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# Connecting to the Vine.
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/connecting-to-the-vine/
- Published: 2026-01-16T11:02:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-24T23:50:32.000Z
- Description: Apart from Jesus you can do nothing.
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1784937001272, #Import 2026-07-24 23:50

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThank you for your prayers.  
  
For the next few weeks  
I am going to talk about the tools   
we use to make disciples.  
  
If you are a disciple of Jesus Christ,  
you never graduate.  
You learn the foundations  
and then you continue to grow  
as you master the spiritual life.  
  
Belonging House International  
is called to make disciples.  
It just so happens,  
that our disciples are artists,  
creative people,  
and those who love them.  
The goal is to make people who go  
and explode the light and life of God  
in places where God is not invited.  
  
You cannot do that without the life  
**and power God flowing through you.**  
  
Apart from Jesus  
you can do nothing.  
Jesus is the vine.  
Our job is to help you get connected.  
  
In her book Chasing the Dragon,  
Jackie Pullinger tells the story of how   
praying in tongues for fifteen minutes every day  
transformed her ministry in Hong Kong.  
In 2006  
we followed her example,  
and prayed together in tongues for fifteen minutes  
every Thursday.  
  
Five years ago,  
we started doing this practice every weekday on Zoom.  
  
The "heart" of Belonging House is now  
**the Daily Prayer Furnace.**  
We stop every day and pray together in tongues  
for fifteen minutes.  
We have been doing this for five years.  
The Prayer Furnace is the power behind all the answered prayers,  
books,  
discipleship groups,  
and miracles of healing and provision.  
  
**You are invited to join us at 7am ET, on Zoom.**  
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8766320130  
  
But if you can't,  
You can join us at noon your time,   
wherever you are,  
for fifteen minutes.  
If you don't speak in tongues,  
that's okay,  
all you need to do is stop,  
focus your thoughts on Jesus  
**and practice His Presence.**  
We want our community  
scattered across thirty-seven countries  
to be connected to Jesus   
the True Vine.  
And if you are connected to him,  
**we are connected to one another.**  
  
As I said,  
the Daily Prayer Furnace is now  
the heart of our community,  
and it's where God is moving.  
**Join us, and check it out.**  
  
O Holy Spirit, come like a mighty rushing wind and  
Awaken us out of our complacency, our apathy, and our indifference.  
Disturb us,   
For we are too content to let people go on   
not knowing you.  
Penetrate the closed gates of our hearts   
and make us live again.  
O Holy Spirit,   
create among us a mighty Christian revolution  
And cast the fear of the unknown out of our lives.  
  
He Never Fails,

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