The Pruning Process — David Wilkerson

The Vine and Branches: Bearing Fruit Through Abiding

This morning I want to talk about the pruning process. The pruning process. Okay John 15 let's read the first. Well, let's read the first seven or eight verses. I'm the true vine and my father's the husbandman.

Every branch of me that beareth not fruit. He take it away and Every branch that bear fruit he purges it means prunes it that it may bring forth more fruit. You're clean through the word which I've spoken unto you.

Abide in me and I and you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine. No more. Can you accept you abide in me? I'm divine. You're the branches he that abideth in me and I and him the same bringing forth much fruit or without me.

You can do nothing. The man abide not in me. He's cast forth as a branch and is withered. Men gather them cast them in the fire. They're burned. If you abide in me and my words abide in you you shall ask what you will it should be done.

Unto you herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit. So shall you be my disciples? I've been so wrapped up in this chapter For weeks and weeks praying about it. And now we come to this Phase the pruning process.

Heavenly Father. I pray that your word be Right to the point God, I pray that you anoint it. I pray that you come upon me with special unction from on high and Lord changes by what we are Lord. I've been changed by what you've been speaking to my heart and I would like to have everyone who hears this be changed in their Thinking in their lifestyle and everything that we do in our approach to you Lord quicken us to hear the word give us ears to hear what you're saying Lord give us ears to hear in Jesus name.

I pray Amen Jesus said herein is my father glorified that you bear much fruit. He sums up in one sentence our eternal purpose here on earth. We're to glorify and bless God by bearing not only fruit. But more and more and more fruit until Jesus comes until we're taken.

Christlikeness and the Fruit of the Spirit

What does it mean fruit? Bearing fruit simply I believe it means that we're to become more like Jesus. It's it's becoming more and more like Christ entering into the righteousness by faith this Fruit like or Christlike characteristics found glace is 522.

You know, these are the nine fruits of the Spirit of God or the Spirit of Christ. The fruit of the Spirit is love peace joy long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance. That's that's his divine nature.

And that's what he wants us to become. That's the fruit He wants us to bear. In Romans 6 22 James or rather in Romans 6 22 the fruit of righteousness is Sown in peace to them that make peace see fruit is righteousness.

He's looking for Christ likeness in us or his righteousness. But he says not only here in the 15th chapter of John not only we to bear that. We are to give forth that fruit more and more on increase all through our life.

The Christ likeness is to increase we don't come into some static level place when we give our heart to Jesus. There's to be continual growth. There's a continual bearing of fruit richer stronger more plenteous this fruit has to grow and growth Can be stimulated only by pruning.

In fact vine dressers will tell you in fact There's a saying among vine dressers growth follows the knife growth follows the knife. Now pruning is a process where There's a cutting away of parts of the vine or the tree the branches is cutting away to produce this growth.

The dead branches are cut off immediately. They're just one slip the dead ones are cut off. They're gathered and they're burned the scripture says. But this in fact, we. The reason it died is because of a virus or a disease in it and that virus and that disease.

For Israel was unbelief. The Bible says clearly because of unbelief they were cut off. He pruned them right off. They have to come the way do we do now by faith? They have to be grafted back into the original vine but you see the process those who bear fruit.

They are pruned every single year and I'm going to prove that to you. It's an ongoing process pruning By Jesus Christ among his saints is not a one-time affair. No, I wish it was but it's not. Now pruning sounds rather scary doesn't it knife cutting also that a branch when you cut a branch it bleeds the sap bleeds.

For a while. In fact, it has to callous over and it takes time for it to callous over and there is a bleeding there's a there's a we would consider it a painful thing, but it's that's not the concept of true pruning and In fact until the Holy Spirit opened to me the true meaning of the pruning process.

Pruning Is Not Chastening

I Thought pruning was God's way of cutting something evil out of me if something bad happened in my life or Every time my wife got cancer one of my kids got cancer. I thought God must be pruning. He's trying to get it something in me.

He's trying to waken me. There's something he's trying to tell me and I'm not getting it. He's pruning and every bad thing if people lose their job a lot of people have this idea that God is pruning because he's trying To get a sin or a weakness in us.

He's trying to do something but we forget that these are the good branches that have been bearing fruit. These are his favorite branches. He's not chastening pruning has nothing to do with chastening whatsoever.

