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THE FRUIT
OF THEHOLYSPIRIT
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Matthew 7:15
"Beware of the falseprophets, who come to
you in sheep'sclothing, but inwardly
are ravenous wolves.
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Matthew 7:17
"So every good treebears good fruit, but
the bad tree bears badfruit.
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Matthew 7:19
"Every tree that does not
bear good fruit is cut
down and thrown intothe fire.
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Matthew 7:20
"So then, you will knowthem by their fruits.
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The Bible is very clear
about the way to
discern what is fromor not from God
coming out a personslife.
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Matthew 7:20
"So then, you will knowthem by their fruits.
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Having been involved in the
Charismatic renewal for manyyears, I know that many in
that movement use theevidence of miracles, signs
and wonders to be the sign ofa persons walk with God.
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It seems that Jesus did notagree:
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Not everyone who says to Me, Lord,Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven,
but he who does the will of My Fatherwho is in heaven will enter. 22 Many willsay to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did
we not prophesy in Your name, and inYour name cast out demons, and in Yourname perform many miracles?23And
then I will declare to them, I neverknew you; DEPARTFROM ME,YOUWHOPRACTICELAWLESSNESS.
Matthew 7:21-23 (NASB)
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In the Pentecostal Movementhaving the ability to speak intongues is often seen as themain sign of the work of theHoly Spirit in our lives.
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Paul the apostle didnot think so.
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If I speak with the tongues
of men and of angels, butdo not have love, I have
become a noisy gong or aclanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
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In the Word Faith movementhaving great faith to see greatthings done is the primaryevidence of true relationshipwith the Father.
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and if I have all faith, soas to remove
mountains, but do nothave love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2b
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In the prophetic
movements of the last
few years prophecy hasbeen seen as the crucial
test of true authority inthe Spirit.
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Paul says no.
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If I have the gift of
prophecy, and know allmysteries and all
knowledge. . . . but do nothave love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
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In many Protestant and
Catholic traditions doing goodworks is the sign of being atrue believer.
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Again Paul tells us that
doing good works or evenmartyrdom is not to be the
sign of someone having avital relationship with God.
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And if I give all my
possessions to feed thepoor, and if I surrender my
body to be burned, but donot have love, it profits me
nothing.1 Corinthians 13:3
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In all these verses from 1
Corinthians 13 Paul tells uswhat the sign of a living
relationship with God isLove.
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The word love is so
misused in our presentsociety that it can be hard
to recover what the Bible istalking about when it uses
the word.
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The Bible uses one Hebrew
and two Greek words forLove.
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The Hebrew word AHAV is
used much like our Englishword. It covers all five of
the Greek words used forlove at the time of the
writing of the NewTestament.
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It can be used for Familial
love, romantic love,friendship, appreciation for
things or the ultimate lovefor God required by the
Shema:
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Sh'ma Yis-ra-eil, A-do-nai E-
lo-hei-nu, A-do-nai E-chad.Ba-ruch sheim k'vod mal-chu-to l'o-lam va-ed.V'a-hav-ta et A-do-nai E-lo-he-cha, B'chawl l'va-v'cha,
u-v'chawl naf-sh'cha,u-v'chawl m'o-de-cha.
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"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is ourGod, the LORD is one! (Blessedbe the name of his gloriouskingdom forever and ever) 5
"You shall love the LORD yourGod with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all yourmight.Deuteronomy 6:4
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Jesus quoted from this passageto answer a question about whatwas the greatest commandment.
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Jesus answered, The foremost is, HEAR,O ISRAEL! THE LORDOURGODISONE LORD;
30ANDYOUSHALLLOVETHE LORDYOURGODWITHALLYOURHEART,ANDWITHALLYOURSOUL,ANDWITHALLYOURMIND,ANDWITH
ALLYOURSTRENGTH.31 The second is this,YOUSHALLLOVEYOURNEIGHBORASYOURSELF. There is no other
commandment greater than these.Mark 12:29-31 (NASB)
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Its primary meaning is to
be committed withoutreserve to another person
or to God.
