Tag Archive | fruit

Walk In The Spirit – Joy (8)

Jan30

But the fruit of the Spirit is joy
Galatians 5:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22.NASB1995

O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
Psalms 95:1-2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.95.1-2.NASB1995

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/heb.12.2.NASB1995

For the joy set before Him . . . For our benefit. His life to save ours. He is the Victor over death! He is the Rock of our salvation!

🌹Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones; Praise is becoming to the upright.
Psalms 33:1 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.33.1.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Walk In The Spirit – Joy (7)

Jan29

But the fruit of the Spirit is joy
Galatians 5:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22.NASB1995

Your words were found and I ate them, And Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.
Jeremiah 15:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jer.15.16.NASB1995

Have you experienced the joy of God’s Word? Have you trusted His promises? Do you know His promises?
I encourage you to read your Bible daily. There are apps you can use that will lay out a daily reading plan.
Need accountability? Join an app with a friend or two or more.
Ask questions. Share how God spoke to you through His word. Share how you plan to apply His word. Reading with others helps in your growth in Jesus.

May God’s word be a joy and delight of your heart today so that you can say . . .

🌹I have inherited Your testimonies forever, For they are the joy of my heart. I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes Forever, even to the end.
Psalms 119:111-112 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.119.111-112.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Walk In The Spirit – Joy (6)

Jan28

But the fruit of the Spirit is joy
Galatians 5:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22.NASB1995

Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
John 15:9-10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.9-10.NASB1995

🌹These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.
John 15:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.11.NASB1995

Can we bear the fruit of joy without abiding in Christ and He in us?

How full is our joy?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Walk In The Spirit – Joy (1)

Jan21

But the fruit of the Spirit is joy
Galatians 5:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22.NASB1995

Walking with God. Being in His Word. Talking to Him all day long. Leaning on His everlasting arms. Trusting Him on good days and bad days. The assurance of His salvation, of eternity spent with Him. That is tasting the fullness of joy! That is the Fruit of the Spirit living in you.

🌹You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.
Psalms 16:11 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.16.11.NASB1995

🙏 Thank You, God, for your Spirit of joy living in me.

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Walk by The Spirit – Love

Jan20

But the fruit of the Spirit is love
Galatians 5:22 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22.NASB1995

Recommended Reading: 1 Corinthians 13

No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.12.NASB1995

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/rom.8.38-39.NASB1995

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:12-14 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.12-14.NASB1995

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 John 4:20 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.20.NASB1995

We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 John 3:16 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.3.16.NASB1995

🌹Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4:7-8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1jn.4.7-8.NASB1995

Is the fruit of the Spirit – love – in me able to fill a glass, a pitcher, or a continual running river in me overflowing to the glory and purpose of God?

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

The Power of Earnest Prayer

Sep9

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. Then he prayed again, and the sky poured rain and the earth produced its fruit.
James 5:17-18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.5.17-18.NASB1995

In 1 Kings 17:1-7 Elijah says there will be no rain.

In Luke 4:25 Jesus affirms that Elijah prayed and there was no rain for three years and six months.

In 1 Kings 18:41-46 Elijah prays and the rain returned.

“And the earth produced its fruit”.

The power of prayer and the fruit of prayer.

Prayer is powerful. It changes lives. . . It changes us. . . It changes others.
Who are you earnestly praying for? Do you believe that you will see the fruit of your prayers?

🌹First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, . . . This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2:1, 3-4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/1ti.2.1-4.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Attributes of Wisdom

Jul31

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
James 3:17 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.17.NASB1995

These attributes of wisdom sound vaguely familiar to the fruit of the Spirit, don’t they? Another affirmation that wisdom is from God through His Holy Spirit living in us.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/gal.5.22-23.NASB1995

🌹And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
James 3:18 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.18.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Fruit Bearing Heart

Jul29

Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?
Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.
James 3:11-12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jas.3.11-12.NASB1995

The mouth reveals what’s in the heart,
for the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. Jesus said, “I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
Jesus said you will know others by the fruit they bear. Every good tree will bear good fruit, but a bad tree will bear bad fruit. We bear the fruit of what resides in us.
Matthew 12:34b, 36-37/Matthew 7:16-18, NASB1995 (Paraphrase)

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.
John 15:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.4.NASB1995

Who resides in you? Jesus our “I”?

🌹Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:2 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.15.2.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

Chosen To Be Kind

May15

. . . as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of kindness
Colossians 3:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/col.3.12.NASB1995

Did you know that kindness is a fruit of the Spirit? As God’s chosen we have the indwelling Spirit of God residing in us. Kindness, what a gift to practice and display for the glory of God!
(Galatians 5:22 NASB1995)

Do you know Jesus? Today if you seek Jesus, you can become one of His chosen and be filled with His kindness.

Sow with a view to righteousness, Reap in accordance with kindness; Break up your fallow ground, For it is time to seek the Lord Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.
Hosea 10:12 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/hos.10.12.NASB1995

🌹Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:3 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.3.3.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org

God Blessing: Bearing Fruit

Mar5

Let the peoples praise You, O God;
Let all the peoples praise You.
The earth has yielded its produce;
God, our God, blesses us.
God blesses us, That all the ends of the earth may fear Him.
Psalms 67:5-7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.67.5-7.NASB1995

What are you doing with the blessings God has given you? Are they bearing fruit for the kingdom of God?

God’s blessings are for the ends of the earth to fear Him.

then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
Leviticus 26:4 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/lev.26.4.NASB1995

Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
Psalms 33:8 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.33.8.NASB1995

🌹The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/pro.1.7.NASB1995

Continually Seeking Him,

Sharon
https://indasharonjesus.org