Don’t hide your light! Let it shine for all; let your good deeds glow for all to see, so that they give glory to your heavenly Father. Matthew 5:16.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
The fruit of the Spirit is My characteristics being produced in your life because of your attachment to My Son as if branches on a vine. And the way you attach is having My Word in your heart and your heart in My Word, that is, you remain in My Word and My Word remains in you. And that has to do with your mindset, which boils down to where you are putting your attention.
But let us go back to the analogy of the vine and its branches. The branches will produce the fruit as determined by the vine to which they are attached. And when you are attached to Me through My Son you will produce goodness, for I am good. And that is the characteristic of the fruit of the Spirit we are considering today as a building block for your life.
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.
What is goodness? It is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. It is the flow of Heaven. It is happiness, prosperity, and everything whole in your life. It is shalom.
How great is Your goodness, O LORD, which You have stored up for those who fear You, which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You, before the sons of men! Psalm 31:19.
I want to bring My goodness (which is the product of My glory) to the earth through you. Let your light shine, which is Christ in you, your hope of glory (My goodness, presence, and power in you). He is the Light of the world, and no follower of His will ever walk in darkness, but will have the Light of life.
He is the Light of the world, so now, you, as His body in the world, are the Light of the world. I lit the darkness in the world by Christ your Light, “for a people walking in darkness have seen a great light, and on those in a land of gloom light has shown, glory in your land,” and now that Light is in you. Each of you carry that Light in an earthen vessel.
Do you recall Gideon and his 300 men that conquered the myriads of the Midianite army encamped against Israel? They had torches covered by earthen vessels that they broke at Gideon’s shout and blew their trumpets. They had to break the clay pots for the light to show. In the same way your hardened hearts, your pride, your life of the flesh only that leads to sin and death, must be broken, sifted like wheat, die with Christ and be raised up to new life with Him to shine with My radiance in the world. A clean and sensitive living heart where the Word can implant and grow to a fruitful harvest, filled with My Spirt and sanctified by the truth of My Word. My Light shines best out of a humble, contrite heart.
The fool says in his heart “there is no god.” He steps into darkness and in darkness you stumble and fall. Pride goes before a fall. But humility raises you up to riches, glory and honor.
Let your light shine before men so that they may see goodness in your acts and praise My glory in you. Lead others to repentance by My goodness in you. Live for the praise of My goodness, that is, My glory. Be oil lamps as on the Menorah, the golden lampstand which was a shadow of you and Jesus. Light from the anointing with the oil of joy.
I am the Father of Lights. It is plural. Why? You are all My children who believe in the Name of Jesus and receive Him as Lord of your life and in you is the Light of life, the Light of the world, and the Word of life.
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” John 8:12.
You are all lights in the world offering it the Word of life. Never forget that and do not hide your light under a bushel basket, set it on a lampstand to give light to all in the house. Selah. Do you understand? You will if you have ears to hear and eyes to see.
And when you shine with My Light you draw people into the Light with you and darkness cannot stay in the light. It cannot overcome it. If you turn on the lights in a room, darkness is gone that easily. Light be. Light for the life of men.
Every day is unique and important. Don’t try to rush through life to a “better day.” Each day should be your “best day.” Don’t waste one of them. How? By giving your body to Me and renewing your mind to My Word and living for My glory. My glory is the exercise of My immense power in love producing goodness and irradicating evil.
Who is the man who desires life and loves length of days that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 34:12-14.
Taste and see My goodness. And goodness is produced by your spirit as a fruit of the indwelling Holy Spirit. In My Spirit I have made you partakers of My divine nature and goodness is a characteristic of My nature. My Son told you that none is good but God alone. I am the source of all goodness but when you attach to Me on the vine of My Son, My goodness becomes yours also. You too can enjoy walking in goodness. When you follow your good Shepherd, only goodness and kindness will pursue you all the days of your life and you shall dwell in My house forever. Psalm 23:6. And My people shall be filled to overflowing with My goodness. Jeremiah 31:14.
