1.5 WEEKS to go!

Goals - we all have them in some capacity or another.  Our current goal - to be fully funded for Hungary by next week!!!  It's been a year of believing God for the impossible and watching him show up in unexpected ways and never in the same way.  Control - we have none.  Our capacity - low.  God - is able.

In John 15 God reassures us to simply ABIDE.

John 15:5-11 ⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷ If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I 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 full.


7 times in 7 verses.  Yup, it's important.  A few thoughts from Webster to help us understand the word abide.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place.2. (v. i.) To wait; to pause; to delay.
3. (v. i.) To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain.
4. (v. t.) To wait for; to be prepared for; to await; to watch for; as, I abide my time.
5. (v. t.) To endure; to sustain; to submit to.
6. (v. t.) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with.
7. (v. t.) To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for.

So today we will abide (stay, remain, endure, bear patiently and stand with Him).  It might not be what we thought or how we planned but God will come through.  He always does!