Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit

If you wish, feel free to study Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit as an individual daily devotional, but it is intended for use by a small group, such as a Sunday School class. No matter how you use it, you will need to interact with it, because it is a workbook designed to guide a person’s spirit to grow by learning more about the fruit given to us by God’s Spirit. This study guide is a spiritual mirror.

Love, Joy, Peace
It’s a story of love written with joy and designed to bring peace in your life.

Patience, Kindness, Goodness
The exercise of this study will require prayerful patience. Plan to set aside time for study. Awareness of how to extend kindness to others will result. Cultivating the fruits will bring goodness and mercy.

Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control
Studying will require the tenacity of faithfulness. Be gentle with yourself and to those studying with you. Learn to forgive and learn about self-control.

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from the book . . .

10 Questions For Self-Examination

  1. How have we shown our love to God and others?
  2. Have we told the Lord we love him?
  3. Have we passed through week after week in preoccupation with whatever is in the moment without taking five minutes to commune with God?
  4. Have we prayed so weakly that Jesus would need to ask us if we loved him the way he asked Peter?
  5. Have we treated our Lord as though he did not exist?
  6. Have our prayers been boring, monotonous formulas that must frustrate him?
  7. Or have our prayers been aimless wanderings through a list of petitions with no heart-felt praise for him?
  8. In our time of prayer have our minds wandered off to whatever was in the here and now?
  9. Have we forgotten that when we accepted Christ the Holy Spirit moved into our hearts?
  10. Shouldn’t we go back to the time and the place when we first fell in love with the Lord?