By Kristen Entwistle

When my Bible study co-leader, April, and I sat down one week near the end of March last year, we thought it might be a good idea to send out short devotionals to our group every week during the summer when we were not meeting together regularly.  We threw around some ideas of devotionals that we could use, but it wasn’t until I suggested that I write the devotionals that we really started to have an idea take place.

A few weeks before we started sending out the devotionals, I began writing and every week I sent out the devotional on a different fruit of the Spirit to our group.  After the study had concluded for the summer, some of the members of my Bible study group encouraged me to publish the series of devotionals.  After many months of prayer, I finally took the plunge and began editing the devotionals into a somewhat cohesive study.  And that, dear reader, is how this book ended up in your hands.

I am a sinner, saved by grace, just as you are.  I am a child of God, just as you are.  And I, just like you, am striving to walk this life by the Spirit.  What a blessing that we are able to do that side by side and encourage each other in it.

I pray that this study would encourage and challenge you, as it did me.  I pray that you will continue to allow God to cultivate His character in you, growing the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in your life.

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