"If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." John 15:7
Hallelujah, there are so many different areas that we can praise our Father concerning this Truth! As I was praying about what He wanted us to study, He told me that the real power of this verse is with our relationship with Him. More specifically, the fact that we have direct access and ability through Jesus to go to our Father with anything and everything! "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5
Our Father is the Creator of everything, there is no power that is greater than He is, and He has allowed us to have direct access to Him. OUr Father has given us the ability through faith Authored by Jesus to ask Him for whatever we will! Our Father the Creator of it all has said that He will give us whatever we ask for, and all we have to do is to abide in Him and have His Word abide in us. This isn’t a benefit of salvation that is reserved for just a select few of us either; it’s for each and every believer, because every believer has the Word abiding within Him. This isn’t a hard Truth to live either, “For My yoke is easy, and My burden light.” Matthew 11:30 Jesus is the Word, John 1:14, and every one of us been called and chosen has Jesus abiding within him. “And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, as we are One: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfect in one, and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:22-23 It is impossible for us to accept Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, and then choose to not have Him abiding within us. If we choose to live apart from Christ then we aren’t saved! The two go hand in hand! Salvation is unity and oneness with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!
The Bible teaches us that Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren. “For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordained them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:9 (Amplified Bible) The reason that our Father sent Jesus was not just to save us, but so that we could be made like Him, that’s the fullness of His salvation! Our Father just didn’t provide a way for us to escape an eternity in Hell, an eternity separated from Him; He provided a way through the power of His Anointing, which is Christ, for us to actually be like Him! That’s what our Father has always wanted and desired for us to be. God created us in His image, and Jesus came so that we might be! Jesus is the greatest, there is none greater, He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is our Head, He is our Savior, and these Truths of Who He is, does not for one second limit us from being like Him!
Hallelujah, there are so many different areas that we can praise our Father concerning this Truth! As I was praying about what He wanted us to study, He told me that the real power of this verse is with our relationship with Him. More specifically, the fact that we have direct access and ability through Jesus to go to our Father with anything and everything! "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in Me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing." John 15:4-5
Our Father is the Creator of everything, there is no power that is greater than He is, and He has allowed us to have direct access to Him. OUr Father has given us the ability through faith Authored by Jesus to ask Him for whatever we will! Our Father the Creator of it all has said that He will give us whatever we ask for, and all we have to do is to abide in Him and have His Word abide in us. This isn’t a benefit of salvation that is reserved for just a select few of us either; it’s for each and every believer, because every believer has the Word abiding within Him. This isn’t a hard Truth to live either, “For My yoke is easy, and My burden light.” Matthew 11:30 Jesus is the Word, John 1:14, and every one of us been called and chosen has Jesus abiding within him. “And the glory which Thou gavest Me I have given them; that they may be one, as we are One: I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfect in one, and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me.” John 17:22-23 It is impossible for us to accept Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives, and then choose to not have Him abiding within us. If we choose to live apart from Christ then we aren’t saved! The two go hand in hand! Salvation is unity and oneness with God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!
The Bible teaches us that Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren. “For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordained them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8:9 (Amplified Bible) The reason that our Father sent Jesus was not just to save us, but so that we could be made like Him, that’s the fullness of His salvation! Our Father just didn’t provide a way for us to escape an eternity in Hell, an eternity separated from Him; He provided a way through the power of His Anointing, which is Christ, for us to actually be like Him! That’s what our Father has always wanted and desired for us to be. God created us in His image, and Jesus came so that we might be! Jesus is the greatest, there is none greater, He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is our Head, He is our Savior, and these Truths of Who He is, does not for one second limit us from being like Him!
It does not demean Jesus for us to live in the fullness and completeness of His salvation! Jesus came so that we could be like Him. Jesus came so that we could have direct access to God, as He has direct access to God. Jesus came so that our Father would be able to do the works through us, that He did through Him, and yes even greater ones! The power of God within man has been perfected by the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior! John 14:12. Jesus came so that we could ask of our Father for everything and receive, as He asked everything of God and received! Too many of us try to elevate Jesus by degrading ourselves. That is basically just placing the focus on us and not on God. That’s not how Jesus says we are to elevate and praise God. Jesus said that we elevate our Father and bring praise to Him by being used to produce much fruit. “Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.” John 15:8 Man apart from God can do nothing, however man with God can do everything, Mark 10:27.
