![]() ![]() If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit so you will be My disciples.Īs the Father loved Me, I also have loved you abide in My love. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit for without Me you can do nothing. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ![]() I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Jesus promises to give us strength and wisdom if we stay connected to Him. No matter where you are in life, no matter how stressful life may seem, find a sanctuary where you can be alone with Him for a few moments of quietness. She must have been familiar with Matthew 6:33, which says, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you." She realized that seeking God first was the only way to manage all the details of her bustling household because He promises to provide for our needs when we seek Him above all else.Īmid all of motherhood’s challenges, prioritize your personal relationship with God. So she would sit down on a chair in the kitchen, pull her apron up over her head, and pray to God in the only sanctuary she could devise. When she needed to spend time alone with God, there was no place in the house where there weren't kids. Susanna Wesley, the mother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, had nineteen children, and yet she managed to put God first. ![]()
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