What is in your heart today?

Hello again dear friends and family in Christ,

The topic on my heart today is very similar to what I have been saying in the last few messages, and that is that we need to recognize our daily dependence on God.
By recognize, what I mean is that we must daily remind ourselves that we can do no good apart from God (John 15:4-5). Some of us are quite capable of performing well at whatever our day brings us, but we need to be very aware that if our hearts are not filled with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control, then we are not bearing fruit for God, and we are not pleasing him with our lives. Is your heart today filled with these things?
I will be the first to confess that I do not wake up in the morning with all of these naturally flowing out of me. I need to desperately seek God and ask him to fill me with his Spirit. And this, my friends, is the situation we are all in. If we are not constantly and daily asking God to fill us with his Holy Spirit, then we are not living the Christian life by faith, apart from works.

The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace ~Romans 8:6

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him ~Luke 11:13

Is your mind today "controlled by the spirit"?

With very much love,
Charlie