I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:5.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15:7.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
In Jesus, I have blessed you with every blessing and redeemed you from the curse.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. Ephesians 1:3-4.
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.
In Him is eternal life.
And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. 1 John 5:11-13.
Without Him you have nothing, you are still in your sins and without hope in the world. With Him you are with Me always and everything I have is yours.
Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. 1 John 2:23.
Jesus, in revealing to you an analogy to our relationship in the vine and its branches, gave you a truth that will make your joy complete and give you great peace. He told you that you can do nothing without Me but everything with Me. Once you receive and confess Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart I raised Him from the dead, you have access to My Kingdom and all it contains, in fact, in the Spirit you are seated there in Him. All My magnificent promises, as seen in My Covenant promise names, are “yes” to you in Christ Jesus.
For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes in Him. For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. 2 Corinthians 1:19-22.
For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 2 Peter 1:4.
But to access and enjoy Kingdom living even now in this window of time, you must understand My thoughts and ways and follow the Way, the Truth and the Life because Jesus is the only way to Me. And that is the way of the Word, because Jesus is My Word made flesh. He is the author and finisher of your faith.
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. John 15:4-7.
You abide in Him and He abides in Him when His Words abide in you.
Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” John 14:23.
How do you go from nothing, for you can do nothing without Me, to everything, for you have and can do everything with Me?
It is simple:
“If you willing and obey, you will eat the best of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” Truly, the mouth of the LORD has spoken. Isaiah 1:19-20.
The criteria is to not only obey but be willing to do so when you hear My Word. Obedience grows out of a heart already inclined toward Me. In Hebrew, the language in which it was first written, the word for “willing” is abah (אָבָה). It is a primitive root; which means to breathe after, i.e. to be acquiescent — consent, rest content, to be willing. I give the Holy Spirit to those who obey Me. Why? I can trust you to use My power appropriately. If you are faithful in little things, I know you will be faithful in greater things. I can trust you. If you are unfaithful in little things, I cannot trust you with greater things. Do not despise small things they lead to greater things.
Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel—these are the eyes of the LORD which range to and fro throughout the earth.” Zechariah 4:8-10.
What are My eyes looking for? Those whose hearts are towards Me to show Myself strong on their behalf. Those who are obeying out of love in everything no matter how little.
Let Me share with you a story of a very little thing that became a very great thing.
Do you recall how My prophet Elijah told Ahab, who was doing evil in My sight and causing the people to worship idols and forsake My covenant, “As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.” After informing Ahab of this he heard from Me to go to hide by the brook Cherith, east of the Jordan. There I gave him water to drink from the brook and I commanded the ravens to provide for him there. Elijah went immediately and the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. But after a while that the brook dried up, because I had another assignment for him that included a woman who had a heart toward Me.
I told Elijah to go to Zarephath in Sidon, not Israel, and to stay there because I had commanded a widow with a young son there to provide for him. I not only told Elijah but I also told the woman.
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” So he arose and went to Zarephath, and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks; and he called to her and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.” As she was going to get it, he called to her and said, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.” 1 Kings 17:8-11.
Just a little bit of water and a little piece of bread that fit in her hand. Very little things, but in a famine most people would not give it up.
But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.” 1 Kings 17:12.
Very little things, almost nothing, but would she be faithful to what I had commanded her?
Then Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son. For thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the face of the earth.’” 1 Kings 17:13-14.
She recalled what she had felt when I commanded her and knew this was a confirmation of what she perceived from Me, though she did not know Me, a man of God had come and she was to provide for him. She obeyed though she thought it would be the sacrifice of all she and her son had. But she found out that faithful in little things leads to very great things.
So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days. The bowl of flour was not exhausted nor did the jar of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke through Elijah. 1 Kings 17:16-16.
And that is not the end of the blessings that came to her for her obedience to My Word. After some time, the widow’s son fell very ill and there was no more breath in him. She immediately took him to Elijah and Elijah prayed to Me and raised that boy from the dead, breathed life back into him. Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.” 1 Kings 17:24.
Faithful in little things will raise you up from the dead to be entrusted with governing cities in the Heavenly Kingdom.
And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’ Luke 19:17.
As a descendant of Adam there is only corruption and the curse but when you born again from above by the imperishable seed of My Word you leave that behind and have immortality and the Blessing. And it is by My doing that you are in Christ Jesus whom I made to be wisdom for you and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30.
I love you. Remember faithful in little things I can give you greater things so that you will bear much fruit that endures.