Spiritual Fruitfulness

Spiritual Fruitfulness

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

John 15:4-6 NKJV

If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

John 15:7 NKJV

·         Spiritual fruitfulness comes from having the word of God abiding in you.

·         To abide in Christ is to abide in His word because He is God The Word (John 1:1)

·         This entails that we do His commandment; to love one another as He hath loved us.

Blessed is the man

Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,

Nor stands in the path of sinners,

Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,

And in His law he meditates day and night.

He shall be like a tree

Planted by the rivers of water,

That brings forth its fruit in its season,

Whose leaf also shall not wither;

And whatever he does shall prosper.

Ps 1:1-3NKJV

To delight in the law of the Lord and meditate on it is to abide in Christ and His word abiding in you.

·         Walking in the counsel of the wicked

·         Standing in the way of sinners and

·         Seating in the seat of the scornful

These three things prevents you from abiding in His word. The word of God abiding in you means having the word of God in your heart and in your innermost being; and this comes by meditating, confessing the word and also doing it. You cannot be spiritually fruitful and not be prosperous in all you do i.e. an all and encompassing prosperity.

By two or three witness a thing is established (Deut. 19:15). Let us look into the third witness.

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Josh 1:8 NKJV

What the spiritual fruitfulness that is derived from the word of God will result is that it also inspires the supernatural knowledge, understanding and wisdom that enables you to make your way prosperous and have good success.

The three things that can prevent the word of God from abiding in you and you in the word will also prevent you from observing to act and do according to the word and also from making thy way prosperous and having good success. Let go of those things

  

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.  19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.  22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Gal 5:16-23 NKJV

The verse 22-23 gives the absolute description of spiritual fruitfulness which engenders an all-encompassing prosperity (body, soul and spirit).

Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8)

With Joy shall ye draw waters out of the wells of salvation (Isaiah 12:3)

The peace of God is able to keep your heart and mind in Christ (Philippians 4:6-7)

The measure of true growth and maturity is in the extent to which we bear spiritual fruits. The extent to which we have become Christ, the word and the manifestation of His Love

… abide in Christ ...