{"id":746,"date":"2025-09-19T00:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T07:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/?p=746"},"modified":"2025-09-16T18:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:25:47","slug":"september-19-ask-seek-knock-pray-that-your-joy-might-be-full-in-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/devotionals\/september-19-ask-seek-knock-pray-that-your-joy-might-be-full-in-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTEMBER 19\u2014ASK-SEEK-KNOCK\u2014Pray That Your Joy Might Be Full in Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThese things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be\u00a0<\/em>full\u201d John<\/i>\u00a015:11<\/p>\n

Jesus was speaking to His disciples in the above verse about who He was\u2026. the True Vine.
\nHe was saying that they needed to abide in Him, just as a branch abides on a vine, for a branch cannot do anything unless the vine supports it and supplies its nourishment.
\nHe was saying if the disciples abided in Him then His joy would remain in them, and their joy would be full.<\/p>\n

So, thinking upon this, we believers who are His disciples should also heed His words.\u00a0 If we want to be fruitful and joyful, we need to abide in Him.\u00a0 For He said in John\u00a015:4 \u201cAbide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Therefore, today let\u2019s pray that our joy might be full in Christ.<\/p>\n

Dear God,
\nToday I am praying that my joy may be full as I abide in Jesus 24\/7.\u00a0 Help me to be a strong branch that bears much fruit for You, God, because I am abiding in the True Vine.
\nYou said, Father God, that You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore<\/em>.\u00a0 Psalm 16:11
\nTherefore, I am praying for that.\u00a0 I want to experience the fullness of joy while I am on Your path in Your presence and know that I will have pleasures forevermore because of Your Son Jesus Christ, who is now seated at Your right hand in heaven interceding for me.\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus said in John\u00a016:24 \u201cUntil now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0So, I am now asking this in Jesus\u2019 name for I want my joy to be full! \u00a0Thank You God.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be\u00a0full\u201d John\u00a015:11 Jesus was speaking to His disciples in the above verse about who He was\u2026. the True Vine. 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