TODAY’S WORD FOR FRIDAY OCTOBER 30, 2015.
FRUITFUL
Producing good results; beneficial, profitable, abounding in fruit; producing abundant growth.
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundred fold, some sixty, some thirty. Matthew 13:7-8.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. John 15:5.
In the verse above from John, Jesus teaches us that He is the vine and we are the branches and if we abide in Him we will bear much fruit. He is talking about bearing fruit with spiritual results such as bringing others to know Christ. That is what we as believers are called by God to do.
The key words in this verse are: “ABIDE IN HIM.” Abiding in Him gives evidence to our salvation and results in us bearing fruit. This fruit is not only soul winning but it produces spiritual fruit that includes a spiritual attitude and a Godly character. That should be a goal that we all should have as believers.
In Galatians 5:22 the Apostle Paul tells us that “the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, patience, kindness, goodness, fruitfulness, gentleness and self-control.
When we think of being fruitful we think of a farmer that desires to have a bountiful harvest of his crops. He must have the right soil, rain, sunshine, seasons, cultivation, and God’s blessing. A farmer who is a non-believer may say he needs “MOTHER NATURE TO BLESS HIS CROP” because he does not know God. He is really saying he needs God but does not understand that it is God who blesses crops by supplying the necessary nutrients from the soil, the necessary moisture, and the necessary sunshine and good weather.
To be fruitful as a believer we need God’s blessing. God can only bless us when we walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, pleasing to Him in all respects, doing what is good and increasing daily in the knowledge of God.
Like a farmer a believer must have the right soil, a personal relationship with Jesus. He must have rain and sunshine which is the daily communication with God through prayer and the reading of His Word. And then there must be the sowing and the cultivation which is the going out among the world and walking in your faith and talking about your faith. When the soil of your heart is well prepared then God will bless you with a bountiful fruitful harvest. Without God you can do nothing.
Our memory verse for this week is found in James 4:7.
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Guide me as I endeavor to abide in You that You will abide in me so that I can be fruitful in furthering Your kingdom. Bless my family and friends this day and produce in us the fruit of righteousness so that others will see Christ in us.
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