John 15:9-11

John 15:5-15

New International Version (NIV)

Day 1

⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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8} This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

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⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.  

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¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  

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¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.


Step 2 
What Does God's Word Say?
List Facts
 keeping my commands will allow you to remain in my love which will result in my joy being complete in you.

Step 3 
What Does God's Word Mean?
Learn the lessons
Promise God's love and joy can live in me if I obey him.
Step 4
What Does God's word mean to me?
Is my obedience to the Law and Christ evidence by God love remaining in me and his joy being complete in my life?

Step 5
How will I respond to God's Word?
Live it out!
I will continually seek God for the lie i am believing or the aspect of God's word I am not following when it is obvious that i am not walking in love and joy that are mine to have when i am abiding in him.  Have you every flipped this verse around? That if you are lacking in God's love and joy that it might be a warning sign that you are not abiding in Him, walking in obedience to his commands? No one to point the finger at in this verse. Except ourselves. So be empowered today ask God where you are falling short and reclaim His love and joy in your life. It is promised to you. No go do what it takes to have it. Now skip the pity party and start living. Jesus already paid the price for your sin.