John 15:14-17
14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 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. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
We are Christ's friends when we obey, especially the commands to love each other. We serve, but are more than mere servants in Christ; we have been chosen, not choosing Christ ourselves, to be fruitful in a way that lasts. So in Him we ask for what is fruitful and God-honoring to receive those things for Him.
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