“But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,  keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life” (Jude 20,21).

A century ago an unidentified Brethren writer gave this word of encouragement:

“Through the Lord Jesus, every true believer is united to God in heaven by a life-link. We are not praying down here on earth to One who is a long way off in heaven. We are one with Him there and He is one with us here! The devil is all the time, trying to create a sense of distance between us and the Lord, but there is no distance between if we abide in Christ, for no one can be closer to the Father than the Son, and we are in Him!”

“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 …  If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you[b] will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:4,5,7)