Nothing and you'll see that as I I go on. You see when a deep-seated lust Erupts in us or something that we thought we had victory over and then we wait for God to Send the knife and cut something precious away from us.

Maybe somebody near us gets cancer. Maybe there's an accident and we say oh boy his pruning knife. You've got it all wrong. That's not it at all. The Lord's teaching and the vine and the branch is so has so intrigued me.

For for almost two months now, I've been doing everything to get a hold of this truth. I went to libraries and I got books on vines. Planting. I've got graphs. I had people who know the internet to go in the internet and get me everything on vines and branches and pruning and grafting.

And I looked at the charts and and and I was I was getting a lot of information. This past week I prayed I said Lord you've got it. You've got to help me bear down on this lead me to a somebody who owns a vineyard.

And I got a call half an hour later from a friend of mine, you know, I was searching it said look there's a I know a Gentleman who has a vine near my house. And I said I'll be there in an hour. I drove out to New Jersey.

This man has a vine. He has his own private Little I guess you'd call it a brewery. He has his own Brand of wine and he has quite a vineyard. He's from the old country and he was a very fine gentleman.

Joseph Just opened up and I got a lesson on the vine and the branches and it opened my eyes and it all began to come together and let me in a nutshell try to Tell you what I learned and you see I used to think what you read Jesus and she sounds so Simple you read Paul.

He's kind of complicated it almost made me sound like Paul was a little more educated than Jesus and and yet When you stop to think Jesus created the vine he knew the process. He created the system the root system.

He created the process of pruning and grafting and everything. So here in just two or three verses. He's talking about a world of incredible truth. If we just dig into it. Now I may not help you, but it's helped me.

It's helping me in a marvelous way. Let me tell you what I've learned. First of all a mature vine consists of a root system and that root system will go down as much as 40 feet and the tips of those are open to almost raw the tips of those roots and they draw the nutrients out of the soil and Out of that root system grows a trunk.

Now they build a trellis. It could be most of them about three four feet high post with two wires one here and one here. That trunk is trained to get to the trellis and when it gets to the trellis They tie it and it separates it goes out into two arms this way and most vines have two arms this way and Others have to some two to four arms that stretch up now that consists of the vine.

The root system the trunk and the arms that are tied to these wires of these trellises. Now that is the mind. Jesus said I am the true vine. Those nutrients then flow from The soil through these roots into the trunk and then out into the arms that is the branch.

Now God is the husbandman. He's the vine dresser. This gentleman that I said, do you know what God calls you? He said well, I'm a vine dresser. Bible calls you a husbandman. It's a good. That sounds good.

Christ the True Vine and the Husbandman

Jesus our God is the husband. He's the vine dresser. His arms represent a glorified Christ who's now seated the right hand of the father. Prepared and ready to pour out his nutrients and his resources to everyone who is planted in the vine.

Hallelujah, he has every resource we need to produce fruit. He was planted according to Isaiah in dry ground as a tender plant. He shall grow up before him as a tender plant as a root out of dry ground.

Israel was that dry ground. He came to these people they had rejected him. But the husband and watched over that vine and he watered it he cared for it and he trained it these these Vines have to be trained.

You have to cut the shoots off when they shoot to come up. There are shoots that will grow up and turn around and try to make their own roots. That's flesh and it has to be cut off. Because those shoots will just turn right around instead of shooting up.

We'll shoot in the ground and try to grab those nutrients and try to be a little Jesus. So those are cut off. Isaiah said there's no form of comeliness. There's no beauty to him. Have you ever seen a Vine when before the fruit comes have you ever seen it is the ugliest thing you ever saw a gnarled branch and these gnarled Arms with nothing on them, but you see when those buds are when those arms reach out.

They're just look like they're dead branches. Are dead they call leaders. But those leaders come spring have little buds that break out on them and those buds grow. Into branches and off those branches you see the vine itself doesn't bear the fruit.

You will not find any hanging on the arms. You will find it hanging from the branches that come out. These buds break out and they're called shoots and they shoot out because they are carrying they're getting the nutrients because inside the trunk and inside those arms are capillaries or little tube like veins that bring the nutrients out of the ground and feed.

The buds that become shoots or branches. That's you and me. We we how do you think we become a bud a little child in Jesus by simple faith in Christ? Jesus we are grafted into the vine and There's a bud that springs out of that and because there's life coming out of Jesus the nutrients of Christ.

