Lord I Want to Bear Fruit
(of Thanksgiving)
You probably found yourself at times asking the Lord for a heart of thanksgiving, love and grace. I used to do that at times when I asked the Lord to give me more love, more grace, more of this and that. I wanted Him to give me what I thought I don't have.
This is when the Lord started revealing to me: "the fullness of who I am is in you, Elana. I gave you everything you need for life and godliness."
"You did? So, how come I don't see it coming out of me? Where is it hidden? Is something wrong with me, Lord?"
2Pe 1:3 NASB seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, (how?)
through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
"Elana, I live in you. I gave you My glory and the treasure you have in your earthen vessel is Me. Nothing is missing or lacking in Me. I have built you as My Temple complete and I don't do half a job. I built you beautiful and perfected you by My blood. You just need to see who I have already made you. You need to see it - to see Christ in you. The more you see My glory in you the more you are transformed into that glory. But if you see your old identity, the old sin-nature, what is failing and missing in you - you are veiled from seeing who I have made you. You already have a new heart and a new Spirit which I put in you. Your new heart is a heart of love, thanksgiving, praise, peace, joy, and all that I am. It's Me living in you and in season these fruits of Mine will come out. The heart of love and thanksgiving has been in you when I put My Spirit in you. And I see you growing on living it out.
"Lord, when will these beautiful fruits come out of me? Can they come any faster? I still manifest the ugly fruits and see them daily."
Then I was thinking about Abraham, and the Lord said to me:
"Elana, when Abraham was righteous because he believed; what did he believe?"
I was thinking........ "Mmmmmmm he believed that he will have a son and he believed that You are able to resurrect his son from the dead when he almost sacrificed him"
The Lord showed me: "Elana, Abraham believed that he will have fruit, right?"
"Yes!", I said. "Even thought he did not see the fruit yet he believed he will have it."
I got it Lord. Thanks!
Thanksgiving came out of me when truth was revealed to me and set me free from condemnation thiking: "I'm not good enough. I don't measure up to the standard and the demand of the law."
I realized how many years it took Abraham to bear fruit after the Lord told him he will have the fruit of love. It took Abraham forty years to bear fruit.
The Lord showed me that Isaac and all of Abraham's fruits had already been in his loins even though Abraham had not seen one of them yet:
Heb 7:9-10 NASB And, so to speak, through Abraham even Levi,(his great grandson - a fruit) who received tithes, paid tithes, (10)
for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
However, Abraham believed he will bear fruit and it was counted to him righteousness. He trusted God that he will be fruitful even though his wife's womb was dead and he was growing old.
Again when Abraham was about to sacrifice and give God his most precious of all - the fruit he so longed to have. Abraham believed God is able to raise him up from the dead because Abraham had a Word in him promising him that he will be a father of many nations and it will be through Isaac. Abraham knew if Isaac dies God's promise was not truth therefore God has to do something and save Isaac's life so the promise will come to pass.
David also believed that out of his loins Christ will come:
Act 2:30 KJV Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
The loins is where truth is:
Eph 6:14 NASB Stand firm therefore, HAVING GIRDED YOUR LOINS WITH TRUTH, and HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
The loins where truth is - represents the mind (what we believe, know, remember)
1Pe 1:13 MKJV
Therefore girding up the loins of your mind, being sober, perfectly hope for the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
Meaning, Christ who was raised up out of the fruit of David's loins was actually raised up out of the Truth David knew in his mind. Out of Truth in David's mind God raised up Christ to sit on His throne.
I also realized how Sarah the mother of our faith was discouraged and decided she was going to bear fruit by her own effort. A man-made self effort fruit. But we know it was the wrong fruit. Hagar represents the old covenant of the law which gives birth to slaves - but not to Sons.
The Bride of the Lord always struggled with bearing the fruits of love with her husband. Sarah, Rachel, Samson's parents, Hannah, Elizabeth.
How much she wanted to bear fruit while seeing all others around her bearing fruit. It took her many years to bear fruit and it was ALWAYS with the Lord's supernatural intervention. He was the One opening the womb for a Son.
We want to see Jesus who is the First Fruit coming out of us in His glory and God showed us Mary (His mother) as an example. Mary represents the Bride of the Lord who is righteous in His sight. He made sure Jesus in her will come out.
Yes, others might think it's a man-made fruit; but you will know that the seed in you is the Word. You know it's by the Holy Spirit. You know it is Jesus in you who is about to come out. You know it is not man-made Jesus you have in you. It is the Son of God who is about to be birthed out of you in His glory.
