Ask What You Desire (Daily Devotional)

Greetings! Thank you for giving us this opportunity to come to you today. We trust that you’ve had a great week, and the goodness of God is overflowing in your life each and every day. Remember no matter what we go through, God is with us, He strengthens us, He carries us through, and He is bringing us into a place of victory.

This week we have been mediating in John chapter 15 and today we look at verse 7 where Jesus said, ‘If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.’ The Lord Jesus is painting for us this beautiful picture of the vine, the vinedresser, and the branches. Out of that, He is bringing to us this truth about relationship with Him, about resourcing that comes from Him, about the working of the Father- the vinedresser in our lives and how all of that results in fruitfulness which He wants for us and as He is unveiling all of these truth to us, He makes this amazing statement (paraphrasing verse 7) - ‘Look if you live this kind of life, where you are abiding in me and my words are abiding in you; remember His words are what is cleansing us (as mentioned in verse 3), His words are pruning us, His words are at work in us and His words in us is equivalent to Him abiding/ living in us and His life being expressed through us. That is how important the word of God is. If you abide in me and my words abide in you - many times we look for fruitfulness and where we can be fruitful- the answer is simple; let His word abide in you. He says you can ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. I want to highlight a few things when Jesus made that statement. First, notice He is saying- you ask, what you desire, and it will be done for you. The responsibility is on us - as He says you ask what you desire. So, part of carrying out Kingdom work, part of being fruitful in the Kingdom, is us taking initiative so this is a big difference between a typical branch and us, people. A typical branch stays connected in a very passive mode but here He is talking of us being actively involved in the fruit bearing process. He says, - you ask what you will; so, our will is involved. Secondly, our asking/ pursuing is involved in being fruitful. There is nothing wrong in you and I intentionally pursuing/ asking of God for the things in which we desire to be fruitful and obviously those are the things He has assigned for our lives. But this comes out of the place of abiding; so, He says when you abide in me, I’m giving you this complete freedom to take initiate and ask and I’ll guarantee it is done. What an opportunity and tremendous blessing He has placed on our lives, but that we abide in Him and live out of that place of communion with Him. This is the privilege we have and let’s engage with God in this manner. Let’s pray, Father what a privilege you have given to us, help us to understand this, when we are in that place of communion with you, we can take initiative, we can ask that things will be done and we will be fruitful for your Kingdom and your glory, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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