Everything we need he's all-in-all the scripture says all we need for life and holiness all of the attributes all of the of the very nature of Jesus Christ becomes the power of God in us to produce fruit and these little Buds have cells that develop and out of those cells.

The clusters of grapes and by the way, I learned that God those nutrients produce an antifreeze in Them so that it resists the freezing temperatures. You think when the devil comes in with his cold winds you better have Holy Ghost antifreeze in you and.

And it keeps it and the Bible says if if the nutrient or rather the vine dresser said if those those Nutrients are not being drawn. It turns to water and they freeze and die. You see the importance of staying in the power of the Holy Ghost because the Holy Ghost is antifreeze.

The Two-Way Flow of Life in Christ

Mm-hmm. Are you ready for some more? Okay now those capillaries of those Veins that are bringing life out of the ground. It's only half the story. And I got so blessed when when I I read this in one of the books that I was studying about the vine and the branches.

Because you see It's a two-way street. Not only are there tubes and capillaries coming up. But when the clusters are formed and when the grapes and the leaves are on the branch and the fruit is coming forth.

There are sugars that are produced in the grapes and in the leaves. That go through other capillaries down and feed the roots. Where's the root? Who's the root? Jesus is the root now. It's a wonderful thing to draw Reese's resources from the Lord.

It's a wonderful thing to see to know that we're growing in Christ. Becoming Christ-like you should be more Christ-like this year than you were last year and you can see that. Sometimes where last year you used to lose your temper and now you you start it.

So you pull back because there's some nutrients coming forth and you are drawing on his strength. And it's a wonderful thing to say Jesus is everything I need and you draw on his power. It's another thing to feed Christ another thing to know that you produce compounds and sugars.

In fact one mind dresser said it's a slew of compounds a slew of sugars flowing back to the roots giving nutrients and Blessing the roots. Now you say that sounds like It doesn't fit my theology, but you see it.

In fact, the the technical term is migration of nutrients. They migrate back and forth. But a beautiful picture of life in Christ. Vine life consists of more than just drawing the resources of Christ.

Do you know that our prayers are incense to him? David said that my prayer be set forth before him as incense. Remember Jesus gave the parable of a master coming from the field and He doesn't say to them to the servant sit down and eat and I'll feed you.

You know what? He said he said no make ready wherewith I may suck first. Gird yourself serve me till I have eaten and drunken and afterward you so eat and drink. You see said you're going to feed me first.

You are you are going to pour something of your life into me. I'm going to sit down I'm going to eat and I'm going to drink and then you're going to eat and drink. That's the migration of nutrients. When the Lord grafted me into Christ the night in the bite, he knew that I would have life.

He knew that. If I would just lean on Christ and abide in him that I would grow I would bear fruit. It's a natural process. It's it's a part of the design that he himself created. But he also took for granted.

That while I'm drawing nutrients from Christ and I've drawn resources from him I Would at the same time? Be feeding Jesus. I would be sending back to the roots that which blesses and enhances the root.

Something that flows out of us when we praise and worship him. It's called fruit. Yes, but this is sugar of another world that we'll never understand. It's how Jesus is himself drawing from his people.

Something that glorifies and blesses and honors him as a song of Solomon 712 says. The bride it's calling to her beloved. That's Christ. Let us get up early and go to the vineyard and let's see if the vine is flourishing.

Let's see if the tender grapes have appeared and the pomegranates are budding for I will give thee there my love. And our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits new and old which I've laid up for you.

And you know what the bride that the spouse is saying to Jesus Christ the Lord. Yes, Jesus my beloved. I am flourishing in your vineyard. Yes. I'm drawing on your strength. I am bearing fruit by your grace.

You've given me life abundant. But now come and see what I've got for you. Come into the vineyard and see what I have prepared for you. Christ speaking to his bride in turn. You know in song of Solomon 5 4 10.

Song of Solomon 4 10. How fair is thy love my sister my spouse? How much better is thy love than wine that you see grape produce wine, but he's saying yes. It's wonderful. I want you to bear fruit. I want you to be Christlike.

I want you to be just like me and I want your nature that flows out of the roots to be in you. I want you to be a testimony to a lost world how I can save and keep from iniquity in the powers of the Hell and darkness.

