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Daily Devotional - July 15, 2025

 7/15/25

Good morning, Friends, 

John 15:16 -16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

What a wonderful truth! 

Jesus Messiah is communicating to his disciples a truth so profound that even they don't fully understand its gravity. For clarification purposes, Messiah tells them that "they didn't choose Him, but instead, He chose them". The calling of  God happened before the foundation of the world. It wasn't based upon the future, it was born out of the grace of the Father. The students of Jesus Messiah were chosen, appointed, and instructed. 

  • Chosen = picked out
  • Appointed/Ordained = placed, fixed, established
  • Instructed to bear fruit = that which is produced (by the Holy Spirit)

Too often the ego of a person refuses to believe that God can do whatever He wants, in whoever He wants, whenever He wants, in the manner that He wants. News flash, He can and He did and no one can stop it. When the students/followers/disciples of Jesus Messiah were chosen, they had absolutely nothing to do with it. And with the choosing, they were given an instruction, a responsibility, an assignment. He chose them to go and bring forth lasting fruit. He was not interested in "professions" of faith, he wants results. These results are not forced, they are a product of a surrendered and dedicated life to God through Jesus Messiah. A life of loving obedience will be a life a Spirit-producing fruit.

Imagine the honor of being chosen by Jesus! Imagine being placed specifically here for such a time as this! Imagine being chosen and placed here in this time to produce the fruit of the God's Spirit, in essence, being the image bearer of the God through Jesus! 

What a wonderful world it would be 🎺 🎺 🎶 

Maranatha (The Lord is coming)  
Soli Deo Gloria (Glory to God Alone)


- Grace & Peace
Pastor Trent

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