Hey, this is Beth.

Hey, this is Beth.

Listen, what we live for at Living Proof

is to serve people the Word of God. We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the

word is alive and active. We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today

and that God is going to speak through it. Thank you so much

for giving us this privilege.

I want to remind you of the context of our lesson.

As we go back to John 15, this is going to be a part two of some emphasis on prayer.

I want to remind you of a place that we started last time in our lesson together. I made a confession of an insecure mainline

conservative evangelical and this was it. It's supposed to be working.

We are supposed to be experiencing a lot. I mean a vast amount of answered prayer.

That should not be the is supposed to be. So when we are seeing very little answered prayer, there is something

disfunctioning someplace. And that's what you and I are trying to work out because this was not just meant for the teachers, the

preachers, and the Sunday school leaders.

This is meant for every single person in Christ.

And we want to be able to take this apart and see what the conditions are to a very profound

promise.

I want to pick up John 15 verse 5. am the vine you are the branches if a man

remains in me and I in him he will bear much fruit apart from me you can do nothing

now I want you to picture something with me

this morning because it's not like us hanging on. If you picture almost the hand

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