ABIDE!!!
Psalm fifteen asks, and answers the question: “O LORD Yahweh, who may abide in Thy tent? Who may dwell on Thy holy hill?” (NAS)
Jesus talks to us about the life and death importance and necessity of our abiding IN HIM! John 15:4 “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. 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. 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. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. 9 Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 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. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.” (NAS)
LIVE THROUGH US!
by john roy bohlen & John 5:30
To have You live through us, Oh what delight!
To shine with Your Glory, Oh what a sight!
To move in Your power, channels of Your might!
Everyone who is willing, You lovingly invite.
To have You bless through our hands, You walk through our feet.
To have You speak through our lips to all that we meet.
Residing in You, our life is complete.
Abiding in You, nothing could be more sweet.
Enjoying Your greatness, in all that we do.
Enjoying Your sweetness, all our lives through.
Our home is Your Presence, this is so true.
Not a stitch of the old life, every thing new.
The Throne-Room perspective - Wow! What a view!
Whew! More fun than the zoo!
All who are willing, to Your bosom drew.
God’s arms are out stretched, there’s room for you, too.
(See the poem “Secret Poem”)
Here are some additional Scriptures:
I Jn 2:23 “Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.” (NAS)
I Jn 2:27 “And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him. 28 And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.” (NAS)
I Jn 4:12 “No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.” (NAS)
II Jn 1:9 “Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.” (NAS)
Ps 125:1 “Those who trust in Yahweh (the Lord) are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Yahweh (the Lord) surrounds His people from this time forth and forever.” (NAS)
John 14:16 “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you.” (NAS)
John 14:23 “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.” (NAS)
I Jn 3:5 “And you know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.” (NAS)
I Jn 3:22 “Whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment, that we believe in the Name of His Son, Jesus Yah'shua Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. 24 And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And we know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit Whom He has given us.” (NAS)
Deut 33:12 "May the beloved of Yahweh dwell in security by Him, Who shields him all the day, and he dwells between His shoulders." (NAS)
Ps 16:1 “Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in Thee. 2 I said to Yahweh, ‘Thou art my Lord; I have no good besides Thee.’ ” Then, in verse 8 “I have set Yahweh continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” And, in verse 11 “Thou wilt make known to me the path of life; in Thy presence is fullness of joy; in Thy right hand there are pleasures forever.” (NAS) Do you want more pleasure? Would you like to have more joy? This is where you find it!
Ps 27:4 “One thing I have asked from Yahweh, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh, all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to meditate in His temple. 5 For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.” (NAS)
Ps 61:3 “For Thou hast been a Refuge for me, a Tower of strength against the enemy. 4 Let me dwell in Thy Tent forever; let me take refuge in the shelter of Thy wings. Selah.” = [Think thoughtfully about this!] (NAS)
Ps 140:13 “Surely the righteous will give thanks to Thy Name; the upright will dwell in Thy Presence.” (NAS)
Isa 57:15 “For thus says the High and Exalted One Who lives forever, Whose Name is Holy, ‘I dwell on a high and holy place, and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit in order to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.” (NAS)
Eph 3:16 “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God [that is, may have the richest measure of the Divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself] - (AMP). 20 Now to Him Who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the Power that works within us, 21 to Him be the glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” (NAS) Can you imagine meeting someone who is fillllled with alllll the fullllness of God?!!! This can be YOU! NOW!!!