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THE FRUIT

OF THEHOLYSPIRIT


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Matthew 7:15

"Beware of the falseprophets, who come to

you in sheep'sclothing, but inwardly

are ravenous wolves.


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Matthew 7:17

"So every good treebears good fruit, but

the bad tree bears badfruit.


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Matthew 7:19

"Every tree that does not

bear good fruit is cut

down and thrown intothe fire.


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Matthew 7:20

"So then, you will knowthem by their fruits.


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The Bible is very clear

about the way to

discern what is fromor not from God

coming out a personslife.


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Matthew 7:20

"So then, you will knowthem by their fruits.


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Having been involved in the

Charismatic renewal for manyyears, I know that many in

that movement use theevidence of miracles, signs

and wonders to be the sign ofa persons walk with God.


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It seems that Jesus did notagree:


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Not everyone who says to Me, Lord,Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven,

but he who does the will of My Fatherwho is in heaven will enter. 22 Many willsay to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did

we not prophesy in Your name, and inYour name cast out demons, and in Yourname perform many miracles?23And

then I will declare to them, I neverknew you; DEPARTFROM ME,YOUWHOPRACTICELAWLESSNESS.

Matthew 7:21-23 (NASB)


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In the Pentecostal Movementhaving the ability to speak intongues is often seen as themain sign of the work of theHoly Spirit in our lives.


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Paul the apostle didnot think so.


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If I speak with the tongues

of men and of angels, butdo not have love, I have

become a noisy gong or aclanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:1


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In the Word Faith movementhaving great faith to see greatthings done is the primaryevidence of true relationshipwith the Father.


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and if I have all faith, soas to remove

mountains, but do nothave love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2b


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In the prophetic

movements of the last

few years prophecy hasbeen seen as the crucial

test of true authority inthe Spirit.


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Paul says no.


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If I have the gift of

prophecy, and know allmysteries and all

knowledge. . . . but do nothave love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2


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In many Protestant and

Catholic traditions doing goodworks is the sign of being atrue believer.


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Again Paul tells us that

doing good works or evenmartyrdom is not to be the

sign of someone having avital relationship with God.


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And if I give all my

possessions to feed thepoor, and if I surrender my

body to be burned, but donot have love, it profits me

nothing.1 Corinthians 13:3


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In all these verses from 1

Corinthians 13 Paul tells uswhat the sign of a living

relationship with God isLove.


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The word love is so

misused in our presentsociety that it can be hard

to recover what the Bible istalking about when it uses

the word.


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The Bible uses one Hebrew

and two Greek words forLove.


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The Hebrew word AHAV is

used much like our Englishword. It covers all five of

the Greek words used forlove at the time of the

writing of the NewTestament.


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It can be used for Familial

love, romantic love,friendship, appreciation for

things or the ultimate lovefor God required by the

Shema:


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Sh'ma Yis-ra-eil, A-do-nai E-

lo-hei-nu, A-do-nai E-chad.Ba-ruch sheim k'vod mal-chu-to l'o-lam va-ed.V'a-hav-ta et A-do-nai E-lo-he-cha, B'chawl l'va-v'cha,

u-v'chawl naf-sh'cha,u-v'chawl m'o-de-cha.


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"Hear, O Israel! The LORD is ourGod, the LORD is one! (Blessedbe the name of his gloriouskingdom forever and ever) 5

"You shall love the LORD yourGod with all your heart and with

all your soul and with all yourmight.Deuteronomy 6:4


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Jesus quoted from this passageto answer a question about whatwas the greatest commandment.


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Jesus answered, The foremost is, HEAR,O ISRAEL! THE LORDOURGODISONE LORD;

30ANDYOUSHALLLOVETHE LORDYOURGODWITHALLYOURHEART,ANDWITHALLYOURSOUL,ANDWITHALLYOURMIND,ANDWITH

ALLYOURSTRENGTH.31 The second is this,YOUSHALLLOVEYOURNEIGHBORASYOURSELF. There is no other

commandment greater than these.Mark 12:29-31 (NASB)


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Its primary meaning is to

be committed withoutreserve to another person

or to God.


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In the Bible it describes a

selfless giving of our wholebeing to God in response

to His Agape for us. Tolove Him with all our heart

and with all our soul andwith all our might.


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We see from other

scriptures that this love isa fruit of the Holy Spirit.


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But the fruit of the Spirit is

love (Agape), joy, peace,patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control;

against such things there isno law.

Galatians 5:22-23


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Jesus tells us that the fruit

of our lives demonstratesour relationship with Him.

Nothing else does. So letslook again at what our

lives are to be filled with:


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But the fruit of the Spirit is

love, joy, peace, patience,kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, 23 gentleness,self-control; against such

things there is no law.Galatians 5:22-23


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When our lives are filled

with these things it is abeautiful life. . . . Beautiful

to live and beautiful tothose we live it with.


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Think for a moment about

the people in your life whomanifest these fruit. The

quality of their lives isextraordinary.


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Think about when you

experience these fruit inyour life. Does it not make

life wonderful?


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Fruit bearing was always

Gods idea. He created theworld to be fruitful. In fact

it is fruitfulness that is thevehicle of reproduction.


