Friday, July 31, 2026

Friday, July 31, 2026
Luke 6:43-44
For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

If you picked an apple from a tree and it tasted bitter, you probably wouldn’t go back for another. But if it was sweet and delicious, you’d keep coming back again and again. In the same way, when we surrender our lives to Christ, the Holy Spirit produces good fruit in us. And that fruit helps those around you taste and see just how good God really is.

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Thursday, July 30, 2026

Thursday, July 30, 2026
John 12:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.

If you’ve ever put a seed into a baggie with a wet paper towel, you’ve witnessed something remarkable. A seed breaking open in order to allow new life to start. It’s a process that God wants to happen in our hearts too. Because a life that is surrendered to Christ is a life that bears fruit—fruit that lasts for eternity.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Matthew 13:23
As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.

A single apple seed planted in the ground has the potential to produce thousands of apples. And your faith is like that apple seed. When you dig in God’s Word and it grows your faith, it changes you from the inside out and has the potential to grow fruit that will point others to the goodness of God.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

There’s an if/then principle in Psalm 1. If you choose to delight in God’s Word and spend time thinking about it during your day, then God says you will not only be blessed, but you’ll be like a tree that lives near its source. A tree that will grow in every season, even the difficult ones.

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Monday, July 27, 2026

Monday, July 27, 2026
John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Imagine planting a whole garden of cucumber plants and not getting a single cucumber. You’d probably be pretty surprised because healthy plants naturally produce fruit. In the same way, when we come to Christ, He naturally produces fruit in us—things like love, joy, peace, and kindness. And it’s that fruit that reveals to those around us that He is at work in our lives.

Friday, July 24, 2026

Friday, July 24, 2026
Isaiah 30:15a
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.

God is gracious even when He disciplines His people for their disobedience. In Isaiah’s day, they were looking everywhere for help except to God Himself. Yet even in His discipline, the Lord lovingly called them back to Himself through repentance and trust.