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12 - The Fruit of the Spirit: in Life & Motherhood · Heartbeat of The Home

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome to another episode of Heartbeat of the Home.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Kristen and I'm just so excited that you're here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm doing a solo episode, no interviews, and I'm excited a little nervous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm going to be talking about the fruit of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's something that I have been wanting to talk about and I'm excited to talk about, but I also feel very underqualified to talk about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I'm, yeah, just kind of down on myself a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I know it's what I'm supposed to be talking about today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to do it afraid.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just wanted to confess that to you and tell the truth about how I'm feeling going into this.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm also equally excited because honestly, when I was planning this episode, I had this vision in my mind of like, okay, I really want to talk about the fruit of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: How can we apply this to motherhood?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can we like invite our kids into it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And as I was planning it, God completely revealed so much to me about it and kind of changed the whole theme of this episode, which is really cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I do not feel qualified to talk about this, but I am talking about it from a place of I am discovering it with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I am diving into it with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're doing this together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this isn't from a place of I know everything I'm talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, from a place of discovering this together and really deep diving into the fruit of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what are the fruit of the spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: What do the fruit of the spirit mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does it mean to walk with the fruit of the spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Receive the fruit of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just kind of talking about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are going to start in Galatians.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will say not a bad thing, but we are going to be reading a lot of scripture today.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, which is kind of fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like it's kind of exciting.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're just gonna do a little Bible study together tonight, ladies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be reading Galatians 5, 16 through 26.
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  SPEAKER_00: Walk by the Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: For those are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, the works of the flesh are evident, sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enemity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these, I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
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  SPEAKER_00: Against such things there is no law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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  SPEAKER_00: How can we apply the fruit of the spirit in our daily life?
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  SPEAKER_00: And just what does it mean to actually walk in the spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, we read to like walk by the by the spirit and not gratify the desires of our flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in verse 18, it says, But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then even after the fruit of the spirit, it said, Against such thing, there is no law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was really curious about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so like I said, this is gonna be a little scripture heavy because we're setting it up to really truly understand the fruit of the spirit, truly, truly, truly have received God and received the Holy Spirit into our heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: That these it's just like a way of living in communion doesn't seem like the right word, but living with God in our heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm going to read Romans 8 to give us a little more context and just set us up to know and understand what it truly, truly means to walk in the spirit and the fruit of the spirit and bear fruit in the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, Romans 8 is life and the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the law of the spirit of life has set you free in Christ from Jesus, from the law of sin and death.
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  SPEAKER_00: For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do.
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  SPEAKER_00: By sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned the sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on things that are of the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: But those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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  SPEAKER_00: You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if in fact the spirit of God dwells in you, anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will also give life to your moral bodies through his spirit who dwells in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heirs in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: So then, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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  SPEAKER_00: For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry, Abba, Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know what to pray, for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words, and he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really want to highlight Romans eight, five and six and nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of flesh, but those who live according to the spirit set their mind on things of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then verse nine, you, however, are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if in fact the spirit of God dwells in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just kind of thinking about that, like, okay, if he dwells in us and he the spirit is in us, then we are not walk and we aren't walking in the flesh, then we're walking in the fruit of the spirit, and we're walking in the attributes of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, because like verse nine, it says, You are you're not in the flesh, but you're the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: If in fact the spirit dwells in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I read all these verses because I really wanted to set us up to truly understand and go into okay, what is it to walk in the spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: And just really, I don't know, I feel like this was eye-opening for me of the fruit of the spirit, which sounds so I know this probably is like well duh, but I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like whenever I like was praying the fruit of the spirit or like thinking of the fruit of the spirit, like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentle, self-control, like through the spirit, like it's just like it's through the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just something you say, and you I think I I don't know, I never really connected the spirit aspect of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, like if we're walking in the spirit, these are things that we should be embodying and like why we should walk in the spirit and why we should what like we why we should find importance in the fruit of the spirit, if that makes sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to read again the fruit of the spirit, and then we're gonna go through each one and kind of deep dive into each of them and how we can apply them into our daily lives and how we can truly like adopt them into our spirit and live them out day to day.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, so the first fruit of the spirit is love, and I think there's a reason that love is the first one.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's also kind of in the forefront of my mind because I just did an episode with Shelly about our identity, and she really touched on the love of God, and I was just listening to it again today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just the love of God is kind of how she described it for her identity that like the love of God is the cement that holds all the other pillars together, and I think that's such a beautiful analogy of it's the first one that we mentioned, but it's like it's the most prominent, and it kind of holds all of the others together is God's love and how much he loves us and his love for us and the attributes of love and what love means to him is so profound.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I wanted to read First Corinthians 13, 4 through 8, and verse 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the title of it is The Way of Love, and it's kind of the attributes of love and what love is.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is patient and kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love does not envy or boast, it is not arrogant or rude, it does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love never ends.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then verse 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: So now faith, hope, and love abide.
