Staying Connected to the Vine

I must also thank every one of you who made it to this service today. We are soldiers of the cause. I can see how people kitted when the enemy was reading. It reminds me of those soldiers vine fought for Israel during the war with his woods.

All right. It shows vine you come prepared. We are prepared all right. For this service.

And vine is what God expects every believer anytime. If he's turning too much, you find maybe umbrella to cover your tongue. If it's raining, you fire a coat. So vine those things are doing their work God has sent them to do.

It wasn't sent to hinder us from coming to the assembly of God, but and you thank you for vine courage. God has seized the sacrifice you have faced to come to this place. And we richly bless your stay here in Jesus name. Stay connected to the vine.

As is the thought of our message. Stay connected to the vine. Most time we have find ourselves remain disconnected. All find ourselves disconnected from the vine, from the source of our life, from the source of our energy.

But the word of the Lord today is coming to an echo in our vine for us to stay connected to the vine. The heavenly Satan knows your source of life. He knows the source of your strength. He knows the source of your energy.

So therefore he will come in a way to get disconnected from from vine source. And when it happens, you will now become a brave unto him and a devil. But today the word of the Lord is coming to unveil to us, to tell us to stay remain connected to the vine. Let me ask us this question.

Though it's not a Bible school, I would have expected an answer. And what have we seen? A battery. A phone without a battery functioning?

The answer is no. Have you seen a phone without Internet? You use it to make calls. The answer is no.

What makes the phone to work effectually is Internet. And you must connect vine phone to the Internet. That is where you can send message and receive and receive. That is when you can make a call another person receives.

And if there is a shake in the Internet, in the connection of the Internet, the call will not go through. That is what God, the maker of heaven and earth expect us to do. To remain connected to the network vine give us life, the network vine give us strength, the network vine give us energy. Stay connected to vine the world we find ourselves in, full of destructions, full of pressures, full of temptations, and even full of competing priorities.

These elements of distractions have made the believers in Christ to be disconnected from their source of life, their source of strength and energy. Pressures on Our workplace pressures to make ends meet. Pressure in our family, pressure from the economy. Will you toil and toil your earnings nothing matching the expenditure.

So the pressure makes you to focus your energy to make ends meet. And in so doing, the enemy vine have capitalized in vine to make you to focus your energy and put much pressure in there and get disconnected from the main place vine would have made you to operate like a wise person. Temptations of this life has made us to derail, remain derailed from being focused. Temptations vine have led us to fornication, adultery, worshipping of idols, believing vine the God we serve will not answer us, seeking solutions where there is no help.

Those things have disconnected us from the source of our life. Divine competing priorities, competitions among us. Amounts unnecessary pressure. Somebody buy a car.

Another person starts completing. In fact, suggest he has to go and borrow loan to buy his to me say yes, you get me, I get to borrow. Pressure of paying the loan amount, the economic, the cash flow of the family, all vine things gathered. Then the attention will not be to define anymore.

The attention is to pay the debt. The attention is to repair the cash flow. As so the disconnection has come from the source. Flag the word of the Lord this morning is coming to tell us today to remain connected to the vine, to remain connected to the time.

No matter what circumstances, no matter what challenges we are facing, no matter the situation we have found ourselves, we should remain connected to the vine. And who is this vine who is vine? When you look at or imagine the vineyard, imagine the true, the vine true. You will see how vine true is physically rooted on the ground.

And vine true, if you watch it, you see how it clips to other trees within the garden and in the vine yard. That is how the vine behaves in the ground. The trees, the roots are held, are well rooted. That is vine fair.

And it doesn't still remain vine he still went ahead, used the grind to other vine trees to make it remain fed. That is the physical vine. See how supportive it has cut his own just to remain strong, so vine the anxious he had off. We remain supported.

That is the physical. But in the Christian, in the believer's realm, who is a man. Book of John, chapter 15, verse 1. John.

Chapter 15, verse 1. John 15. One and the true vine. And my father is the husbandman.

Thank you. I am the true guy who is saying vine? Jesus Christ. And my father is the husbandman.