The fullness of God's fruits are already in you. The Father put inside of you His First fruit and His fruit has seeds. Even thought you don't see these fruits coming out of you - they will. The glory of Jesus will be revealed in you because you are a tree planted by rivers of living waters and you will bear much fruit.
You see, Jesus is the Tree of Life who lives in you and He is a living life giving Spirit. It's no longer you who lives; but Christ lives in you. This means He will make sure His fruits in you will come out by His Spirit.
Be like a tree in the natural. A tree never makes effort to bear fruit in season. The fruits just come out because he is nourished, fed, gets lots of sun and living water.
- Be planted by Living Water, not dead water of religion that will choke you to death. The letter of the law kills. The Samaritan woman was used to the dead water of her forefathers which cannot give eternal life; but Jesus came to take her out of religion (the old covenant of the law) to give her Living water.
- Be nourished with the bread of life, not with doctrines of Pharisees who are bound to the law and their teachings brings condemnation. The one commandment Adam and eve received was not to eat from the tree of the law. It killed them. The letter of the law kills and the fruit they were bearing was accusations. They became accusers. The law is the ministry of death and condemnation.
- Be showered and bathed with lots of sun so you can grow. It's the Sun of Righteousness that brings healing in His wings. Grow in your position as righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. You are righteous apart from your performance. Righteousness is your identity in Christ Jesus this means you no longer have an old identity as a Sinner.
Rom 5:19 NASB For as through the one man's disobedience (Adam) the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One (Jesus) the many will be made righteous.
Therefore in Christ Jesus you are righteous. This is your new identity. Notice the finished works of Christ. It does NOT say "you will be..." it says "you WERE.....":
1Co 6:11 NASB Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified(made righteous) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Heb 12:22-23 NASB
But you have come to Mount Zion (not to mount Sinai where the law was given and wrath and fear revealed) and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, (23)
to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
The foundation of your righteousness (justification) is NOT based on your performance. Righteousness was given to you as a gift by grace and APART from your performance.
Rom 5:16 CEV There is a lot of difference between Adam's sin and God's gift. That one sin led to punishment. But God's gift made it possible for us to be acceptable to him, even though we have sinned many times.
Rom 3:28 CEV
We see that people are acceptable to God because they have faith, and not because they obey the Law.
Meaning when your works is good or bad you are still righteous. Your righteousness is a gift and does not depend on you or your performance. It depends on Jesus and His finished works. Even while our performance is still failing and bad fruits are still being manifested - it never takes way our righteousness with God in Christ.
The evidence of your right standing with God (justification) is the resurrection of Jesus. Meaning the resurrection of Christ is the proof that you ARE righteous (justified).
Rom 4:25 NASB
He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.
Meaning those who believe they are right with God based on their own righteousness by their good performance - reject the resurrection of Christ.
It's because of His righteousness we are righteous. Not by anything we have performed right. It's by believing right - faith.
Abraham believed and it was considered to him righteousness. It does NOT say Abraham was performing right; or bearing fruit and it was considered to him righteousness. Before Abraham had ANY fruit he was in right standing with God by believing. Remember where Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldeans - which is Babylon. He came from Babylon the harlot. He came from a place of harlotry like Rehab; like Israel His wife who was exiled in Babylon. Imagine the bad fruits he was bearing. But by believing he will bear fruit God counted it to him as righteousness.
Your right standing with God does not depend on you. It depends on Jesus who fulfilled the law for you and gave you a free gift of righteousness. Just receive it and believe you will bear fruit.
Believe that Christ who is in you if the first Fruit and His fruit bears seeds and you also will bear fruit. Just believe as Abraham believed. God promised us that we will bear fruit therefore He will do it. He will shine His light and make sure to establish you as His Bride on righteousness, shower rain of righteousness on you, nourish you with His Word and make sure you bear much fruit.
Therefore I pray and say in Jesus name that out of the First Fruit of your loins - which is the Truth revealed to your mind - God will reveal to you Christ who is in you. I pray that Christ in you will be raised up in authority and power, dominion and might so you would reign as the son of God through Christ Jesus. I pray you will be firmly rooted and established on Jesus' righteousness, truth and love for you and you will see Christ in you the hope of glory - not your old identity and its failures which takes away all hope.
May much love and Thanksgiving rise up in you as you behold the glory of Jesus.
Elana Polinger
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