Gifts & Fruit

Gifts & Fruit

Gifts can be cultivated, but fruit has to be yielded. You don't need fruit to cultivate gifts. Neither do you need gifts to yield and produce fruit. They are independent of each other.

A person who has cultivated strong gifts does not mean she/he has good fruit, nor is she/he mature. But a person who has fruit is one who is mature.

Many years ago, I had a Senior Pastor whom I worked under, who was able to move in gifts but he was manipulative.

"Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive." - Bill Johnson 

The reason why fruit is expensive is because we have to surrender to the King in order to grow it. That requires putting ourselves under His Lordship.

This is why a normal believer can be more mature than a minister in the four-fold (or five-fold) ministerial office. Just because someone has a position does not mean that she/he is in close relational position with Christ. Just because someone is a CEO does not mean that he has good character. Because the four-fold ministry is a gift, not fruit.

Let's rise up and walk in our identity ----- believers of Christ! #powerandlove