The Vine and His Branches

Ministry Wednesday: The Vine and His Branches.


Jesus Christ said, without Him we can do nothing, John 15. Whatever we do without Him, no matter how gigantic and impressive, equals nothing, even if we won human accolades and awards by them.

We must remain in the vine, using the strength He gives. The support of the vine positions the branches to receive sunlight while the Vine supplies nutrients and water to help in fruit bearing.

We can't be the blessings and the benefits we are to be to God, the vineyard owner, without the supply of the Spirit of God upon us leading us. We must constantly be open to the inspiration and the power of God to flow through us to achieve whatever assignment God has sent us to accomplish. We must be dependent on Christ.

We need to understand that man was made to make things happen. He can make things happen here in earth independent of God even with the skills and gifts given of God.
God causes His rain and sun to fall and shine upon both the good and the bad.

We all receive all that God gives naturally and it depends on each one what he or she does with all the generosity and the magnanimity we have from God to become either good or bad.

Matthew  5
45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.


But what God wants is that we would use our gifts and positions according to His guidance, to become what's fruitful and beneficial to Him and to everyone around us. Not to use them to earn evil and unjust identities.

We aren't to just make things happen, we should know and understand what God would have us make happen, otherwise whatever we make happen becomes a sin, a work of the flesh instead of it being a fruit. In God's assessment whatever we make happen without Him are nothing, vain, empty and inconsequential as long as He's not the originator even if we had used His sun, rain, water, life, gifts, anointing, opportunity and positions to create them.

Our mandate is to go everywhere, as the wind of the Spirit of God blows us, doing good and bringing solutions to our world with the anointing of the Holy Spirit and the presence of God with us in accordance to His purpose. The purpose of God's power is to bring His will and purpose to pass.

Acts 10
38. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

What Acts 10:38 is to Christ is what it is to us too. We are the extensions of the vine to deliver what the vine has the capacity to deliver. The purpose of the vine is accomplished through the branches that gives the fruits, provides the shade and so on that benefit. We must own Acts 10:38

We depend on the husbandman to bring manure, we depend on the vine to uphold us and we submit to the husbandman to prune us to be able to bear more fruits for Him to use as benefits and blessings to others who He feeds with the fruits we bear.

Let's be careful not to do our own things, which would be useless to God's eternal program, but to stay connected and dependent on God in our works so as to produce fruits and not the works of the flesh that brings glory to man and not to God...there is always a difference between what we CAN do and what we OUGHT to do per time. We must always be acquainted with that difference to bear fruits and not to work in the flesh so as to ultimately bring glory to God!

Good morning to you and more grace to bear more fruits in Jesus name.

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