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In the Bible it describes a
selfless giving of our wholebeing to God in response
to His Agape for us. Tolove Him with all our heart
and with all our soul andwith all our might.
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We see from other
scriptures that this love isa fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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But the fruit of the Spirit is
love (Agape), joy, peace,patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control;
against such things there isno law.
Galatians 5:22-23
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Jesus tells us that the fruit
of our lives demonstratesour relationship with Him.
Nothing else does. So letslook again at what our
lives are to be filled with:
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But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, patience,kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, 23 gentleness,self-control; against such
things there is no law.Galatians 5:22-23
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When our lives are filled
with these things it is abeautiful life. . . . Beautiful
to live and beautiful tothose we live it with.
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Think for a moment about
the people in your life whomanifest these fruit. The
quality of their lives isextraordinary.
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Think about when you
experience these fruit inyour life. Does it not make
life wonderful?
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Fruit bearing was always
Gods idea. He created theworld to be fruitful. In fact
it is fruitfulness that is thevehicle of reproduction.
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Genesis 1:11 (NASB)
Then God said, Let the earthsprout vegetation, plantsyielding seed, andfruit treeson the earth bearing fruit aftertheir kind with seed in them;
and it was so.
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It ld h b fi t t
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It would have been our first parents
eating the fruit of the tree of life in the
garden that would have given themeternal life.
Out of the ground the LORD God causedto grow every tree that is pleasing to the
sight and good for food; the tree of life
also in the midst of the garden, and thetree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:9 (NASB)
Th th L G d id B h ld
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Then the LORDGod said, Behold,the man has become like one ofUs, knowing good and evil; andnow, he might stretch out his
hand, and take also from the treeof life, and eat, and live
forever Genesis 3:22 (NASB)
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It was eating of the
fruit of the tree of
Knowledge of Goodand Evil that
brought death.
N th t id t th
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Now the serpent . . . said to thewoman, Indeed, has God said,You shall not eat from any treeof the garden?2 The woman
said to the serpent, From thefruit of the trees of the garden
we may eat; Genesis 3:1-3 (NASB)
b t f th f it f th t hi h
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but from the fruit of the tree whichis in the middle of the garden, God
has said, You shall not eat from it ortouch it, or you will die.4 Theserpent said to the woman, Yousurely will not die! 5 For God knowsthat in the day you eat from it your
eyes will be opened, and you will belike God, knowing good and evil.
Genesis 3:-5 (NASB)
Wh th th t th
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When the woman saw that thetree was good for food, and thatit was a delight to the eyes, andthat the tree was desirable to
make onewise, she took from itsfruit and ate; and she gave also
to her husband with her, and heate.Genesis 3:6 (NASB)
At th d f d i
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At the end of days, in
heaven, the way will berestored to the Tree of
Life. Eating of its fruit willgive us that eternal life
God had always desired forus to have.
i th iddl f it t t O
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in the middle of its street. Oneither side of the river was thetreeoflife, bearing twelvekinds offruit, yielding its fruit
every month; and the leaves ofthe tree were for the healing of
the nations. Revelation 22:2
Bl d th h
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Blessed are those who
wash their robes, so thatthey may have the right
to the tree of life, andmay enter by the gates
into the city.Revelation 22:14
Th t G d
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The covenant God
made with Abrahamwhich led to oursalvation was based
on fruitfulness.
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If i l h f th
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If you simply seach for thewords fruit, fruitful andfruitfulness in the Bible youwill see that the bearing of
fruit is a central concept increation, in the plan of God for
the world and in life in theSpirit.
Of ld t b
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Of course we would not be
having this discussion ifthese fruits occurred
without any involvementon our part. My purpose
today is to help all of usbear more abundant fruit
for God
B i H l S i it f it i
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Bearing Holy Spirit fruit is
both a supernatural andnatural process. We are
given the actual process inthe book of Second Peter.
