Why fruitfulness?

MESSAGES FOR THE MONTH MARCH, 2016: OUR MONTH OF FRUITFULNESS

THEME: BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY

MESSAGE FOR SUNDAY THE 6^TH OF MARCH 2016

Topic: Why fruitfulness?

Introduction: In the manufacturing industry, it is a rule that before a product is sold to people, the manufacturer would have prepared and packaged with his or her product, a little literature known as a manual of instructions showing the purpose, use and management of the product for optimum performance. I believe this was copied by man from God because God as the ultimate manufacturer who created the heavens and the earth and all of mankind, has a manual for them. His manual is the Bible. The bible is authored by God and teaches us how to live in such a way as to become the best that we could ever be.

In the bible, the origin and purpose of our existence as mankind is disclosed to us. The bible also reveals God as our source from whom we can receive all that pertains to life and godliness. We also learn from the bible how we can connect with God and learn directly from him about our individual lives and specific destiny calls so that we can be most productive and fulfilled in life.

In summary here, we learn from the same bible that God’s main purpose for making man is really achievable when we are fruitful. Imagine if Adam and Eve never proliferated; would we have the population and diversity on earth today as we do? So at the root of our fulfillment in life is this need to be fruitful and multiply. Today, we shall be looking at why we must be fruitful.

Why fruitfulness? To make this easy for all to understand, I am going to list some reasons from the word of God why we must be fruitful. By the end of this month, I hope to show us that fruitfulness in every area of our lives is not optional. It is our legal right in the covenant of grace. We can place a demand on it and receive it. For example, all the women who trusted God for Children in the bible ended up as mothers including Sarah at ninety and Elizabeth at an old age. Jabez found himself to be unproductive until he cried out to God in prayer for the blessing and enlargement of his coast and changed that destiny [1Chron.4:9-10]. We can go on and on to show that it is the mind of God to make us fruitful and multiply. These are the reasons for it:

1.     When we are fruitful and multiply, we are being obedient to God’s command to us from the very beginning. The statement of the blessing in Gen.1:28 was also a commandment that must be obeyed. When we obey this command, we fulfill the purpose for which God made us.

2.     To be fruitful and multiply is the means by which God intends for us to fulfill our purpose in creation to have dominion over all the work of God’s hands on earth. In other words, this is the means by which we can effectively lead God’s creation. When we proliferate, we grow in number enough to be able to accomplish more as a team than if we stood alone. When Adam was alone, God said that the alone state was not good and decided to make and present him with a woman suitable to him and together, they began to increase in number on the earth. See Gen.2:18 – this was the only aspect of creation to which God’s verdict of ‘not good’ was attached. When the children of Israel began to take the land of their inheritance, God told them he would not remove all the previous inhabitants from the land at once lest the evil beasts in the land would increase and gain mastery over them. See Deu.7:22-23.

3.     Fruitfulness and multiplication triggers our wisdom potential and enables us to come up with creative ways of dealing with issues that arise from it. For instance when Moses was faced with the challenge of managing a crowd of people alone, his father in law helped him out by suggesting to him what we now understand to be delegation. Also, when the early Church faced the challenge that comes with growth, the office of the deacon was created to free up the apostles to focus on their primary assignment. See Ex.18:13-26 and Acts 6:1-7.

4.     Fruitfulness and multiplication is proof of the blessing working in your life. When God called Abraham, He promised him that he would make him the father of many nations and gave him the word of the blessing. See Gen.12:1-4 and Noah’s example in Gen.9:1-3.

5.     Fruitfulness and multiplication is God’s method of destroying the curse. When we are productive, everything that resembles the curse is eliminated from our lives as we would naturally prosper as our souls prosper.  The prosperity of the soul shows mental and social productivity. See 3John 1:2; Ex.1:7-9. The king of Egypt was threatened by the multiplication of the children of Israel as he saw them more and mightier than the Egyptians.

Access to this grace was freely available to man until the devil came in to mess things up by luring man into sin which resulted in his separation from God [Gen.3; Rm.3:23 and 6:23]. Thankfully, the Lord Jesus Christ already came to solve the sin problem for us. However, we are required to embrace His sacrifice by believing in Him and receiving God’s free gift of salvation through faith. See John 3:16-18.

If you have not yet received this free gift, you can do so right away by saying the following prayer out loud in faith and you shall be saved:

Heavenly Father,

Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.

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