September 16th, 2025

By Kaydeen Edwards


This season has been quite challenging for many believers. However, John 15:5 says if you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.

Bearing fruit takes time and it’s beginnings aren’t very beautiful. Fruit starts as a seed which is sown in the dirt. Dirt is not pretty yet it is an important part of the production of fruit. When the seed sprouts it takes root and there’s one major root the tap root  that goes down deep. It is there so that in dry seasons, the plant can still find water even when there’s no sign of rain. Our tap root is the Holy Spirit. 

A plant is also rooted, so that when the storm comes, and the wind blows, this plant will not be uprooted. Sometimes there are many seasons before a plant produces fruit. In those seasons, not only is there no fruit, but this plant must weather many storms. The more storms the tree weathers the stronger its roots. It is like our faith we weather many seasons that are unfruitful. When we experience dry season, we must tap deeply into Jesus that we could be refreshed by the well of life. 

Eventually, the seed that was planted many storms and seasons ago bears fruit. The thing about fruit trees is that not only do they bare fruit, but they must be pruned that they will become even more fruitful. The seed of faith has been planted within us, and we will experience, dry seasons. We will also experience storms and winds. 

Eventually we will bear fruit, however, it does not end there. There is the upkeep of our faith and that means we will experience seasons of pruning and drought. Yet the more seasons we weather like the tree, the stronger our faith grows and the more fruitful we will be. 

So I love when James says consider it pure joy the testing of our faith because it is joy is not the in the pain that we feel, but joy is in the result of testing. As the apostle Paul said I have learned to be content in any in every season. Contentment is a place we can live because in the storms God is with us and when we bare fruit, he is with us still. And there nothing can separate us from the love of God for he will always be with us. Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.

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