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God’s Recipe for a Fruitful Life By
Tina Tedder
Galatians 5:16
This I say then, walk
in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the just of the flesh.
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Here is
my advice, Live your whole life in the spirit and you will not
satisfy the desires of your lower nature.
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How can
we do this when we are flesh?
Apostle Paul said in
Romans 12: 2
And be not conformed
to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect
will of God.
Also,
Colossians
1:10
That ye might walk
worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good
work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.
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We are
not to partake of the sin in this world.
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We do
not need to live according to the flesh.
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Judge
all your actions according to the Word of God,
then you’ll
be living according to the Spirit of God.
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Living
according to the Spirit is simply having God’s character growing in
your life.
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Character is a person’s personality.
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God’s
personality or character is found in
Galatians 5:22-23
:22 But the fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness,
goodness, faith,
:23
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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A
person’s character is their personality,
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How they act
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How they
respond
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God’s
character is full of . . .
1.
Love
2.
Joy
3.
Peace
4.
Long-suffering (Patience)
5.
Gentleness (Kindness)
6.
Goodness (Generosity)
7.
Faith (Loyalty)
8.
Meekness (Tolerance)
9.
Temperance (Self-control)
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All of
these are inward character
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But when
we live them they reveal outward gifts.
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We find
ourselves being them
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Others see us
doing them
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Let’s
picture our life as a garden
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If we
plant, we should reap what we plant or sow . . .
1.
We plant
love we receive love
2.
We plant
joy we receive joy
3.
We plant
peace we receive peace
4.
We plant
patience we receive patience
5.
We plant
kindness we receive kindness
6.
We plant
generosity we receive generosity
7.
We plant
loyalty we receive loyalty
8.
We plant
tolerance we receive tolerance
9.
We plant
self-control we receive self-control
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We all
know if a garden is not taken care of, it gets weeds.
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Weeds get into
our spiritual garden
1.
When we allow thing of this world to get into our lives
2.
When things of this world become a distraction
3.
When the circumstances seem to get a hold on us
4.
We
then need to take our spiritual plow and weed out the distractions
5.
We
need to take the Word of God and apply some spiritual food to our
garden
6.
When Satan sends things our way to distract us
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We
should pour our self into the Word of God
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For what
the Lord intends to be great in our lives,
Satan tries to
destroy
As 2 Peter 3:18 says;
But grow in grace,
and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him
be glory both now and for ever Amen.
Let your garden grow
abundantly in Jesus.
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