“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.” John 15:1-2.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
My Words are not idle words, they are your very life.
“Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law. For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.” Deuteronomy 32:46-47.
If you will live your life according to My Word in reliance on My Word and in agreement with My Word, your life will not be one of vanity (idleness), but of significance. You will bear fruit that endures. In keeping My Word there is great reward, Psalm 19:11, both in this life and the next.
My Word raises your life from darkness into light, from the ash heap to being seated with the Prince of Peace (Shalom), from the natural to the supernatural, from confusion to clarity, from faith to faith, and from glory to glory. And that is why I tell you to abide in My Word, that is, rest in, continue in, remain in, live in, and know My Word. If you abide in My Word, all you do will be in the parameters of My Word, which is your safe zone in this perilous world that is under the evil one due to the breaking of My Word by Adam.
And My Son explained this is an illustrated form in His conversation with His disciples about the vine with its branches at their Passover Seder meal the night before His mission on earth was fulfilled. My life in you produces fruit, and I am divine so the fruit you produce if attached to Me and My life is flowing unhindered into you is divine fruit. This is defined as the fruit of the Spirit that produces certain divine characteristics and excellent works of blessing produced by you as the branch on the vine that are of the quality of the divine. All will know you by the fruit you produce, the fruit of your lips and the fruit of your works.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23.
My first words of blessing I imparted to mankind were to be fruitful. Why? An idle life that produces nothing is frustrating and depressing. You were made in My image and according to My likeness and, as Jesus revealed to you, I am always at work.
But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.” John 5:17.
I am always doing something new and wonderful, beyond all you can ask or think, and My power is working in you producing wonderful plans that outnumber the sand.
Just read in the book of Revelation the wonders of the heavenly city that you are a citizen of and Jesus told you He is preparing a dwelling for you there that can only be described as a permanent abode in Me of magnificence beyond the finest earthly mansion. And this same creativity and stewardship of My works, I have put in you so that you too can always be walking in newness of life that has no limits for it is eternal.
I have put eternity in your heart and the ability to plan, create artistic designs, build buildings, plant and cultivate gardens, compose music, play instruments, choreograph dances, write books and plays, grow crops and run a farm, run governments, run a business, create products, medicines, vitamins, do engineering, build bridges and highways, travel the seas and navigate by the stars I have set in place for you, find and harness electricity, laws of physics, aerodynamics, make planes fly, create technologies, computers, phones, televisions, internet, and there is much more to find and do with the creation I set in place filled with wonders beyond number. You still have not discovered or uncovered all the treasures I put in My creation in just six days.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, without which no man can find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end. Ecclesiastes 3:11.
At the time Jesus walked the earth and preached among you, the society was an agricultural one, people understood the simile of the grapevine intertwined with its branches and the symbiotic relationship between the vine and the branches in growth and fruit production. The vine and its branches were not considered separately but as one whole producing fruit and the place where they grew and produced was called a “vineyard.” In the parables of Jesus I send people standing idle in the marketplace to fruitful labor in My vineyard.
Today, however, many are not involved in agriculture but in businesses in cities. For you who are so oriented, I present the idea of the vine and its branches in another aspect: the home office and its branch offices throughout the world. I am your home office and you are My branch offices for promoting and doing Kingdom business on earth. Let Me just talk about that for a moment. You are My witnesses, from where it began with the twelve in Jerusalem out to the ends of the earth. There are now many branch offices in every place where the Body of Christ, the Church, has a member.
A branch office is just that, i.e., it is not a separate legal entity but an integral part of the main company. The branch office operates in close connection with the home office, serving as an extension of the main company while maintaining a level of autonomy.
While organizationally dependent on the main branch, the branch office participates independently in business transactions, but the branch manager reports directly to management at the home office.
Do you see? You are in the world but not of the world. You who follow the good Shepherd dwell in My home forever, your home office, but you are still in the world holding forth the Word of life to a people walking in darkness with their eyes blinded to the light of life by the “ruler” of this world. And he is trying to put your branch office out of business so that you cannot increase My Kingdom’s presence and products upon the earth. I bless you to be a blessing so that your branch office, your own inner business and ministry in the world, may bless every person on earth. As I promised your father in the faith, Abraham, and that same blessing is on you through Jesus.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a cross”— in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14.
For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, “Surely in blessing I shall bless you and in increasing I will increase you.” Hebrews 6:13-14.
Branch offices are blessed to be fruitful as they conduct business that is typical for the whole company, though not necessarily all the same activities as the home office. You each are called to follow Me in the plans I have for your life, which are unique to the gifts and talents I have given to you in the time and place I have prepared for you.
As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 4:10.
There are many ways to seek out and save the lost in all different arenas and places in this world. I have put many avenues of creativity and business within various operating systems, but all must be based on My Word, plan, and purposes for you to remain a branch office supplied by the home office.
Branch offices have varying degrees of autonomy depending on their past and present performance. You are the branch manager of your life and you have the freedom to make decisions, but to remain a branch office, supplied by and producing the fruit of the home office, the exercise of your freedom must be in keeping with the purpose, products, mission statement, and plans of the home office.
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16.
This is where Adam failed and cut off his connection with the home office, which was his source and supply of all the good things in his life.
