What Kind of Fruit Do You Bear?

You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Even so, every healthy (sound) tree bears good fruit [worthy of admiration], but the sickly (decaying, worthless) tree bears bad (worthless) fruit. Matthew 7:16-17 Amplified 

Fruit. What does it mean to bear fruit? Bearing fruit is what we do…is it pleasing to God? That is what He wants us to do.  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. ... My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. John 15:2, 8. In John 15:7, Jesus talks about asking in prayer for what we want. So if we want to be fruitful—we need to ask. If we want to bring others to an understanding of who Jesus Christ is…then we need to ask. In doing that we bear fruit. We can expect to be pruned…so that we are more pleasing to God and so that we can draw more people to Christ. That is what our life—or spiritual life—is all about. We need to tell others about God, about Christ, about the Holy Spirit, and about their love for us. Bear fruit and glorify our Heavenly Father. Not only be Jesus’ disciple, but bring others to Him so that they can be His disciples. That’s bearing fruit.  

RSVP: Jesus is inviting you to be a healthy tree and bear food fruit. Will you make that choice today as you respond to His invitation? 

Prayer ~ Thank you Jesus for Your love and for Your guidance in our lives that we would seek to be fruitful, bearing good fruit that is pleasing to You and to our Heavenly Father. 

Thank you to those who prayed after my September 26^th blog post. A miracle did happen! The ultrasound of our grandchild who is to be born in February showed a cyst on the brain and possible heart abnormalities. Several days later after much prayer—during a visit to a pre-natal specialist an ultrasound showed NO CYST and a normal heart. Praise the Lord! He is merciful and powerful!

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All scripture quoted from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) unless otherwise noted.