Experience God’s Blessing.