Love,
Joy, Peace,
Patience,
Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness,
Gentleness,
And Self-Control …
Scripture
Galatians
5
19 When
you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very
clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures,
20 idolatry,
sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish
ambition, dissension, division,
21 envy,
drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you
again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will
not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22 But the
Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Observation
Squeeze
a lemon and what do you get … lemon juice, if you and I get
squeezed what should come out … love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control!
Inside
of each one of us there is spiritual warfare going on and it never
stops … everyday our old sinful nature battles against God's Holy
Spirit wanting us to do wrong.
Kathy
loves to tell the story of the Indian that had two dogs that loved to
fight … a white dog and a black dog. He would travel from town to
town and people would gamble on which dog would win the fight.
Okay,
I am cutting this story short … one day someone asked him how he
knew which dog would win in each fight, to which he replied, “Oh,
that is easy, it is the one that I feed the most!”
You
and I can make sure that we are full of God's Holy Spirit by
devouring God's Word everyday. Take time to open up God's Word and
feed your soul everyday.
If
the Bible is new to you, I suggest that you start and read the Gospel
of John and then the Gospel of Mark and the book of Psalms!
Application
I
will read God's Word everyday! How about you?
Prayer
Heavenly
Father, nobody has to tell me that there is a war going on inside of
me each and every day! I know that everyday I have a choice. I can
start the day out surrendering my life to Your Holy Spirit and
allowing You to be in control of my life or I can yield to the
desires of my old nature. When I yield to my old sinful nature things
never turn out well, so help me to walk close to You today. Keep me
away from stupid sins that only mess me up. I want to please You
today with the way I live. Control me, fill me with Your Holy Spirit,
so that the fruit of the Holy Spirit is evident in my life.
Daily
Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 25,26,27; Galatians 5
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