Galatians 5:22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
This last Sunday I made a smoothie with the nine fruits of the Spirit that the Holy Spirit wants to produce in your life.
When people taste your life what flavor is most apparent? These, along with the gifts which ill talk about next week, show what we are designed to do with our life. If you are in a place that does not use the fruit in your life then you are in the wrong place.
Which flavors are you deficient in? We can try to manufacture these Fruits. That is called "Legalism, Religion, Works". You may be able to try really hard for a while but it is inevitable you will not see long term improvement. These things have to come out of the depth of who God has shaped you... The Holy Spirit needs t come into the Garden of your Soul and do a work.
Ask the Holy Spirit to Fill you up and watch as he makes a lasting change in your life. It is like he rewrites the default code in our lives. We lose our angry edge, we grow in our ability to have self control, we find the sadness goes away. Seek the Lord and he will meet you!
After service I stayed to sign the last song. I could actually smell the smoothie from the second row. I breathed in deeply, I especially enjoyed it because I don't usually have a keen sense of smell. Later I looked about verses about the aroma of Christ. It was a sweet treat to me from the Lord.
Not gonna lie though, we in the front row were SURE we were going to get a taste..........
Posted by: Brenda Stewart | July 01, 2009 at 10:20 AM