I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5 

To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.” John 8:31

Spiritual disciplines (prayer, scripture reading, worship, fasting, etc.) help us order our lives around God, so we can live a life of abundance truly abiding in Christ. As followers of Christ, we want to be like Jesus doing what he did. The spiritual disciplines give way for us to model our lives after Christ, being his disciples.