Multiplication will require you to be stretched and developed. It takes time, hard work and a willingness to be sharpened into that accurate arrow that hits the center of the target every time. We have the option to choose to be “left alone” or we can persevere and run this race with everything we’ve got. Laying our lives down on behalf of the King.
Fruitfulness
Rick Warren
When God wants to remove the defects in your life, he doesn’t just snap his fingers so that it happens instantly. He does it incrementally. When God wants to make a mushroom, he takes six hours, but when he wants to make an oak tree, he takes 60 years. Do you want to be a mushroom or an oak tree?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends.