FRUITBEARING

How to bear Fruit:
It took me a long while to understand the Christian walk..for a long while I asked God" How do I bear fruit"..then one day he lead me to 2peter 1:5-10. Well I tell you when I got the instructions I was so happy..but it took me a long time to follow them well (and i am still learning to "add" as the scriptures says). The christian life is one big learning process with the word of God as our instructions..and i truly believe if we just did what his word said to the "t" we would not have any fault before him...One day our Bishop was preaching and he said that the devil cannot touch our gift..but he can touch our character to diminish the gift..this stuck out to me be cause I am very much still a work in progress. I can't tell you how many time I have fallen short of God's glory and felt so inadequate because of my short comings..not because of my inabilities but because of my sin that caused me to lack in the power of God..Over the years Jesus has told me that he cannot pour new wine(his spirit) in to old wine skin(my old life)or else it will destroy me. I had to die to the old way of life and it was hard very hard at first..almost suicidal hard..but God kept me..One day I was ready to give up not on God but life and he lead to Lu 22:31 -32 And the Lord said,........... 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.I kid you not IMMEDIATELY the word of God revived me. I was and still am so grateful to God for his faithfulness. in Reading this scripture the thing that stood out to me most :when thou art converted, God in his way so kind and loving told me that I wasn't converted but I would be..I held on to that Scripture and still do because he said that when I am converted meaning I WILL BE CHANGED, doing all things his way. I trust God I know that he will help me.. and all his people.I give him praise. he is not man that he should lie.I thank God that today I am not what i used to be.. What i need from God is for him to help me to continue in integrity and consistency...Because I want the gift that he has given me to not be hindered. Please make sure that you read 2peter1:5-10 to find out what they are. In time i will post other nuggets that he has lead me to apply and they will help because his word is there to help. Amen. have a blessed day!