Fruit not Fruits

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Hello! I hope that the Good Lord has kept you well, in Jesus Name!


What's your favourite fruit? Well mine is mango and banana oh and pineapples...haha I will admit I still haven't settled on one of them. You know, fruits have always been a part of humans ever since creation (Genesis 1:11-13) and God generously gave man these fruits for food (Genesis 1: 29). I can confidently say that God's mind is so sovereign because He created each fruit so uniquely to nourish our bodies. Need I mention the variety of colours that fruits come with, nothing but pure beauty.
Now I know we have gone through the benefits of fruits I think ever since primary school(academy for some of you) and the most common being their ability to give our bodies vitamins.



I will admit this to you, as I write this post I am not even sure where it is heading ( don't worry I promise you it is a good place,) but slowly the ideas are cropping up from my mind just like that, scratch that, not 'just like that' but by the Power of the Holy Spirit. Yes, He, the Holy Spirit was given to us by Jesus to be our Helper or Counsellor (John 14:16) at all times (among other roles), even in writing, blogging and everything else.



Now back to the fruits, you see when God made fruits they were meant to be food (I mentioned that earlier) and He knew that with food our bodies are healthy, fit and even strong. If you are hungry you can't lift a 90 Kg sack let alone a person weighing 50 Kg right? Technically food equals to strength and fruits are food so fruits is equal to strength.Are you with me? I hope you all said yes.
Moving on, we see Paul, an apostle, talking about the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23. Did you see that? Fruit not Fruits of the Spirit.



This means that it is one entity in its self. Now we said that Fruits is equal to Strength and this means that you need the entire Fruit of the Holy Spirit to fight the battles that we face daily in our lives. We cannot have LOVE and not be full of JOY, neither can we claim to  have PEACE without the ability to be PATIENT, now you see KINDNESS cannot be experienced in the absence of GOODNESS, and how can we show FAITHFULNESS without the application of GENTLENESS and yes we need SELF CONTROL to manage through situations we face.



You see, God wants us to feed on this Fruit that we may be filled fully that we may be complete, that we may be whole. Oh how God loves us.

Now you ask me my favourite fruit? it is the Fruit of the Holy Spirit :)

This is where I sign out, God is Good.

ALL GLORY TO GOD  | GOD LOVE YOU

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