Abide in Me

Believing that Messiah must abide in our hearts, and not

understanding that WE are the ones who must abide in HIM first. (Ie:

Ask Jesus into your heart, to abide in you to be saved. Did you know

this concept is not even in the Bible.) Don't misunderstand, there is

nothing wrong with asking Jesus Christ to come  into our lives... we should do

that. But we are a selfish people and need to understand that we

must be the ones who seek Him.

Read this scripture with this understanding. He is not in us until we

are first in Him.

John 15:2-11

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and

every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more

fruit. You are already clean BECAUSE OF THE WORD which I have

spoken to you. 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. 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. 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. If you abide in Me, AND MY WORDS ABIDE

IN YOU, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My

Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so PROVE

TO BE MY DISCIPLES (a disciple is a student of the Word) Just as

the Father has loved Me, I have also 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. These

things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that

your joy may be made full.

Why did God love David?

Acts 13:22

After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king,

concerning whom He also testified and said, 'I have found David the

son of Jesse, a man after My heart , who will do all My will.'

...Because he was after God's own heart. So don't just ask Jesus

into your heart, tell the Father that you want to be let into HIS heart

and seek to do His will. Then the Father and the Son will make their

home in you.

John 14:23-24

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep

My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and

make Our abode with him. He who does not love Me does not keep

My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's

who sent Me."