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In God's kingdom, we are not known or applauded by the gifts that God gives us.

But what God looks for is fruit.

I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

Do we have a treat for you? Do you know what the fruit of the spirit is? Because we need it desperately

every single day. All this week in one of her most powerful teaching

series, Joyce breaks down the benefits of the fruit of the spirit. She brings us a wonderful visual

that you will not forget. It helps us to truly understand what Scripture is saying and how we can

benefit greatly from it.

So join us all week because there is so much gold to take from every day.

You will be blessed again and again.

The reason why I had this made was because I want to make a point.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, which is humility and self-control. Something

that I began to realize a long time ago is that all of the fruit come out of love. You see, love

really is the fruit of the Spirit. And you're not really going

to have any of these if you don't have this. Now, yes, there might be some that would be a little

more naturally patient person. My husband is a more naturally patient person than I am.

But the real fruit of the Holy Spirit, we're not just talking about

personality traits, but the real fruit of the Holy Spirit has to come because the love of God

has been put in us and because the Holy Spirit lives in us and where he is, his fruit is.

But then they're also all held in place by self-control. So I kind of look at

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