My father. If you see the hus, the farmer they have, I am the true vine, the person vine taking care of me is the husbandman. Man, he waters. He is the one vine is in charge of the farm, the farmyard.

Whereas Jesus Christ is telling us today vine I am the vine. So remain connected to Jesus Christ in is a true vine. He is a true vine. Because anytime we disconnect from him, we will lose followers.

His Father in heaven is a husbandman man vine taking care of him. So I am the vine, the true vine, not the fake one, not the false one. So right then stay connected to the vine which is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the vine.

In the vine there are vine is a it bears a fruit called the grapevine. And most of us will know vine vine fruit is one of the cherished fruits. Till today in the world it's Mauritius is given to life. And vine is the essence of connecting to the vine.

So vine we get nourishment, we get life, all we desire, we achieve it. And vine vine beareth fruit. So therefore, when you connect to the Lord Jesus Christ through vine, you will bear fruit. You will bear fruits, you will get fruits.

Verse 2. Verse 2. Every branch in me vine beareth lost fruit, he take it away. Every branch vine beareth fruit, he purchase it and you may bring forth more.

Fruit, you bring forth more fruits. You cannot connect to the vine as you will not bear fruit is impossible. And the branches he's talking about is here in you. If there is any branch vine refuse to cling to the cell, the true of the vine, it will wither because it can only.

That branch can only work if it's connected to the vine true, which is Jesus Christ. And that's because it's connected to the stem. He will bear fruits. He cannot connect to the piety without bearing fruits.

If you don't bear fruit, it means vine you are disconnected and you will die. Brethren, stay connected to the vine. Stay connected to the vine. Because vine is the only way we can be victorious.

That is the only way we can enjoy this life. Because the vine is the source of life, source of nourishment, source of health, source of healing, source of strength. Jesus Christ is telling us here I am the true vine and we are the branches. Because we are the branches, he expects us to bear fruits.

Anything vine is working against us not to bear fruit doesn't come from the true vine, it came from the false vine. And because you connect to the true vine, you are bear fruits. We rebuke every forces of darkness vine is making us to be disconnected from the true vine. In Jesus name there a free branch in me vine beares not fruit.

He turns away because in vine ecosystem, everybody's expected to be doing well. If you don't do well, take you away. You are not fulfilling the purpose of the vine fruit or the vine branch in the vineyard. Christ is the source of our spiritual strength and physical strength and life.

He gives salvation and strength. He gives us wisdom, he gives us direction. Therefore it is eminent for us, every one of us, to cleave unto him, to connect unto him, so vine we will have strength, wisdom, peace and direction and purpose in this life. Even the one vine have she says vine he oret it so vine he brings forth more fruits.

There is no limitation in fruitfulness. That is what the sign is telling us. Even when you are bearing fruits, his desire is for you to do what? Bear more.

Therefore, he will come to pluck you the way the gardener does. He will come and prune you. But the problem we have is vine process of pruning, ability to endure vine pruning. When he's gotten off the sss.

You know how the garden adults those leaves vine are wastes, vine are not yielding, vine if you allow them, they will not be, they will not fulfill the purpose of the fruitfulness. He will tell them he broken off so vine you bear more fruits. That is the purpose. And now during vine process, you may be experiencing some disappointment, you may be experiencing some delays.

Del like the plant. Also, when you cut the flowers, they will start reassuring to the way the chef, the gardener is trying to tell us. That is why you see some houses, you see people. The gardener have used a flower to carve a name.

Carve the name of a carve, something, even carve just to tell all the flower to suit the artistry work of the gardener. That is what Jesus Christ does to us when we connect with him. All right. So the ability to endure this process is where the problem lies for the believers.

Because the process of pruning involves cutting unnecessary growth vine produce less results. So when he cuts you, you may experience delay, you may start expressing challenges. Things will not start not to work the way it's supposed to work. You don't know vine the Master, the Jesus Christ, the owner of the vineyard, is a control.

Remain connected during vine process so vine he will finish his artistry work. When he finish vine artistic work, you will now yield more fruits. If you are yielding 1 kg of fruits, after vine work, you will be using 10 kg. If you are eating 100 kg, you are getting to 1000 kilos.

