{"id":6610,"date":"2016-12-16T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2016-12-14T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:21:31","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-12-16-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-12-16-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day – 12-16-16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John 15:5 (NKJV) 5 \u201cI am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Most of us want a better relationship with God. We want to know how to strengthen our walk with Him and have that closeness that our spirit longs for. And we want our lives to be fruitful.<\/p>\n

So how do we make that happen?<\/p>\n

Jesus laid it out for us in the verses above; We need to abide in Him. If we abide in Him, we will bear much fruit.<\/p>\n

What does that mean? What do we have to do to abide in Him?<\/p>\n

It means that we stay close to Him. It means that we do whatever is necessary to remove the barriers between ourselves and Him, allowing us to draw near to Him. It means that we put Him first in everything, even if it means giving up some things that we like or that mean\u00a0a lot to us.<\/p>\n

Just like raising plants that produce fruit, which takes hard work, so it is with our walk with God. It takes work.<\/p>\n

We get out what we put in. If we put only a small effort into it, we will get only a little fruit out of it. But if we give it our all, we will get so much more out of it.<\/p>\n

But the key isn’t to focus on what we will get out of it. The key is to build that relationship because we want a closer walk, because we love Him above all else.<\/p>\n

And when we get that <\/i>right, when we get our priorities in order, then <\/i>we will see things fall into place. And our walk with God will become so strong that nothing can interfere with it. Ever.<\/p>\n

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n

Seven Seas Ministries
\nP.O. Box 272
\nBradford, RI 02808<\/p>\n

401-315-0902<\/p>\n

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John 15:5 (NKJV) 5 \u201cI am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. Most of us want a better relationship with God. We want to know how to strengthen our walk with Him and have that closeness … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1743],"tags":[2108,3743,1813,1896,2266],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-a-strong-relationship-with-god","tag-bible-verses-about-abiding-in-christ","tag-bible-verses-about-bearing-much-fruit","tag-bible-verses-about-building-a-strong-relationship-with-god","tag-bible-verses-about-strengthening-our-walk-with-god","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-building-a-strong-relationship-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}