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  SPEAKER_00: These three, but the greatest of these is love.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe it is first because it is the most important.
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  SPEAKER_00: And how can we walk in love?
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  SPEAKER_00: And how can we walk bearing the fruit of love if we don't fully believe and understand, and even accept the love of God in our lives and how much he loves us?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm saying this from a place of I think I really struggled to fully accept God's full love for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think whenever I do listening prayers or like ask God, like, what do you want me to know?
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  SPEAKER_00: The first thing he has always said is like, you're loved.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, okay, but what else?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think it can be really hard to fully understand and grasp how much God loves us and really comprehend that like he sent his son to die on our behalf.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how much he loves us, and all the things that he's done for us, it's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, if we don't fully understand and like receive the love of God, how can we walk in love?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can we fully walk in love truly in our spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: When I was really processing this too, um, one of my favorite artists, Abby Gamboa, she just released a new album, and one of the songs is Love Is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like it really broke down even more this of like the attributes of love.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I wanted to read some of the lyrics.
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  SPEAKER_00: Highly recommend listening to the song, it's super good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is the time that you take, a choice that you make, it's not a feeling.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is consistently kind, it doesn't mind an inconvenience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is the way that you break, but somebody stays.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love is patient, the grace willing to wait for another minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love isn't picking a fight, it doesn't delight in wrongdoing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love isn't jealous or proud, boastful or loud or point-proving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love doesn't need its own way, its preferences laid down for others.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love never fails, never quits, stays till the end, it's forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's cool because this song is definitely based off of 1 Corinthians 13, 4 through 8 and verse 13, because then the last bridges, faith, hope, and love are all that remains.
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  SPEAKER_00: But love is the greatest of these.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, I think just hearing this song and just kind of I feel like it just broke it down a little bit more for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just feel like I was supposed to read those lyrics to maybe help kind of give you even more context and receive the love even more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So something that's also super interesting is that love, if you're truly walking in love, you're also walking in the fruit of the spirit because love is patient and kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are two of the fruit of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even some of the other things listed is joy and self-control, just with insists on its own way.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not resentful, it rejoices with the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like those are a lot of things that also kind of go with self-control.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's really cool that it's the first one.
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  SPEAKER_00: But also, if you're walking in love, you're also walking in the fruit of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the application for love is even for like in motherhood and life, loving our kids by walking in the love of our father, by receiving his love, and then by receiving his love and fully accepting it and knowing it and believing it and walking in it and trusting in his love, then we will be able to naturally pour it into our children and our marriages and our friendships.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it is about okay, love, love one another, but also receiving the love of God, I think, is the most important thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And once we do that, then we can fully, I don't know, I feel like then we can just really fully step into who God's created us to be and fully step into the fruit of the spirit and our purpose by just really deeply understanding God's love for us and his purpose for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, the second is joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I was reading this one, just the first thing that came to mind is the joy of the Lord is our strength, not just superficial joy, deep true joy in the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I was reading about joy, the verse that came to mind was John 15, I am the true vine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And verse 1 through 11, it says, I am the true vine, and my father is the vine dresser.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes that it may bear more fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am the vine, you are the branches.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever abides in me and I in him, he is that bears much fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: For apart from me you can do nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers, and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: By this my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be disciples.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abide in my love.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.