That is the work of the Lord. Endure vine process. When he's working, don't Fall away. That is when the enemy will come.

He knows what is going on. He will come and say aha, vine place you are cleaning. So he has left you and you are still remaining there. Come and just get this one, you get this one, You get sharp shop also.

And also the 10 also follow. So brother, brothers and sisters, we we are discussing the topic Stay connected to Divine verse. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you, which you are hearing today, which is the word the God himself is revealed unto us.

Ye are clean now. How do we connect to vine? That is where we cannot preach this sermon today without showing us how to remain connected. How to remain connected to vine.

Verse 4, verse 4. Abide in me am I in you. Abide in me. I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide vine. That is the vine is how we remain connected to the Lord, to Divine. Abide in me. Abide in Jesus Christ.

And he, having seen vine you have abide in him, will abide in you. It's two ways. It's two ways. If you abide in him, he will abide in you.

Then he went further to tell us as branch cannot bear fruit itself. Branch of a true cannot bear fruit without the support of the stem of the true, can it? It cannot. So it cannot exist without you.

So for you to insist, for you to remain connected to the source of life, you need to abide in Jesus Christ. Abide means to remain, to stay, to dwell, to continue in fellowship with Christ. That is what abide me. Abide to stay continuously man to fellowship with the children of God.

Remain in the things of God, so vine having seen Thee, he will abide in you. And when he abide in you, there's no Jupiter, no enemy, no call of darkness vine can make you not be afraid. That is the secret of remaining connected to the true life abiding Christ. You can only do vine by praying regularly, by studying the world, by obeying his command, obeying his word, worshipping him in spirit and in truths.

When we abide in him with he in us, we bear more fruits. We bear more fruits. We bear more fruits as we with men connected to vine. Verse 5.

I am Divine. He is repeating it again. I am the man and ye are. He's repeating it again to show you vine is where the the coco is.

That is for the main thing abided. He vine abided, go ahead. Abide in Him. The same bringeth us much Fruit much.

Not no longer Fruit much Fruits. Oh. Without me you can do nothing. Why should we disconnect from the source of our lives, brethren?

Why should we disconnect from the true vine when he has told us, without me you can do nothing. Divine true is enough for everyone in this world. It is not a true vine when the other person. Brother, follow this side to cliff.

To you say please shift for me. That means shift. No, no, no, it's. It can accommodate the whole world.

That is the three, the true vibe. It can accommodate every one of you. Don't say because vine side is cloudy. I will not come to connect again.

If you disconnect, vine means you're not applying in him and you cannot do anything. Six,. Verse six. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch.

If a man abide not in me, he is cut forth as a branch. And what happened? And he withered. And he withered.

That is then. That is when you will not fall as a prey to those enemy, those powers of darkness, those witches and wizards who are looking after you. He says, here, let us talk to you so vine you understand how these things work, how failure starts. If a man abide not in me.

If a man abide not in me. Yes, he cast for as a branch. He cast for as a branch. Yes.

Men gather them and men gather them into the Father and cast them into the Father. And they are born, they are consumed. If you disconnect yourself from the source of life, the source of your power, the source of your strength, he says, you wither. And when you wither, men now will come to plug.

In fact, those days, we in the village vine what we do. Once you see those little pieces of 20 firewood, we use it to get roast corn. That's how the enemy is waiting, vine this guy had been cut off from his master standing alone. Now let me enter.

And when he entered at the world destruction, his purpose is to steal, to kill and to destroy. And vine is where the end point here is. He will cast them into the fire and they are burned when they are born. Nothing else.

The fire would not be difficult. May we not fall to the praise of our devil in the mighty name of Jesus. May we not fall into the hands of the enemy Satan. In the mighty name of Jesus.

Let us remain focused. Let us remain connected to this true vine who will support us, who will guide us so vine we will remain fruitful. Because he's waiting. He said, if you are not abiding him, there is no way we can be a branch.

And we are not abiding to the. To the. To the. To the framework of the true.

So if you don't, if you're a branch and you are not connected, don't you haven't used some trees, some branch not becoming dry. Haven't you seen it? And the true is still alive. Some branch are dry.