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Genesis 1:11 (NASB)

Then God said, Let the earthsprout vegetation, plantsyielding seed, andfruit treeson the earth bearing fruit aftertheir kind with seed in them;

and it was so.


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It ld h b fi t t


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It would have been our first parents

eating the fruit of the tree of life in the

garden that would have given themeternal life.

Out of the ground the LORD God causedto grow every tree that is pleasing to the

sight and good for food; the tree of life

also in the midst of the garden, and thetree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:9 (NASB)

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Then the LORDGod said, Behold,the man has become like one ofUs, knowing good and evil; andnow, he might stretch out his

hand, and take also from the treeof life, and eat, and live

forever Genesis 3:22 (NASB)


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It was eating of the

fruit of the tree of

Knowledge of Goodand Evil that

brought death.

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Now the serpent . . . said to thewoman, Indeed, has God said,You shall not eat from any treeof the garden?2 The woman

said to the serpent, From thefruit of the trees of the garden

we may eat; Genesis 3:1-3 (NASB)

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but from the fruit of the tree whichis in the middle of the garden, God

has said, You shall not eat from it ortouch it, or you will die.4 Theserpent said to the woman, Yousurely will not die! 5 For God knowsthat in the day you eat from it your

eyes will be opened, and you will belike God, knowing good and evil.

Genesis 3:-5 (NASB)

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When the woman saw that thetree was good for food, and thatit was a delight to the eyes, andthat the tree was desirable to

make onewise, she took from itsfruit and ate; and she gave also

to her husband with her, and heate.Genesis 3:6 (NASB)

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At the end of days, in

heaven, the way will berestored to the Tree of

Life. Eating of its fruit willgive us that eternal life

God had always desired forus to have.

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in the middle of its street. Oneither side of the river was thetreeoflife, bearing twelvekinds offruit, yielding its fruit

every month; and the leaves ofthe tree were for the healing of

the nations. Revelation 22:2

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Blessed are those who

wash their robes, so thatthey may have the right

to the tree of life, andmay enter by the gates

into the city.Revelation 22:14

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The covenant God

made with Abrahamwhich led to oursalvation was based

on fruitfulness.


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If you simply seach for thewords fruit, fruitful andfruitfulness in the Bible youwill see that the bearing of

fruit is a central concept increation, in the plan of God for

the world and in life in theSpirit.

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Of course we would not be

having this discussion ifthese fruits occurred

without any involvementon our part. My purpose

today is to help all of usbear more abundant fruit

for God

B i H l S i it f it i


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Bearing Holy Spirit fruit is

both a supernatural andnatural process. We are

given the actual process inthe book of Second Peter.


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For he who lacks these


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For he who lacks these

qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten

his purification from hisformer sins.

2 Peter 1:9


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To fully understand the


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To fully understand the

concept of bearing fruit wehave to understand about

the natural processinvolved in fruit bearing

plants.

Jesus helps us in this as


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Jesus helps us in this as

well. There are two waysJesus indicates we will

bear fruit in our lives fromHim.

The first comes from the


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The first comes from the

clear picture of death toself that occurs in a seed

dying to bring forth life.This is what Jesus did for

us first.

John 12:24 "Truly truly I


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John 12:24 Truly, truly, I

say to you, unless a grainof wheat falls into the

earth and dies, it remainsalone; but if it dies,

it bears much fruit.

John 12:25 "He who loves his


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John 12:25 He who loves hislife loses it, and he who hateshis life in this world will keep itto life eternal.

The first act of bearing fruit


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The first act of bearing fruitfor God is to give up seekingthe fulfillment of our ownlives. It is dying to the selfish

nature within us. It is only inthis first act that fruitfulness

will begin to happen in ourlives.

The question arises about what it


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The question arises about what itmeans to die to ourselves. Does it

mean, as many say, that everythingI want is to die?

I do not believe so. I believe itmeans that which is in us that will

take for ourselves what God gives usto bless others with must die.

Narcissistic selfishness best


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Narcissistic selfishness bestdescribes the self life. It is having

ourselves as the first love of ourlives. Dying to ourselves is

described by the simple phrase:

God first, others

before self.

Do nothing from selfishness or


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Do nothing from selfishness orempty conceit, but with humility of

mind regard one another as moreimportant than yourselves; 4 do notmerelylook out for your ownpersonal interests, but also for theinterests of others. 5 Have this

attitude in yourselves which was alsoin Christ Jesus,

Philippians 2:3-5 (NASB)

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who, although He existed in theform of God, did not regard

equality with God a thing to begrasped, 7 but emptied Himself,

taking the form of a bond-servant, andbeing made in thelikeness of men.

Philippians 2:6-7 (NASB


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We were created to be Like


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We were created to be LikeJesus. We were created to liveour lives for God first andothers before ourselves.

It is only when we live in this

balance that we begin toproduce the fruit of Holy Spirit

life within us

We produce the fruit of death as


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We produce the fruit of death aswe become more and more

consumed with ourselves.

