Jesus Chosen You

 John 15:16-17
 
 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.


We would like to think that we found God - but He actually chose us! Our ability to bear fruit doesn't come from our own will power, but from a heavenly intervention on our behalf. We are not our own - to ask based around our own agendas betrays the fact that we have been chosen and appointed. Chosen for what? Appointed for what? T oo lovene another. This begins the pilgrim's journey. This forms the asking. This becomes the great adventure of following Jesus.

I chose you: Jesus had initiated the relationship with His disciples, its started with the selection, move into servanthood, and grew into friendship, that you should go and bear fruit: Having chosen His disciples, Jesus commissioned them to bring forth permanent fruit through prayer.


“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” (John 15:4-10)


Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of our lips, given thanks to His holy name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God well pleased. God has chosen us as His delight and purpose, do as Jesus commissioned us to abide in Him with conviction, through our prayer and worship and with complete servitude..


You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love eac...h other.


We would like to think that we found God - but He actually chose us! Our ability to bear fruit doesn't come from our own will power, but from a heavenly intervention on our behalf. We are not our own - to ask based around our own agendas betrays the fact that we have been chosen and appointed. Chosen for what? Appointed for what? T oo lovene another. This begins the pilgrim's journey. This forms the asking. This becomes the great adventure of following Jesus.

I chose you: Jesus had initiated the relationship with His disciples, its started with the selection, move into servanthood, and grew into friendship, that you should go and bear fruit: Having chosen His disciples, Jesus commissioned them to bring forth permanent fruit through prayer.


“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” (John 15:4-10)


Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of our lips, given thanks to His holy name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God well pleased. God has chosen us as His delight and purpose, do as Jesus commissioned us to abide in Him with conviction, through our prayer and worship and with complete servitude..
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love eac...h other.

We would like to think that we found God - but He actually chose us! Our ability to bear fruit doesn't come from our own will power, but from a heavenly intervention on our behalf. We are not our own - to ask based around our own agendas betrays the fact that we have been chosen and appointed. Chosen for what? Appointed for what? T oo lovene another. This begins the pilgrim's journey. This forms the asking. This becomes the great adventure of following Jesus.

I chose you: Jesus had initiated the relationship with His disciples, its started with the selection, move into servanthood, and grew into friendship, that you should go and bear fruit: Having chosen His disciples, Jesus commissioned them to bring forth permanent fruit through prayer.


“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.” (John 15:4-10)


Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of our lips, given thanks to His holy name. But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God well pleased. God has chosen us as His delight and purpose, do as Jesus commissioned us to abide in Him with conviction, through our prayer and worship and with complete servitude..