Listen to Part 4 of 40 Days of Abundance, a series in John 15.
God didn't want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.
After seeing God act in your life through discipline and pruning, you might think that you are now ready for the perfect program, perhaps a sophisticated New Testament strategy for multiplying growth in yourself and others. After all, if fruit equals good works, then surely "much fruit" must equal many more works, activities, programs, and ministries.
But as we come to the third secret to abundance, Jesus turned the disciples' attention away from activity altogether. I imagine Jesus tracing the gnarled curve of an ancient vine, His fingertips pausing where the massive trunk divides into a branch. And then He said,
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. (v.4)