More Fruit

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Day 5 is entitled More Fruit, the Scripture is John 15:2 and can be found on page 5 in the link below.

And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. John 15:2
 
Here are some highlights:
As the gift of His grace, as the token of spiritual vigor, as the showing forth of the glory of God and of Christ, as the only way for satisfying the need of the world, God longs and fits for, more fruit. //As churches and individuals we are in danger of nothing so much as self contentment. //More Fruit: The word comes with divine authority to search and test our life: the true disciple will heartily surrender himself to its holy light and will earnestly ask that God Himself may show what there may be lacking in the measure or the character of the fruit bears. //God does not demand…. without providing the means. He comes as a Father, who gives what He asks, and works what He commands. He comes to us as the living branches of the living Vine, and offers to work the more fruit in us, if we but yield ourselves into His hands.//Do let us believe that as the owner of a vine does everything to make the fruitage as rich and large as possible, the divine Husbandman will do all that is needed to make us bear more fruit. All He asks is, that we set our heart’s desire on it, entrust ourselves to His working and care, and joyfully look to Him to do His perfect work in us.
 
Our Father which art in Heaven, Thou art the heavenly Husbandman. And Christ is the heavenly Vine. And I am a heavenly branch, partaker of His heavenly life, to bear His heavenly fruit. Father, let the power of His life so fill me, that I may ever bear more fruit, to the glory of Thy name.
 
Prayer for us
Abba You have promised that no discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. You have promised that all discipline will produce a harvest of righteousness for those who will be trained by it. We buckle sometimes under the discipline Lord, under the pruning knife. You seem to want to cut away all that we have found our identity in, all that we have entrusted to affirm ourselves. And this is exactly what You do, intend to do. You would be our heart’s desire, You would be first in our vision and dependence. You know this is where our true JOY lives… Abba teach us to submit to the discipline, the sum total, the all that You do to rear us as Your children. We would strive against that in our ignorance… we think in us we live and move and have our being. We think we are responsible to fulfill the commands of the Law. We say we do not but our actions, our lack of prayer and dependence speak otherwise. O forgive us today again Abba. Show us Your ways O Lord, teach us Your paths, guide us in Your truth and teach us. Search our hearts O God, test our anxious thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in us, and root it out. Teach us that our joy comes with resting in Your abiding love, Your Love. And as we do… O God, more fruit. We ask for You to produce more fruit through us. You are the Vinedresser. You are the one responsible to produce the fruit, through the sap of the vine, through the Holy Spirit given to us by Jesus. O teach us to yield again. O teach us our greatest joy is in seeing You produce what we cannot. You are the Giver, You get the glory O God. In Jesus’ Name, amen.
 
The True Vine