Category: The Fruit of the Spirit

I am talking about the fruit of self-control. In the King James Version, the word used is temperance. The problem with the word temperance is that over 375 years or more, it has somewhat changed its associations. In English today, the word temperance is often associated only with abstinence from alcohol. However, the Greek word… Continue reading The fruit of Self-Control

The Greek word can be translated gentleness or meekness. Whichever word we use we need to bear in mind that gentleness includes meekness and meekness includes gentleness. First, meekness is not weakness. Many people think that but as a matter of fact the exact opposite is the truth. Meekness is the demonstration of strength. One good… Continue reading The fruit of Gentleness

There are two different ways of translating this fruit. In some versions it’s translated ‘faith’, in others it’s translated ‘faithfulness’. The Greek word for faith which occurs 247 in the New Testament. Either translation is legitimate, but neither is complete. The word means both faith and faithfulness. The division in our thinking between faith and… Continue reading The fruit of Faithfulness

We need to understand the spiritual fruit of kindness. What is the essential nature of kindness? Kindness is treating other people the way we would wish them to treat us. This is what makes kindness practical and easy to comprehend, easy to apply, because we usually know how we would like other people to treat… Continue reading The fruit of Kindness

Patience includes two distinct but related aspects of character. The first is steadfastness in enduring troubles. The second is slowness in avenging wrongs. Without both of these aspects, patience is incomplete. Some people are steadfast in enduring troubles, but very quick to avenge themselves. Some people are slow to avenge themselves, but not very steadfast… Continue reading The Fruit of Patience

From the negative point of view, peace implies the end or the absence of conflict. Certainly, there can be no peace where there is conflict. But to end conflict requires reconciliation. It’s important to see that. Those who are familiar with physical wars tend to think of peace coming when one side has defeated the other.… Continue reading The Fruit of Peace

Joy is a beautiful word. When God blesses parents with a beautiful baby girl, a name that they often choose for her is joy. Altogether, there’s something beautiful about joy. However, to experience its beauty in our lives, we need to understand the real nature of joy. And to understand that we have to know… Continue reading The fruit of joy

Love is the key in the Christian faith. It occupies a place of importance which nothing else compares to. John 13: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if… Continue reading The Fruit of Love

We find the nine forms of the fruit of the Holy Spirit listed in Galatians 5, verses 22 and 23. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.    The word fruit is in the singular not the plural. God is love so you could say the… Continue reading How Fruit Comes

For every attack of the enemy, there is a fruit of the Spirit given to us, an attribute of God that we can practice overcoming it and growing in our spirit.      Nothing works against the fruit of the spirit, so when we actually practice the fruit of the spirit nothing can work against us, but… Continue reading Cultivating the fruit of the Spirit

Everything the enemy seeks to bring against us, we can turn it around by moving in the opposite spirit. The enemy wants to get to our spirit so that it breaks its connection to God. Whatever comes against us to oppress us should trigger us to move in the opposite spirit. If we feel depressed… Continue reading Moving in the opposite spirit

The divine revelation in Psalm 16:11 is, In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Some people, in receiving the Holy Spirit and various spiritual experiences, have gone through reactions and emotions that were only echoes of what they entered into on a spiritual plane. As we… Continue reading Real joy and happiness

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law. And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof. If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. Galatians 5:22–25.… Continue reading Fruit of the Spirit 1

To have an intimate relationship with God, we are going to have to know what He is like; to know what He is really, really like. Once we get a revelation of His nature, then we can experience Him in our life. Religion has portrayed an image of God that is not correct, and it… Continue reading The Nature of God

Here are two classical passages in the New Testament on stewardship. In each one we see that “faithfulness” is emphasized. This amazing quality is the seventh in the graces of the wonderful fruit of the Spirit named in Galatians, chapter five. The first passage begins in I Corinthians 4:1, Let a man so account of… Continue reading Our faithfulness

There are two kinds of joy, one is affected by circumstances, this is human joy, the other is the joy of the Lord, and it takes us through all circumstances.  Rejoice is  in the imperative mood in the Greek, it is a commandment. We are to rejoice always —I Thessalonians 5:16.  The world today is… Continue reading The believers Joy

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law. And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof. If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. Galatians 5:22–25.… Continue reading The Fruit of the Spirit

When God manifests his power his nature is revealed in it. Whenever Jesus reached out to touch someone through the power of God, it was the love of God that motivated him to do it. In Jesus Christ all the fullness of God dwelt bodily. All that God is, as well as all that He… Continue reading God’s attributes within us

The fruit of the Spirit is an encounter with God that leads us into an ongoing experience of Him, which opens us up to the fullness of who God is for us.  As we learn the difference between our soul and our spirit, we can then live in the Spirit. Once we learn how to… Continue reading Practicing the fruit of the Spirit

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. We are concerned about the relationship between the fruit of the Spirit and the works of the flesh. Most of us live far below our capacities because of the many… Continue reading How to receive the fruit of the Spirit