How can you have the fruit of the Holy Spirit?

  

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Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Sing a song to praise God (you are welcome to use "Father, I adore you" which I have been singing every morning for the past 20 years or your own choice to praise God)

          Father, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.

          Jesus, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.

          Spirit, I adore You, lay my life before You, how I love You.

      

Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method https://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to shine on you that you are able to discover your sins and be willing to repent:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God and having Jesus as my Lord. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sins to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gifts to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

3.  John Stott's daily prayer of Christlikeness (Christopher J.H. Wright, Cultivating the fruit of the Spirit. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2017, 13)

(Please click this link to see how God used John Stott to change my life:https://bishopsilas.blogspot.com/2009/07/

           "Heavenly Father, I pray that this day I may live in your presence and please you more and more.

             Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

             Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."

    

    The link to today's Time with Abba passages:   http://api.pastoralcareschool.org/twa/

    Time with Abba passages: (Psalm 105:23-36, Isaiah 33:13-36:22;  Galatians 5:13-26; Proverbs 23:23)

    Today's key passage: 

      So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Galatians 5:16-26

    Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time to Jesus as you listen to him.    

    My Listening

    The topic I received today from Jesus  is:  How can you have the fruit of the Holy Spirit?

   I think many Christians want to have the fruit of the Holy Spirit, but how?

   Oh! Actually, when we want to have something someone has, that's the problem!

   If the king does not give us something he has, how can we have something of the king, right?

   God is King of kings, how can we have the fruit of the Holy Spirit if the Holy Spirit does not give us?

   If we are not willing to let the Holy Spirit to shine on us each day that we can be able to see our sins and be willing to confess, repent and die in our sins, some of those 15 sins would most probably be our lifestyle or habit!

   If we are willing to let the Holy Spirit to shine on us each day that we can be able to see our sins and be willing to confess, repent and die in our sins, the fruit of the Holy Spirit will be our lifestyle and habit very naturally! And, if that life renewal really happens in our lives, the five lifestyle and habit will happen according to today's Galatians 5:16-26:

    1. Walk by the Holy Spirit

    2. Lead by the Holy Spirit

    3. Live out the fruit of the Holy Spirit

    4. Live by the Holy Spirit

    5. Keep in step with the Holy Spirit

    Are you willing to be filled with the Holy Spirit that you can live each day like that?

   

     Dear Lord Jesus,  

    Help us to be willing to listen and obey to your words, to follow you and to be filled with the Holy Spirit each day that we can live out the fruit of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  In Jesus Name we pray, Amen. 

     Reflect on these questions:

     1. What inspiration have you received from today's catch?

      

      2.  What is your next step?

      Family Corner:

     Find an opportunity to share with your family the importance of today's message. 

     

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