BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED? JESUS SAYS: BEAR FRUIT WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED

BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED? JESUS SAYS: BEAR FRUIT WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED.
I have come to realize that many of our popular ‘feel good’ sayings that we send on notecards and display on magnets on our refrigerator are not always fully getting us past the temporary message – to long term change for the better. Jesus was all about the fruit. I wondered about this. Why does He talk about fruit in so many parables and what was the repeated point He was trying to give us? Fruit is long term and repeatable, because it holds a seed for the next season and can multiply. Blossoms MUST bear good fruit, and it’s harvest time for us and the Kingdom of God right now.
Jesus inspects our Fruit. In the bible many times people are represented as “trees’. Are you seeing a harvest for your work for the Lord? Many of you say, well I am being still, because God says be still. Understand God works in seasons, and we have to get into the flow of His seasons, and we must sow seeds into the next season, so being “still” is actually listening for instruction on how to take the next step in faith. We take these ‘still time’ conversations with Him and ask Him where He wants you to plant, replant? Because Jesus is very clear He must see FRUIT in us. You cannot stay still for too long, only a season.
In Luke 13:7 Jesus is clear in His teaching about expecting fruit in us:
“So he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?”
Jesus then says in Luke 13:9:
“If it bears fruit next year, fine. But if not, you can cut it down.”
Luke 14:35, Jesus brings the point of being fruitful for His kingdom on earth with a warning if we fail to bear fruit for the Kingdom of God in the earth stating:
“It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile, and it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Understand I teach this to you in Love as Jesus did – let’s focus on how you can bear fruit for the Kingdom of God. – Much Love, Coach Annamarie