I wish for your life to be filled with God's love and blessing. Now I want to share the grace with you through the message titled with "Fruits."
Any farmer expects and hopes to harvest abundant fruits while he is doing his works. In no matter what kind of field he gets involved, everyone sows and invests because he hopes to harvest fruits. It is the same in the Lord. According to the principle of God saying, "God lets us reap whatever we have sowed, and pays back us according to what we have done," our faith is revealed as fruits and discerned by the fruits.
The most crucial thing in bearing good fruits is the kind of tree. A good tree bears good and abundant fruits through the providing of good nutrients. But a bad tree bears bad fruits because it is not provided with good nutrients.
What do you have to do in order to come forth as a beautiful fruit before God?
First of all, you have to bear the fruit that gives out only one taste. Recently some trees bear the fruits that give out two more tastes through gene manipulation. But it is normal for a tree to bear the fruit that gives out one taste. It is the same in spirit. If you have been taught by your shepherding pastor who has taken after the Lord, you have to give out the same taste that your shepherd has. In other words, the people around you must be able to find the heart of God the Father and the Lord.
Next, in order for to become beautiful fruit before God, you have to fill your inside with the truth. The fruits that look good outwardly but have not been ripen or corrupted by worms are thrown away or used just for the food for cattle.
The fruits that can be deemed to have good flesh spiritually refer to those who have thrown away every from of evil and become sanctified. Furthermore, when they completely fill their hearts with the truth, they can become men of whole spirit and be deemed perfect fruits of spirit before God.
Lastly and thirdly, in order for you to bear beautiful fruits, you have to bear the fruits on the time when the Master wants to harvest. At the harvest time, if you find yourself bearing no fruit or if you are just preparing to bear the fruit, it profits nothing for the Master.
In the same way, you have to bear the fruits on the proper time in God's sight. It means you have to understand what He wants and to become the fruit at the most necessary field. And when you are assigned with some affairs really necessary, you have to bear abundant fruits and glory God and enlarge the kingdom of God.
Therefore, may you give thanks to God for His protecting you always and filling you with His grace and come forth as a beautiful fruit that God wants so that you can become joy or crown of exultation to God, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ I pray!
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