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  SPEAKER_00: These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full, that your joy may be full by abiding in God that our joy may be full.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another definition of joy is delight.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's really a beautiful picture of just even our joy may be full if we like delight in the Lord, and if we find joy in the Lord and delight in the Lord, and we find joy and delight in God's presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then another verse that kind of tied that together as well is Psalm 16:11.
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  SPEAKER_00: You make known to me the path of life in your presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is fullness of joy at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also Psalm, Psalm 37, 4, delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know I really deep dived into joy there or love.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a lot of verses, and so joy, how is this applicable?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the joy of the Lord is our strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if we find delight, joy in him, delight in him, that's our strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the application for this one is again, I'm coming at it from the perspective of okay, what does it mean to have to like really receive these in our spirit?
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think yes, we can embody joy and we can bring joy into space, but also what does it mean to delight in the Lord and find joy in the Lord and us receiving joy from him and not an outward joy of us like displaying an outward joy?
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  SPEAKER_00: We think that's important.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what would it look like to actually receive joy, receive delight from the Lord and find joy in him?
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  SPEAKER_00: And so just would encourage you to dive into that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what does the joy of the Lord look like?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does it feel like?
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  SPEAKER_00: What does it look like for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: How can you find delight in the Lord on a daily basis?
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  SPEAKER_00: And how can you spend time with him and find delight in him?
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  SPEAKER_00: The third one is peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be reading Philippians 4, 4 through 9.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rejoice in the Lord always.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, I say rejoice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord is at hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's just so beautiful, the peace that surpasses all understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think what does it look like to walk in peace and receive the spirit of peace over our life?
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  SPEAKER_00: And how can we be the peace in other people's lives?
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  SPEAKER_00: When I was really looking into peace was the armor of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Ephesians 6, 15, first it says fastened the belt of truth, having put it on the breastplate of righteousness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then verse 15 it says, And as shoes of your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, we're just getting comfy here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's so cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: The armor of God of peace, that it's in our spirit and it's in our armor of the readiness given to us by peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: That if we're walking in peace daily, literally, if we're putting on the shoes of peace, um, what would that look like if wherever we go, we're just walking in peace, no anxiety, no stress, just the peace that surpasses all understanding that's God's given us and that he wants us to have in our spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's one of the fruit of the spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so if we keep our mind focused on the Lord, he will provide peace for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: There will be no room for anything else.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's gonna be no room for anxiety, no room for fear, no room to worry, any of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That like if we have fully embodied and fully accept the spirit of peace, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be unstoppable.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we're walking into a room full of peace, not worrying about anything, listen, ladies.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'd be unbreakable.
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  SPEAKER_00: The fourth one is patience.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, going into this like patience, how is this applicable?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just be patient, be patient with your kids, be patient with your husband, just be patient.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I was looking into patience, I was kind of reflecting on a sermon I heard recently of patience is also like hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or like another way to look at patience is this hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: And being patient for what's to come, but also being hopeful for what's to come and just their correlation, kind of going back to Romans, Romans 1530.
