February 17 Devotion - THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

The fruit of the Spirit is:

1.                   love,

2.                   joy,

3.                   peace,

4.                   patience,

5.                   kindness,

6.                   goodness,

7.                   faithfulness,

8.                   gentleness,

9.                   self-control.

واما ثمر الروح فهو محبة فرح سلام طول اناة لطف صلاح ايمان

وداعة تعفف.

Galatians 5:22–23

"Fruit of the Spirit" is a Biblical term that sums up the nine visible attributes of a true Christian life. We learn from scripture that these are not individual "fruits" from which we pick and choose. Rather, the fruit of the Spirit is one ninefold "fruit" that characterizes all who truly walk in the Holy Spirit. Collectively, these are the ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ that all Christians should be producing through The Holy Spirit. The way to the fulfillment of the law is not to live under the law like slaves, but to live by the Spirit as children of God.

The fruit of the Holy Spirit is first and foremost love. All of the other qualities associated with having the Holy Spirit flow from the presence of God’s love in us.

And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:16

وَهَكَذا عَرَفنا وَصَدَّقنا المَحَبَّةَ الَّتِي يُحِبُّنا إيّاها اللهُ. اللهُ مَحَبَّةٌ، وَمَنْ يَثْبُتُ فِي المَحَبَّةِ، يَثْبُتُ فِي اللهِ، وَيَثْبُتُ اللهُ فِيهِ.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

فَتُحِبَّ إلَهَكَ بِكُلِّ قَلبِكَ، وَبِكُلِّ نَفسِكَ، وَبِكُلِّ قُوَّتِكَ.

Deuteronomy 6:5

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, thank You for Your abundant blessings and Your deep, everlasting and inseparable love for me. I praise You, glorify You and lift You up on high. O gracious and merciful God, fill my heart with the fruit of Your Holy Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Fill me Jesus with the moral qualities produced by the Spirit. Teach and strengthen me to love those who hate me; to pray for those who despitefully use me; so that I may be a child of God, my Father, who makes the sun to shine on the evil and on the good and send rain on the just and on the unjust. Fill my heart dear Lord with Your unconditional Agape love.I pray that out of Your glorious riches You may strengthen me with power through Your Spirit in my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith. Ephesians 3:16-17
In the name of the King of kings and Lord of lords, in the Holy Name of Jesus I pray. To Him be the glory, the majesty, the power and the dominion forever and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein