Jesus said, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5
Is there a disconnect between your daily experience and the experience of victory that you long for?
Maybe the problem is another disconnect.
The gardener carefully slices into the trunk of a grape vine. He cuts the end of an orphaned grape branch to perfectly fit the cut in the trunk. Firmly holding the graft in place, he binds it securely in place.
Life-giving sap flows from the trunk into the branch. The tissues of branch and trunk grow together. Eventually, you’d have a hard time telling that the branch had at one time not been part of the vine.
This is the kind of connection we need to have with God.
What would happen if the branch was repeatedly removed and reinserted into the trunk?
What kind of experience can we expect if we only connect with God periodically?
Are you looking for true victory?
I encourage you to pray about these verses:
“Abide 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.
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” John 15:4,5Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.
Matthew 12:33-35
Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is bornagain, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” John 3:3-8
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11:13 
