Colorful Truths The Fruit of the Spirit Rick L. King

Colorful Truths The Fruit of the Spirit Rick L. King Copyright © Rick L. King March 2012 Published at Smashwords All Word translations are taken from the Greek and Hebrew in the Online Bible and are used by Permission. Smashwords License Statement This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. About the Author I am a 62 year man that has walked with the Lord for over 30 years. I have faced many trials and struggles during this time yet I have learned that they have always been for my good. Paul said in God’s Word that he died daily. I have learned that the more that I die out to self, the more that I end up being in the spirit. We are told that the spirit gives life. The Spirit of God produces good fruit in us whereas the flesh produces bad fruit. This book is all about fruit and how to have good rather than bad fruit. Table of Contents About the Author Colorful Truths The Fruit of the Spirit 1. Love 2. Joy 3. Peace 4. Longsuffering 5. Gentleness 6. Goodness 7. Faith 8. Meekness 9. Temperance Final Words Colorful Truths White is white And red is red We can trust In what Jesus said Green is green And blue is blue You can believe That God`s Word is true Yellow is yellow And black is black Your faith will avert A spiritual attack Purple is purple And brown is brown Jesus holds your hand You will never drown Silver is silver And gold is gold Accept Jesus as your Savior Be grafted into the fold Gray is gray And pink is pink Jesus will always do Above all you can say or think Orange is orange Tan is tan Jesus has for you and I A glorious plan There are many colors That we may see Yet the greatest is in Heaven The colored radiance of God’s Glory. The Fruit of the Spirit This is an in depth scriptural study of the fruit of the spirit as stated in the Word of God. This study reveals what fruit we should have, God’s ways of obtaining it, and how to walk in it. Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. A candle is a light. A candle has fire when it is lit. Our fire in the Lord comes from our spirit man, not our natural man. If we want to get on fire with the Lord, then we must yield to our spirit man and not our carnal man. The things of God come from the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit comes from the Spirit, not the flesh or carnal man. If we desire the things of God, then we will seek Him first, His righteousness, His kingdom. Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. In the Lord’s Prayer we read thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. In Heaven in God’s eyes we are a spiritual being with no sin. God sees us through the Blood of Jesus. Jesus paid the price for our sin that we may have fellowship with God. God desires that what He sees in Heaven, we become on earth. God desires that we see and walk in His Spirit and power. We have settled for so much less than what God sees us to be. We have allowed the cares of this world to choke out God and His Word. The Word has not produced in us the fruit that God desires, the Holy Spirit fruit. Mark 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. We are a spirit being. As a spirit being with the Holy Spirit energizing us, we are very powerful. We just don’t seem to really know that. We have been deceived by the devil that feeding our flesh or carnal nature is true life. This is a lie. True life is being what God desires us to be; a powerful man or women in the Holy Ghost. God said that we would receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon us. Do we yield to that power? Do we let the world and the devil determine what or who we are in Christ? This is a choice that only we can make. I believe that we can go as deep in God as we want to go. The table is set; we have to choose to sit at it. Do we desire spiritual food or natural food? The spiritual gives life. John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. The spiritual quenches our thirst. The spiritual makes us full. The natural can never do that. The candle is in every man. The key is do we desire the candle to be lit? If we do then we will do the things that draw us closer to Jesus through the Holy Spirit. We will pray, intercede, do spiritual warfare, worship, praise, and be obedient to His leading. These alone produce real life. Everything else is a substitute of the devil and a deception. What do we hunger for? Do we hunger for more of God or more of the things that attempt to satisfy our flesh yet never will? Ephesians 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. 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 ye, except ye abide in me. Our habitation in God comes by our abiding in Him through the Holy Spirit. It comes no other way. We cannot abide in the flesh and expect the fruit of the Spirit. The Fruit 1. Love Greek translation: brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence God is love (1 John 4:8). God is a spirit (John 4:24). Love is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. What we call love is not really love. Real love comes through the Holy Spirit as once again it is spiritually discerned. We say that we love someone yet we really get upset about what they may do. When we experience God’s love, we see the finished product so to speak. We see them through spiritual Godly eyes instead of through selfish natural man eyes. The things that normally bothered us seem to be no problem. All we do is do things that will cause the person to come closer to Jesus that they will become what they are to be in the spiritual realm. It once again is a focus. The pure love of God does not focus on the problem; it focuses on the solutions. I have experienced this many times in my life through intercession and praying in the Spirit. This love is so different than what the world calls love. Love is never selfish or self-pleasing. It never pushes itself forward. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) Worldly or carnal love is selfish. It always wants something out of love. Spiritual love is not selfish, as it just wants to give itself away. Love is sacrificial. It will sacrifice everything for someone else. Greater love has no man than he would lay down his life for a friend (John 15:13). That is what Jesus did. He laid down His life for you and me. This kind of love only comes from God. It only comes through the Spirit. Not that God is asking us to lay down our lives literally, He does require us to lay down our lives in the sense that we esteem others more important than our self (Philippians 2:3). We should be living to serve someone else, not living to serve self. I have known for years something that would make a marriage so beautiful. If each focused and was concerned about pleasing the other more than self, both would have all desires fulfilled. This is the same with the Lord. If we would be only concerned about fulfilling God’s desires, then our desires would be met. The key is the focus of our heart. It is seeking first His will. Our will, wants, and desires become secondary. If we please Him, He will please us. The Word is truth. It takes us obeying the truth through the Spirit to have pure love. 1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. 2. Joy The Greek translation: joy, gladness What is true joy? True joy comes in the Spirit. Yes, we may get happy or joyous about things on earth, yet this does not compare to the joy that comes in or by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit joy is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10). It is powerful. With this joy we can move any mountain. This joy causes us to not be discouraged or dismayed about anything. Nothing can rattle this joy. This is why when we have this joy; man and the devil seem to want to kill it. It is so powerful that the devil gets shook. He knows that he can not stand against it, so he will try to steal your joy away. If he succeeds, you are not as much a threat to his kingdom. He steals your joy by words or thoughts. If you can recognize his words or the thoughts that he attempts to get you to think on when they come, you will have much greater success in keeping your joy. 3. Peace ... - tailieumienphi.vn