I love this time of year. It is so beautiful right now. I also enjoy the harvest time. I am not able to plant a lot of veggie but we always have fresh tomatoes. We enjoy planting them and watching them grow to this point and now we are to harvest the fruit from the plant. We so enjoy and get excited to see the fruit of our labor. We love our life and have even chosen the life style to have full days. The Lord spoke to my heart that we don’t want busy lives, we want our lives to be fruitful and produce a harvest. That blessed me so much. I don’t mind doing lots but I want what I do to count. We’ve always want to make everything we do count. No matter what we do we always have a desire to do it with purpose and make memories. When we make a decision to do something we almost always consider how it will affect the lives that are involved. It is God’s desire for us to have a fruitful life with a harvest purpose. That was the example He was for us on earth. Everything He did and everywhere He went had a purpose and brought forth fruit. Busyness is just doing and doing with no purpose or direction and the harvest is little to none. We want all we do to bear fruit, have a purpose and produce a mighty harvest. Fruitfulness brings harvest which brings fulfillment.
Sunday: “The uncompromisingly righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, be long-lived, stately, upright, useful and fruitful. They shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon, majestic, stable, durable and incorruptible. Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God. Growing in grace they shall still bring forth fruit in their old age; they shall be full of sap, of spiritual vitality, and rich in the verdure - of trust, love, and contentment.” Psalm 92:12-14 Lord, I thank You that I can flourish and be fruitful every minute of my life no matter how many years I live to be. I thank You that I can continue to grow in Your grace and knowledge and be full of sap, of spiritual vitality, and rich in trust, love, and contentment. You are my Father and I thank You for giving me life and strength to do all You have called me to do – every day of my long life!! Amen”
Monday: “Heavenly Father, I don’t want to bear fruit just for myself but I want to share my love for You and all You have given me with others. Daily I want others to see the fruit of my relationship with You. “You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? Even so, every healthy, sound tree bears fruit worthy of admiration, but the sickly, decaying, worthless tree bears bad, worthless fruit. A good healthy tree cannot bear bad, worthless fruit, nor can a bad, diseased tree bear excellent fruit, worthy of admiration.” Matthew 7:16-18 I praise You always and thank You for living in me!! Amen”
Tuesday: “Father, my ministry is fruitful when I am seeing people saved, delivered, healed and set free from the bondage of this world. “The fruit of the uncompromisingly righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise captures human lives for God, as fisher of men - he gathers and receives them for eternity.” Proverbs 11:30 I desire, Lord, to share Your unconditional love with the world. It may be through the fruitful words of my mouth or my giving of my bountifulness or the love I share through You and the fruit that is evident just in my being. “Say to the righteous that it shall be well for them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.” Isaiah 3:10 You are always with me directing me to those that need Your love and salvation. May I have listening ears always and a heart to let others know how great You are in me and all I have by being in You. You are my great and awesome Father and I love You with all my heart. Amen”
Wednesday: “Dwell in Me and I will dwell in you. Live in Me and I will live in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in, being vitally united to the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much, abundant fruit. However, apart from Me, cut off from vital union with Me, you can do nothing.” John 15:4-5
Father, what awesome verses. Without You I am nothing! With You I am everything! Abiding in You. I love those words and I love to see the picture of myself in You, a part of You and bearing Your fruit. I worship You because You love me so much that You want me to abide in You – to be joined with You yet You want to abide in me and be with me all the time. What an awesome Father You are. You are my example of a fruitful life that brings a harvest! Amen”
Thursday: “Lord, I want to also have a fruitful home and family. I will know my family is fruitful when there is peace, joy, love, gentleness and kindness. My home is fruitful when the fruit of the Spirit is present and also when it is a welcoming place. You share in Your Word about opening up my home and having hospitality. I can see the importance of that and how much that fruit would bring. “But the fruit of the Spirit, the work which His presence within accomplishes is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23 I thank You for the Holy Spirit Who also dwells in me and produces fruit that produces a harvest. You have given me everything I need to live a completely fruitful life. I praise Your precious Name!! Amen
Friday: “Father, I also know there are attitudes and things that stop fruit from being produced in my life. “Now the doings, practices of the flesh are clear, obvious; they are immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, divisions, party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like...” . Galatians 5:19-21 These verses tell me many things. One is doing things on my own instead of abiding in You will bring bad fruit and no harvest. If my life is not being fruitful I will be living the very opposite of the fruit of the Spirit. These things are the desires of the flesh and not fruit of a fruitful life. Thank You, Father, for not making me try to guess and judge myself what is fruitful or not. Your Word is plain and full of truth and answers. You are my All in All, my Shepherd, My Guide and my closest Friend. I love You and praise You always!! Amen.”
Saturday: “The sower sows the word. The ones along the path are those who have the Word sown in their hearts but when they hear, satan comes at once and takes away the message which is sown in them. And in the same way the ones sown on stony ground are those who, when they hear the Word, at once they receive and accept and welcome it with joy. And they have no real root in themselves and so they endure for a little while; then when trouble or persecution arises on account of the Word, they immediately are offended and they stumble and fall away. And those sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word. Then the cares of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word and it becomes fruitless. And those sown on the good, well-adapted soil are the ones who hear the Word and receive and accept and welcome it and bear fruit - some thirty times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much and some hundred times as much.” Mark 4:14-20. As I end my week of prayer Lord, I thank You for these verses that tell me Your promises and Your desires. You desire for my fruit to be 30-60-100 times more than the seed I plant. That is HARVEST! I can’t comprehend all that but I know Your Word and promises are true and real. I know I don’t want to plant seeds that are stolen and wasted. I don’t want the cares of the world to creep in and choke and suffocate the Word and it becomes fruitless. Thank You for always showing me where and when to plant and the best “soil” to plant in. You are the master Gardner. You are the harvester. I thank You for guiding me as I learn to plant, sow and harvest in Your Kingdom life. Amen.”
