John 15:8, 10-12, 16 AMP “My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples.”
If I ask you what is the purpose of your life with God or within this church, many people say they want to glorify God. We see in the above verse to glorify God, you need to bear much fruit. It is not one single grape on a vine but much fruit. It is not about wealth or finances. It is about the enduring fruit of the Beloved Holy Spirit! Then we prove to be true Christians.
10 If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
11 I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.
12 “This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you.
16 You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you.”
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Whatever we ask God, HE will give us?
This is only if you are able to bear fruit, and it must not be a one-time incident or event, but a continuous bearing and lasting within each and every season. To bear fruit means to have a harvest. Harvest of only finances and wealth? No! Less we become Laodicean!
What does this all mean? Think about it.
This is Resurrection weekend. The Son of God, who is the Word of God, came in Seed form to do what? HE came to die so a harvest could come forth! If HE is the firstborn of many brothers, then what is your purpose as His brothers who follow thereafter?
John 12:24 TPT “Let me make this clear: A single grain of wheat will never be more than a single grain of wheat unless it drops into the ground and dies. Because then it sprouts and produces a great harvest of wheat—all because one grain died.”
Hello, leaders and church, unless you crucify your flesh all the way, you cannot get any more anointing than what you have obtained, and it will only dwindle away as you refuse to die anymore. The problem is you think you are still dying to yourself, but the reality is your flesh may be coming back from the dead. Then look at the level of your anointing after all these years. Why do we then run out of gas? Are we chasing fruit or pampering our lives through the blessings?
Think about this during our Resurrection weekend. “
Additional Comments:
What is the harvest we are to produce following His Kind?
Senior Pastor Steve Kim