Nov.25.03: Light For The Day - "The Fruit of the Spirit" -- Galatians 5:22,23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is  love, joy, peace,  patience, kindness, goodness,  faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.  Against such things there is no law." ------------ We should seek to produce the fruit of the Spirit in our lives.  Or to put it more accurately, we should allow the Holy Spirit to  produce His fruit in our lives.  You say, "I am powerless to produce such fruit. You don't know  how weak and self-centered I am. It would be utterly impossible  for me to do so!" With that I agree! That is, we can't produce this fruit in our  own strength. When the Spirit of God dwells in us and has control  of our lives. He will produce that fruit. Our responsibility is  to cultivate the soil of our hearts through sincere devotion and surrender, so He might find favorable ground to produce His fruit. I might have a fruit tree in my yard, but if the soil isn't enriched  and the bugs carefully destroyed, it will not yield a full crop.  What keeps the Holy spirit from producing His fruit in your life! -- Billy Graham ------------------ -- John 4:24  "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in  spirit and in truth." -- Romans 8:26,27  "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.  We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with  God’s will. -- 1 Corinthians 2:9-12 "9 However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard,  no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him"  10 but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit  searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except  the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows  the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit  who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us."