“So this morning when Anthony came home from work..he had brought some figs that he had picked off from some trees behind his work..and so we stood in the kitchen and him and I shared one..and it was delicious..Amen..some of them were perfect..and some of them were just bursting open because they were so ripe..Amen..and so of course my mind takes me to the word and at all the scriptures in the word of God that speaks of figs..and fig trees..Amen..but the one that truly always stands out to me is the one found in the book of Matthew at where the Lord is speaking of false prophets..Amen..and He is saying do we gather grapes from throne bushes?..or figs from thistles?..Amen..for He says a good tree cannot bare bad fruit..Amen..but the part that always gets me is this part..where the Lord says you will know them by their fruit..for by their fruit He says you will recognize them..Matthew 7:15-17..Amen..so I really hold fast to that..because I am not so much speaking of fruit by what people have in their lives..but I am speaking and I always am thinking about the spiritual fruit of someone’s life..Amen..because in the bible trees where symbolic of living godly lives..Amen..and so for me its not the house..the car..the money..the clothes..the fancy stuff that people have in their lives..it’s not their job title..but what I look at more so then anything when I am dealing with people..is the fruit that their baring from their so called tree of life..Amen!”

“Because to me that is where it is truly at in all of our lives..when I see fruit from people when I am talking to them..when I see love pouring out from them..overflowing with joy and peace..when I see happiness..and I see the sparkle in their eyes..and I hear the words that are coming from their lips..I say always to myself this person loves Jesus..Amen..and this person is tending their fruit..this person is tending their garden..this person is weeding and plucking and pulling up weeds and dead things..this person has gone through trials..and troubles..this person has overcome the fire and the flood in their lives..this person held on..Praise the Lord..this person did not throw the towel in and quit..this person persisted..this person held on..this person knows where their help comes from..Amen..so blessing’s they do come in many ways..but the biggest blessing is when you are baring much fruit in your life..when you are producing that delicious ripened fruit that our Father so desires..for you see we do know them by the fruit they bare..so I know that I have to work on my garden of life and daily so..I have to stay tending it..and mending over it..and seeding it..and nourishing it..and feeding it..Amen..because thats where we win guys in life..when all hits the fan and sometimes it does..but when you have been baring and have that good fruit flowing from you and your life..then you stand in the midst of all that comes..you make it..you overcome..because that is truly living life and living it well..when we are well..we live well..Amen..so be well in your life..be well with the Lord..be well with others..and produce fruit..good wholesome fruit in your life..mend and tend your garden..your trees..your bushes..your plants..all of it..tend them and tend them all well..Amen..being a light..bringing hope and sweetness from your fruit to the lives and to them ones in whom you are with and around..being a blessing as you as well in return are blessed..Amen..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi ❤