I hear your command, placed deep inside of me,
O Lord My God, that we would love each other.
Your life layed down, and hoisted on a great tree,
You chose me to walk with you as brother.
Oh friend, Jesu, how fresh the fruit with you. 
How great the fruit! How large the joy!
Oh friend, Jesu, I bear new fruit, lush, too.
How great the fruit! How large the joy!

Deep in my heart, deep in my soul, you enter.
Love builds. Love is creative and redemptive;
Love builds and unites with Christ at the center.
You chose new community, love pre-emptive.
Oh friend, Jesu, how fresh the fruit with you.
How sweet the fruit! How great our hope!
Oh friend, Jesu, I bear new fruit, lush, too.
How great the fruit! How large the joy!

That we would love each other as you loved me,
I did not choose you first, yet you chose me.
Deep in my own vineyard, so much fruit to see–
Fruit that does last without my personal fee.
Oh friend, Jesu, how fresh the fruit with you.
How sweet the fruit! How great our joy!
Oh friend, Jesu, I bear new fruit, lush, too.
How great the fruit! How large the joy!

Sweet Lord, I ask; I ask it all in your name,
As now I am anointed, sweetly, freely,
Bearing fruit, this blessed fruit, my power so lame,
But your fruit, fresh, has been appointed freely.
Friend, Jesus, how abundant the fruit with you.
How sweet the fruit! How great our joy!
Oh friend, Jesus, I too bear fruit, lush, too.
How great the fruit! How large the joy!

(c) Tom Bolton, March 30, 2012

Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.  And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.“If you love me, keep my commands.  

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

John 15:12-17, The Message