SHARING BREAD 17 This is my command: Love each other. John 15:17 (NIV) In our verse for today our Lord states a renewed exhortation towards brotherly love. This is His second time to command us in a mere five verses regarding what is closest to His heart – the mutual love of the brethren – our [...]
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SHARING BREAD 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit–fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. John 15:16 (NIV) Our verse for today is reminiscent of the Great Commission found in Matthew is it not? One of [...]
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SHARING BREAD 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. John 15:15 (NIV) “What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we set ourselves in [...]
September_21
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SHARING BREAD 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 (NIV) Certainly, Jesus demonstrated His love for us through His sacrificial death on the cross. While all remained estranged from Him – wallowing in sin – without strength, powerless, feeble and in enmity with God, [...]
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SHARING BREAD 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. John 15:12 (NIV) This, my friends, is quite a command from our Lord’s lips is it not? I am to love others as He loved me??? Not only that, Jesus even repeats His Words again in this same chapter a mere [...]
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SHARING BREAD 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. John 15:11 (NIV) Does anybody out there besides me like the ring of the two words – complete joy? How simply divine does that sound? Where or where can the fullness of soul [...]
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SHARING BREAD 9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” John 15:9-10 (NIV) Indescribable love – unchangeable love – He knows us by [...]
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SHARING BREAD 7 “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” John 15:7-8 (NIV) Here our Lord sets forth a wonderful Promise which is one of [...]
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SHARING BREAD 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, [...]
September_07
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SHARING BREAD 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. John 15:4 (NIV) Jesus forever remains steadily fixed as it were; it is we who are the ones who move. The [...]
