{"id":14053,"date":"2016-08-18T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/74-the-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-a-child-growsfrom-the-seeds-a-parent-sows\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:47:00","slug":"74-the-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-a-child-growsfrom-the-seeds-a-parent-sows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/74-the-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-a-child-growsfrom-the-seeds-a-parent-sows\/","title":{"rendered":"74 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IN A CHILD GROWS\nFROM THE SEEDS A PARENT SOWS."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>How fruitful are you? Does the Holy Spirit have the freedom in your life to develop fruit? Are you living your life to please God? What seed have you sown in your children\u2019s lives that will grow?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>These questions were swirling in my head as I hurried to the airport to catch another plane. I was busy in the ministry, busy in my writing, busy in my relationship-building \u2026 I was just plain busy. But was I busy doing the right things?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>My youngest son caught me up short by asking why I didn\u2019t love him. I was astonished at the thought. Of course I loved him. The problem was, I didn\u2019t show it in a way that he could relate.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He needed my presence to <i>feel<\/i> the love I had for him. He couldn\u2019t sense it from me while I was hundreds or even thousands of miles away from him. Nor could he get what he needed from my just telling him. It was presence that he craved.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>It\u2019s the same with God. We teach our children about relationships with God in the same way we teach them about relationships with others. God yearns for our presence; mere words don\u2019t cut it.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Do you spend time with God? Do your children know it? Do you teach them what it takes to have a personal relationship with God?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><i>Then Moses said to the Lord, \u201c\u2026 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight \u2026\u201d <\/i>(Exodus 33:12\u201313)<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fruitful are you? Does the Holy Spirit have the freedom in your life to develop fruit? Are you living your life to please God? What seed have you sown in your children\u2019s lives that will grow? These questions were swirling in my head as I hurried to the airport to catch another plane. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/74-the-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-a-child-growsfrom-the-seeds-a-parent-sows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;74 THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IN A CHILD GROWS<br \/>\nFROM THE SEEDS A PARENT SOWS.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}