Today I learned something else while soaking in the presence of the Lord.  I saw a vine with branches and remembered what Jesus said, “I am the vine and you are the branches”.  I understood that life, peace and joy flow through Him “the vine”, into me the branches.   I realized that the amount of nutrients that can flow though a vine is small.  Then I saw a large branch and realized that the amount of nutrients that can flow through it is much greater.  I understood that this relates to the anointing.

I also read Ephesians chapter 2 this morning and I related it to this vine picture and it was pretty cool, I could see it much clearer.  The picture shows that the same stuff that flows through Jesus flows through us when we’re abiding in Him.  “The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead now lives in me and quickens my mortal body”.

Then I understood more, the sun represents The Father, Jesus is the vine and the Word (seed), and the Holy Spirit is the rain and the wind.  The soil is our heart, and the seed is the (Word), once the seed takes root we move from death to life in Jesus and become part of His body.  Without the rain of the Holy Spirit we can become dry, every plant needs water.  Some of the body of Christ rejects the rain of the Holy Spirit and becomes weak and dead.

Before all of this I had been thinking about how Jesus was asleep in the boat with the disciples during the storm.  I’ve heard that because of the peace that indwelt Jesus, He could project it onto the circumstance.  But you can’t project what you don’t have.  Then I remembered that He rebuked the storm and it stopped.  I then thought that everything that Jesus did is our example, so when storms come in our lives we can rebuke them.  And as we abide in the Vine we will have all the peace, joy, and love that we need on the inside of us to meet the situation.