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Galatians chapter 5, verses 22 and 23.

But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things,

there is no law. What a powerful description of the fruit of the Spirit of God in our lives.

You look at this chapter, it's contrasting the fruit of the flesh, the works of the flesh,

which Galatians describes as sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, enmity, strife,

jealousy, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy,

things like these.

So these are the works of the flesh, like left to ourselves and our sinfulness.

We are prone toward all of those things.

Yet by the power of the spirit in us, again, think Galatians 220, the life of Christ in us produces fruit. And that fruit is totally different from what our flesh produces. The fruit of

the spirit, love, joy, peace, and so on. So I just want us to pray for these things in our lives. Like I regularly,

I try on a weekly basis. It's amidst the specific things I try to pray for in my life and my

wife and my kids and co-labors around me and the church God's entrusted me to pastor. One of the things

I try to pray for consistently is this verse, just constantly praying this over my life, my family, my home,

my church, the brothers and sisters who I'm serving alongside on mission with in this world,

like I'm constantly praying for this over them.

So let's just pray together for these things.

God produce these things in us, we pray.

We pray that you, by the power of your spirit, oh God, would produce in us.

And me and each person who's listening to this today in greater measure, produce in us in me and each person who's listening to this today in greater measure

produce in us love. God, we pray for spirit-driven, supernatural love. Christ-like love.

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