October 6.
Be Full Of Fruit

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.

If you are a child of God, the Bible says you really ought to produce fruit. The thing about fruit is that the fruit will come without any effort on the trees part. I’ve been around fruit trees and I’ve never had a one grunting, trying to disperse fruit, because if it is a fruit tree, it will produce fruit. So if you are a child of God, then when the world sees you, there should be no questions about your salvation. When I am in the Florida area where those orange trees are, I never have to ask the driver the kind of trees. They are filled with oranges. If you are a child of the King, the world ought to see you and know who you are. The world should know whom you belong to. The first thing they will detect about you is your love. The thing about love is that you can not hide it. If love is there, love will lift its head every time.

There was woman called Mary who couldn’t contain her love. She showed it by taking a box of expensive ointment and pouring it on the feet of Jesus. Then she took her hair and wiped His feet. That was love. When love is present, you’ll know it because when you love somebody you will be talking about the person all the time. How can we say we love Jesus and never bring up His name? But when a person is really in love, they don’t care where they are. They talk about you in the beauty shop; they talk about you in the barber shop; they’ll bring up your name on the job. And that’s the way it ought to be if you are in love with Jesus. Bring up His name wherever you are. You don’t have to gossip in garbage. No, no, there’s enough about Jesus to keep you busy all day long.

Your fruit will also be joy and peace. You can be on hard times and still have joy. When you’ve got joy, it will fall off on somebody else. People around you can’t stay sad. You have the peace of knowing God will make a way.