Fruitfulness

[Mike Phipps]

I've recently written a couple of blog posts about fruitfulness in our lives and I thought the other day that it would be good also to share them here. We are commanded to bear fruit and encouraged that it is the Lord's will in our lives. I've found of late that I've needed to hold onto these truths in the face of slow visible fruit in my life and ministry. I mainly write  for my own devotional use but have started posting them as blogs for others to benefit. They are aimed at people who know a little Greek but are easily readable by those who know none. Two that I thought would benefit people here are.

The Sowers Joy - a blog about the joy the sower feels when the fruit eventually comes and hence an encouragement not to give up.

Let's live fruitfully - a blog looking at how to grow in fruitfulness

I hope you find these encouraging as you live intentionally.

[Mike Phipps]

Thanks Mary. I'm reticent to write a blog about Greek as it could cause some people to feel like their own Bible in their own language isn't good enough, so I'm glad it helped. I find I habitually read the Bible with no response in my will and am like the man in James who looks in the mirror and goes away unchanged. I like though that in John 15 we have hope that God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit is working in us to produce obedience and fruit.

[Mary Elmore]

Thank you for sharing those.  I read the one on living fruitfully, and appreciated benefiting from your Greek study.  I know my personal experience in the States, which spilled over into my Bible story groups in Tanzania, is the emphasis on grace without the reminder that Paul gives in Eph 2:10, that we've been saved by grace, AND God has prepared good works for us to walk in.  It is something God has been showing me over the past few months.  Thanks again for your sharing what you've been learning and reflecting on!