I want you to be all of that. But more than all of that. Be my love. That's your eternal purpose here on earth but in the process and telling you your Love for me. It's better than the wine of the fruit.

I saw something the song of Solomon. It just melted my heart. It just broke me down. Song of Solomon 4 10 also He Jesus turns to his bride and he says the very smell aroma of your garments. He he said He was blessed the smell of your garments.

Aroma like Lebanon in the Greek. It's the fresh nose of Lebanon. Something fresh something life-giving invigorating. He said just the smell of your garments the aroma and what he's saying. There are people coming and going people to hustling all the world.

But but I know when you're drawn near to me because there's a room about you. There's something about you that I recognize and everybody can be around you by the thousands. But I know you're coming to me.

I can smell it. There's an aroma. You know that the body every one of us give out some people call it an odor it's a it it everybody has a different frankly, just the smell an aroma I can tell if. If I go to a closet and my wife puts some of her clothes and mixes them.

I can smell those and I can pick out Gwen's Dresses. I can pick out her clothes by the aroma. I know the perfume she wears and I can pick it out. I know when Gwen's coming in the room. And you know, he's talking about Our thoughts toward him to the day you shall I pray two hours.

You can pray two hours and be less of a Roma than those who all through the day. Their thoughts are going out to him and it's sending out an aroma and he said I know you're reaching out to me on the Subway wherever you are.

You're reaching out to me. There's an aroma and he said that's fair to me. That's better to me than all the wine or that just knows in my heart. He knows every time I think about him. He knows it in the middle of the day when rough thoughts are rushing and I'm busy and I just stop and say oh I love you Jesus.

I can't wait to get alone with you Jesus and he feels that he's he has that aroma you have the aroma of Jesus. What are you feeding him? I learned also that every fruit-bearing branch is pruned every year.

I Learned that grapes can grow on a branch only one year. The fruit is produced only one year now. This is something else. And John 15 to every branch that bear fruit he put every branch every breath.

They're not a believer anywhere on the face of this earth that didn't be improved. Don't want you this not talk about what you but there are seasons that we go through. Of pruning the branch can produce fruit for only one year every fruit-bearing shoot.

Or branch comes under the knife every single year of its life now. This gentleman told me that these vines could grow a hundred years or more something can go 200 years. These vines can grow. But every branch bears fruit only one year and then it has to be pruned.

And cut off to the fruit-bearing season in the winter time. The husband men or the vineyard the wine dresser approaches the vine with his pruning knife, and he cuts the branch. This long branch that last summer was bearing all of this fruit these wonderful clusters of grape.

And then they were hanging luscious, and it was green it was beautiful now. It's winter time and it's dormant, and he comes with his knife and that which last year bore fruit. He cuts it all the way back to four or five inches from the vine.

With the only thing left is one or two buds. Vine is still connected to Jesus. But everything out there that last year bore fruit is cut away. It's gone, and it is burnt and if you go to the vineyard when they are pruning.

And you were there last year you saw all of those branches were bearing fruit, and here's a man chopping away. And then said an onlooker doesn't know what's going on. We'll say what a terrible thing. He's destroying.

He's ruining his vineyard. Listen branches to bear every year for a hundred two hundred years the same branch. But he didn't do it. And I'll tell you why he didn't do it to teach us some lessons. Bible says there's a scripture in 1st Corinthians.

It says that. It says muzzle not the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn and then Paul says is he just talking about oxen. Is he's given us a lesson about oxen. No he said it said all together for our sakes.

Don't muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Then Paul goes into the spiritual significance of it and same as this our God who created. There there are ever-bearing trees in the same branches stay on and bear and bear and bear.

But God did this he designed it this way because he teaches us spiritual lessons to everything in nature everything. If we just take the time to investigate it. Dig it out and find it you see after one year.

It's called old wood. That's the technical term. It's old wood, and you have to have what is called rod renewal. You know what the rod renewal is it's that little stump. That's left. It's that little bud.

I was walking through the vineyard this past week, and he said here. Let me show you. This is the ugliest thing you've ever seen these gnarled things and their little stop sticking out of the vine and I said where's the brass reason looking underneath and I put that thing looks dead.

He said wait till spring. Wait till spring and in the spring that little bud is going to bear. It's the same branch but out of that branch comes a renewal rod a new branch comes out and What the father says here's this little rod because you see we are those rods.