One of the best examples that I have ever found in the Bible of how our Father is concerning us asking Him for things can be found when Jesus began His ministry. “And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him, they have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you do it.” John 2:3-5 Jesus proclaimed that He only spoke what He was commanded of God to speak, John 12:49. So what He said to Mary was of God, and Jesus said that it wasn’t yet His time! So what did Mary do? She went right ahead and persisted. And Jesus without rebuking her, began His public ministry. How great is that? Mary asked our Father what she willed and God did it, even though He had at first said no! For those of us that have kids, we know exactly why God did what He did for her.
I hope you see this Truth that our Father is not inaccessible. God’s provided a way for us to be one with Him, exactly like Jesus is one with Him. Jesus asked our Father for everything. He spoke only what God had told Him to speak and Jesus gave God the glory and honor for everything that happened. Jesus had a 100% success ratio with God! He did because He was one with God, and because of Jesus, we too can have a 100% success ratio, because through Jesus, we too are one with God. Our strength does not lie within our own abilities to serve our Father; they lie within Jesus’ ability to serve God by serving us. He ever lives to intercede for us and that is why we are saved to the uttermost! We are not alone, Jesus is our Head, He is the Vine and we are the branches, and He is our Shepherd, leading us in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake!
What’s really powerful about asking and receiving is our will, “ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.” I mean think about it, Jesus said this, so it’s an absolute Truth, but is it an attainable Truth for us? Most of the Christians I talk with question whether their will and God’s will are actually the same? They believe that we may get it right once in a while, but how can we be sure? I hear it said all of the time that God will not take our free will from us, but is that Truth? Ask yourself these two questions, can we have God’s will 100% of the time, and if we are saved, are we permitted to retain our own will that is contrary to His? Let’s turn to the Word and see the Truth, and the Truth will set us free!
“Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” Ephesians 6:6 Doing the will of God comes from the heart! So it’s with our hearts that we do the will of God! That’s cool! What does God say about our hearts? “A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:26-27 Wow!
One of the best examples that I have ever found in the Bible of how our Father is concerning us asking Him for things can be found when Jesus began His ministry. “And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto Him, they have no wine. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever He saith unto you do it.” John 2:3-5 Jesus proclaimed that He only spoke what He was commanded of God to speak, John 12:49. So what He said to Mary was of God, and Jesus said that it wasn’t yet His time! So what did Mary do? She went right ahead and persisted. And Jesus without rebuking her, began His public ministry. How great is that? Mary asked our Father what she willed and God did it, even though He had at first said no! For those of us that have kids, we know exactly why God did what He did for her.
I hope you see this Truth that our Father is not inaccessible. God’s provided a way for us to be one with Him, exactly like Jesus is one with Him. Jesus asked our Father for everything. He spoke only what God had told Him to speak and Jesus gave God the glory and honor for everything that happened. Jesus had a 100% success ratio with God! He did because He was one with God, and because of Jesus, we too can have a 100% success ratio, because through Jesus, we too are one with God. Our strength does not lie within our own abilities to serve our Father; they lie within Jesus’ ability to serve God by serving us. He ever lives to intercede for us and that is why we are saved to the uttermost! We are not alone, Jesus is our Head, He is the Vine and we are the branches, and He is our Shepherd, leading us in the paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake!
What’s really powerful about asking and receiving is our will, “ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you.” I mean think about it, Jesus said this, so it’s an absolute Truth, but is it an attainable Truth for us? Most of the Christians I talk with question whether their will and God’s will are actually the same? They believe that we may get it right once in a while, but how can we be sure? I hear it said all of the time that God will not take our free will from us, but is that Truth? Ask yourself these two questions, can we have God’s will 100% of the time, and if we are saved, are we permitted to retain our own will that is contrary to His? Let’s turn to the Word and see the Truth, and the Truth will set us free!
“Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.” Ephesians 6:6 Doing the will of God comes from the heart! So it’s with our hearts that we do the will of God! That’s cool! What does God say about our hearts? “A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:26-27 Wow!
Our Father takes care of our will. He does it by giving us a new heart and He gives us a new spirit, and He places His Spirit within us, so that we can do what? So that we can do His will! A-men, we are not alone! Our Father is right here in us, with us, leading us, providing the necessary components, and strengthening us to do His will in everything. We can ask and receive because our Father has given us a heart and a spirit that can ask His will, and He doesn’t stop there, He put Himself within us to finish the job completely! God never says that there is a benefit or a requirement that is from Him, that He doesn’t fully empower us with Himself to obtain or to fulfill!
