Everything...I Have Made Known To You

John 15:2,5,14-16 – He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful…“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing…You are my friends if you do what I command. 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. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

John 16:12 – “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.

Matthew 7:7 – “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

John 14:13 – And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Application:

• ·         To live out Christ’s teaching requires the enabling presence of the Spirit.
• ·         Jesus enables us to bear fruit, and then the Father will hear our prayers.
• ·         A living union with Christ is absolutely necessary; without it there is nothing.
• ·         Persistent prayer is being emphasized.
• ·         Pruning produces fruitfulness.
• ·         “In my name” is not simply prayer that mentions Jesus’ name but prayer in accordance with all that the person who bears the name is.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV