The Fruit Of The Spirit is....
The Fruit of the Spirit - Love In Nine Flavours Photo: Peter Hodge
The fruit the Holy Spirit produces in us as we surrender to him is God's supernatural agape-love. Only the Holy Spirit of God can produce it in a person through the process known as sanctification, as s/he is submitted
to God and allows him to transform him/her
[For more on this see GROWING IN CHRIST.]
Agape-love: One Fruit In Nine Flavours
Agape-love is rather like an orange - a single fruit with many segments. In GALATIANS 5:22-24 Paul mentions nine forms of the Fruit of the Spirit. • AGAPE-LOVE as described by Paul in 1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-13
• JOY is....................love singing
• PEACE is ................love resting
• PATIENCE is............love enduring
• KINDNESS is............love caring
• GOODNESS is.......... love in action
• FAITHFULNESS is.....love persevering
• GENTLENESS is........love touching
• SELF-CONTROL is.....love denying self