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When you decide to love others with the love that is from the spirit, you can look weak, look foolish, look all sorts of things. When you are walking in that kind of spiritual love, there’s no fear in it, so carnal people might confuse that kind of love with arrogance or over-confidence because theyContinue reading “The Fruit of the Spirit 15: Don’t Worry about Looking Silly!”

When you are walking in your flesh, yielding to pride and strife, satan loves it, because in that place, you are zero danger to him at all. You are not going to be moving mountains, not going to be resisting the devil, not going to be having powerful church services – in fact, you probablyContinue reading “The Fruit of the Spirit 14: Strife is Powerlessness”

One of satan’s main missions in life is to cause strife in local church. If satan can get strife in your church, he can stop dozens, hundred or thousands of Christians from being godly, from being fruitful, from reaching the community and city. He can use that strife to turn immature or inexperienced people awayContinue reading “The Fruit of the Spirit 13: No Strife in the Church!”

James 3.16 tells us that where there is envying and strife there is confusion and every evil work. Strife is like the opposite of the love of God – it is doing things that cause conflict, causing people to be against each other, to fight, to quarrel, to clash, to be in competition with someone.Continue reading “The Fruit of the Spirit 12: Avoid Strife!”

It seems like every time I make a fresh commitment to love people like Jesus, someone just out of nowhere starts being mean and unloving to me. I mean making vile, deceitful videos about me, lying about me, just plain aggressive, it could be anything. And then the hardest part of love becomes what PaulContinue reading “The Fruit of the Spirit 11: Dealing with Unfruitful, Unkind People”

One of the reasons why envy is so evil, so opposed to the fruit of the spirit, so rebellious to God and to love is that envy is what splits churches and causes strife. If you envy someone in your church, this weekend, don’t avoid them, go and show them some love – tell themContinue reading “The Fruit of the Spirit 10: Envy and Divisions!”

I think nearly every single Christian underestimates how powerful the Word of God is. It cleanses us from anything in our life that is keeping us out of God’s will, out of walking in dominion, out of victory and abundance – and out of holiness. The Word is what gives us the power to getContinue reading “The Fruit of the Spirit 07: Feed on the Word”