Intro: Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with an encouraging word for your day. All through this month, we will be talking about living fruitfully. Fruitful living happens as we let the fruit of the Spirit operate in our life. Since we are part of the vine, we should be fruitful! Throughout the Bible you may have noticed that God is serious about fruit. He started earth’s productivity by telling Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. In Psalms 92, we are told how to flourish, and that is to be planted in the house of the Lord, or in a local, Christian Bible believing Church. Here is your dailyeword.
Wrong thinking leads to wrong believing, which leads to wrong actions. Amazingly, the converse is true! Right thinking leads to right believing, and right believing leads to right actions. My prayer is that we will all think right, believe right and act right! This month we are talking about the fruitfulness, and you can’t talk about being fruitful without talking about the fruit of the spirit. Fruitfulness is a demonstration that a vine or tree is alive and productive. Just like a tree without fruit is unproductive, faith without actions is unproductive too. Let’s use our faith to become more fruitful for the kingdom of God.
The word fruitful is derived from the Greek word for seed. We were born again of incorruptible seed, and that seed has the potential for us to become like Christ. When we believe the seed will produce, we begin to see all of the seed’s potential actualized in our lives.
First John 3:2 says that when Jesus appears, we shall be like him. Most of the time, that verse is interpreted to mean when Christ reappears at the second coming, we shall be like Him. Ultimately that is a reality! But the word appear means to manifest or be revealed. Jesus has already appeared and been made manifest, and NOW is the time for us to be like Him! The seed has actualizing it’s potential, and the fruit of the Spirit can be made manifest in us. Even though it may not be perfected in us yet, the seed of great potential is on the inside of us. Even if it is not revealed on the outside yet, it does not mean that the truth won’t be manifested shortly! That’s encouraging!
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