Daily Devotion 14 November 2025

“He that abide in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit”

John 15:5

Jesus makes a wonderful promise: if we abide in Him and He in us, then we will bring forth much fruit for the kingdom of God. Jesus does not say that we might bring forth fruit; He implies that we will bring forth fruit.

By grace Jesus invited us to come to Him and to find rest in Him. By grace He invites us to abide in Him. He gave His life so that we are able to abide in Him and grow even deeper in our intimacy with Him. As it was Jesus who drew us when He said, “Come”, so it is Jesus who keeps us when He says, “Abide”.

The grace to come and the grace to stay are both from Him alone. He drew us because He loved us, and He keeps us because He loves us. Our place is in His loving and everlasting arms, that place King David found and expressed so well in Psalm 131. Because He has invited us to come and to stay, we can fully trust Him to continue the good work He started in us and to bring it to completion. Because He has done everything for us, we can respond with all of our heart, “Yes Lord, in You I can and will abide”.

Jesus abides in you the moment you accept Him as Lord and Savior in that the Holy Spirit takes up residence inside of your spirit. To abide in Christ means that you seek not your own but instead seek the will of God. Instead of obeying your own desires, you ask God to direct your path and teach you to be completely obedient to His will. If you do this, God promises that your life will be fruitful for His kingdom.