In Genesis 3 we see the account of Adam and Eve being tempted and eventually sin. The serpent asked Eve, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”of all the ways he could have tempted them, he did it with fruit. I think that’s because fruit is the result of hidden things. Fruit is the harvest of previous work. Fruit is the outward representation of inner work. The Bible is full of verses about fruit. Good fruit comes from obedience, spending time with Jesus and the soil we are planted in. Fruit is where your faith becomes visible. We must make sure we are producing good fruit and that we aren’t tempted to think that it’s the result of anything other than God’s faithfulness and goodness.
Here are some Bible verses on fruit we should produce:
1. A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.
Matthew 12:33 NLT
2. You didn’t choose me, but I’ve chosen and commissioned you to go into the world to bear fruit. And your fruit will last, because whatever you ask of my Father, for my sake, he will give it to you!
John 15:16 TPT
3. I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.
John 15:5 GNT
4. But other people are like seeds sown in good soil. They hear the message, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred.
Mark 4:20 GNT
5. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV
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Devotions by Chris Hendrix 