The Fruit That Speaks
Attributes to Help You Grow
You can say almost anything. You can craft the right words, hold the right title, wear the right expression. But fruit doesn't perform — it grows. And what grows from you is the only thing people actually taste.
The Fruit That Speaks is an unflinching look at the fruit of the Spirit — not as a checklist, but as a living portrait of what God grows in a willing life. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control: each one is explored not as an aspiration but as a declaration of what you were made to produce.
Juma writes from the intersections of faith, leadership, and the daily reality of living before people who are watching what you actually are. This book is for every believer who is tired of talking about character and ready to start bearing it — who understands that the fruit of your life is louder than anything you will ever say.
"Love is not patient because patience is easy. Love is patient because it has decided that the person in front of it is worth the cost of waiting. That decision is made before the moment arrives. That is why love — real love — never looks surprised by what it's asked to endure."
Inside the Book
- —A chapter-by-chapter examination of each attribute of the fruit of the Spirit as active, embodied character
- —Honest writing from the leadership edge — how these qualities show up (or fail to) in real relationships and real rooms
- —The difference between performing virtue and bearing fruit — and how to stop confusing them
- —Rooted in Galatians 5 but reaching into the everyday moments where character is actually tested
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"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."Galatians 5:22–23