We have those branches, and we have a will and we can think. So this little stub sitting there said Oh God. What are you doing to me? I? Was making such progress. I was learning the Word of God. I was he keeping the word now I don't think I know anything look at me.

There's nothing left. I feel useless. I feel helpless. What are you doing to me? I'm in a dry spell. It said wait a minute if you thought you bore fruit last year if you thought you were Christ like last year.

You just wait till next year. I've got plans for you. You don't know there's going to be a freshness and a newness I've seen I've seen those who don't yield to the Pruning of the Lord. They want to continue with the old wood.

But you see if he doesn't prune that off. It keeps stretching further and further out the trellis further and further away from the nutrients and if it's left It's not cut off and if there's not a new branch if there's not a new touch if there's not a new fresh touch from The Lord it goes out until finally the growth the grapes become sour they become tiny and finally it dies.

It has to be new wood new rod. Folks I have seen pastors and Christians Who have not? Submitted to the pruning of the Lord. And I've seen what happens. I've seen them go their own way, and they get burned out.

They wind up after years sitting in front of a television set and they own all they have are memories of the time that they Were fruitful they can tell you how God used them. They'll talk about the times of intercession.

They'll talk about how they prayed how they loved the Word of God, and how they were new day by day by faith. Folks I meet him everywhere I go. I Meet these these dead vine branches been renewed. They have not been cut back to the source of nutrients and God will do everything in his power.

To get you back to your first love it is the 25th chapter. Don't turn to the third and fourth verse says six years Thou shall sow thy fields and six years thou shall prune your vineyard the seventh year of rest.

You shall not sow nor prune the vineyard. The seventh year of course is is. When when we go to be with the Lord, that's the great Sabbath. There'll be no pruning then but he said for six years you're going to prune your vines.

The seventh year you rest and the Hebrew word there is omar and It's it comes from root word means to prune with rejoicing and singing and dancing. And I said boy that doesn't fit my theology at all. Here's a picture of a vine dress.

And he's got a knife, and he's lopping away out the vine and he's dancing and he's singing he's rejoicing. How can he rejoice when he's cutting me? He's laughing and he's singing he's rejoicing. And he's dancing.

Mm-hmm if we don't understand the process. We don't understand that this is a loving thing that he does it's one of the most loving things that he can does that it Causes the heart of God to rejoice so much because he knows the potential he knows what's coming when we yield to him.

But why is he rejoicing and while he's pruning? He knows the law of the vine of the branch. God so created divine system that it must be renewed every year. He knows it comes spring that but is going to grow into a shoot into a rod.

That bears better fruit. It's going to be more disease resistant. It's going to be stronger than it's ever been and Every time it goes out Bears fruit, and he prunes it every time he prunes it it gets stronger.

It bears better fruit sweeter fruit. Could you get the spiritual application? That you can't live on last year's experience. You can't live last year's tapes that you heard. There's got to be a fresh living word.

You have to have something for yourself. There has to be life flowing. You have to be renewed. Nature of the spiritual life in Christ demands Constant renewal and God will do all kinds of surgery needed to cut us back close to Christ close to the flow of life otherwise.

If we were left to ourselves we would literally die now before I share with you. What is pruned off what is cut off? There's something we've got to see first of all let me talk about. Let me go right into it.

Pruning Away Self-Righteousness

What is pruned. I've got to get to the point. What is pruned? What is God cutting? What's he removing with this pruning knife? Now keep in mind before going any further that he loves this branch. He loves these branches because he admired that he boasted in front of the devil and all of hell.

Look just they did with Job. Look at my servant plucked that fruit. He lived on that fruit. It was a blessing it went out to the whole world and he admired that so you know it's a loving process that he's Undertaking now the whole pruning process an act of love and rejoicing on his part.

Now remember this fruit is produced in our flesh our flesh. We're really the branches our flesh our human bodies our physical bodies and that fruit is the righteousness of Christ by faith alone he's trying to produce in us a righteousness not of our own making our own doing.

And Pruning has to do with cutting away every thought. Every human effort to produce a righteousness of our own. Every thought every act. Everything we do to try to merit the goodness and the grace of God.

That is what he is after his pruning knife is after that so that we are free. To draw the nutrients that produce the true righteousness, which is by faith alone. Now you think of Peter for example. Here's a man who's mightily used of the Lord.

