Awesome, good morning everybody and just real quick, can I get to raise a

hands for all the moms in here that is moms of children that have been born and

moms that are currently carrying, oh wow I saw a bunch more hands go up, that's

awesome, be fruitful and multiply, that is so good.

I want to take a moment to also say happy Mother's Day to my beautiful wife and four babies and to my own mother.

And as we come together today,

as Pastor Jack mentioned, we're gonna be talking

about the fruit of the spirit.

And so if you're taking notes, go ahead

and write down the title of the message,

which is a mother's influence, a mother's influence, and we're going to be in Galatians chapter 5.

So go ahead and turn to Galatians chapter 5.

And for this first section today, the first section this morning, we're going to be talking about the fruit of long suffering.

Long suffering it's ideally it's a better word for patients because it has the word suffering in there

which patients always seems to involve suffering does it not and so now

that you guys hopefully are in Galatians chapter five go ahead and stand with me as we read

God's word together and we're going to read versus 22 and 23. I'll start it off in

22 you guys finish it off in 23 and then we'll pray and dive right in. So Galatians chapter 5 verse 22, the apostle Paul

writing says but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.

Let's pray.

pray. Father, God, your word is so good.

Lord and I trust this morning that each of us have come in here and as we look at this list we must

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