The True Vine

In this week’s episode Prophet Hari lets us into a conversation from a high table, a teaching inspired by his spiritual Father, Senior Prophet Shyju Mathew.

We will be studying from John 15:1-5. In these passages of Scripture Jesus compares Himself to a vine. Jesus could have picked anything to represent Himself, for example, a mighty oak, but it’s interesting to note that He chose the vine. The vine is vulnerable, and needs constant caring and tending to. A vine requires a support system, it cannot stand on its own. It requires the strength of a structure to grow and sustain itself. Jesus depended fully on His Heavenly Father.

If you want to grow in your spiritual life, God didn’t design you to live independently. There are many ways to grow, but is your way approved by God?

Everything was given to Adam and Eve in order to succeed, they were made in the image and likeness of God, but they still needed a blessing. The question is, what did the blessing add? The blessing was the permission to go and be fruitful and multiply. It’s not enough that you have all the raw ingredients to succeed, you need the blessing of the Lord. The blessing is the difference between a son and Lucifer. Lucifer took all the anointing and went his own way. There are many ways to prosper but the only way that God ordained is to succeed with a blessing.

Jesus says, every branch that does not bear fruit will be taken away. How can you be in Christ and not bear fruit? Is it possible to develop certain disorders that stop the nutrition from the root from reaching you? It can be that your fruit isn’t evident because what you’re connected to is dying. Where you are and what you’re connected to is important. Certain nutrients may or may not reach you based on your location and association.

Jesus’ formula for bearing fruit is to abide in Him. It’s possible to be in Jesus and yet not learn to be one with Him. The key to fruitfulness in Christ is to learn how to abide in Him.

How to become One with the Lord: Our soul, spirit and body has been designed with the ability to cleave. Your capacity to cleave is determined by your capacity to leave. In life, it happens that parts of you can be deposited in different locations based on experiences and relationships. It’s time to retrieve all the parts of you and bring it to the feet of Jesus, so that you can abide in Him fully. You can’t cleave without making a withdrawal or deposit.

Pursue Oneness with the Word: Teach your soul, body and spirit how to receive the Word. You are a result of the Word you receive.

Obey the Word: It's not enough to possess it. You become the Word by obeying it.

Satan understood that Adam was the greater spirit on the earth, and he knew that whatever was given to him, Adam had the grace to multiply. He was aware that if he introduced sin, it would multiply on the earth.

The way to be fruitful in the Kingdom is by finding your place in Christ, and then understanding that whatever the spirit cleaves to, it has the power to reproduce it. What you feed your spirit, it has the capacity to grow it and multiply it. When you make room for the Lord Jesus Christ, your spirit begins to absorb Him.