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Fruit of the Spirit Finale: 2 Reasons to Keep Going

For years, I've had two main rules of personal leadership: stay patient and stay encouraged. I've found bad things tend to happen when either of these is missing.
If you're trying to be faithful, but you're growing impatient or discouraged because you're not seeing the results you want, I believe God has something good for you.
Today we'll discover two powerful reasons we shouldn't quit when things get hard.

The Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control

If you look back on the worst cringe moments of your life, chances are they didn't happen because you had too much self-control. They likely happened because you didn't have enough. That's my story anyway.
We're often told that the path to happiness is self-indulgence. Live in the moment. Express yourself. Do what you desire. The last thing we need to do is deny ourselves.
Today we'll discover how to partner with the Holy Spirit to experience and express greater self-control. From the way we speak and think to the things we do with our bodies, self-control is both a gift and a responsibility. We can grow in it.

The Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness

When is the last time you prayed that God would make you more gentle?
For most of us, the answer might be never. Gentleness is often viewed as weakness. We pride ourselves on being tough and resilient.
Yet gentleness is an absolutely essential quality to developing and maintaining deep connections with others.
Today we'll discover that gentleness is actually a great strength and something we can experience with the Holy Spirit's help.

The Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness

The best long-term investment we can make into the health of our family, relationships, and overall quality of life is faithfulness.
If you've ever been on the receiving end of someone being UNfaithful, you know it can be toxic. It creates suspicion and mistrust. Unfaithfulness can create a relational gap that is hard to fill. Unfaithfulness is toxic.
While faithfulness can feel boring and dull, it is such a powerful and essential quality.

The Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness

Courageous Kindness

Kindness is a fading virtue. In politics and business it's often mocked as weakness. But Jesus was kind, and so His followers are called to be. In a world where meanness is growing, today we'll discover what kindness is and how we can grow in it. It's good for our soul and good for our society.

Fruit of the Spirit: Patience

If you're waiting on the Lord for something, it can be terribly frustrating. Yes? We generally want Him to work fast, but He's often slow. His pattern of working is requires us to wait on Him.
Today we are studying the fruit of the Spirit called patience. We'll discover how to partner with the Holy Spirit to grow in our patience.
"The only thing worse than waiting on God is wishing you had."

Fruit of the Spirit: Joy

When is the last time you complained because someone made you feel too joyful? Probably never. Joy makes everything better.
Yet we tend to view joy as an innate trait. Some people are joyful. Others are not. But what if we can grow in the level of day to day joy we experience?
In this episode, we'll be discovering the four thieves of our joy along with a very practical exercise we can do to live with greater joy.

Peace

The Fruit of the Spirit: Love

Nothing causes our hearts to bloom quite like love.
And then, nothing causes our hearts to wilt like a lack of love.
Perhaps your heart feels a little wilted, two sizes too small. God is really good at bringing dying things back to life.