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- 0:02SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Father's Business Devotional Podcast, which flows from the heart of Sylvia Gunter and her deep desire to help people know God.
- 0:10SPEAKER_01: May God quiet your spirit and soul, draw you close to the Father's heart, and anchor you in the unshakable truth that you are deeply loved and securely held.
- 0:22SPEAKER_00: The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
- 0:31SPEAKER_00: The fruit of the Spirit is not an emotional response.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: It is God in you.
- 0:38SPEAKER_00: Be blessed to keep in step with His Spirit and draw on who He is.
- 0:43SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with God's love that gives freely without asking anything in return.
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with increasing and overflowing love for others.
- 0:54SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with the joy of the Lord that gives you strength.
- 0:58SPEAKER_00: Be blessed to brighten and refresh weary hearts with the joy of Jesus.
- 1:05SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with receiving the Lord of peace who is with you always dispensing his peace to you.
- 1:12SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with grace-filled patience, not just tolerance.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with God's patient endurance in battles long fought.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: God's kindness leads to repentance.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: Be blessed to pass on that kindness to others.
- 1:30SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with his grace softening all that could be harsh.
- 1:36SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with active goodness that does not think to repay evil, but considers how to bless from the goodness of Jesus in you.
- 1:46SPEAKER_00: Be blessed in his faithfulness that bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with the gentle answer of Jesus that turns away wrath.
- 2:01SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with being wise as a serpent, but gentle as a dove.
- 2:07SPEAKER_00: Ponder the immense self-control of Jesus.
- 2:11SPEAKER_00: When he was taunted and crucified, he uttered only forgiveness.
- 2:16SPEAKER_00: Be blessed with a disposition that is even tempered and in step with his spirit.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: May all of who you are, spirit, soul, and body, come into full alignment with all of who he is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, so that the beauty of who God is in all of these fruits will be a display of his splendor and glory in your life for others.
- 2:45SPEAKER_00: This devotional is taken from Blessings for Life by Sylvia Gunter and Elizabeth Gunter.
- 2:51SPEAKER_00: Available at thefathersbusiness.com.