Abide, Fruit, Ask, Love

John 15: 7, 8, 16, 17

If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. 

By this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit ...

That you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father in My Name, He may give to you.

This I command you, that you love one another.

There is a string running through these: abiding, bearing fruit, receiving what we ask for, and loving one another. They're all connected. To do one is to do them all. We can't separate these. 

If we're abiding in Christ with His Words abiding in us, then we will have love for one another, we will bear fruit, and we will receive what we ask for. 

When God's Word lives in us from moment to moment and day by day, then what we want to ask for will be what God wants to give us. And we will love one another, and bear spiritual fruit that will last. 

O my Father, teach me how to love You, how to love others as You love them. Let me bear fruit that will endure, to bring glory to You, Father. 

I want to live this life You gave me according to the plans You made for me before You even made the World. 

I want to understand Your ways, that are so far above and better than my ways that I would never find them without Your revelation. Teach me Your ways, Lord; draw me ever closer to Your face, that I may behold Your glory and be forever changed! 

So that what I do will promote Your righteousness and further Your Program for this World, and that You will receive the credit, the glory, for everything You are doing in my life and in this World.

Even so, come, Lord Jesus!