Today on the podcast we'll explore what I hope is the fruit of every day's devotional,

communion with God. We serve a God who is simply after being with us. Every moment of every day

is a chance to let God in, to live in real restored relationship with him.

May God guide us ever closer to him as we create room for him to fill right now.

Welcome to the Fursa Teen Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from John 15, 4 through 5. God's word says,

abide in me and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,

unless it abides in the vine,

neither can you unless you abide in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches.

Whoever abides in me and I in him,

he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

The Christian life is meant to be marked by union with God. By the powerful sacrifice of Jesus,

the Holy Spirit now dwells within us, longing to make his nearness known. He longs for his perfect love and

peace to be the foundation of everything we do, think, and feel. Brother Lawrence wrote about a life

lived and continual communion with God in the book The Practice of the Presence of God. He said, I cannot imagine how

religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of God. For my part,

I keep myself retired with him in the depth of the center of my soul as much as I can.

And while I am so with him, I fear nothing,

but the least turning from him is insupportable.

The more we grow in our knowledge of the profound union

that exists between our spirit and the Holy Spirit, the more we will discover

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