Fruit of the Spirit

I want my kids to live lives that display the Fruit of the Spirit.  To be children who learn to be loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, gentle, faithful, good, and self-cotntrolled.  To become adults, in the long run, who have been practicing these things for as long as they can remember.

Lord; this is your work.  I pray you'd grow these in my child. 

I know only the Spirit can develop those in them, but as a parent, I can be the gardener that provides the proper soil, light and water to ensure optimal growing circumstances. 

I pray for wisdom to provide that, and for your Spirit to work in me to grow those so I can be a great model of what it should look like.

The Fruit of the Spirit

May someone in her world today show love to another.
May someone express true joy that in turn delights those around them.
May someone today be a peacemaker and heal instead of cause conflict.
May one of their classmates show patience to another.
May they all be kind.
May gentleness diffuse anger in their class.
May they be faithful to their friends, not changing loyalties to search for popularity.
May they choose to be generous and choose to be good.
May someone today in her world exercise self-control.
May your spirit be given good soil to grow these things in these kids.

(The 'Fruit of the Spirit' are found in Galatians 5:22 & 23)

Fruit of the Spirit

I've been thinking a bit about the Fruit of the Spirit lately - if the Spirit is truly in our lives, we will show characteristics like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, and self control.  I can't pray for those in the lives of those I care about without praying for the root cause - that they would be wanting to be closer to God and then through that His Spirit in their lives would help them produce those things.

That's my prayer for my loved ones today.  A desire to live for Christ, with Christ, following Christ.

(Galatians 5:22,23)