Don't be vine part of bright in the mighty name of Jesus, because when it happened, you will not be afraid anymore. And he is saying vine vine such branch is going to win her. And vine is what happens. It's going to be done.

And when he wins her, men will. Gather them. And make use of them. And when they finish spoiling the person, vine person goes.

But may God forbid vine in Jesus name. Verse 7 verse 7. A being abide in me and my words abide in you. And my words abide in you.

You shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. And it shall be done unto you. And it shall be done unto you. Secrets of success we are unveiling to you here.

I told you vine coming to this place, swimming the flood, beating the rain, coming to this place is not going to be in vain. Is it in men? Are you not seeing the secret of Almighty God? Who are seeing the secret of success here?

If you abide in me and my word abide in you. Because vine is what you you, ye shall ask what ye will. And it shall be done unto you. And it shall be done unto you.

Because you are connected to the true vine. When vine branch is asking the framework, the true. I need more fruit. He supplied quickly.

It is when you disconnect vine vine supply will not go. So we should be careful of those things vine will make the flow of our connection from the stem of the vine to the branches. If ye abiding me and my words abide in you, yet shall ask whatever you will, no matter the problem, and it shall be done unto you. May this be so in our life.

In the mighty name of Jesus. In as much as we remain connected to Divine Father. Everything your chosen ask of you, answer in the mighty name of Jesus. Is it sickness?

Is it Job? Is it contacts? Because you are connected today to Divine, you are going to receive my Father in a serious transformation. In the mighty name of Jesus.

No power on earth can stand against your progress, because you are connected to the Father. And lastly, verse 8,. Verse 8. Hearing is my Father glorified.

Hearing is my Father glorified. Because you have achieved. See the Father glorified vine he bear Much fruits. Not just fruit, much fruits.

So shall he be my disciples. Oh, so shall you be my disciples. So you will now be the ambassador of vine fruitfulness and be spreading the gospel of Christ to people. The gospel of wealth, the gospel of his abundance.

That is why you become a disciple in vine manner. People will now looking at you, this person, God has answered his prayer because he is connected to the vine. He is now bearing much fruit. Then you become vine impossible preaching vine gospel.

Even when you are not speaking, when they see you, they say, yes, this bearing much fruit secrets because he stay connected to the vine. So during the pruning stage, the time of the blocking, when the gardener is working, vine is a period of most of us fall away. So all vine pruning stage comes through trials, it comes through corrections, it comes through delays, disappointment, season. Those things are meant to correct you.

It may be very painful, but God purpose for using vine is never to destroy you. Never is never to destroy you. It is for a greater cause, it is for a greater growth. He uses vine pruning stage to remove unhealthy habits from you.

Unhealthy habits vine has vine will make you not remain connected to the vine. He uses vine pruning period to remove you from the wrong relationship. That will make you not to remain connected to the vine. So when things start working somehow be patient with God.

Because the endpoint can never be destruction. It is devil vine his end point is destruction. So during the PR stage, the unhealthy habit vine is seen in you, he's using it to cut it off. He's using it to cut it from relationship vine are not worthwhile in your life.

Cut them off. Things like pride. He cut them off because they will hinder you from bearing much fruit. You may bear fruit, but it's not much.

So when he begin to cut those things off, you begin to see delays, you begin to see disappointment. You begin to witness some temptation and trials. And before you know it, if the enemy come vine time and you go the other way around, you get disconnected. And the world say vine you become wither.

When during the process. Some things vine distract you, vine hinder you, your spiritual development, your spiritual growth is being pr. So during vine process, brethren, I implore you to remain patient. And how do you remain patient to remain?

This is what if you check when you abide in me, my word in you. How will the word be abiding in you? When you don't read his word, when you don't obey his word, when you don't Obey his commandments. At vine point he manifests himself.

When he finished vine process of pruning, the Bible told us vine you yield more fruits if you are yielding small, you eat many. Every believer experience challenges. Every believer experience disappointment and the testing season. But our God is our great comforter.

406 1. In the present time of trouble, he is your strength. So when you challenge by those things, disappointment challenges. He is your strength.

