Prayer Streaming – #8

Prayer Steaming – the Abiding Heart

In order to remain in constant communication with the Father we must abide in the Son. McHenry’s first sentence in this chapter is that “prayerstreaming is a form of abiding in Christ.”
So I went to John 15 and took a good look at what it means to abide in Him.

Verse 4: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
So if we abide in Jesus we will bear fruit. Branches connected to the vine can pull at any moment on the nutrients and water delivered by the roots. They don’t have to wait for a quiet time or a weekend service. His constant resource is available to me night and day, and when I draw on that I become fruitful.

Verse 5: “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
Yep, I know what it means to not be able to get anything done. I want my life to be productive rather than the way that I feel on unproductive days like yesterday. I got up with a check list I thought I’d take care of during the day and didn’t even get half way. I just felt sleepy and blicky.
So would yesterday have been different if I’d spent more time with Him that doing what I thought needed to be done?

Verse 6: “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.
Don’t want to get thrown away! “Then keep close”, Jesus says.

Verse 7: “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
Ahh…there are two things in this verse that lead up to me being able to access unlimited provision for what I want and need. The first is abiding in Him – the constant flow of uninterrupted prayer. The second is His words abiding in me. The necessity of the Word becoming a part of me will take some work, but saturation in it is like Miracle Grow to my life.

Prayerstreaming/the Abiding Heart is my access all the resources and nutrients I need for a productive life that bears fruit, keeps me in the presence of God and makes it possible for me to ask and receive whatever I need from the Father.

It’s a good thing!