The Power of Abiding in Christ
7 Key Points to Take Home
Bible Focus: John 15
1. To Abide means to live in total reliance on God by:
- Eating: Meditate on the Word
- Drinking: Pray the word into your life, pray for others and pray in tongues until you're DRUNK.
- Communicating: Hear from God for that day, else you haven't done any abiding.
2. The fruit produced is the fruit of the Spirit which is all encompassed in Love. It can't be produced in the Flesh. The leaves produced are the Gifts of the Spirit, you can have leaves and no fruit. Also, God will give you a destiny so big you can never attain it without reliance.
3. Trying to live the Christian life without daily abiding (yesterdays abiding doesn't cater for today's war) you risk God cutting you off because you have started walking in self-righteousness. Beware of messages that lead you to self-reliance and not God reliance, those are leading people to hell.
4. Sin begins in Not-Abiding. Because abiding is the only way to live above sin, so if you don't abide you have already started sinning. Deal with it from there before it becomes an action.
5. Everyone has a specific demand of Grace and a besetting sin. The demand of Grace makes you drunk in the Spirit and makes abiding easier. The besetting sin makes you fall for temptation easily. The only way to subdue besetting sin is to abide not fight the besetting sin. It doesn't mean if you stop abiding today you're free, its drunkenness that makes you free and it may take a while, keep trusting keep abiding DAILY.
6. Pruning will come through life's challenges to test your fruitfulness. The key to surviving pruning is TOTAL reliance on God.
7. Saving of Souls comes as a by-product of the Fruit of the Spirit. Focus on abiding and you will produce fruit and the fruit of love will give you a heart towards the lost to play YOUR role in bringing them to Christ.
Shalom.
#BeLightBeSalt
Bible Focus: John 15
1. To Abide means to live in total reliance on God by:
- Eating: Meditate on the Word
- Drinking: Pray the word into your life, pray for others and pray in tongues until you're DRUNK.
- Communicating: Hear from God for that day, else you haven't done any abiding.
2. The fruit produced is the fruit of the Spirit which is all encompassed in Love. It can't be produced in the Flesh. The leaves produced are the Gifts of the Spirit, you can have leaves and no fruit. Also, God will give you a destiny so big you can never attain it without reliance.
3. Trying to live the Christian life without daily abiding (yesterdays abiding doesn't cater for today's war) you risk God cutting you off because you have started walking in self-righteousness. Beware of messages that lead you to self-reliance and not God reliance, those are leading people to hell.
4. Sin begins in Not-Abiding. Because abiding is the only way to live above sin, so if you don't abide you have already started sinning. Deal with it from there before it becomes an action.
5. Everyone has a specific demand of Grace and a besetting sin. The demand of Grace makes you drunk in the Spirit and makes abiding easier. The besetting sin makes you fall for temptation easily. The only way to subdue besetting sin is to abide not fight the besetting sin. It doesn't mean if you stop abiding today you're free, its drunkenness that makes you free and it may take a while, keep trusting keep abiding DAILY.
6. Pruning will come through life's challenges to test your fruitfulness. The key to surviving pruning is TOTAL reliance on God.
7. Saving of Souls comes as a by-product of the Fruit of the Spirit. Focus on abiding and you will produce fruit and the fruit of love will give you a heart towards the lost to play YOUR role in bringing them to Christ.
Shalom.
#BeLightBeSalt
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