Fruits

     Today there was a ministry session I was listening to that involved deliverance of a person from many types of entities that were nested in different parts of their body. There were fruits that were part of the diagnosis of the problem, and fruits that the counsel had to ask specific questions about. Fruits are one of those subjects that are super interesting to me because Jesus tells us "you will judge the prophets by their fruits" (Mt 7:15-20). There are quite a few fruits that are pointed out biblically, but going back to the example of the counselor asking questions, one fruit that there had been demonic activity in this person's life was that her directional orientation was off. He then prayed for her corpus callosum, and for the top of the brain, since physically speaking, and spiritually speaking, that's where the compass interfaces with the rest of our being.  However, due to the orientation of this compass to the north, it has allowed lots of onslaughts demonically to attack that specific spot in many people. The fruit of this problem was not having great direction in a new city, and generalized disorientation in new places. 

    Otherwise, there are lots of fruits that we can look to of many different illnesses, a specific fruit of asthma can be chest pain, whilst the most apparent fruit would be trouble breathing. The thing about it is that things are misdiagnosed all the time, and very rarely do things consider a whole picture of the human since there are many different takes on what the "person" is fully made up of. There is wisdom to be had, however, and God gives wisdom to the medical field just as much as he gives to this deliverance minister. These are fruits of a macro and a micro-scale and even a molecular scale. There are fruits of a generation, a person, and then specific things within a person. There are many things that we can look at that produce fruits, but the principle I normally go by is "what is the effect?"

    Every action has a fruit, and though this post has a specific grid for how the demonic interacts with humans, I haven't talked a lot about how humans affect themselves. We can praise and adore the Lord and love Him with all of our might, strength, and heart. He asks us to do this because it's a specific action that will bring the fruits of His Kingdom. As we love Him with all that we are we become in tune with the way He wants to interact with the world, and how that manifests itself are by fruits. 

    The really cool thing about it is that the Lord is so passionate about our heritage, and our birthright that by Loving Him with all that we are we will not only fulfill His purpose for His Kingdom, but we will fulfill our purpose. The fruits that we ought to look for are people living their lives to fulfillment, not sitting in a church and going every Sunday like a faithful Christian should. 

    The next post I'll talk about the fruits of fulfillment and what that looks like.