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  SPEAKER_00: 13.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace, which is cool because it was the fruit of the two fruit of the spirit before this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: May the God of hope fill you with joy, with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this verse, it says that joy and peace equals hope, slash patience, if you kind of put them together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just like, okay, if we have love, if we have joy, if we have peace, then we have patience.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have hope for the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: We aren't worrying about the future.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have patience.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're willing to wait in God's perfect timing because we know that He loves us and He has incredible plans for us, that we are delighted in Him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The joy of the Lord is our strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have nothing to worry about, and we're filled with peace.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we can walk in patience.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just love how each of these are building on each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just like, this is so cool.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: Also, everything I'm saying, I'm preaching to myself.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: Please know that that while I'm like saying all this, I'm like mind-blown and also like very convicted that I need to be walking more in the spirit.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: But also so cool that we have the authority and the power to do that.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: Like we can do it, which is so cool.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I think just the application for this is just having patience and hope for the future and what that looks like.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: I really love the correlation of being hopeful for the future and what is to come and what God is going to do in our lives, and sitting with that and just like releasing that, which is so cool.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see if I should read Colossians 1.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm gonna read it.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_00: Colossians 1, 9 through 12.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: And so from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a mirror manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints of light.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Beautiful patience with joy.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, the next one is kindness, and again, I think it's kind of the same with that's easy with patience of you know, be patient with people or kindness, be kind to one another.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um but I think that's is so true.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: Be kind to one another, but also ourselves.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_00: How can we be kind to ourselves and gracious with ourselves?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_00: Titus 3, 1 through 7, be ready for every good work.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy towards all people, for we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: But when the goodness and loving kindness of our God, our Savior, appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us ritually through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: Something else is kind of cool.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: In Proverbs 31, 26, she opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: I think even just the teaching of kindness is on her tongue, is beautiful.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: But even though she opens her mouth with wisdom, and I think that is something really interesting to reflect on too.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: She opens her mouth with wisdom, and because she discerns what she is supposed to say, kindness is on her tongue.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: She speaks in kindness because she's thought through what she's going to say.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: She's speaking out of wisdom, out of knowledge, and being wise about her words.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: And so I think that's a really good reminder, too, of okay, how can we walk in kindness?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: What are we saying?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: Being mindful of what we say and just the words that we say, because words have power.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so, how can we take authority over that with our spirit and use our words out of kindness to our kids, to our spouse, and to the people around us?
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: The next one is goodness.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: How do we live out goodness in the goodness of God?
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I think this is kind of one that we receive, that we're just receiving the goodness of God, you know, receiving his joy, his peace, patience, receiving his kindness and receiving his goodness.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's what's cool about the fruit of the spirit.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, okay, live out the fruit of the spirit, but also receive the fruit of the spirit.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_00: Because again, even with love, how can we live it out if we haven't received it?
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: Going back to Titus 3:4.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: But when the goodness and loving kindness of our God, our savior, appeared.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then even Psalm 34, I otaes and see that the Lord is good.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: Bless is the man who takes refuge in him.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: This verse kind of ties goodness and faithfulness together, but Psalm 103, for the Lord is good, his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, I think it's just kind of that he's a good God, a loving God.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_00: Again, these are kind of the attributes of God as well in the spirit.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so walking in his goodness, walking in his faithfulness.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: And something that's really interesting is when I was really looking up faithfulness and verses of faithfulness, most of the verses were like this one said, His steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's so it's like his steadfast love and faithfulness go hand in hand that he loves us and he's faithful.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's a really cool, a really cool image.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: And even if you look up faithfulness, it's reliable, it's steadfast and loyal.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, that's love, you know.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: The when I read the lyrics so long, it's like it's never, it doesn't walk away.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I think that's just really cool of like faithfulness and just like how we how should we walk in that?
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_00: How can we be faithful to the Lord?
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's faithful to the Holy Spirit, of walking in all these attributes and in community with him, faithful to him.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: And then in Luke 16, 10, it says, One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in very little is also dishonest in much.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: And so, even just faithful, being faithful with God and faithful with the responsibilities that he's given us, and given to us a steward of our kids, our our marriage, and just being faithful in those things and trusting him and finding peace and joy in them, just being faithful to God and what he's given us.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: The next one is gentleness.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna read Ephesians 4, 1 through 7, and it's called Unity in the Body of Christ, and I really feel like gentleness brings unity.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: It says, I therefore, prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then again, I think it's so cool, which I mean it makes sense, but so many of these verses, when I was deep diving into each one of them, lists many of the other fruit of the spirit, that they're all just like clumped together, which is really cool.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, back to the verse.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: There is one body and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: Even just like gentleness on our tongue, because even Proverbs 12:18 says, There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of wise brings healing.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: But even just a gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit, and even okay, how can we be gentle in our words?
