Understanding Gifts vs Fruit – Part 2
Joyce Meyer Enjoying Everyday Life® TV Audio Podcast
Joyce Meyer
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As Christians, we're defined not by our gifts, but by the fruit of the Spirit we display. Today, Joyce explains the difference and what Scripture says about the essential character traits of every believer.
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the partners of Joyce Meyer Ministries. |
| 0:05.6 | God is amazing how he puts abilities in people and makes them like to do things that other people could not possibly like to do. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm Joyce Meyer, and I believe that God can heal you everywhere you hurt. |
| 0:25.3 | Love really is the fruit of the spirit. |
| 0:29.8 | And you're not really going to have any of these if you don't have this. |
| 0:33.6 | Now, yes, there might be some that would be a little more naturally patient person. |
| 0:37.8 | My husband is a more naturally patient person than I am. But the real fruit of the Holy Spirit, |
| 0:44.4 | we're not just talking about personality traits, but the real fruit of the Holy Spirit has to come |
| 0:49.8 | because the love of God has been put in us and because the Holy Spirit lives in us and where he is, |
| 0:56.4 | his fruit is. But then they're also all held in place by self-control. So I kind of look at |
| 1:03.4 | self-control and love as two bookends. And it's like they all come out of love. But if I don't have |
| 1:09.3 | self-control, I'm not going to be humble. If I don't have self-control, I'm not going to be humble. |
| 1:12.4 | If I don't have self-control, I'm not going to be faithful. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm going to give up on things when it gets hard. |
| 1:17.4 | If I don't have self-control, I'm not going to be good to anybody or kind to anybody or patient. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm not going to be peaceful because when something upsets me, I'm just going to have a fit and lose my temper and just lose my peace. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm not going to have joy if I don't have self-control because as soon as something happens |
| 1:33.1 | that I don't like, then I'm going to be all upset. |
| 1:35.7 | But I want to talk to you tonight about the difference in the gifts and the fruit. |
| 1:39.4 | I want to talk to you about character development because I think we have to understand how we have a tendency to look at gifts compared to how God looks at gifts and how we need to realize that gifts are something that God gives us. We don't do anything to earn them. We don't really have to do anything to develop them. I mean, yes, we need to work with them. We, you know, |
| 2:02.5 | we need to learn how to use our gifts, but gifts are given. Fruit, however, is not given. It's |
| 2:08.6 | developed. It's given to us in seed farm when Christ comes to live in us. But the only way that |
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