Daily Huddle - Wed Sep 16, 2020 Your Fruit

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word, simple, practical, honest truth.  Matthew 7:16 – "By their fruit you will know them (recognize them).  Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes?  Or figs from thistles?  Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.  A good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.  Wow – what a point blank verse.  Those kind require assessment.  What kind of fruit are you bearing right now?  The fruit of righteousness or wickedness?  Fruit is what you produce, what comes from you.  God’s Word says the fruit of our mouth should be praise and thanksgiving, honor and blessing, and commitment to righteousness.  You can’t bear different fruit in your actions than you do in your words.  Because your words fill your heart and reflect it.  Fruit always starts by what your mouth speaks.  Equally, you can’t just switch fruit, if you are bearing one kind, there’s a reason.   If you want to change your fruit, you have to change your seed – you have to change what is planted in you, if you want to change what comes from you.  And if you are planting good seed, and you don’t see the fruit yet, don’t be discouraged or impatient.  The farmer doesn’t sow seed one day, and break out the combine the next day.  There is a season between seed and fruit.  It's called between harvests.  Trust God with the timing, just keep sowing that seed.  God said don’t grow weary in well-doing.  That’s really well planting.  Everything you do is a seed.  John 15:4 – Jesus said, I am the vine, you are the branches, He that abideth in me  (stays, dwells – a given place, state, relationship) who continues, endures, remains present, tarries, remains in me) will bear much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.  I just love how God doesn’t just tell us something, He follows it up with how to do it.  verse 7  If you remain in me and my words remain in you…  (that’s how you abide in Him, that’s where your fruit and your fruitfulness comes from)  Makes perfect sense, Jesus is the Word of God, so to have His Words remain in you, means you’re remaining in Him.  And since His Word will never not produce something, when His Words remain in you – and come out of you (out of your mouth), you are remaining in Him.  Those are the  "conditions" that produce good fruit.  What are you remaining in today?   What occupies your looking, reading, watching, thinking?  How much of your thoughts are about what God says and does, rather than what other people are saying and doing.  Just like you can tell someone by their fruit.  Not just their words, but their actions.  You can tell the same about you, as can others.  Praying that humility will be your DNA, that PRISM – those five things you can do in God’s Word every day – will be your first and continual choice.  Praying that worship - that time in God's Presence will be your priority, that prayer will be your continual conversation today.  Praying that Praise will be what comes out of your mouth every time you speak.  That your love for God’s Word will grow – that it will shape what you say, so it shapes how you think, what you believe, and what comes out of your mouth, and the fruit that comes from your life.  Praying that you will share with someone – what God told you today.  That you will remain in His Word so you remain in Him, so what you produce is always life. 
 
Love you all,
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