As we continue looking at Psalm 46, in verses 8-11 we see God as our victorious warrior. The desolations He makes in the earth are explained by Jamieson-Fausset-Brown as literally, ‘who hath put desolations’, destroying our enemies.” Making wars to cease might refer to the time the angel of the Lord slew 185,000 Assyrian soldiers […]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is…self-control” Galatians 5:22-23. This fruit has to do especially with sexual activity, but as we learn from other Scriptures like Colossians 3:5-10, it encompasses every area of our life! The Apostle writes in 1 Corinthians 9:27 “But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest…I myself should […]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is…faith” Galatians 5:22 KJV. Today we are again looking at the fruit of the Spirit called faith that is implanted in us by the Holy Spirit Himself. Colossians 2:7 says, “rooted and built up in Him (Christ) and established (stabilized) in the faith, (truth and truthfulness of God) as […]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is…faith” Galatians 5:22 KJV. Many of the newer versions use faithfulness instead of faith; the original King James translators separated faith and faithfulness which come from two different Greek words, their definitions however being very compatible, perhaps even complementary, with each other. Faith and faithful are distinguished by only […]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is…goodness”. This fruit obviously is closely related to kindness, actually we can look at goodness as kindness in action; indeed all of these fruit are related to each other, they are the fruit of the Spirit (singular) not fruits (plural) with each manifestation working together with the others to […]
“But the fruit of the Spirit is…kindness” These nine manifestations of the Holy Spirit in our lives sometimes overlap each other, all being interlocked like the links of a chain each lengthening it and being part of the whole. This fruit of kindness, which is translated as gentleness in the King James Version of the […]
In last week’s meditation we saw that longsuffering is an attribute of God Himself; today we are looking at His purpose for it to become an attribute of we His children as well. Synonyms for longsuffering include such things as forgiving, resigned, tolerant, accommodating, patient, and selfless. Since this is a fruit of the Holy […]
“…the fruit of the Spirit is…longsuffering…” The dictionary defines longsuffering when used as an adjective as “bearing injuries, trials. Etc. patient for a long time”, and, used as a noun it is “long and patient endurance of trials.” The Bible uses this word on different occasions as descriptive of God. In Exodus 34:7 He proclaimed […]
Taking the fruit of the Spirit one step farther we hear Isaiah the Prophet speaking of a day when God’s rule of righteousness on the earth will bring “peace…quietness and assurance forever” 32:17. While this verse of Scripture is applied to the millennial reign of Christ and the eternal kingdom, it actually began as a […]
The next fruit of the Spirit that we come to is peace. The dictionary has numerous definitions for peace, probably the first one to come to our natural mind is “freedom from war or civil strife” which is very difficult to obtain, and probably impossible to maintain, when our human hearts are out of alignment […]