Category: John
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Lord, teach us to pray
John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” Do you pray? If you do, what do you pray for? What’s your asking based on? How do you know how to pray? Jesus’ instructions in John 15 give us some deep…
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Are you connected?
John 15:5 “. . . apart from me you can do nothing.” Do you know why you exist? Why did God put you on the earth? Do you realize that you have a divinely ordained purpose? According to the Bible, God created each and every one of us to bring glory to Himself (Isaiah 43:7). …
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Preposterous! Or is it?
John 15:5 “. . . apart from me, you can do nothing.” Can you imagine someone saying something like this to you? What gall! What a stunning thing for someone to say! To think of how comprehensive, how all-encompassing such a statement is. Apart from ME, you can do NOTHING. Only an egomaniac who is…
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Abide
John 15:4 “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.” The believer’s life if one of abiding, i.e., it is a fixed life, an enduring life, a steadfast life, an unwavering life. But what…
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The Gardener
John 15:2 “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” Jesus spoke often in figures of speech. In the well-known metaphors of John 15 He calls himself the vine, the Father the gardener, and the believers branches. He…
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The future
John 14:28 “You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.” Do you think much about the future? Many people try not to think about it too much. Worrying…
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Such profound truth, such simple words!
John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” Knowing Christ – it’s something that is so deep that it’s hard to put into words, yet so simple that it can be captured…
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Why do you ask?
John 14:22 “Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world?” What kind of questions do you have about spiritual things, about the Bible, about Jesus, about God? It’s interesting that in the above passage the Scriptures point out that the question…
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Have you seen Him?
John 14:21 “Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” One of the most wonderful aspects of faith that we perhaps don’t think about enough is the truth that Jesus declares in the…
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Who do you see?
John 14:20 “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.” If you are a believer, how do you see other believers? Do you see them as other people only, no more or no less than any other person who, like you, is going…
To Encourage You 