It is not of our power or straining ,but by the power of the Holy Spirit. No amount of human toil or gritty determination can produce spiritual fruit, but the Spirit of God in us influence in a yielded heart can work miracles. The Bible makes it clear that everyone receives the Holy Spirit the moment he or she believes in Jesus Christ (Roman8:9).
One of the primary purposes of the Holy Spirit coming to your life is to change that life, it is the job of the Holy Spirit to conform you to the image of Christ, making you more like Him. Our sinful nature produces certain types of fruit that reflect our nature , and the Holy Spirit produces types of fruit that reflect Jesus nature.
THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
The fruit of the spirit are love, joy, peace, longsuffering , gentleness , goodness , faith, temperance and truth.
The Christian life is a battle of the sinful flesh against the new nature given by Jesus (2Corinthians 5:17). As a Christian , we have the Holy Spirit producing His fruit in us and we have the Holy Spirit's power available to conquer the acts of the sinful nature.
LOVE AS A COMPONENT OF THE FRUIT OF SPIRIT
The love Christian are expected to demonstrate as a fruit of the Spirit is based on the two great commandments of God.
1. Love your God.
2. Love your neighbour., Matthew 22:35-40
Therefore love can be defined as outgoing concern demonstrated by following God's commandments as it was written in the Bible. Love is kind, love suffer long, love does not envy, love does not seek its own, is not quickly provoked , think no evil, love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoice in the truth, love bear all things, believe in all things, love never fails.
The love which the Holy spirit Jenifer's in believers is agape, This love is not a feeling but a choice. It is a choice to be kind, to sacrifice and to consider others need greater than one's own.
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