31 Days to Fruitful Living
I am a city girl with a black thumb. I do not grow things. Fruit is purchased at the supermarket and brought home. I do not like to get my hands dirty.
For 2013, my one-word focus was “fruitilicious.” My desire to is to live a fruitful life for God, but He is teaching me that this will require me to put in some spiritual elbow grease. I can’t buy this kind of fruit in the store. I must cultivate it.
So, for 31 days, I explored what it would require for me to live a more fruitful life. I hope you will join me. I will do my best to not let my black thumb get in the way of things.
Day 1: Set aside space in your heart.
Day 2: Get rid of the gravel.
Day 3: Gain maximum exposure to the Son.
Day 4: Let the stinky stuff fertilize your soul.
Day 5: Uproot pesky weeds.
Day 6: Surrender to the shears.
Day 7: Exterminate pesky pests.
Day 8: Drive in stakes of spiritual truth to help you withstand the storm.
Day 9: Let the water of the Word soak deeply into the soil of your heart.
Day 10: Apply God’s forgiveness to your frosty heart regularly.
Day 11: Don’t stand alone.
Day 12: Wait patiently for your fruit to mature.
Day 13: Sow love.
Day 14: Determine if your love is tasty.
Day 15: Sow joy.
Day 16: Remember joy thrives in the most unlikely places.
Day 17: Sow peace.
Day 18: Run after the juicy, yummy fruit of peace.
Day 19: Sow patience.
Day 20: Cultivate patience with grit and moxie.
Day 21: Sow kindness.
Day 22: Refresh a friend with kindness when life gets “hot.”
Day 23: Sow goodness.
Day 24: Say “no” to your selfishness.
Day 25: Sow faithfulness.
Day 26: Be willing to be squeezed and poured out.
Day 27: Sow gentleness.
Day 28: Offer yourself to an awesome God in reverence.
Day 29: Sow self-control.
Day 30: Nourish those God has placed in your circle of influence.
Day 31: Remember nothing thrives without the Light of the Son.