Branch offices generate revenue and perform business activities, and each branch office has its own business assets allocated by the head office. It maintains separate accounting, with business transactions shown separately in the balance sheet of the main branch. And therein you see the tithe and offerings that I give you the ability to make to be blessed so I can open the open floodgates of Heaven to pour out a blessing from the home office you cannot contain but must share. The tithe is similar to the giving of royalties and license fees for using the plans, patents, operations, and materials of the home office in producing your products.
The branch office operates under the legal framework of the home office’s jurisdiction, but it must adhere to local regulations in its operating location as well. Profits generated by the branch office are subject to tax regulations in its location. Thus, My Son’s advice to render to the government its taxes and to God what is God’s, i.e., the tithe and offerings.
Honor all people, love your brethren (fellow believers, the Church), revere God, honor the king. 1 Peter 2:17.
The home office bears liability for the actions of the branch office. The battle is Mine but the victory is yours. When in trouble, the branch office calls upon the home office for protection. No weapon formed against you will prosper and every tongue raised against you, you will be prove false, for your vindication, your righteousness, is from Me.
To be efficient and well supplied from the home office, branch offices need good communication systems to interact with the home office, customers, and other branches.
Technologies like unified communications services and cloud connectivity are crucial for seamless integration. You access My Kingdom through My Spirit and the Kingdom is within you who believe in My Son. That is one reason I tell you to pray without ceasing, you are running a Kingdom business as one of My branch offices and you need constant input, provision, correction, direction, and revelation to always have the solution and to be in the right place at the right time. Pray in the spirit to hear mysteries and to edify your inner business.
You must be able to discern the tactics and strategies of the evil one to protect your inner business from his scams. You need to watch your thoughts as you would employees in your business and be aware of which ones are infiltrating your business from the enemy and take those thoughts captive and fire them (shut them out of our mind and cast all care on Me because I care for you) as you would an idle and harmful employee who was embezzling from your business and slowing down production.
By operating branch offices, the home office expands its reach and serves customers in different locations while maintaining a unified business structure under the control of the home office. It is the same for you and Me, I can give you the nations and send you as a prophet to the nations. And wherever you are at this moment I can establish you there as My branch office, My ambassador of reconciliation, if you are willing to partner with Me and My Son. I have called you to partnership with My Son. Remember the circle back to Me.
Many companies use inventory management systems to track supply levels at branches.
This allows the home office to monitor stock and automatically reorder when supplies run low. I know what you need before you ask, you just need to ask and it is ready to come from your heavenly account to your branch office whether it is for your personal need or the needs of others (your customers and clients). When you are working for the Kingdom, I supply all your needs according to My riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
The home office may operate distribution centers to ship supplies to branch locations. Some companies use third-party logistics providers to handle supply distribution to branches.
“Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.” Luke 6:38.
Again, maintaining clear lines of communication avoids misunderstandings or delays in supply fulfillment. You have not because you ask not. And when you ask, if you are not receiving, check what your intentions and plans are. It may be you asked with a view of squandering what you are asking for on your own lusts (idle purposes that benefit no one, especially not you) and not for the work of your branch office. When you ask anything according to My Will, I hear you, and when you know I hear you (and you can be assured if you have asked according to My Covenant promises made in My Name, such as the LORD your healer, that I have heard), you know that what you have asked for is yours already in Jesus. You just have to work it out from within to without by faith (believe in your heart, speak with you mouth, and do whatever I tell you for that promise to manifest out of your spirit into the physical realm).
Branch offices allow the company to enter new geographic markets and expand its customer base. You who abide in Me are taking My Word and My presence wherever you go. Win the world by love, My love, as manifested in the fruit of your branch office.
Since branch offices can conduct business transactions and generate revenue, this additional revenue stream contributes directly to the home office’s expansion and funding of more branch offices in more locations. Make whatever you do Kingdom business and thus increase your generous yield.
Always remember this, you are not running your branch office, or your branch as attached to the vine, separate from the Head. He is with you always. I never leave you or forsake you. I am for you and with you, nothing and no one can be against you and prevail when you are totally committed to Me. Let us work together, I in you and you in Me. It is your connection with Jesus that has joined us and I am the One that put you in Him to join you with Me.
Call on Me anytime and I will tell you great and mighty things you could not know. Ask Me to teach you to profit and the way you should go, that is My specialty. Put My Word to work, the Word that I have so graciously given you with which you can win the nations, show them My love and My light and that will lead them on to My holy mountain and make them joyful with you in My house of prayer.
Satan, as My Son called him, is still the ruler of this world under Adam’s lease until it expires and My Son returns to take back the ownership of the fee (to give the world back again to you, the sanctified ones who have come to My Son to be cleansed and born anew from above), so expect him to cause tribulation in the world. But the good news is My Son has overcome the world and He is now living in you by the Holy Spirit of power. Greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world. But many are under his power and on these he can release havoc, but as I show you in Psalm 91, if you abide in Me and My Word abides in you, ten thousand can fall about you but it will not come near you. Remember, Jesus did not take you who believe out of the world but sanctified you in truth so that you are protected from the evil one and shielded from the wrath to come. And it will come, but you will only look on with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked, but it will not come near your tent. Keep away from evil and you will keep it away from you.
I love you. We will explore more together tomorrow. I want you to live with Me in the abiding life for that is how I made it to be between you and Me eternally.