I fill your days with good things. Psalm 103:5. I am a good Father who gives good things to My children who ask for them. Matthew 7:11. Good things are those which are beneficial to your spiritual, physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Good days are days filled with good things. Since every good thing comes from Me it should be obvious that the more you have of Me and the closer you are to Me, the more goodness you will experience in your life. And if you read the stories of various people in the Bible you will find this is true. Those who rejected My counsel and had no faith had very different lives than those who obeyed and walked with Me. If you are willing and obey My Words you will eat the best of the land. I invite you to taste and see that I am good. Psalm 34:8.
To experience My goodness fully, I must be your refuge and fortress, your God in whom you trust. In the world there is much evil, it is a perilous place, for the wages of sin is death. To sin is never good, even if people call it self-fulfillment, choice, alternate lifestyle or whatever they try to disguise that it is sin. Sin is not goodness anymore than death is. Never call evil “good” and good “evil.”
Many people today say they are “enlightened” by science that rules out My existence and classifies man with the fish, birds and beasts in an evolving process, but this is not enlightenment. It is plunging you into darkness, back to the dark void of chaos over which My Spirit hovered as I spoke light. And that light was the life of men. And in and with that light of life I created a world filled with My goodness, on each day as I created I would not conclude the day until I saw it was good, and when I finally concluded all was very good, then I rested.
The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; but those who seek Me shall not be in want of any good thing. I can only give you good for that is My nature. My glory is the manifestation of My goodness, My power, and My presence. It is a revelation of My character (good), My ability (all powerful), and My care (presence with you always wherever you are).
And how do you have days filled with good? Who is the man who desires life and loves length of days that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. Psalm 34:13-14. Here we are back to the instructions I gave the Israelites through Moses, the same as I personally told to Joshua, and as written in Psalm 1. And it all has to do with reading, hearing, speaking, meditating on, and keeping My Words in your heart and in your mouth. Write them on the doorposts of your house and write them on the tablet of your heart so that you are mindful of them in all you do, see, speak, and think. You will eat the fruit of your lips, and so will those around you, make sure you are offering good fruit, fruit filled with goodness. People will know your character by your fruit. And you and everyone else is looking for good fruit. You will be judged for every idle, harmful word you speak for by your words you are acquitted and by your words you are condemned.
You produce goodness in your life when you are filled with goodness. And since I alone am good, you must be filled with Me. I tell you to open your mouth wide and I will fill it. Fill it with what? My Words. As for Me, this is My covenant with you: My Spirit which is in you and upon you, and My Words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your offspring, nor from the mouth of your offspring’s offspring from now and forever. Isaiah 59:21. And what you produce, you then eat as the fruit of your lips, and what you eat becomes you and it keeps producing more of the same. So if you are speaking evil, you will feed on evil and produce more evil. But if you are speaking goodness, you will feed on goodness and will produce even more goodness.
Evil is anything contrary to My Word. I called it an evil report when the spies told the people that they could not conquer the land. To them it did not seem to be an evil report but merely a report of the truth as they saw it. But what they concluded was in direct contradiction to My promise to give them the conquest of the land that I had first made to Abraham and confirmed with Moses when I brought them out of Egypt.
So producing goodness or any other characteristic of the fruit of the Spirit depends on what words you are speaking, for your words reveal the abundance of what is in your heart, for a man speaks from the heart’s abundance. And what you are full of is what you will produce. The seeds of what you plant will grow and establish your character. I have put My Words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of My hand to plant Heaven and establish it in the earth. Isaiah 52:16.
Goodness in your life starts in your mouth. You cannot get around your words. They can hinder or help you. So I advise you to use Mine. I have given them to you.
Jesus is My Word made flesh and He is your teacher. Let My Word teach you to profit and the way you should go. I sent My Word to heal you and deliver you from your destructions and He did. And He still forever intercedes for you with the Word as the great High Priest of your confession (homologia, which means saying the same words He does in perfect agreement). Speak goodness and you will produce goodness. Death and life are in the power of your tongue. Choose life. My Words are Spirit and life.
The revelation of My Word gives light. Light for the life of men. For the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth. Ephesians 5:9. And My Son is the Light of the world, no follower of His will ever walk in darkness, no not ever, for following Him you will have the Light of life. And that is good.
I love you. I am love. I am light. And I am good. And I made you in My image and according to My likeness. Look up at Me and smile, your face will be radiant, and it will never be ashamed.