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1/18/20 BRING FORTH FRUIT
STUDY TIME
Today in my Memorial study journal, I studied 12/06/19. On
the first of this year, I heard the Lord tell me to study my rhema in order to go deeper. I print out rhema and leave
spaces for study, adding as much color as possible (photos,
scrapbook paper, colored paper inserts, colored pens, etc.)
Smiles, here is my rhema from 12/06/19. VERY SIMPLE!
12/06/19 FRUIT
WILL REMAIN
A basket of fruit.
John 15:16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,
and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit,
and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall
ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
I knew the Lord has told us to bear the fruits of the
Spirit. These fruits can only come through clinging to the
Lord, our Source and they represent Christ-like character.
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23
Meekness, self-control: against such there is no law.
John 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot
bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more
can you, except you abide in me.
Then I suddenly wondered if there was other type of fruit we
bear. Boy was I surprised by some of these!
Proverbs 12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the
fruit of his mouth: and the recompense of a man's hands
shall be rendered unto him.
Proverbs 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the
tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Isaiah 3:10 Say you to the righteous, that it shall be
well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil
upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because
they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but
rejected it.
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Whatever type of seed that we plant
bears fruit after its
own kind of seed. If we plant kindness, we will
reap kindness back to us. If judge, we will be judged,
etc!
Genesis 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth
vegetation, the plants yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it was so.
Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth vegetation, and
plants yielding seed after their kind, and the tree yielding
fruit, whose seed was in
itself, after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
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We bear fruit of our physical and spiritual wombs.
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We bear fruit from our land.
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We bear fruit from our animals.
Obedience is the key to God’s blessing. Ask Him to bless
your spiritual womb to bring forth His promises. And Him to
bless our livestock and our land so that we do not go into
drought and famine, etc.
Deuteronomy 7:13 And he will love you, and bless you, and
multiply you: he will also bless the fruit of your womb, and
the fruit of your land, your grain, and your wine, and your
oil, the increase of your cattle, and the flocks of your
sheep, in the land which he swore unto your fathers to give
you.
Psalm 92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old
age; they shall be healthy and flourishing;
PRAYER: Lord help me to bear good fruit from the
seeds You have given me to plant and steward. Help me to
always cling to You in order to bear that fruit. Help my
fruit to remain and continue to bring forth harvests. Grant
me grace to say the right things with my mouth, think the
right things with my mind, do the right things with my
deeds, and have the right motives from my heart and
character. Wow Lord I had no idea that when You told us to
go forth and bear good fruit, that it encompassed pretty
much every part of our life!
QUOTES BOB JONES: REVELATION ON THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
(from tape Post Falls, ID • March 2003)
He gave me a thing that I wanted to share with you. Last Oct
and Nov my dreams were terrible. Every night there were one
or two or three dreams. They were either spiritual, wrong
spirit, mental, wrong spirit, or physical wrong spirit. They
were financial, emotional, physical and sexual. We are 3
things, spirit, soul and body.
I was told I was too old, out of tune, unanointed,
discarded, unwanted, rejected. And I would wake up and say
NO. Then I would have another one. For 2 months I said NO.
On the last day of Hanukkah in December. They were the
worst. He said I am going to burn your house, I am going to
kill all your family, you haven’t got any protection, you’re
too far out on a limb. Nobody is praying for you. There just
terrible fear and everything else. I would have to wake up
and say NOPE. No way. You’re a liar. NO, NO, NO. But it
would disturb my sleep.
That Saturday morning I was really tired. I got and tried to
make it through the day, but I was just too tired. I figured
it was about 4 o clock that the devil had been up all night
tormenting me, so that he probably was taking a nap so I
went in and jumped in bed and I was going to take me one. So
I no more hit the bed, then I was gone but not in sleep. I
was gone before the throne. And there Viola and I stood
holding hands. And I saw a man and his wife come up before
the throne and Jesus was sitting on it.
I believe that Hanukkah is not the birth of Christ, but the
conception of it. And I believe that Christ was made flesh
and dwelt among us at conception.
And these people were going up there before the Lord. And
the first man and wife, they had the most beautiful basket
of navel Sunkist oranges I have ever seen. They put this
basket down and said, “Happy conception day Lord.” And He
said, “Thank you.” Then came the next couple. They had the
most luscious looking peaches you have ever seen. They were
beautiful. They were big and looked real luscious. They put
them at His feet and said, “Happy conception day Lord.” And
one after another came and I just started weeping. I said,
“Viola we don’t have any fruit to give the Lord.” It’s His
conception day and I don’t have anything to give Him.”
You know you don’t bear fruit with works, you bear it with
relationship. By abiding. You know I think that sometimes we
try to earn brownie points with works, when we can only have
it by relationship or intimacy. And so I started weeping.
And the man that took me and Viola there said, “Why do you
weep Bob?” By the way, He is faceless. I have never been
able to see His face. He is called the Parakleet, the One
that stands beside you. You may know Him as the Holy Spirit.
He said, “Look at your hands!”
John 14:16 KJV
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
NT:3875
parakletos (par-ak'-lay-tos); an intercessor, consoler:
KJV - advocate, comforter.
I looked down and we had a pink basket, Viola and I, and we
both had a hold of it. We had the most big luscious grapes I
have ever seen. They were as big as a baseball. I said they
are the grapes that come from Jericho? They are the promises
of God, they are out of the promised land. I said, “Viola,
we’ve got something to give the Lord!” I went up there and
said, “Happy conception day Lord.” And He said, “Thank you.
Do you know where you got those grapes Bob?” And I said,
“No, no Lord I don’t” He said, Every time you said no to the
devil the last 2 months you were baring fruit!”
And so He gave me a teaching on this. The only thing that
you can give the Lord is the fruit of the Spirit. Everything
else He gives. The fruit of the Spirit is character.
Gal 5:22-26 NKJV
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24
And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its
passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us
also walk in the Spirit.
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