Praise the Lord when this is lived out in people.
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Subject: {dbilg} A Blossom That Eternally Blooms devotional from S F Aug.16
Sunday, August 16, 2009
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A Blossom That Eternally Blooms
Pastor Paula White
A good way to determine how steadfast your faith in Christ is, and how
completely you have given your life over to the leading of God's Holy Spirit, is
to consider the joyous message we are given in Galatians 5:22 - 25:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they
that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If
we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:22 - 25
These verses offer an awesome, inspiring, and deeply comforting revelation of
how the Christian believer's life, spirit, and actions should transform and
manifest when truly "spirit-filled" and "delivered." I can find no better
description in the Bible of what a believer experiences, shares and expresses,
when listening to, acting out of, and sharing the Spirit of God.
In other words: our lives should "bloom" with the fruit - the "blossom" -- or
living proof, of the Holy Spirit within us! And people should be able to see
our fruit - in our actions, our words, our lives...as clearly as we might see
a juicy, ripe orange hanging from a branch as we pass by...or smell the
delicious
fragrance of beautiful tulip in spring.
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In the verses from Galatians, the words "love," "joy," "peace," "gentleness,"
and "goodness," immediately fill us with a gratitude to the Creator for His
deep and abiding devotion to us. He is GOOD...and His Spirit fills us with
His goodness, wraps us in His love, comforts us with His peace, and calms us
with His gentleness - and define what true, lasting, and eternally accessible
"joy of the Lord" is made up of.
"Longsuffering," "meekness," "faith" and "temperance," are words that
describe the characteristics we should display to the world as mature,
Spirit-filled
Christian believers. Hard won, steadily nurtured, carefully tended virtues -
these are the sometimes painfully cultivated fruits of a harvest that the
Spirit reveals through our patient, passionate, and persistent commitment to
getting the best of what God has to offer!
There is another vital reason for nurturing the Holy Spirit within: it is
only through the guidance of that "small, still voice" that we will be able to
reap the sustenance of God's grace, power, strength and fortitude during the
darkest and most difficult seasons of our lives. His fruits within us are
nourishing, empowering, and life-transforming characteristics that will show
the world God's omnipotence - as in our weakness, but through His strength,
even while shaken, we stand...when everything around us tumbles.
So seek to cultivate the fruits of the Spirit that God reveals in
Galatians...and in every season of life, you will be a walking testimony of
God's glory
on our earth today - truly "a blossom in eternal bloom!"
Pastor Paula White
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