God has put a message on my heart today and I would like to speak to you on the unsuspected power of spiritual patience.

The unsuspected power of spiritual patience. Galatian chapter 5, verse 22 and 23 we read,

but the fruit of the spirit is love and joy and patience. I know it hurts,

but say out loud patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and

self-control. Jesus reminds us that the fruit of the Holy Spirit is the only true measure, the only true evidence of a believer, of a Christian.

Jesus said, you will know them by their fruit, not by their foliage, but by their fruit.

You know, the foliage, you didn't say you will know them because they go to church, they know church, they know verses,

they love singing, they love the worship, they know church, they know verses, they love singing,

they love the worship, they're from a Christian family, their grandma prayed for them,

or they're very boisterous online about religious values, or no, you will know them by their

fruit, by the fruit of the person of the Holy Spirit in them.

So that in a, when they're surrounded with hatred and anger, there's a fruit of love,

supernatural love. And when everything's in sorrow and grief, there's a supernatural joy.

And when everything's in turmoil, there's a supernatural peace and a kindness and in a meanness,

when they're choking and when we're drowning in meanness, there's a people on the earth that

are standing in kindness and in goodness and faithfuls. And in the world of impatient and anger,

they're walking in spiritual patience.

By their fruit, not their foliage, you will know them.

You are living epistles read by all men.

The people that surround you, people in your family, people in your place of work, your friends,

the people in this city, the people that are in contact with you,

very often you will be, you will be the only gospel they will read.

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