{"id":8344,"date":"2011-07-02T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2011-07-02T08:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T13:58:58","slug":"blogging-gospels-john-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/blogging-gospels-john-14-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Through the Gospels: You can only do good with Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reading for Sunday is John Chapter 15<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here is what I heard:<\/p>\n

Scripture:<\/h2>\n

John 15:4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.<\/p>\n

Observation:<\/h2>\n

Keep me in your life and I will stay with you. I will enable you to do good things. Without me, you are worthless, but with me you can do good things.<\/p>\n

Application:<\/h2>\n

Without Jesus I am worthless. Nothing that I can accomplish without Him is worthwhile. With Him a part of me, I can do good things. Without Him, I cannot.<\/p>\n

And so I must strive to keep my relationship with Him growing by reading His Word, listening to it and talking with Him about it or praying. If I don’t do those things, how can I expect to do any good?<\/p>\n

Prayer:<\/h2>\n

Lord, thank you for living inside of me and allowing me to grow. Please keep me close and allow me to continue to hear you. When I do listen and\u00a0 hear, life is so much better!<\/p>\n

Please help all others who are yearning to hear from you to find a way to commit to reading your Word, whether that be with Bible in 90 Days or any other program.<\/p>\n

Please also help me to resist the temptation to put off my Bible reading for ‘later’ on those days I want to sleep later or those days I am feeling so rushed and overwhelmed. Guide me in remembering this passage and instead make the decision to turn to you first. Without you, I cannot do any good. With you, I am strong and fruitful.<\/p>\n

Thank you , Lord.<\/p>\n

What about you? What did you see and hear in your reading of John 15? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Be sure to record your own <\/em>SOAP observations<\/a> and feel free share your own thoughts or a link to your thoughts, here, too.<\/p>\n

<\/em>Didn’t start reading or Blogging Through\u00a0 the Gospels<\/a> with us? That’s okay, join in anytime. Each Sunday evening I post the reading schedule for the week ahead and each evening I post the next day’s reading assignment and devotional. Feel free to jump in where we are anytime and blog or journal along using the SOAP format<\/a><\/em>. <\/em> Feel free to share your thoughts on Twitter using the #Gospels hashtag, too.<\/em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong>If you would be interested in sharing your own SOAP observations on MomsToolbox as a guest SOAP’er, please send me an email using the contact button on the top right. I’ll be in touch soon to discuss the details.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reading for Sunday is John Chapter 15. Here is what I heard: Scripture: John 15:4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. Observation: Keep me in your life and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[682,82,672],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-blogging-through-the-gospels","tag-john","tag-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}