Jesus is the Vine and We Are the Branches

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Narrative: Welcome to Insights on Healing a weekly podcast. Our Episode title is, “ Jesus is the Vine and we are the branches.”   You will learn how we must remain in the vine as branches in orderto bear fruit, because without God, we can do nothing.

I am Joan M. Blake, author, and I am your host. Insights on Healing Podcast includes the reading of scripture, praying, reading from one of my books, or telling  stories/or interviewing individuals who, through the healing power of God, found purpose in their lives. I pray as you listen to this episode, that God would bless you and provide you with the hope that you have been longing for. Today’s podcast is taken from the book of  John Chapter 15: 1-16. I am reading from the NIV version of the Bible.

Jesus is the Vine and we are the branches

15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes^[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. ⁴ Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

⁵ “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ⁷ If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

Reflection: These are Jesus’ words to his apostles. These words can be applied to us as well. Jesus wants the best for all of us. He wants you to love others the same way He does and keep his commandments so anything you ask the Father in His name it will be granted to you. He regards you and me as friends. Let us enter a long and deep commitment to love Him, praise, and worship Him.

Prayer: Father, we thank you for your word for it is a lamp to our feet. We pray that we in turn will love you the same way you love us. Teach us to make you first in our lives in Jesus’ name, Amen.