Love.
Joy. Peace. Patience. Gentleness. Goodness. Faith. Meekness.
Temperance. Powerful forces the Bible calls the fruit of the spirit.
They’re the character traits of God Himself and when the Holy Spirit
came to dwell in you, He brought them with Him, so they could become
your character traits too.
They’re designed to bubble up inside
you, to gush forth like a powerful stream constantly protecting and
cleansing you from the inside out.
Have you ever noticed that you
can’t put any trash in the mouth of a flowing fountain? When it’s
shooting that water up, the force of its own outflow protects it and
keeps it clear of any impurities from the outside. Well, the spiritual
fountain within you works the same way. When you’re allowing the forces
of love and joy and peace and gentleness and all the others to flow out,
the devil can’t get any of his junk in.
How do you keep the
spirit flowing? You pump your heart so full of the Word of God that the
forces of eternal life start bubbling out. Just a little at first...and
then stronger and higher.
Choose
to keep those forces streaming out of the fountain of your heart.
Refuse to let selfishness and sin stop the flow. You have a fountain
filled with unbeatable life forces inside you and it’s ready to come forth. Let it flow!
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