Does God Want Us To Help Ourselves?

Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John15:4-5

There is a very religious statement that is right out of the sermon of the anti-christ and it is this: God helps those who help themselves. I received an email yesterday stating that the President was mocking God by denying that God wants us to help ourselves. The Truth is that our Father doesn’t want us to ever, or under any circumstance, do anything without Him. Jesus tells us plainly that we can do nothing without Him. It is a flat out lie, and it will be used mightily by the anti-christ, that we are to do things on our own. 

Jesus tells us that He will actually deny that He ever knew people who claim that they have done things on their own, even when they say that they are doing it in His Name.

Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name and driven out demons in Your name and done many mighty works in Your name? And then I will say to them openly (publicly), I never knew you; depart from Me, you who act wickedly [disregarding My commands]. Matthew 7:22-23

Jesus tells us that it is a wicked thing to say that we have done anything on our own, even if we say that we are doing it for Him. The Truth is that greater is He that is in us. The Truth is that we are only more than conquerors because of Christ working through us. The Truth is that we can do absolutely nothing on our own. A confession of anything other than the Truth is wicked! We never, and I mean ever, do something first on our own, so that our Father can then do something for us or through us. Our Father never leaves us and He never forsakes us. He is 100% of the time our Head, our Vine, our Gardener, our Potter, and our Shepherd. If our Father doesn’t first cause us to do it, it will never be done.