36. If you Abide—

John 15:7 (NRSV)  If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

And what is its secret?

Be wholly occupied with Jesus. Sink the roots of your being in faith, love and obedience deep down into Him. Come away out of every other place to abide here. Give up everything for the inconceivable privilege of being a branch on earth of the glorified Son of God in Heaven. Let Christ be first. Let Christ be ALL. Do not be occupied with the abiding—be occupied with Christ! He will hold you, He will keep you abiding in Him. He will abide IN you.

If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you—

These are the words He give us not only in meditation but in memory, in love, in faith—all these words entering into our wills, our beings, and constituting our lives. It is then they transform our character into the likeness of the Divine Words themselves and we become and are what they speak and mean … ask what you will and it shall be done unto you. 

Our words to God in prayer will be the fruit of Christ and His Words living in us.