Spiritual Fruit Cake

Recipe for Spiritual Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

• love
• joy
• peace
• longsuffering
• gentleness
• goodness
• faith
• meekness
• temperance

The oven is hot so no need to preheat it.

Process:

1. To the soul add great love. It comes in two flavors. A great measure of God's love topped off with the same amount of brotherly love. This must be pure love, not artificial as some would provide. This love must be sifted and any impurities cast aside because only pure love makes a good cake; the sweet bread of life!
2. Adding the love must be with an emotion of joy. This is a hard to come by ingredient, but when one obtains hope from the top chef, it can be added to the love with joy. The amount of joy which makes this cake good is simple. The more joy, the better the taste of the cake. 
3. After adding love and joy gently blend them together. Don't stir vigorously, but just allow the two to meld together. As you stir, both will blend with harmony and the mixture will be ready long before it heats up. Constantly check such that the cake mixture doesn't boil. We cannot have it cook before it's time!
4. One must be patient when combining the ingredients. Sometimes the love may not be pure and the joy shallow, but without stirring for awhile, just wait for the temperature to cool before proceeding. Longsuffering is worth the wait for a good fruit cake!
5. Stir with gentleness. Although the love and joy is imperfect, they will still be ample if care is used. Gentleness will never stir up trouble. This gentleness when combined with patience will pay off! The best fruit cake results from the combination of gentleness with patience.
6. Now that love and joy are just right, it's time to put in the goodness! Where can that be found? Goodness is what is just right. The top chef knows this secret ingredient and it can be found in his cook book. Hint: If we do the things it takes to get the love, it's products of love which make the good things. One ingredient in the the goodness cornucopia is obedience. If we do things just right, our fruit cake will be the best ever and the top chef will be pleased!
7. As the mixture sets, keep it active by adding a little faith if one wants a mild fruit cake, but much faith if it is desired to have many fruits. Take care because just a little faith may not flavor the cake just right, giving the taste of mild mustard. That's not good in a cake, but much faith provides mountains of flavor!
8. Now it's time to bake the cake. It must be put just right into the oven; very close to where the top chef would be. Shadrack, Meshack and Ebednego baked their cake there and the oven was too hot until the top chef came in to adjust the heat for them. With that mountain of faith the oven will be just right and no harm will come to the fruit cake. It will be made perfect by the top chef! Because you are so dependent on the top chef to make it right, sprinkle a little meekness as it bakes. Tears make a fruit cake moist and preserves the fruit within it! Meekness is a small fruit with a giant flavor. Go for it in large amounts.
9. It's about time now. It's all about over. The fruit is about ready to become a cake! Some would add a bit of bourbon or wine to the top for flavor. This cake won't need that! Rather than messing up the cake with too much of an ingredient which is unnecessary, just remain temperate. And it's not just the bourbon which is not needed, but anything in excess which might overpower the taste of the fruit in the cake. When in doubt, just don't do it!

Eating the Cake:

• Thank God for providing the ingredients. He provided all the fruits. He had his Spirit in them.
• Share the cake with others. Tell them from whom the ingredients came. Show them by your enthusiasm how good the cake is! Manna from heaven can't be any better than this sweet bread!
• Tell them that they can always have cake like this. All they need to do is believe in the top chef and his recipe for hope because with good cake there is much hope!
• This cake never spoils. If one maintains any faith at all, the cake will last forever!
• Not only is this cake good for food, pleasant to look at, but those who partake of this cake are wise.
• This cake is healthy! Large amounts can be eaten! There is no law, even the laws of  energy, which can make this cake unhealthy!  Eat all you want of it!
• This cake cures physical ailments and spiritual decay. When eaten it makes anyone who partakes perfectly healthy and so spiritually vibrant that decay will never be.
• When the cake has aged just the right amount, it goes with you. You will eat of this cake daily and eat it with the top chef. You will sing songs of praise to him by providing the recipe for this fruit cake; The Fruits of the Spirit Cake!
• Don't keep this recipe a secret. Share it with everyone. Shout it from the rooftops!