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For he who lacks these
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For he who lacks these
qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten
his purification from hisformer sins.
2 Peter 1:9
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To fully understand the
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To fully understand the
concept of bearing fruit wehave to understand about
the natural processinvolved in fruit bearing
plants.
Jesus helps us in this as
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Jesus helps us in this as
well. There are two waysJesus indicates we will
bear fruit in our lives fromHim.
The first comes from the
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The first comes from the
clear picture of death toself that occurs in a seed
dying to bring forth life.This is what Jesus did for
us first.
John 12:24 "Truly truly I
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John 12:24 Truly, truly, I
say to you, unless a grainof wheat falls into the
earth and dies, it remainsalone; but if it dies,
it bears much fruit.
John 12:25 "He who loves his
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John 12:25 He who loves hislife loses it, and he who hateshis life in this world will keep itto life eternal.
The first act of bearing fruit
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The first act of bearing fruitfor God is to give up seekingthe fulfillment of our ownlives. It is dying to the selfish
nature within us. It is only inthis first act that fruitfulness
will begin to happen in ourlives.
The question arises about what it
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The question arises about what itmeans to die to ourselves. Does it
mean, as many say, that everythingI want is to die?
I do not believe so. I believe itmeans that which is in us that will
take for ourselves what God gives usto bless others with must die.
Narcissistic selfishness best
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Narcissistic selfishness bestdescribes the self life. It is having
ourselves as the first love of ourlives. Dying to ourselves is
described by the simple phrase:
God first, others
before self.
Do nothing from selfishness or
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Do nothing from selfishness orempty conceit, but with humility of
mind regard one another as moreimportant than yourselves; 4 do notmerelylook out for your ownpersonal interests, but also for theinterests of others. 5 Have this
attitude in yourselves which was alsoin Christ Jesus,
Philippians 2:3-5 (NASB)
who although He existed in the
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who, although He existed in theform of God, did not regard
equality with God a thing to begrasped, 7 but emptied Himself,
taking the form of a bond-servant, andbeing made in thelikeness of men.
Philippians 2:6-7 (NASB
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We were created to be Like
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We were created to be LikeJesus. We were created to liveour lives for God first andothers before ourselves.
It is only when we live in this
balance that we begin toproduce the fruit of Holy Spirit
life within us
We produce the fruit of death as
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We produce the fruit of death aswe become more and more
consumed with ourselves.
We become more and more
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We become more and moreaware of the pain of our lives
which tempts us to the lust ofthe flesh. We become more and
more aware of what we do nothave which tempts us tocovetousness. We become moreand more aware of wrongs doneto us which tempts us to pride.
The fruit of Self Pity generating
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The fruit of Self Pity generatingthe lust of the flesh,
Coveteousness which is the lustof the eyes and Pride begin to
bring forth a harvest ofdepression, unfulfilled desiresand the misery of isolation. Webegin to move in the inwardspiral towards mental illness.
On the other hand the more and more
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O o a d o a d owe become God and other centered the
more and more we understand and fulfillour purpose to love God and others. Inthis outward spiral we become less and
less aware of our own pain. We becomemore aware of their pain and how wemight minster Gods love to them. We
find thankfulness overtaking our heartwhich leads us away from the lust of theflesh.
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John 15:12 "This is My commandment,
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y ,that you love one another, just as I have
loved you. 13 "Greater love has no onethan this, that one lay down his life forhis friends. 14 "You are My friends if you
do what I command you.
We must understand that Holy Spirit
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fruitfulness is a process. We see itdemonstrated in the world of nature. Jesusdefined that process by equating it to the lifeof a grape vine. The vine is the source ofearthly life. The Sun is the source of heavenly
life. Both provide vital things to the branches.To stay alive a branch must remain in thevine. This is where the metaphor varies
slightly from real life. We as the brancheshave the choice to abide- a word meaningto make a continual home we get our wordabode from this.
