Posted by Devotional for Today, November 7 2025
Topic: He Lived in Constant Fellowship with the Father
Mark 1:35 “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” (NIV)
Today’s devotional which is a continuation of our series on “We Owe a Personal Debt” as we explore how Jesus lived so we can repay our debt to God in this life.
We have been looking at the life of Jesus and from yesterday we saw that Jesus lived in total obedience. Today, we are looking at the fact that He lived in constant fellowship with the Father.
Our anchor scripture shows us that Jesus had a practice of separating Himself from other people just to spend time with God, His Father.
This is a prescription for how we are to live.
No matter how busy life gets – career, education, job, family, and even ministry – there should not be a day that goes by without spending time in fellowship with God.
It is not a one-time thing.
It is not some quick reaction thing.
It is time spent with God.
Why is this even important?
John 15:4-5 “Dwell in Me, and I will dwell in you. [Live in Me, and I will live in you.] Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in (being vitally united to) the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.”
The first and major reason why we should be in constant fellowship with God is because that is how He designed us. Jesus uses the relationship between a branch and the tree to describe ours with God, the Father.
He says that as the branch cannot do anything profitable without the tree, we cannot do anything without the Father.
That is deep in itself.
Anything you think you have been doing all these while without God accounts for nothing. The true value of what you can do lies in abiding with God.
In verse 5, Jesus says that whoever lives in Him and He in him would bear much fruit and then He caps it off by saying on our own, we can do nothing.
You do not truly know what you are capable of doing except you begin to fellowship with the Lord daily and consistently.
Every time you look at the life of Jesus, you will find that His strength was not in how many miracles He performed or how many people followed Him but in how deeply He stayed connected to His Father.
He lived out of fellowship, not effort. He was always drawing from the secret place, always retreating to hear, to be refreshed, and to remain aligned.
It was not a religious act for Him but the core of His life. If the Son of God could not live a single day without communion, then we have no life outside it.
Our victory, peace, and direction flow from that same stillness with God. If we want to live as He lived, then our mornings must also rise with prayer before anything else speaks.
Prayer for the Day
Father, keep me in love with you so much that I prioritize spending time with you, so much that I never go a day without talking to You – in prayer, in studying the word, in fasting, in meditation. Amen.