Living the Fruit of Spirit for 52 Weeks: A Year Long Bible Study

Living the Fruit of the Spirit for 52 Weeks will help readers know how to partner with the Holy Spirit---on a daily basis---to produce the kind of “fruit” that God wants them to have in their lives. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance [patience], kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law" (Galatians 5:22–23). Every Christ follower aspires to a life defined by these character traits. Yet living them out is as much a challenge today as it was when the apostle Paul addressed them to the believers in Galatia more than two thousand years ago—and now as then, only possible when you walk daily in step with God's Spirit. This is the goal of Living the Fruit of the Spirit for 52 Weeks: to allow the Spirit of God—day-by-day over the course of the next year—to use the Word of God to produce his fruit in your life. You will do this through an in-depth exploration of each fruit of the Spirit that Paul names: Love Joy Peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self-control Living the Fruit of the Spirit for 52 Weeks will help you discern what the Bible says about these vital traits the Holy Spirit produces and move you beyond reflection to application.