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.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived. A beautiful life is the abiding life of the branch in the vine bearing beautiful fruit that endures. And that was the purpose, plan, power, and reward from the beginning until now and forever. I blessed you to be fruitful, a fruitful life of good works is a beautiful life. Genesis 1:27-28.
A beautiful life is a life filled with glory and the glory of a vine is in its branches, heavily laden with delicious fruit. First, the glorious blossom comes and then the perfect fruit.
Shine, shine, shine, like a branch on a blooming vine. Shine, shine, shine, with My light divine.
And it all begins in your heart, for the mouth speaks from your heart’s abundance, and you (and others) will eat the fruit of your lips.
What is the fruit that all should produce if they are in Christ Jesus? For He is the vine and you are the branches, so if you abide in Him, the fruit that will come forth will be of His divine nature and that is the life of My Spirit in you. And I am very clear about what the fruit of the Spirit is that He produces wherever He is given a primary place in leading and directing. And it is not stated as a plural but as one fruit filled with many seeds of divine attributes, but if you will note it begins with love and in the definition I give you of what love does you will see all the attributes listed in the fruit of the Spirit:
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.
Now consider the defining characteristics of love:
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
One who has pure love has joy that never leaves for it is rejoicing in the truth and not in the facts that are contrary to the truth. It rejoices that if it stands on the truth, the facts must change and line up with the truth.
But let us think of the fruit of My Spirit as one fruit filled with nine seeds and each seed when planted will grow a tree that produces the same fruit with all nine characteristics. So let us consider the seed of love planted in your heart. For that is My divine nature planted in you. The question is whether you will receive it, cultivate it and harvest it in your life and share the harvest with others, giving them seed to sow and fruit to eat.
Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness, while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God. 2 Corinthians 9:10-11.
Attached, abiding in, and continuing in My Word, you are truly My disciples, and how do others know you are My disciples? Jesus told you that all would know you as My disciples by your love for one another. And that is where we are going to start, for the fruit that the Holy Spirit within you will cause you to produce starts with love and the rest arise on that foundation. All these qualities flow into you at the same time by My grace, but everything hangs on love. In the end these three remain, faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love. Unless you know and believe in the love I have for you, you cannot believe in My goodness, My forgiveness, My provision, and My determination to heal you and give you a beautiful, abundant life. Fear has to do with punishment, but My Son took your punishment, so you should come with confident love before Me to receive mercy and find grace to take just when you need it.
Love. What is it? I am love and in seeing Jesus you see Me, and He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. He loved you and gave His life for you and released you from your sins by His own blood and made you a kingdom and priests unto Me. He came to undo the works of the devil in your lives, which are poverty, sickness and eternal death. In Him you see My good will towards all people.
The devil is not fruitful, quite the opposite, he is a destroyer. And if you serve him, he will cause you to be the same. He is a spirit of lawlessness and is even now working in the sons of disobedience. His fruit is lies and deception. He is unclean and operates in the realm of the flesh because he knows if you fight him in the realm of the Spirit he will lose. So he will limit your focus to this life only and blind your minds to the glory of the gospel and spiritual realities, especially that of your righteousness in Jesus.
And the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. These are very different than the fruit of the Spirit. And from these you will see easily who is of the devil and who is of Me. By their fruit.
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.” Matthew 12:33.
A life without love is unfruitful and really has no meaning. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. Primarily because it is a life without Me, and without Me you can do nothing fruitful. I define love and its operations for you in many places in Scripture and many parables. You can look at My Son’s parables of the lost sheep, the prodigal son, the good Samaritan, and others and get an idea of love. But when it comes down to love in action this is the way it operates, and I repeat here again the defining characteristics of love: Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.
I tell you to earnestly desire spiritual gifts but above all to pursue love. Jesus did the mighty works He did by love—by heartfelt compassion for those who came to Him. My plans for you are for your wholeness and prosperity in every area of your life, not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. This is an expression of My love for you. And you too, if you imitate Me as My dear children, should never be wishing evil for another but only their salvation.
When you call upon Me, and I will answer you. I will be with you in trouble; I will rescue you and honor you. With a long life I will satisfy you and I will show you My salvation (Yeshuah). Psalm 91:15-16. And that is love. Ready to answer, ready to bear another’s burden with them, ready to rescue and ready to honor. Jesus came to serve not to be served. Do you have that attitude? That is the attitude of love.
I think in love, walk in love, and talk in love. All is in the Light in Me. Love is pure. Love is stronger than death and a consuming fire. It will burn away as dross all that is not pure love in you if you will open your heart to the fire of My love. Love will wash away all that is not fruitful.
And how do you produce the fruit of love? Be filled with the Holy Spirit and love will flow. You cannot be filled with the Spirit of love and harbor anything else. If you have bitterness or hatred in your heart, or if you have depression and no joy, then your fruit is showing that you have not filled yourself full enough with the Spirit otherwise there would be no room for that.
Next time you find yourself walking out of love and producing the works of the flesh instead you just need to switch gears and walk in the Spirit by turning your tongue and mind to songs of joyful worship and praise. Focus on the truth, which is eternal, instead of on the facts which are temporal and subject to change and start quoting My magnificent promises of good things in your life. Try it. You will suddenly be in a whole different realm. My realm. And the fruit will begin to appear in your life—in your heart, on your lips, and your steps will follow. Take a praise break to break the chains of the enemy.
Never let yourself give in to evil, no matter how tiny and insignificant it seems, for once the unclean spirit gets in, he will defile you. The wise woman builds the house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. Fruit. If you are tearing your life or others lives apart, take heed lest you devour one another.
Love. It is the most important of all. I look for it. And so do you. Everyone is seeking to love and be loved. But accept no cheap substitutes. Love lays down its life, it is not selfish. Love is the answer to everything. Love never fails. Love never sins but it covers sin. Love is stronger than death. And love is in you if you have received Jesus as Lord. He is King of kings and Lord of lords. Love is king and conquers every evil work.
Love people and yourself into wholeness. Owe no debt to anyone but to love them. You owe that to all. It heals. Love is grateful. If you are grateful for people you will treat them kindly. You will have love for them. Love gives and love receives with gratitude. Be grateful for the gift but even more grateful when I give you an abundance for every good work so that you too can imitate Me as My dear children and give gifts to men. I give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.
Expect My favor and My love at every moment of your day and night and you will see your life in a whole new light. You will not fear to step out in faith to try new challenges and dream big dreams as you see with your heart the insight and revelations I bring to those who are seeking Me. Choose the best part of spending your day listening to Me no matter how preoccupied or busy you be.
I have set the LORD continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also will dwell securely. Psalm 16:8-9.
When you seek Me with your heart, you will always find Me right there with you. Love seeks love. I know those who love Me. And those are the ones with great faith. Faith works by love, that is, when you know and believe in the love I have for you believing for miracles is easy because you are expecting them. And what you are expecting will show up.
I love you and that is how I make you whole so that you can bear fruit. And love gives you joy. And joy will be our next lesson.