Fruitful

Continuing on our series of “2009 being the most focused, fruitful and fulfilling year we’ve ever had”, Pastor Art Evans talked about being fruitful.

·         John 15—without Him, we can do nothing.

o   Ask yourself, “How much of my life do I live without Jesus in it?”

·         Luke 13:6—when we don’t bear fruit, we are cut down

o   In the parable, thank God for the vinedresser (Jesus) who says, “Just one more year”!

o   What did the vinedresser do?

§  Dug up the ground around it—what junk in your life do you need to have Jesus “dig up”?

§  Fertilized it—live in faith through “crappy” circumstances

·         To be fruitful, you have to be faith-filled.

·         Root out the bad fruitàliving for pleasure, living for personal gain, living for the flesh

·         Plant a new seed in your lifeàthe Word

·         Psalm 1:1-3: Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers.

o   What would it be like to know that what you do every day will be lasting, it won’t wither and that everything you do prospers?

o   How do become that fruitful? “delight in the law of the Lord AND meditate on it day and night”.