The Word and Prayer - Abiding and Abounding

"Abide in ME and I in you"

This is the clear command of our Lord.It is the last and culminating point of His will as revealed in the four great words:

Come unto ME;

Learn of ME;

Follow ME;

Abide in ME;

It is also expresses the intense desire of every Christian heart."Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that Thine hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! (1Chro 4:10)," Oh that my ways were made so direct that I may keep Thy statutes"(Psa 119:5).

 And Since God never Commands without giving grace to obey and never prompts the heart to desire what it cannot be granted, we may be sure that the command to abide can be obeyed and that the desire to abide will be satisfied.

There is not a single channel of belief, not a single element of experience, not a single pathway of service, not a single privilege, not a single grace, not a single hope, not a single possibility which is not in some way associated with the word and prayer.

When the two are allowed to occupy in our life the place they occupy in God's purpose and plan for us, we learnt the essential conditions, the blessed secret, unspeakable joy of abiding in Christ and abounding for HIM.

extract from Life Abiding and Abounding 
by Griffith Thomas

[bold emphasis mine]