Monday March 16th, 2026
« “A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit »
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
As we continue with our lessons on the works of grace, we will study a manifestation of the Holy Spirit in believers called ‘the fruit of the Holy Spirit’.
- If a Christian has gifts of the Holy Spirit but does not have the fruit of the Holy Spirit listed in our Bible reading of today, such a person is headed for destruction.
An example of this is when a believer becomes proud because God performs miracles through him or her. Matthew 7:22-23NKJV says
« Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ »
They had the gifts of prophecy and working of miracles, but God didn’t even know them.
That is because though the gift was present in their lives, the fruit was absent.
This is why you must never be satisfied with just having the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
- The fruit is more important than the gift, so you must ensure that you experience this important work of grace.
According to Galatians 5:22-23, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.
While you may already be working miracles, God is asking you to move higher.
You may be performing miracles, yet are difficult to live with;
you might get the gifts and still end up in hell.
What will it profit you if you are a powerful evangelist but get left behind when the rapture takes place?
Of what use is your anointing if you will end up in the same place as the devil?
Anointing is good and I love it, but I don’t want to be anointed and then become a candidate of hell; God forbid.
Jesus Christ said if you want to know those who will go to heaven, look out for the fruit of the Holy Spirit in them, not the gifts. Matthew 7:20-21NKJV
« Therefore by their fruits you will know them. “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven »
Don’t be deceived by the anointing of God already at work in your life.
If you don’t manifest the fruit of the Spirit, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.
Prayer focus – Father, please let me begin to bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit from today, in Jesus’ name.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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