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JOHN 15:11
Promise
God promises to help you by His spirit.
“And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper [the Holy Spirit], that He may abide with you forever” (John 14:16). Have you ever needed help? Of course you have. You may need help right now. All of us need help at some time or another. None of us is immune from the storms of life, but the good news is God sent the Holy Spirit to go with us through anything life may hold. Not only did He come to fill us with power, but He was also sent to help us with every trial, every temptation, and every circumstance. You may be going through something at this very moment, but you know what? The Holy Spirit is with you right now. He is ready and willing to help, even as you read this. In fact, if you will become aware of God’s presence in you, there isn’t anything that the devil can throw at you that you can’t handle. Jesus, the greater One, lives inside of you and empowers you through His Holy Spirit! Nothing can stop you now! He’ll always help you arrive at victory!
See for yourself// Psalm 33:20; 37:40; Romans 8:26; 1 John 4:4 hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. The Gift of His Peace 25“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said,a ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I. 29“And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. 30I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
The True Vine
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“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2Every branch in Me that does not bear
fruit He takes away;a and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6If 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. 7If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you willa ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. Love and Joy Perfected 9“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11“These things I have spoken to you,
14:28 aNU-Text omits I said. 15:2 aOr lifts up 15:7 aNU-Text omits you will.
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