Appointed to Bear Fruit #4 - The Focus of Fruitfulness
FROM THE VAULT
A series revisiting previous posts
This is the fourth and final part of this series, you can read from the first part here:
PART 1 ‘Fruitful, Frustrated or Failure?’
In the last post we looked at some practical outworkings of how we can ‘go’ and be fruitful – but for that to be sustained and not a heavy burden the heart has to change! TO be fruitfulness the secret is not to focus on ’squeezing’ fruit out! You never see a tree straining to push fruit out! The Focus of fruitfulness is not on the fruit – it is on the source, on the root. John 15 makes this abundantly clear in that we are the ‘branches’ and we bear fruit by ABIDING IN THE VINE – particularly in God’s WORDS (v7) and God’s LOVE (v9) … these are two vital ‘nutrient lines’. If we focus on ABIDING, we will BEAR fruit. In fact we learn about God’s love through God’s words…and I think the primary way to move God’s words from our heads to our hearts so that we encounter his love is through prayer. As we take truths and let them sink in and through us by praying (including repenting, praising, asking, meditating etc…).
So HOW ARE YOU DOING on these two things? We don’t only do them ‘to be fruitful’ but as we get to know God and love Him (through abiding in his words and love) we then long to be fruitful for Him…and are most fruitful when we are abiding.
Get into His word and Get his word into you by praying and watch the story unfold.