Here's a man who loves the word. He loves his Savior, and he's full of zeal and ambition. Then he tells the Lord though all this was sick. I'll never let you down Jesus. And you know the thing and Paul or Peter must have been absolutely horrified.

Here's a man who thought he could face anything. He was the original can-do man. I can do it. I've got the word. I've been growing. I've been taught by the master himself and this man is self-assured and he he has a righteousness that he's achieved by his zeal and he can't believe it when he stands there before the master and He's asked if he's one of them.

And he can't understand the cursing that comes out of his mouth as if to say where did that come from? He had to be horrified when he heard those curses come up and then those awful words. I don't even know the man.

How shocked he must have been. I Thought I was further along than that. I thought I was a righteous man. You see Peter then walking over the hills weeping and calling on his face. What kind of a man am I washed up?

It's all over. I thought I had a future with Jesus now. I'm undone. Where did it come from? This man was being pruned of all of his self-righteousness. Now he's in a position where he can say Without Jesus Christ, I can do nothing.

That's what John Jesus says here in John without me You can do nothing. You can't grow righteousness. You can't have no fruit without my power without the Holy Ghost. You can't do it. You see Peter now just the stub of a man nothing left but a bud of potential and Out of that sprang the mighty man that stood on the day of Pentecost.

You talk about a fruit-bearing man out of that stub of a man that lay repentant looked at himself. I'm undone and went back to fishing. That's the man that was renewed and that renewal rod stirred the whole world.

Hallelujah, glory to God. Now the Bible says we're pruned that we may bear more fruit. Now that doesn't mean more ministry more busyness. Greater activities more evangelism. More works more Bible reading.

Let's know what it's all about more fruit. Now listen to me closely. You won't understand this unless you listen very close that's the Holy Spirit to open your ears if fruit is the righteousness of Christ By faith alone and not by works then more fruits.

He said you're pruned so that you can bear more fruit. More fruit is a greater revelation Of the righteousness of Christ by faith. It's an ever-increasing Revelation. More fruit is I'm going to show this to you.

And if you'll get it, it'll bless your soul and you'll you'll shop when you walk out of here this morning. I've been shouting ever since the Holy Ghost been speaking it to my heart. You see it's a greater stronger commitment to yielding to this truth and becoming righteous and Christlike.

Not by my works not by my sweat not by the good things I do but by faith in covenant promises that he's given to us. I'm bearing fruit when I'm trusting his word. That promises me That I am made righteous.

Not by anything that I can do of my flesh. When you come to Jesus you have nothing to offer him. You have nothing of goodness nothing of merit until This becomes a bedrock belief until You become unshakable immovable in this truth.

Abiding in Christ’s Covenant Promises

I want to talk about abiding. He said he that abided in me. And I and him the same bring it forth much fruit for without me you can do nothing. Now that word abiding is not Complicated it means to make camp.

To search and search for a place until you find it and when you find it you said I'm going to settle here. This is my home. I'm not going to move from here. No devil. No demon. No man can move me. I found what I'm looking for all my life.

And folks that is a revelation just in pleasing before God and at once and for all wipes out. Every human effort to be righteous or holy come to a settled place the truth. Immovable unshakable and nothing will move me from it.

I am righteous before God through Jesus by faith in his finished work of the cross and nothing else nothing nothing. For years I set that place life freeing truth. Now search for years trying to be like Jesus.

Struggling and striving to be holy making promises weeping rivers of tears. I've got the woods and throw myself on the ground and say God. I don't know how or why I did that. I thought I was over it making him promises and couldn't have fulfilled them.

Standing before multitudes all over the world screaming at people and I did it earnestly because it came from a cry of my own heart. Resist the devil free from him be holy as I am holy and I would thunder.

Resist the devil fight your sin turn from it and Then go home and cry at night because I didn't have the ability of your knowledge. I'm not from my camping place. I'm not from my abiding place and then I have to look at my own failures and eruptions of youthful flesh.

Because I didn't have the solid that camping place. I didn't have that abiding place in Jesus Covenant. I found precious promises whereby I made a partaker of the nutrients of the vine promises that I don't have to try to work up the fear of God because he made an oath a sworn oath a new covenant to Me a promise that I by the Holy Ghost will plant my fear in your heart.