I have heard people say that our Father will not take away our free will; He does to! God takes away, yes and A-men, He takes away our sinful free will. Look at Ezekiel 36:26. Our Father said that He would take away our stony hearts, our hearts of dead works, dead wills, and dead desires, and we thank you Father that You do! Our Father said that He would cause us to walk in what is right and righteous, and we praise You Father that You do! If it were up to us, we would keep it, and then we would not be able to ask and receive. But God loves us so much that He put a new heart and a new spirit within us that only wants His will and we can ask away; because we have Him within us a 100% of the time and with God there is a 100% success ratio!
Now don’t get me wrong, can we ask amiss, yes, James 4:3. But hear me out; faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The reality of so many believers is this: that we are just humans, bound to mess up, we have this free will which is contrary to God’s will and that’s just the way it is. So even though Jesus said ask what ye will, the chances of us living that way are slim to none! They believe that with a lot of hard work and self-determination that maybe once and a while we can get it right, but never all of the time like Jesus did. But the Bible says that our Father's yoke is easy, and the Bible says that God gave us a spirit and a heart that can. The Bible says that our Father did take away our will that was contrary to His, and Jesus said ask and receive! This is the great victory of our salvation, nothing is ever left to chance, and everything is left up to God!
We have studied that our Father wants us prosperous with abundance, having all of our desires and all of our needs fulfilled through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Through His Love, by His presence, and with His Word, God has provided a way for us to be as Jesus is. We now have seen that God has faith and boldness in us, because He knows absolutely that Christ dwells within us, and He knows far better than you and I the power of our unity with Him. Our Father knows the heart and the spirit that He gave us; He knows their power that allows us to walk in His will. Our Father can say that we can have whatsoever we ask, because He has given our will to us, and it’s no longer our will but His will. Old things have passed away for us and all things have become new, including our will! And our Father's will for us is an abundant life. His will is Health, His will is Peace, His will is Joy, His will is Wisdom, Miraculous, Forgiving, Kind, Gentle, and Powerful! These are the attributes of the heart we have been given by God and out of the abundance of our hearts, our mouths will ask!
Do not shy away from this power or be intimidated by it. It’s God, it’s all Him, we only can because of Him! We have been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible. We have been given the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. Our Father has faith in His salvation and in our unity with Christ, and so should we. Its God Who said these things are true, so walk in boldness and have faith in the power of our salvation, God does!
Now don’t get me wrong, can we ask amiss, yes, James 4:3. But hear me out; faith comes from hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The reality of so many believers is this: that we are just humans, bound to mess up, we have this free will which is contrary to God’s will and that’s just the way it is. So even though Jesus said ask what ye will, the chances of us living that way are slim to none! They believe that with a lot of hard work and self-determination that maybe once and a while we can get it right, but never all of the time like Jesus did. But the Bible says that our Father's yoke is easy, and the Bible says that God gave us a spirit and a heart that can. The Bible says that our Father did take away our will that was contrary to His, and Jesus said ask and receive! This is the great victory of our salvation, nothing is ever left to chance, and everything is left up to God!
We have studied that our Father wants us prosperous with abundance, having all of our desires and all of our needs fulfilled through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Through His Love, by His presence, and with His Word, God has provided a way for us to be as Jesus is. We now have seen that God has faith and boldness in us, because He knows absolutely that Christ dwells within us, and He knows far better than you and I the power of our unity with Him. Our Father knows the heart and the spirit that He gave us; He knows their power that allows us to walk in His will. Our Father can say that we can have whatsoever we ask, because He has given our will to us, and it’s no longer our will but His will. Old things have passed away for us and all things have become new, including our will! And our Father's will for us is an abundant life. His will is Health, His will is Peace, His will is Joy, His will is Wisdom, Miraculous, Forgiving, Kind, Gentle, and Powerful! These are the attributes of the heart we have been given by God and out of the abundance of our hearts, our mouths will ask!
Do not shy away from this power or be intimidated by it. It’s God, it’s all Him, we only can because of Him! We have been born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible. We have been given the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. Our Father has faith in His salvation and in our unity with Christ, and so should we. Its God Who said these things are true, so walk in boldness and have faith in the power of our salvation, God does!
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