I have come to find out it’s not so much the people that we will be reaching and ministering to in the next 11 months that maybe drastically changed, but it is the change that will manifest in each of us while on this journey. I knew that I was going to have to give up and sacrifice something’s because now I am living in community with six other people, but I didn’t know it was going to be this HARD!
We have been speaking lately on the fruits of the spirit, and I have been studying what each one means and how it lines up with walking in the spirit of God.
Galatians 5: 22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Being with a team it really points out the good, bad, and the areas that we need to work on in ourselves. Dang, I hate it! No one wants to acknowledge those things in themselves, or especially don’t want others to point it out for them. The point of having a team is to have someone that wants to see you grow in God, but also walk with you through that process. So they are willing to push you and challenge in love to get rid of the mess in your life and to go deeper in God.
I can usually walk around those things in my life that I know don’t line up with the spirit of God, and the fruits that he willing offers us. Not because I just want to be a bad person or not walk in the will of God. I just pick and choose when I want to or not possess those fruits. I find that especially, in situations and hard times where I am challenged in those areas that we should walk in. Often times I feel like I am jumping and jumping and can’t seem to reach the tree. I wake up in a crappy mood, and don’t know why and it not only effects me and my day but everyone around me which is not fair to them or my ministry. It’s like I’m jumping and jumping, but can’t seem to reach the “joy” fruit! Maybe I’m not pressing and jumping high enough!
I desire to walk in the spirit of God, and not just pick and choose when I want to grab and possess those fruits, but walk in love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self control, all the time. Even during those tough times when someone is shaking my branches. Even though I feel like I jump and jump, and get frustrated God reassures me that since I have him in my life and his spirit dwells in me, I posses the same character as him. The fruit is already in me it just has to be harvested. It is not anything I think or do; it is something that I am. I have the tree of life inside of me, which shows the fruit of righteousness, and as I draw closer to God I will automatically produce good fruit. It made me think of John 15:3-5, 7-8
3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
Whoaaaaa I LOVE THAT! So no more jumping for me I don’t need to try to reach the tree, I already have it inside of me. Now I shall just spend more time with the gardener!
I have only 1 week to reach my $11,000 deadline, I only have $2,500 to go! LET’S GO! Thanks to all my supporters!
