Bear This Kind Of Fruit - In the Morning When I Rise

What is the fruit of the Spirit? Why is it important?

Let the Holy Spirit guide your life. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. When you are directed by the Spirit, the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in your life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Galatians 5:16, 18, 22-23

Lord, how can I develop these character qualities?

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Grow in my grace and the knowledge of me. Delight in my law, meditating on it day and night. You will be like a tree planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season, and you will prosper in all you do.

John 15:4; 2 Peter 3:18; Psalm 1:2-3

How can I pray for you to reveal which fruits need to mature in my life?

God, I ask you to give me complete knowledge of your will and to give me spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way I live will always honor and please you, and my life will produce every kind of good fruit.

Colossians 1:9-10

The fruit of the Spirit is the result of maturity and growth in your relationship with Jesus. The more you strive to know God and live life with him, the more evident these fruits will become in you. Consider each fruit of the Spirit one by one: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Which specific fruit might God be trying to bring to maturity in you? What current circumstances might God be using to help you grow more fruitful in this area?