Study Focus
The Foundation of the Walk
A 10-day foundation for discovering how the Father's life became visible in Yahusha—and how that same foundation becomes the beginning of walking as He walked.
Study Focus
A 10-day foundation for discovering how the Father's life became visible in Yahusha—and how that same foundation becomes the beginning of walking as He walked.
Daily Pattern
Primary Scripture: Yahuhanan 14:11-31, 15:1–17.
Daily posture:
Learning to remain in Yahuah until His Word forms not only what I do but what I desire—so that even my asking proceeds from the Source.
Yahusha did not live from Himself. His words, His works, His obedience, and His desires flowed from His relationship with the Father. He spoke what He received, did what He was commanded, and sought the esteem of the One who sent Him. His life reveals what it means to live from the Source.
Before Yahusha tells His followers to remain in Him, He begins revealing what remaining will produce. He connects love with guarding His commandments, asking in His Name with the esteem of the Father, and the coming of the Spirit of Truth with continuing in what He has spoken. Then He gives the picture: the Vine and the branches.
A branch does not create what it produces. What appears in the branch originates from the life flowing through the Vine.
This changes how we understand Yahusha's words concerning asking. Remaining does not merely change how I ask Yahuah. It changes the source of my asking. His Word remains in me until what I desire begins to agree with what He desires.
Therefore, “whatever you want” is not an invitation to make Yahuah serve human desire. It comes after “remain in Me, and My Word remains in you.” The remaining has begun forming the wanting.
This is the pattern Yahusha Himself walked.
He did not bring an independent will to the Father and ask the Father to bless it. He remained in complete agreement with His Source until the Father's Word, will, and purpose were expressed through His life.
Day 6 asks us to see that remaining is not passive closeness. It is the continual receiving of life from the Source until His life becomes visible through ours.
Journey Preparation
These questions are designed to help you seek a deeper understanding of the passage before you begin. Read them carefully, then allow the Scriptures to reveal the functional context of what you are about to learn.
As Yahusha prepares His disciples for His departure, notice how directly He speaks about His relationship with the Father. What does He say about seeing Him, knowing Him, hearing His words, and witnessing His works—and what do those statements reveal about who is actually being made visible through the Son?
Carry into the text: When Yahusha speaks of the Father, is He describing distance from the Source—or revealing the Source through His function as the Son?
Watch the language Yahusha uses: “not from Myself,” “the Father speaking through Me,” “I am in the Father,” “the Father is in Me,” and “I do exactly what the Father commanded Me.”
If Yahusha is revealing Aluah while simultaneously receiving, speaking, obeying, and being sent as the Son, what does this teach us about the function He took on in flesh?
Carry into the text: How can His submission reveal rather than diminish who He is?
Yahusha lived from the Father as His Source. Then, before leaving, He tells His disciples to remain in Him as branches remain in a vine.
What happens when the same pattern Yahusha has demonstrated—receiving, speaking, obeying, loving, and desiring from the Source—is now required of those who follow Him?
Carry into the text:
Could remaining be how His life becomes the source from which our own words, obedience, desires, and even our asking begin to flow?
And THAT third question sets them up perfectly for the shock of “ask whatever you want.” Because we don't explain it to them before they read it. We make them notice:
Wait. Who is doing the wanting now?
If His Word is remaining in me, if I am guarding His commandments, if His love is forming me, if I'm a branch receiving life from the Vine...
Where did this “want” originate?
Read
Read the passage slowly. Let the Word establish the foundation before you move into reflection.
Truth Scriptures
Yahuhanan 14: 11- 31 , 15: 1- 17
11 Trust Me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, or at least believe in the miraculous works you have seen Me do.
12 I assure you that everyone who believes in Me shall also do the works that I have done. As a matter of fact, they shall do even greater works than these because I am going back to the Father.
13 And whatever you shall ask in My Name, I will do it. This shall bring esteem to the Father through the Son.
14 When you ask Me for anything in My Name, I will do it.
15 Now, if you love Me, you will guard My Commandments.
16 Then, I shall ask the Father, and He will send you another Comforter, and He will be with you forever.
17 This is the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive, because the world neither sees Him nor knows Him. However, you know Him because He lives with you, and will be in you.
18 I will not leave you as orphans. I shall come back to you.
19 Soon, the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me, and because I live, you will also live.
20 On that day, you shall know that I am in My Father. You will also know that you are in Me, and that I am in you.
21 Whoever has My Commandments, and guards them, loves Me. Whoever loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love them and reveal Myself to them.
22 Then the other Yahudah, not Yahudah Aiysh Qariyut, asked Yahusha, “Master, why at that time will You reveal Yourself to us, and not to the world?”
23 Yahusha replied, “Whoever loves Me will keep My Word. My Father will love them, and We will come to them and make Our home with them.
24 Whoever does not love Me, will not keep My Word. The Word that you hear is not My Word. It is the Word of the Father who sent Me.
25 I have said these things to you while I am with you.
26 However, the Comforter, who is the Set-Apart Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you everything, and shall remind you of everything I have said to you.
27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid.
28 You have heard Me say, ‘I am going away and returning to you.’ If you truly loved Me, you would be happy that I am going to the Father because the Father is greater than I am on this earth.
29 I have told you all these things before they happen, so that when it happens, you will believe.
30 I shall not speak much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. However, he has no power over Me.
31 Rather, he comes, so that the world will know that I love the Father, and I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me to do. Now, let’s get up. We are leaving this place.”
Yahuhanan 15:1–17
1 “Ahyah Ashar Ahyah!” meaning, ‘I AM THAT I AM, the Living Aluah,’ the True Vine, and My Father is the Gardener.
2 He removes every branch in Me that does not produce fruit, and He prunes any branch in Me that produces fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit.
3 You are already clean because of the Word that I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. A branch cannot produce fruit by itself; it must remain in the Vine. Likewise, you cannot produce fruit unless you remain in Me.
5 I am the Vine, and you are the branches. Whoever remains in Me, and I in them, they shall produce much fruit. Without Me, you can do nothing.
6 If you do not remain in Me, you will be like a branch that is thrown out and dries up. Those branches are gathered up, then thrown into the fire and burned.
7 If you remain in Me and My Word remains in you, then whatever you want will be done for you.
8 When you produce much fruit, My Father is esteemed. This proves that you are My disciples.
9 As the Father has loved Me, I have loved you, so remain in My love.
10 If you keep My Commandments, you shall remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s Commandments, and remain in His love.
11 I have said these things so that My joy will be in you, and your joy will be complete.
12 This is a Commandment that I am giving you: Love each other just as I have loved you.
13 And there is no greater love that a person can have, than laying down their life for a friend.
14 You are My friends, if you do what I command you to do.
15 I no longer call you servants because servants do not know what their Master is doing. I call you My friends because everything that I have heard from My Father, I have made known to you.
16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and you accepted Me. Therefore, I am appointing you to go out and produce fruit: the kind of fruit that will last. Then My Father shall give you whatever you ask for in My Name.
17 So, I command you to love one another.
Reflection
Before Yahusha declares, “I am the True Vine,” He has already shown His disciples what a life lived from its Source looks like.
He tells them that the words He speaks are not from Himself—the Father dwelling in Him is doing the works. He connects love with guarding His commandments. He tells them that the Word they hear is not His own, but the Father's who sent Him. And as He prepares to leave, He makes the pattern of His own life unmistakably clear:
“I love the Father, and I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me to do.”
Then comes the Vine.
The Vine is not a disconnected illustration about spiritual closeness. It gives form to everything Yahusha has just revealed.
A branch has no independent source of life. It receives. What eventually becomes visible as fruit began invisibly as life flowing from its source.
This is how Yahusha walked.
His submission to the Father did not reveal an absence of authority; it revealed the order through which Aluah had chosen to make Himself known in flesh. Yahusha did not originate independently from the function He had taken as the Son. He received, spoke, worked, loved, and obeyed from the Father—and then called His disciples into that same pattern of dependence by telling them:
“Remain in Me.”
Remaining, therefore, is more than staying close enough to produce good behavior. Remaining changes what originates from us.
This becomes especially clear when Yahusha connects remaining with asking. He does not simply say, “Whatever you want will be done for you.” He first establishes:
“If you remain in Me and My Word remains in you…”
The order matters.
His Word remains before the desire is expressed.
Remaining does not merely change how I ask Yahuah. It changes the source of my asking. His Word remains in me until what I desire begins to agree with what He desires.
The branch does not tell the Vine what kind of fruit it has independently decided to produce. The life within the Vine determines what appears through the branch.
This is why fruit brings esteem to the Father. What becomes visible in the branch bears witness to the Source from which its life came.
Yahusha walked this perfectly. And now He calls us to remain until the same order becomes visible in us—not performing His behavior from the outside, but being formed from the Source from the inside.
Yahusha never lived from Himself. His words, works, obedience, and desires flowed from the Father. Then He turned to us and said, “Remain in Me.” The branch does not decide what it will produce and ask the Vine to sustain it. It remains until the life of the Vine becomes visible through the branch. This is the walk: remaining until His Word forms not only what I do, but what I desire—until even my asking proceeds from the Source.
Palal
Ahba Yahuah,
You have already shown me where life is found.
You have not called me to create life apart from You, but to remain where You have placed me.
Forgive me for every place where I have departed in my thinking, my desires, my decisions, or my asking and attempted to become my own source.
I do not want to originate from myself.
Let Your Word remain in me until what moves through me bears witness to You. Let what I desire be shaped by what You desire. Let what I ask proceed from Your will. Let what I do reveal the life from which it came.
When You prune, I will not mistake Your hand for rejection. I will remain.
When I do not understand, I will remain.
When nothing appears to be growing, I will remain.
When my own desires compete with what You have spoken, I will remain.
I do not need to manufacture fruit.
I do not need to force what You have already purposed to produce.
My responsibility is to remain.
Keep me from reaching outside of You for what can only flow from You. Keep me from returning to myself as source after You have shown me where my life comes from.
You have placed me in the Vine.
I choose to stay where You have placed me.
I choose to remain until Your life is what is seen through mine.
Practice
Today, do not concentrate on producing something for Yahuah. Practice recognizing what is already flowing from Him.
Throughout the day, when you encounter a decision, desire, need, conversation, or request, slow down long enough to recognize the Source before responding.
Before you move, ask:
“What is originating in me right now?”
Pay attention to your thoughts, desires, reactions, and intentions. Do not immediately judge them or act upon them. Simply recognize where they are coming from.
Ask yourself:
Is this proceeding from what Yahuah has spoken, or am I becoming my own source?
Return your attention to what Yahuah has already given.
Remember His Word.
Remember His character.
Remember what He has commanded.
Remember where He has placed you.
You do not have to manufacture the right response.
Receive before you respond.
Let His Word remain long enough to govern what comes next.
Now resist the impulse to leave what you have received simply because another desire, pressure, fear, or opinion appears.
You do not need another source.
If His Word has established the direction, stay there.
If waiting is required, remain.
If obedience costs you something, remain.
If your own desire begins pulling another direction, remain.
If nothing seems to be happening yet, remain.
I will recognize my Source, receive what He gives, and remain where He has placed me. I do not have to produce what can only flow from Him.
Carry This Revelation Into the Day
Yahusha did not remain in the Father so that He could become something. He remained because the Father was His Source.
His words came from the Father.
His works came from the Father.
His commandments came from the Father.
Even what He desired and asked flowed from what He had received from the Father.
And now He says:
“Remain in Me.”
The instruction is not to manufacture the life you have been shown. It is to stay where that life has already been given to you.
When you do not know what to do, remain.
When you are waiting, remain.
When something is being pruned, remain.
When you have not yet seen the fruit, remain.
Do not leave the Source looking for what can only come from the Source.
I do not have to leave where Yahuah placed me to obtain what He intends to produce in me. I will remain, receive, and let His life become visible through mine.