VOT: June 19, 2024 Stay attached to Jesus, the Vine “Jesus, the True Vine” When you stay rooted and grounded, divinely connected to the true vine, you will surely be fruitful. You shall continually bear good fruit flourishing while your enemies are programmed for perishing. David and Goliath are good examples as well as Elijah and the Prophets of Baal. This is why it is wise to stand on the Lord’s side and not sit on the fence. Complacency is a sign of carelessness or spiritual laxity. The benefits of staying on God’s side are way much more than sitting on the fence or wallowing in sin or the valley of indecision. Elijah got to a point in his life when he had to take a stand openly to stay in the Lord’s side. He was not moved by numbers or the crowd. Nugget 1. One with God is a majority and will conquer any force or forces of opposition 2. Gods is always ready to contend with our contenders when we partner with Him wholeheartedly, not partially. 3. Although God is unchangeable, yet He changes times and seasons in our favour, ensuring that we continue to flourish ““I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, 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, 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, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.” ‭‭John‬ ‭15:1-8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” John 15:16 NkJv “The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; They shall be fresh and flourishing, To declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.” Psalms‬ ‭92:12-15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬. “Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”” I Kings‬ ‭18:22, 39‬ ‭NKJV‬‬.