Our nature will be wrath free as yours is Lord, gently sending out our love and forgiveness to others as you do. We will receive the blessings of the earth as you promised, the key to true happiness. We will have true purpose in our life becoming alive with confidence and assurance.
In gentleness our natures will be charitable, gracious and humble. We will have control combined with courage. Through this gentle courage may we be victorious in helping to build your kingdom on earth through our actions in union with your will. May we remain in gentleness amidst the iniquity in this world, forever seeking righteousness and peace. Amen.
GOODNESS
Lord, in our base character may we recognise our sin. May we turn to your ever flowing mercy and forgiveness. In that moment of forgiveness impart in us the growth of the fruit of the Holy Spirit goodness. Your character and acts are the source of all goodness. Subdue our selfish nature to be your nature of goodwill, love, grace and mercy in union with you.
Your will for us is to act to help the poor and needy and to never harm anyone. Just as you are the source of all pure goodness, forgiveness and love let the light of your goodness shine through the window of our souls to others. May that light draw those in the darkness of unbelief to the merciful redemption through our Lord Jesus Christ.
In our repentance may we be good, faithful and obedient servants. May we recognise that no good acts of ours bring us redemption but that it was your one act of the greatest goodness in giving your son to die for us while we were yet sinners. In the humility of our acts of goodness may we remain in steadfast faith and truthfulness. Turn our selfish anger into the gentleness of goodness, leading lives of kindness, compassion and loving forgiveness.
Lord, one of your properties is light, may we as your children bear the fruit of that light in our righteousness. True faith manifests itself in the fruit of love, may we sow this love and bear witness to the Holy Spirit. May this union please the Holy Spirit giving us the beginning of eternal life on earth. The freedom from our selfish nature is this beginning of resting in God alone in our soul with love for nothing beneath him.
Lord, it is a spiritual life on earth towards that light growing in your goodness. In our act of repentance in submitting our will we await the gift of the Holy Spirit to help us against our nature that is joined to Adam. Our soul in faith is joined to the goodness of our Lord Jesus Christ. Living Holy Spirit of the blessed Trinity we pray for that complete union of body and soul. As we find that unconditional goodness within may we impart that unconditional goodness without to the undeserving as you did on earth Lord Jesus. Amen.
FAITH
Lord God, heavenly Father, in your compassionate character of light, love, life, mercy, grace and forgiveness, you impart through your word and the Holy Spirit the gift of faith to the greatest part of your creation, the soul of man. You gently knock on the door of the heart of man through the Holy Spirit to his soul to accept by faith your redemption through your blessed son our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lead us from the path of greatest loss which is to refuse your love, to the path of righteousness which is faith in you, and the bearing of the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the growing transformation of our selfish nature towards our Lord’s divine nature.
May our walk in this crooked and narrow path bring the union of our soul with you in steadfast faith and ever trustful love. In our faith may we surrender our will through Christ’s nature to your will, devoting the gift of our talents to the building of your kingdom on earth. May we be honourable and unfailing in that service. Through faith may we move mountains for you.
Lord, you give us bread for our bodily needs but faith leads us to the reward of the implementation of our purpose and significance on earth, leading us to peace and bliss instead of apprehension, futility and emptiness.
May we focus on the blessed face of Christ in the darkness of our tribulations, enabling our hearts even then to proclaim the joy of your light in our enduring faith, until we are rewarded with the vision of you in heaven. Amen.
HUMILITY
Lord God, Heavenly Father, your son, our Saviour Lord Jesus Christ showed the greatest act of humility when he fell to earth to die on the cross of Calvary. He showed us the path of righteousness and the way to follow your will completely with a humble, forgiving, understanding heart towards our fellowmen.
May I kneel at the foot of his cross and pray through him that I am a sinner and that I need his grace for your forgiveness. May I absorb his ways and submit completely to your will. As I kneel before Jesus’ cross in humility, I bow to your wisdom, sovereignty and power, discerning my own emptiness without you. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit may the lowly one abide in my heart and soul for eternity with his grace.
I submit in humility to you but I know that it is through the Holy Spirit that you work to end my selfish nature. Come forth Holy Spirit like a sword in battle and defeat the enemy of that nature where I cannot. Slay every degree of pride in me, in my thoughts, words and deeds. May my heart and nature so become transformed to Jesus’ divine nature, even through my trials and tribulations. Clothe me completely Holy Spirit in God’s will that I may walk this life to magnify only God’s glory. May I become as a trusting child and show only his love in my humility.
Lord, you have ordained that those who have humbled themselves shall be exalted with more grace. It is the grace to become an empty vessel to self-will to be so filled with Jesus’ grace to fulfil your will. May we count our blessings when we receive that grace in our soul. Amen.
BALANCE
Lord God, Heavenly Father, your son, our Saviour Lord Jesus Christ gave the supreme example of having the balance of the fruit of the Spirit. In his relationship with you he submitted his will entirely to you in saying, “Thy will be done.” He overcame the temptations of the devil remaining steadfast in your will to suffer and die for us. In his relationship with you he had your love, joy and peace. With your people he had only patience, kindness and goodness. Throughout his mission on earth he had faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. His was the perfectly balanced divine nature.
Lord, you give the seed of the gift of the Holy Spirit through faith, but the fruit of the Holy Spirit grows within us over time from that seed. Lord Jesus, you are the vine that produces the fruit in us your branches. Lord God, you prune the vine for the growth of greater fruit in us. May I not become like the dead fig tree that did not bear any fruit and be cast down.
Lord Jesus, you said, “by their fruits you shall know them.” Grow in me in all aspects of the Spirit so that I may aspire to the balance of your divine nature. Guide me where my character does not manifest any of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Lead through your grace and strength not to be overcome by temptations of self will but to submit to God. Give me your patience to defeat those temptations of the flesh. May my body and mind not engulf the Spirit but be my servant not my master, so that the Spirit may manifest itself in all my thoughts, words and deeds. I trust you Lord Jesus to impart the grace of the Holy Spirit through the power of God’s love.
May I walk forever in that balance in my temporal life, being obedient to God and temperate in all things. In that balance may I seek first the Kingdom of God through self denial, self sacrifice and self control.
In the balance of that faithfulness I pray that you will give to my soul the harvest of eternal life in your heavenly home. Amen.
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