5 “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. 6 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. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
To abide or remain in Christ means we must grow in and out of Him, just as a branch does from a grape vine. If we are not getting nutrients from Him we wither, die, and are cast aside to be disposed of. But if we remain in Him then we listen and obey His words to us, and so are fruitful and can expect answers to prayer for those things He wants and not our own. This is how we glorify God in Christ, by remaining in His living and written word and communing with Him.
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