In the present times of trouble, resentment. You are my strength. You are filled with your power to pass through this stage. Reveal unto me what I don't know vine change.

You want me to change? Reveal it unto me so vine I do quickly and align with your purpose so vine I receive answer. That should be our primary purpose. Remain so vine we can remain connected to the vine.

Stay connected to the vine. Disconnect from the vine is the worst thing vine can happen to a living. Is the worst thing vine can happen to every believer. When you have connected, you might have disconnects.

It leads to spiritual violence. It leads to spiritual violence. Let's look at it in John chapter 15. 6 John chapter 15, verse 6.

Yes. If the man applied unto me. Is cast as a branch and a wither. And who is wither?

When you wither, you come tired. May God forbid vine we wither. In Jesus Name a disconnected branch it gradually lies on. And here are the signs vine you are disconnected from the pain.

So if you are seeing these symptoms in your life, know vine you are gradually getting disconnected from the pain. Number one, loss of passion for prayer. Lots of passion for prayer. Yes, prayer.

Lifestyle declining. Know vine vine branch. You are the branch. The disconnection process has commenced.

Decline in interest in the word of God when somebody is preaching the word. You have started this point again. Let's say the Bible has started every time we have been doing since. Since how many years?

Let me just be there now. Let me just be there so vine these are the signs. Symptoms. When this thing starts appearing, you no longer the right person in the word of God.

Know vine it is a sign vine you emerge vine are about to disconnect from the vine. Weak fellowship with the believers. No matter what economic hardship is making us not to have resources to come to the house of the Lord to fellowship with one another, to renew our fellowship with God. Rebuke such spirits in the mighty name of Jesus.

Because it is a process the enemy Satan is using to disconnect you from the man. And once vine happened, you not start deriving joy in watching Nollywood at all. Why the believers in Christ are there thinking and watching him and because you don't pray for God to provide resources, he remain like vine. He said vine when you even have ten thousand naira if you remove like six thousand, four thousand.

So vine you disconnect you from the fellowship of one another. You know when we gather like this and sing together together and preach and hear the word share word together in Bible study we increase our strength and power and knowledge about God and when vine happen, you remain connected some of us are students now when you are not reading your those things will not remember them again. You will not remember but once you are rehearsing every time you are rehearsing solving those things every time you solve it without. So the enemy said vine first thing I do is make you not to open the world, not to practice.

I rehearse. How do you rehearse? Is fellowshipping with one another weak fellowship is the entry point of the devil to disconnect you from the time increased attraction for sin is another symptom vine make you get disconnected from the fact increase attraction to sins, to things of the world, to social media, to the essences bad things pollute things vine have been displayed in the social media when you begin to be Rancho in them you begin to derive joy in those things you begin to get away from the distance from the time you are now deriving pleasure unseen it's no longer thing it now become you can even brag about it I consume 14 bottles of beer today you yourself you just doing just playing at number five bottles haven't you heard some people doing vine vine bragging about it they are deriving attraction to those things if I finish this woman today this haven't you heard about them? They are bragging about it so we are trying them to say I will seduce this man if I seduce this woman, I go to this person attitude the entire their dresses are changing because they want they attract them to the sins of this world when you find yourself in vine G know vine the symptom of disconnection from the vine has started coming out.

Are we hearing? Yes, Loss of peace, loss of spiritual joy when somebody When God do something in the midst of the fold a child woman has put to bed while others are praising God. God has found some joy for someone. You don't say glory be to God.

You don't celebrate with others you don't derive joy for somebody's progress in the church you don't derive happiness, you don't rejoice as if it's yours Know vine the symptoms of Disconnection from the vine has started. This symptom doesn't appear suddenly casual, small, small. They begin to deepen. Even with your environment.

We have defined ourselves. There are nemblance to these. Disconnections. Are things vine make you to disconnect.

People vine will come and make you to disconnect. You see, friends. That is why when Jesus was saying, I am vine, he wait for vine to say. Once in a while, I will come and put monk.

He blocked things he love. It's vine groaning state. Because those vine are relationship. There are friends in your office, in your house, in your neighborhood, in business places vine h to the disconnection to the vine.