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_00: And kind of goes with the kindness of how can we walk in gentleness as moms with our kids and being gentle and kind, but also walking in the spirit, you know, and bringing life within the spirit.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Continuing in gentleness, 1 Thessalonians 2, 7 through 8.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: I thought this was really interesting and really cool, just because obviously this is a motherhood podcast relating to moms.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: But 7 through 8 says, But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: So being affectionately desirous of you, we are ready to share with you not only the gospel of God, but also our own selves because you have become very dear to us.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's so beautiful that God refers to our roles as mothers as gentle, and he uses us and wants to use us if we're walking in the spirit as an example to others of gentleness in motherhood in everyday life, doesn't just have to be in motherhood.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: But I just think it's really cool that he, you know, refers to mothers and just like how we are called to we are called gentle.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: And how can we adopt that and accept that?
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: But walk in that truth of gentleness with our kids and just like accepting that into our spirit.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_00: And the final one is self-control, and it's the last one for a reason, and I think it's often overlooked because I think it's like love, joy, peace, patience are kind of the main, and like kindness, goodness, gentleness, feel like faithfulness, and um, but self-control sounds like oh and self-control.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I think it's the last one, and I think it's I'm not gonna say that one is more important than the other because they're not, but I think this one is super important because it's the self-control, it's the control that we have over our body, over our spirit, and over our mind.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to read 2 Timothy 1 7, which is kind of my life verse, but it says, For God gave us a spirit, not a fear, but a power, love, and self-control.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: Other versions, it's power, love, and a sound mind.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_00: But I think it's so powerful that God gave us a spirit, not of fear, but of love, power, and self-control.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_00: And then 2 Peter 1, 3 through 8 says, His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him who calls us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that though through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like that is like such a cool reminder of going back to like the fruit of the spirit.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like we want to bear these fruit, we want to bear these fruits for these things to be pruned in us so that we can produce good, healthy, beautiful fruit that impacts the world and that like brings people to God.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: So when we walk in the spirit, having received the Holy Spirit, we have self-control.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: All right, the last verse I'm going to read for self-control is 2 Corinthians 10, 3 through 6.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I said this is gonna be pretty scripture heavy.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, this is another one about this, which is really cool.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_00: Boom, we have authority, we destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: It's really cool because there's so many ways that self-con self-control can apply to the fruit of the spirit.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I love that it's a fruit of the spirit because it's something that is hard.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: Self-control can be really hard.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_00: And I think there's so many ways self-control can self-control can apply to this.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: It can be, honestly, it can be literally just like food-related, you know, being able to stop eating desserts or coffee.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it can be lust, because even just taking control over our thoughts and taking our thoughts captive over fear, over anxiety and shame, guilt, and walking in the truth of who God says you are, and having received that and walking in authority and in self-control, what like literally it'd be unstoppable.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you're walking in the fear of the spirit and just walking in God's love, right?
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: Walking in God's joy, receiving his peace, walking in his peace, his kindness, his goodness, his faithfulness, God's gentleness, and the self-control that he's given you.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like, oh my gosh, just imagine that.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm just imagining that over my life, too.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: Of if I fully received that and daily, just it just feels like it feels feels so light.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like there's even a verse about that of like walking in the light, like imagine if there was no fear, like kind of the question of like, what would you do if you weren't afraid?
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: And like if the fear was gone and you were just filled with his peace, and you were had the self-control to take those thoughts captive and shut them down, and to just walk in God's gentleness for your life.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think that's just so cool.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I think that's a challenge for myself, a challenge for you to like meditate on the fruit of the spirit and what God is calling you to really focus on in this season.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you have really been working on God's love and you have really accepted and fully believe in your bones God loves you.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_00: And so you're like, listen, oh my gosh, like I've received that.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: I know God's loved me, but like joy.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like, how can I receive his joy and delight in him or self-control?
