God’s Pattern for Spiritual Impact

There are ways God may be speaking to you that you don’t even recognize—because when Christ is in you, His gifts and character can flow through you. But here’s the key: you can’t minister what you haven’t partaken of. If you’re not walking in patience, gentleness, or love with yourself, you won’t carry it for others—and that’s why the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit are meant to operate in balance, just like the high priest’s robe: a bell, then a pomegranate, gift and fruit, sound and substance.