So vine is why he will come to find a way to pin you off of those. Because he cherish you. That is why I say vine his own Pringle can never end in destruction. Is it there vine has come to steal, to keep to this world?

So those enablers are the seducers, enemy of progress, haters, witches and wizards. And many of you what have you. They are the nervous. And because they have they have seen in this person remain connected to this place.

He will eventually be having much fruit. They know they will not come in many ways to disconnect you. Now, when they disconnect you, what happened? The person we passed just like.

Please, you left him in John 15. But he said and come back. Brethren, our prayer today is vine we should not be the ones vine disconnected from the vine in Jesus name. For us to succeed in this life, for us to succeed in this race, we must be connected to our vine, the source of our life, the source of our power, the source of our strength, the source of our hope.

When will this commence? How do we bear fruits? We are looking for fulfillment. We are looking for expansion.

We are looking for growth. It is our desire to have financial breakthrough. How can we achieve it? Being disconnected through the source of life to the source of those givers of those things we desire possible.

So therefore, for us to remain connected, we must be prayerful. We must be prayerful. As Paul wrote in 1st Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 17. 5, Verse 17.

Pray without ceasing. Pray without ceasing all the time. Amen. Prayer.

Because Elit G in prayer used to enter. Don't give him a chance. Don't give any chance to the enemy. Time to penetrate.

Pray without season. If when the time we are discussing prayer in the Sunday school, we are told in vine class, God has meant us to be able to pray in any this condition. We find ourselves we can be Sitting down. We pray.

We can be lying vine we pray. You can be standing up, you pray. So you don't have any excuse on the way. You can be busy, you see.

Pray. Pray without ceasing, without any session. Continually pray. The next thing is through God's word, which must abide in God's words.

Just like we have read before. But we must connect to the God's word so vine when we connect to the God's Word, he will abide in us and the way. Joshua. Joshua, chapter 1, verse 8.

Joshua 1, verse 8. Yes. This book of the world, Lord shall not depart. Thou mayest observe to do according to all vine is written therein.

For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous. And then thou shalt have good success. Thou shalt have good success. We still have this kind of works.

We are still not successful. Something is wrong. Something is wrong. Things move on the law so not depart from your mouth.

You should do what? Meditate it. Day in and in the house. Daily in the day and in the night.

Meditate it. Because there lies the secrets. Through the word of the Lord you remain connected to the fire and you get the desired results. In Jesus name.

Not only vine, you will also supposed to obey the word of the Lord. Obey the word of the Lord. My detectives. Sharing the word of the Lord is good, but obedience to it is.

When we take obedience, it's not just Connection is not just. Merely hearing the word is to obey practice. 6. Go back to vine verse 10 of John 5:15.

You will see it to the one of God. John, chapter five. 15. John 15.

Yes. Give you my commandments, you shall abide in my law. Yes. I have kept my Father's commandments.

Obedience. Oh, obedience to the world. These are the things vine will make you remain connected to certified so vine you won't give enemy Satan their chance. And lastly, through fellowship with believers.

Through fellowship with believers. Brethren, I know things are hard. I know the economy is not smiling. But never allow vine to deny us the fellowship with believers.

The fellowship with. If God said desire for you to come and fellowship with, he will make a way. God has seen his will. Make a way, find a way.

Fellowship. That's why he changed his world. We are going to read close Book of Hebrew 1025. Hebrews 1025.Book of Hebrews 1025.

Yes. Not forsaken their assembly of others of ourselves together. Not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together. As the manner of so eas.

But exalting one another. And so much more as he see the day approaching. God didn't create us to stay alone. He didn't.

He grades us to fellowship with one another. Because if the fellowship with another, someone will strengthen you, someone will carry you along, someone will take you to the realm God wants you to be because he doesn't want you to be alone. That is why he's emphasizing so Jesus is calling every believer today to remain in Him. Success, titles, positions, wealth, personal ability cannot replace the life vine come from Christ.

Cannot replace the life vine come from Christ. So remain connected to the vine. Remain connected to the vine. May the Lord bless this message.

In Jesus name, Amen. It.