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, I need to work on self-control and taking my thoughts captive and walking in authority and like having that authority.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: So we've talked about the free spirit.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_00: I felt like I was supposed to end with this verse.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: We started out reading Romans 8.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't finish it.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_00: I got to the end.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: So verse, so Romans 8, verse 31, it's God's everlasting love.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_00: What then shall we say to these things?
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_00: If God is for us, who can be against us?
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_00: He did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: Is it God who justifies?
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: Who is to condemn?
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus Christ is the one who died, more than that, who raised, who is the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us?
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword, as is written, as it is written, for your sake we are being killed all day long, we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: For I am sure that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: That's incredible.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like I'm receiving this.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: And if this is for anyone, it's for me.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just like I feel like this was so cool to just really dive into for me.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: I think specifically the love of God and just like that his love is the foundation for all of these things.
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_00: And if I how I need to just process and truly try and believe and work on believing the love of God for me and just receiving it, you know, even not just like I need to believe it, but just receive it.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_00: I just need to receive it.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: I just hope that this was encouraging to you, and even just another challenge is to just pray the fruit of the spirit over yourself.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_00: I think that was something that was kind of highlighted to me is I prayed the fruit of the spirit over my son.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: And while I was pregnant, I prayed the fruit of the spirit over him.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_00: And the one that like really stood out was kindness.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: And if you know Jackson, like he that is just like him honestly, there's so many, but I feel like there's just kindness.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like John and I just speak that over him all the time of like he is going to be known for his kindness, and he is just so kind, and that is just how he's gonna grow up.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like, he is just going to be known for like in life for his kindness.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I pray over him, but like just like praying the fruit of the spirit over yourself.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_00: I think even like putting on the armor of God every day, but also praying the fruit of the spirit over yourself could be so powerful.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: Praying over your family, over your home, just like the spirit of the Lord would dwell in your home, that the fruit of the spirit would dwell in your home, and that as people enter your home, they would be filled with the fruit of the spirit.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's so cool.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_00: But like that they would sense his love, his joy, his peace, his patience, his kindness, his goodness, his faithfulness, his gentleness and self-control.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_00: I asked my prayer for you in listening to this episode, and that you would just receive this, that it would give you something to think about, but that you would experience those things too.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: Shall I repeat them?
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna repeat them.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: Would receive God's love, that you would receive God's joy, that you would sense and feel his peace in your heart and in your life, that you would receive God's patience, that you would uh receive his kindness and his goodness, God's faithfulness, God's gentleness, and uh the ability to have self-control over your life that is in the spirit, and that you would just walk in the authority that God has given you in the Holy Spirit, because if you've accepted him into your heart, you have the Holy Spirit and you have the mind of Christ, and you can walk in authority and uh, like that's so cool.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what the enemy is scared of, and he's trying to put all these doubts into your mind, he's trying to put all these fears, all these distractions, all these anxieties and worries in your life, and God is just calling you to be loved by him and to feel peace in his presence and his gentleness and his kindness and his goodness.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'm just praying that over you and over every listener that you would experience the fruit of the spirit and you'd walk in them and that you would explore them for yourself and what it looks like in your life, and that God would speak to you individually.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like this was kind of a lot.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, this all makes sense and wraps up into a beautiful bow.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trusting that God's gonna do that because I feel like this was all over the place.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_00: But I love you, I'm thankful for you, and I'm just praying that you would experience God and that you would sense his presence in your life because he loves you so much and he cares so deeply for you and your family.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_00: I pray that this was encouraging, and I just so appreciate you being here along for the journey that is this podcast.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope you have a wonderful evening or day or drive or wherever you're going or whatever you're doing, and know that God loves you.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.