Living in Increase (Part 9) - Increase in HealthSample

Week 5: Spiritual Health

The Fruit of the Spirit

As we close out our discussion on health, we will discuss increasing our spiritual health. We’ve talked about health in multiple areas; however, spiritual health is one of the most important places we need to be healthy. This is because our spiritual health affects everything we do.

We are spirits who have souls and are in bodies. Our physical bodies are not who we are; our spirits are who we are. When we’re unhealthy spiritually, the core of who we are is broken. Therefore, we need to increase our spiritual health!

Galatians 5 lists the fruit the Holy Spirit produces in our lives. One way to gauge our spiritual health is by seeing if these fruits are being produced in us. When the Holy Spirit is in complete control, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are produced. When the Holy Spirit is not in control, these attributes are not produced.

The first step to increasing spiritual health is assessing where your spiritual health is today.

Emily N. Green

Action Step: Write out all nine of the fruits of the Spirit. Put a checkmark by the ones you see regularly in your life. Circle the ones you are missing. Then, rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 for spiritual health (1 being unhealthy and 10 being perfectly healthy).