We become more and more


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We become more and moreaware of the pain of our lives

which tempts us to the lust ofthe flesh. We become more and

more aware of what we do nothave which tempts us tocovetousness. We become moreand more aware of wrongs doneto us which tempts us to pride.

The fruit of Self Pity generating


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The fruit of Self Pity generatingthe lust of the flesh,

Coveteousness which is the lustof the eyes and Pride begin to

bring forth a harvest ofdepression, unfulfilled desiresand the misery of isolation. Webegin to move in the inwardspiral towards mental illness.

On the other hand the more and more


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O o a d o a d owe become God and other centered the

more and more we understand and fulfillour purpose to love God and others. Inthis outward spiral we become less and

less aware of our own pain. We becomemore aware of their pain and how wemight minster Gods love to them. We

find thankfulness overtaking our heartwhich leads us away from the lust of theflesh.


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John 15:12 "This is My commandment,


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y ,that you love one another, just as I have

loved you. 13 "Greater love has no onethan this, that one lay down his life forhis friends. 14 "You are My friends if you

do what I command you.

We must understand that Holy Spirit


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fruitfulness is a process. We see itdemonstrated in the world of nature. Jesusdefined that process by equating it to the lifeof a grape vine. The vine is the source ofearthly life. The Sun is the source of heavenly

life. Both provide vital things to the branches.To stay alive a branch must remain in thevine. This is where the metaphor varies

slightly from real life. We as the brancheshave the choice to abide- a word meaningto make a continual home we get our wordabode from this.


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As I thought about this in my own life


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g yconsidering what the frost might be I

thought the one thing that consistentlykills Holy Spirit fruit in my life isbitterness. It seems that bitterness is

like a late frost that takes the bloomaway that will one day turn intowonderful fruit. That is why Jesus was

so strong on us fully forgiving others.When unforgiveness lives in us we enterinto a world of perpetual frost where

nothing of the Spirit can live

For me another killer of Holy


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For me another killer of HolySpirit fruit in me is anger. Like a

raging storm full of deadly forcewinds that tear trees apart like a

Tsunami, I find my anger stripsmy branches not only of fruit butof everything that resembles life.And it does the same foreveryone.

But I say to you that everyone who


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y y yis angry with his brother shall be

guilty before the court; and whoeversays to his brother, You good-for-nothing, shall be guilty before thesupreme court; and whoever says,You fool, shall be guilty enough to

gointo the fiery hell.Matthew 5:22 (NASB)

The kind of fruit we bear speaks of Gods


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life within us. I have several trees on my

property. I have noticed that year afteryear my cherry tree brings forthcherries. I have never seen an apple,

pear or orange on it. It only givescherries. This is why the evidence offruit is what Jesus said we would use to

test our lives and the lives of others forthe truth of our relationship with him.We only bear the fruit that is actually in

us


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As my friend Loys DeFleuriot often used


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to say, People catch what you have, not

what you say you have. If you havemeasles but say you have mumps peoplewill catch measles.

The only real test of any of our lives isour fruit. If we are filled with the life of

Jesus we will bear the fruit of that lifeand in the bearing of that fruit we willreproduce it.


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I once had a vision.


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I was in the middleof a class in

Princeton.


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We were in a


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large

cavern with

a fire in the

middle of

our circle.


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I so wanted to getout of it.


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As I looked

around theedge of the

cave thereseemed to

be exits

Next to each


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Next to each

dark spotthat

seemed likean exit

there was aperson.


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They were


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They were

calling,

This isthe way

out!

As I looked at


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As I looked at

each one theyall seemed to

be saying thesame thing

and acting inthe same way.


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Some were jumping

up and down asthey yelled.


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Near my childhood


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y

home inOklahoma, are

many caves.


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Missouri and Arkansashave a lot more.

Our parents constantly


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p y

warned us not to evergo alone into caves.


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He


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He

knewabout

caves.


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But the


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ut t e

criminal gotlost and fell

off a cliff inthe

darkness.


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The fellowship of ourlittle group and the

small fire was betterthan being lost in the

darkness alone.


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But Iwanted

out so

badly.

I couldnot figure


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out how to tellwhich one ofthe people

telling me theyknew the wayout did.

The last man I


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looked at was

not even actingpassionately in

his proclaiminghe knew the

way out.


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As I watched him Iwas overcome with

a feeling of

despair.


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When I lookedup again I was


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up again I was

drawn to theman who was

quietly saying,this is the way

out.

My eyes


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My eyes

wentfrom his

face to

his hand.


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I thenknew he

knew

the wayout.

You see,


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You see,

peartrees

dont

grow incaves.

They grow in


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y g

a world ofsunlight,

rain andfruitfulness.

But the fruit of theSpirit is love joy


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Spirit is love, joy,

peace, patience,kindness,goodness,faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-

control; againstsuch things there is

no law Prayer Points:

If you have never yielded your life to Jesus as Savoir


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If you have never yielded your life to Jesus as Savoirand Lord do so today.

If you have specific needs bring them today to theonly one who can meet them.

If you have done things that have broughtfruitlessness into your life come in repentance tofind forgiveness and restoration today.

If you have things in your life that have hindered

Holy Spirit fruit surrender them to God today.

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