Sunday: “The uncompromisingly righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, be long-lived, stately, upright, useful and fruitful. They shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon, majestic, stable, durable and incorruptible. Planted in the house of the Lord, they shall flourish in the courts of our God. Growing in grace they shall still bring forth fruit in their old age; they shall be full of sap, of spiritual vitality, and rich in the verdure - of trust, love, and contentment.” Psalm 92:12-14 Lord, I thank You that I can flourish and be fruitful every minute of my life no matter how many years I live to be. I thank You that I can continue to grow in Your grace and knowledge and be full of sap, of spiritual vitality, and rich in trust, love, and contentment. You are my Father and I thank You for giving me life and strength to do all You have called me to do – every day of my long life!! Amen”
Monday: “Heavenly Father, I don’t want to bear fruit just for myself but I want to share my love for You and all You have given me with others. Daily I want others to see the fruit of my relationship with You. “You will fully recognize them by their fruits. Do people pick grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? Even so, every healthy, sound tree bears fruit worthy of admiration, but the sickly, decaying, worthless tree bears bad, worthless fruit. A good healthy tree cannot bear bad, worthless fruit, nor can a bad, diseased tree bear excellent fruit, worthy of admiration.” Matthew 7:16-18 I praise You always and thank You for living in me!! Amen”
Tuesday: “Father, my ministry is fruitful when I am seeing people saved, delivered, healed and set free from the bondage of this world. “The fruit of the uncompromisingly righteous is a tree of life, and he who is wise captures human lives for God, as fisher of men - he gathers and receives them for eternity.” Proverbs 11:30 I desire, Lord, to share Your unconditional love with the world. It may be through the fruitful words of my mouth or my giving of my bountifulness or the love I share through You and the fruit that is evident just in my being. “Say to the righteous that it shall be well for them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.” Isaiah 3:10 You are always with me directing me to those that need Your love and salvation. May I have listening ears always and a heart to let others know how great You are in me and all I have by being in You. You are my great and awesome Father and I love You with all my heart. Amen”
Wednesday: “Dwell in Me and I will dwell in you. Live in Me and I will live in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in, being vitally united to the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in Me. I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much, abundant fruit. However, apart from Me, cut off from vital union with Me, you can do nothing.” John 15:4-5
Father, what awesome verses. Without You I am nothing! With You I am everything! Abiding in You. I love those words and I love to see the picture of myself in You, a part of You and bearing Your fruit. I worship You because You love me so much that You want me to abide in You – to be joined with You yet You want to abide in me and be with me all the time. What an awesome Father You are. You are my example of a fruitful life that brings a harvest! Amen”
Thursday: “Lord, I want to also have a fruitful home and family. I will know my family is fruitful when there is peace, joy, love, gentleness and kindness. My home is fruitful when the fruit of the Spirit is present and also when it is a welcoming place. You share in Your Word about opening up my home and having hospitality. I can see the importance of that and how much that fruit would bring. “But the fruit of the Spirit, the work which His presence within accomplishes is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23 I thank You for the Holy Spirit Who also dwells in me and produces fruit that produces a harvest. You have given me everything I need to live a completely fruitful life. I praise Your precious Name!! Amen
Friday: “Father, I also know there are attitudes and things that stop fruit from being produced in my life. “Now the doings, practices of the flesh are clear, obvious; they are immorality, impurity, indecency, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, divisions, party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like...” . Galatians 5:19-21 These verses tell me many things. One is doing things on my own instead of abiding in You will bring bad fruit and no harvest. If my life is not being fruitful I will be living the very opposite of the fruit of the Spirit. These things are the desires of the flesh and not fruit of a fruitful life. Thank You, Father, for not making me try to guess and judge myself what is fruitful or not. Your Word is plain and full of truth and answers. You are my All in All, my Shepherd, My Guide and my closest Friend. I love You and praise You always!! Amen.”
Saturday: “The sower sows the word. The ones along the path are those who have the Word sown in their hearts but when they hear, satan comes at once and takes away the message which is sown in them. And in the same way the ones sown on stony ground are those who, when they hear the Word, at once they receive and accept and welcome it with joy. And they have no real root in themselves and so they endure for a little while; then when trouble or persecution arises on account of the Word, they immediately are offended and they stumble and fall away. And those sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word. Then the cares of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word and it becomes fruitless. And those sown on the good, well-adapted soil are the ones who hear the Word and receive and accept and welcome it and bear fruit - some thirty times as much as was sown, some sixty times as much and some hundred times as much.” Mark 4:14-20. As I end my week of prayer Lord, I thank You for these verses that tell me Your promises and Your desires. You desire for my fruit to be 30-60-100 times more than the seed I plant. That is HARVEST! I can’t comprehend all that but I know Your Word and promises are true and real. I know I don’t want to plant seeds that are stolen and wasted. I don’t want the cares of the world to creep in and choke and suffocate the Word and it becomes fruitless. Thank You for always showing me where and when to plant and the best “soil” to plant in. You are the master Gardner. You are the harvester. I thank You for guiding me as I learn to plant, sow and harvest in Your Kingdom life. Amen.”
