How is Your Fruit Shining Forth? Romans 1:8-15

 

How is your fruit showing forth?

   Hello readers and viewers! I know it has been two weeks thus far to see the next episode of my videos and a blog post. I hope you all have not been parched of the teachings. 

   I said last time that I would post the next video the same day, after the other. Forgive me, but I was unable to make this happen. I should not have said I would post right away and not complete it. Jesus states that I must make my yes, yes and no, no (Matthew 5:33-37).  I apologize that I did not follow through with what I said I would do. 

   I was able to finally edit the video I needed to finish the specific lesson. I hope you all enjoyed it. I wanted to share a neat way that the Lord uses me with the gift of exhortation. Many times I am able to hear music in my mind and sometimes, when I am reading prayer requests from friends, I begin having a song in my mind. These songs are usually associated with what they need. I have since been asking if they want the song and it seems to edify them. I am pretty excited by this revelation in my walk. 

    Music is an awesome way to pray to God our Father and our Lord Jesus. I am able to intercede for others with song, as I am thinking on the lyrics and talking to the Lord through them. This is why choosing to listen to music that is good before the Lord, and worships the Lord, is more beneficial that most other forms of lyrics out there. God Wants us to use our voices in song to Him. (Colossians 3:14-17)

  Next time, I will go over what faith is and how to grow in this gift. Yes, it is a gift one can have. The Word says that all people are given a measure of faith. I believe that since the Holy Spirit chooses what gifts we are to have, this means that when it comes to faith, the amount can vary in different circumstances. I will say, that God is an awesome Father and Jesus is an awesome Savior and King. I have been through quite a bit in my years (Yes, I am past my 30s...😜), but being the young whipper snapper I am, I have to say I have been through a lot. My trials and tribulations in my life could probably become a thriller's best seller. I won't write it, but I believe it could. 

   

    There are many of us out there that can say the same thing. We are all allowed to experience a form of struggle. The gifts that we were blessed with by our Father were given for a purpose that we were made to do. I needed to go through what I did, most likely to get me ready to meet people in my future who needed love, hope, and faith. I can share my testimony and it will help another. We can't say this if our lives were perfect and unaffected. 

    Jesus said we would go through hardship, as He went through hardship. The world and Satan hates those who are His (Jesus Christ our Lord's family). Don't dwell on the fact that life seems to suck and it seems hopeless. Dig into the Word, go to church, fellowship with others who are like minded in the Lord, and Serve. Get out of your funk by being about our Father's business and not your emotional business. God our Father and our Savior and King, Jesus does not want us to worry about ourselves. Our Father in heaven will do that for us. Your job and mine are to think outside our circumstances and seek Him and His will. I just gave you all the tools you need. If you need more, go to a Bible preaching and Agape filled church and speak to a pastor about your struggle. The Lord loves you and has a plan for your life. If you stop because you are looking at yourself, then you can't see what is in front of you...The Lord Jesus carrying you in His arms, while God our Father is holding Him. 

   You are a loved creation by our Father, never forget Who He is and that He made you for a purpose...get out there and start working on that fruit by practicing those gifts the Holy Spirit gives you when you are ready to listen, obey, and move forward in your walk with God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. If God is for us, who in this crazy world could do anything outside of our heavenly Father who is Holy, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Creator, and The Beginning and the Last? Did I hear crickets?!?!?!  

Good....Go and follow the commission set forth by the Lord Jesus before He ascended to make our home in heaven... Matthew 28:16-20.

Have a blessed week and I hope to make another video and blog soon. 

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Written by Sean Feucht / Pat Barrett / Ben Hastings

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