Fruitful yield

“You’ve got the information and when you believe it, it becomes the energy and the life and the transforming power down in your soul that His life then works out through you,” explains Jordan. “It’s not a warm, personal feeling. It’s a love that abounds in knowledge and in judgment. It’s a mental- attitude love. It’s the capacity to look at a thing and value and esteem it the way God does.

“You can take divine viewpoint and look at it and say, ‘God thinks that way.’ God says, ‘You get out of the way and I’LL love them through you, but it isn’t your love that’s the issue. It’s my love and, by the way, it’s my love for you.’

“When you get loved that way, and you realize how you love that way, you begin to love back. And you begin to think like He thinks. You begin to love the things He loves, not because you have to, He just begins to love them through you and you begin to think about them the way He thinks about them and you know what, that’s what love is.

“When He gave you that righteousness of Jesus Christ, that righteousness will bear fruit in your life. How does it do that? By Jesus Christ. Who’s the one who’s going to produce the fruit? The one who made you righteous. All you are is the fruit-bearer. He’s the fruit-producer. It’s an interesting thing about fruit. Fruit is seasonal. It’s not always on the tree. But it’s constant. It comes every season."