Beth Moore - Promises for a Fruitful Life

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Promises for a Fruitful Life

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Names: Moore, Beth, author.

Title: Promises for a fruitful life / Beth Moore.

Description: Carol Stream, Illinois : Tyndale House Publishers, 2020.

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When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.... You didnt choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.

JOHN 15:8, 16

We were created to contribute, fashioned to bring who we are and what we have to the human mix to add some measure of benefit. This was true even in Edens unmarred paradise. God said to Adam and Eve, in so many words, Add to it! Work the ground! And the two of you, be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth!

Jesus elevated the concept to another stratosphere by taking individuals Hed given abundant life to and, by the power of His own Spirit, making their contributions matter not just temporally, as He did with Adam and Eve, but eternally.

God means for us to be profoundly effective. That longing in us to contribute, to do something worthwhile, isnt just a self-consumed dream. If we follow Jesus, thats what we can hope to expect from life.

And being fruitful isnt some stale and banal duty. It directly affects how happy we are, because engaging in what God is doing is the only thing that gives us true satisfaction and peace.

God wants you to flourish in Him. Every last thing He plants in your life is intended for that purpose. If we give ourselves fully to His faithful ways, mysterious and painful though they may be at times, we will find that its all part of the process that enables us to grow and bear fruit.

The Bible is full of Gods promises for us. In this book, Ive captured some of my favorite promises about the abundance Jesus has in mind for us. Please join me as we walk through thirty-one precious promises from Gods Word.

Beth Moore

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The L ORD will work out his plans for my life

for your faithful love, O L ORD , endures forever.

Dont abandon me, for you made me.

PSALM 138:8

In life, so many unexplainable things happen that can make a person feel like everything is one enormous accident. Some dots never do seem to connect. Your present job may appear to have nothing to do with your last job. You may feel like what you were trained to do has no link to what youre actually doing.

We long for continuity, for some semblance of purposeanything that might suggest were on the right track. Instead, we feel like ashes, leftovers from a bygone fire, blown aimlessly by the wind. We feel like were not even important enough to be forgotten, because we were never known in the first place.

Our perceptions can be very convincing, but God tells us the truth. Nothing about our existence is accidental. We were known before we knew we were alive. We were planned and, as a matter of fact, planted on this earth for this moment in time.

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This vision is for a future time.

It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled.

If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently,

for it will surely take place.

It will not be delayed.

HABAKKUK 2:3

Have you ever wondered why God goes to the trouble of sanctifying us? He could instantly zap us into His image the moment we decide to follow Jesus, or He could transport us into heaven at the moment of our conversion.

Why would He opt for taking us through the long, drawn-out process of planting, watering, pruning, and harvesting? Why would he choose to slowly grow what He could have simply created already grown? Why on earth would He go to the trouble to plant a garden forced to sprout rather than commanding it into existence, full bloom? Why leave His desk and get His pant legs soiled?

Because God likes watching things grow.

He rolls up His sleeves, puts palms to the dirt, and begins putting the pieces of our lives together in a way that matters.

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You are altogether beautiful, my darling,

beautiful in every way.

SONG OF SONGS 4:7

Over the years, Ive had the hardest time figuring out where I belong. Ill think, This is it! and the next thing I know, that hostile dog of insecurity starts nipping at my heels again, telling me Im out of place.

Do you ever get that same feeling? After countless conversations, Ive come to the conclusion that what most of us have in common is the feeling that were misfits.

Maybe nothing is more normal than feeling a bit abnormal. Maybe feeling comfortable in our own skin means coming to the realization that we werent created to feel particularly comfortable in this skin.

But God didnt choose you because nobody better was within arms reach. Gods arm is neither short nor weak (Isaiah 59:1). If He chose you, He did so on purpose. Ephesians 1:4 declares with spectacular clarity, Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ.

If youve been chosen by God, there is no room for equivocation: you matter.

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You will show me the way of life,

granting me the joy of your presence

and the pleasures of living with you forever.