# 2148 The Fruit of Love – Fruits Part 7 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2148-the-fruit-of-love-fruits-part-7 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2148-the-fruit-of-love-fruits-part-7.md Podcast: [BIG Life Devotional | Daily Devotional for Women](https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023) Published: 2026-07-02T13:18:07+00:00 Episode link: https://biglifehq.com/2026/07/2148-the-fruit-of-love-fruits-part-7/ Audio file: https://media.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/content.blubrry.com/big_life_devotional/2148BLDevo-Fruit_of_Love-Fruits_Part_7.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/episodes/2148-the-fruit-of-love-fruits-part-7 Duration seconds: 1270 ## Resource Galatians 5:22, “But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: LOVE …” God isn’t asking us to manufacture love. This isn’t about trying harder. God invites us to connect with him and grow in him, and as we abide in him, his love naturally flows through us. Jesus says “Apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) This is why some people are incapable of loving well or loving at all – they don’t have the love of Jesus flowing through them. It’s like expecting the limb of the apple tree lying on the ground to keep producing apples. Of course it can’t – it’s disconnected from it’s source of life so no fruit will grow. When we are detached from our source, we are incapable of loving well. We don’t need more effort, we need more connection to our source. Every detail of God’s word is specific. The order here is important. Love comes first on the list of fruits because every other fruit grows out of love. Think about it: Joy is love rejoicing. Peace is love resting. Patience is love enduring. Kindness is love serving. Goodness is love acting. Faithfulness is love staying. Gentleness is love responding. Self-control is love choosing. Love is the root. The other fruits are expressions of it. So doesn’t it make sense that the enemy goes to work on our ability to love and be loved? If he takes away our love, he takes away every other fruit in our lives. For this reason, love in this world gets twisted. It becomes lust. It becomes self-serving. It becomes pain. Love is like the weapon taken right out of our hands and pointed at us by the enemy of our soul to destroy us. Loving like Jesus will defeat the enemy, but when that love is turned on us and twisted, the e… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/episodes/2148-the-fruit-of-love-fruits-part-7/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-life-devotional-daily-devotional-for-women-10023/2148-the-fruit-of-love-fruits-part-7.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.