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As I thought about this in my own life
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g yconsidering what the frost might be I
thought the one thing that consistentlykills Holy Spirit fruit in my life isbitterness. It seems that bitterness is
like a late frost that takes the bloomaway that will one day turn intowonderful fruit. That is why Jesus was
so strong on us fully forgiving others.When unforgiveness lives in us we enterinto a world of perpetual frost where
nothing of the Spirit can live
For me another killer of Holy
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For me another killer of HolySpirit fruit in me is anger. Like a
raging storm full of deadly forcewinds that tear trees apart like a
Tsunami, I find my anger stripsmy branches not only of fruit butof everything that resembles life.And it does the same foreveryone.
But I say to you that everyone who
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y y yis angry with his brother shall be
guilty before the court; and whoeversays to his brother, You good-for-nothing, shall be guilty before thesupreme court; and whoever says,You fool, shall be guilty enough to
gointo the fiery hell.Matthew 5:22 (NASB)
The kind of fruit we bear speaks of Gods
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life within us. I have several trees on my
property. I have noticed that year afteryear my cherry tree brings forthcherries. I have never seen an apple,
pear or orange on it. It only givescherries. This is why the evidence offruit is what Jesus said we would use to
test our lives and the lives of others forthe truth of our relationship with him.We only bear the fruit that is actually in
us
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As my friend Loys DeFleuriot often used
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to say, People catch what you have, not
what you say you have. If you havemeasles but say you have mumps peoplewill catch measles.
The only real test of any of our lives isour fruit. If we are filled with the life of
Jesus we will bear the fruit of that lifeand in the bearing of that fruit we willreproduce it.
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I once had a vision.
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I was in the middleof a class in
Princeton.
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We were in a
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large
cavern with
a fire in the
middle of
our circle.
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I so wanted to getout of it.
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As I looked
around theedge of the
cave thereseemed to
be exits
Next to each
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Next to each
dark spotthat
seemed likean exit
there was aperson.
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They were
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They were
calling,
This isthe way
out!
As I looked at
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As I looked at
each one theyall seemed to
be saying thesame thing
and acting inthe same way.
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Some were jumping
up and down asthey yelled.
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Near my childhood
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y
home inOklahoma, are
many caves.
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Missouri and Arkansashave a lot more.
Our parents constantly
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p y
warned us not to evergo alone into caves.
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He
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He
knewabout
caves.
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But the
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ut t e
criminal gotlost and fell
off a cliff inthe
darkness.
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The fellowship of ourlittle group and the
small fire was betterthan being lost in the
darkness alone.
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But Iwanted
out so
badly.
I couldnot figure
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out how to tellwhich one ofthe people
telling me theyknew the wayout did.
The last man I
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looked at was
not even actingpassionately in
his proclaiminghe knew the
way out.
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As I watched him Iwas overcome with
a feeling of
despair.
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When I lookedup again I was
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up again I was
drawn to theman who was
quietly saying,this is the way
out.
My eyes
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My eyes
wentfrom his
face to
his hand.
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I thenknew he
knew
the wayout.
You see,
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You see,
peartrees
dont
grow incaves.
They grow in
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y g
a world ofsunlight,
rain andfruitfulness.
But the fruit of theSpirit is love joy
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Spirit is love, joy,
peace, patience,kindness,goodness,faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-
control; againstsuch things there is
no law Prayer Points:
If you have never yielded your life to Jesus as Savoir
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If you have never yielded your life to Jesus as Savoirand Lord do so today.
If you have specific needs bring them today to theonly one who can meet them.
If you have done things that have broughtfruitlessness into your life come in repentance tofind forgiveness and restoration today.
If you have things in your life that have hindered
Holy Spirit fruit surrender them to God today.