This week we will continue to look at the Gifts of the Spirit and the works of the flesh and how they affect our attitudes and, conversely, we will be looking at how our attitudes the gifts of the Spirit.Many times our attitudes are driven and condoned by society rather than corrected by the principles taught in the Bible. Meekness, longsuffering, joy, and love are the attitudes that replace hatred, variance/disagreements, emulation, wrath, strife and envy. We must learn to curb our desires and do what the Scripture teaches.
One reason God's children do not bear all the fruit is that attitudes and actions affect everything. Attitudes create actions. While the gifts of the Spirit are external, the fruit, comprised of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance are internal (Galatians 5:22-23)
How will the attitudes we carry affect the moving of the Spirit? The fruit of the Spirit that we bear every day affects how much we allow God's Spirit to move and minister through us. The fruit of the Spirit is different from the gifts because how much we allow the fruit to work in our lives will determine the gift's ability to work in us.
Our memory verse this week is found in Galatians 5:16 -
This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh
Congratulations to Clare, Jamilla and Mosa who rolled last weeks memory verse off their tongues as if they had known it all their lives!! Well done!!!
If you wish to talk to any one of us, please do not hesitate to do so.
God bless,
Dave, Robin, Heather
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