18 Aug Blessed to be fruitful
Genesis 1:26-28:
26. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
THE KEYS OF LIVING IN FRUITFULNESS
“KNOWING WHO YOU ARE AND THE PURPOSE OF GOD IN YOU ARE THE KEYS OF DEVELOPING OUR FRUITFULNESS LIVING IN THE WORLD”
I. The Purpose of God (Genesis 1:26-28)
- THE PLAN
GENESIS 1:26 (ESV):
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- THE CREATION
GENESIS 1:27(ESV):
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
- THE EXECUTIVE POWER
GENESIS 1:28 (ESV):
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
II. THE BLESSING OF GOD
IN DEALING WITH MAN THE FIRST THING THAT GOD DID WAS TO BLESS THEM
So now we understand that the blessings come first as the empowerment God gave to man to fulfil His purpose and will on earth.
Blessing: BARAKH means God wants to work in you and through you. In other term is God is with you.
God created heaven and earth and Everything with in ( including day and night and surrounding ecosystem) at the First place, and than according
to His perfect planing and purposes He created Human kind and bless them in order to be fruitful and having dominion as Representative of God’s kingdom on earth
Genesis 1:21-22:
21. So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.
22. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
In This particular scripture, We Find the First word BLESS mention in the Bible
The blessing of God that can makes us fruitful living to accomplished His purpose and destiny that He has established before creation of the earth.
Starting with knowing who you are in Christ who created you in His own Image and likeness
God created us according to His Image and likeness is also known ad IMAGO-DEI.
There is no others creation that more like God than us.
And the BLESSING of God is the empowerment of God that He put in us in order We can perform exactly according to His purpose and destiny
Proverbs 10:22: The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
One of the reason God created Human in male and female is to makes them be fruitful and multiplication according to His plan and destiny
FRUITFULNESS IS PRODUCTIVITY OR AN ABILITY TO PRODUCE SOMETHINGS THAT USEFUL AND ADDED VALUE FOR OTHERS
Fruits or the PRODUCT we produce, it’s must be use-full and help-full for other and not for ourself only
Often time We pray to God to give us the capability to produce the end result that PRODUCT will useful to the end user, which is no thing wrong with that, in-fact We should realise that God had given us the potential to create something from scratch to the end result using By our customer
Deuteronomy 8:17-18:
17. Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’
18. You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
BECAUSE OF GOD’S BLESS, WE CAN BE CREATIVE AND BE FRUIT-FULL IN EVERYTHING WE DO, AND WE CAN MAKES OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL GENERATE ABUNDANT FINANCIAL TO HELP THE WORK OF THE GOSPEL AND GLORIFY GOD!
LUKE 5:1-9:
[1] On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,
[2] and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.
[3] Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
[4] And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”
[5] And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”
[6] And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.
[7] They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.
[8] But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”
[9] For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken,
We don’t need to be toil to chase opportunity, money, famous and power; but We are living in God’s abundant life just because we obeying the word of God
Ephesians 2:10:
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
“OPPORTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESS IN OVERALLS AND LOOK LIKE WORK” ( Thomas A. Edison)
“HARD-WORK BEAT TALENT WHEN TALENT DOESN’T WORK HARD”
Genesis 41:51-52:
51. Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”
52 The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
“LIMITATION BREADS CREATIVITY”
III. CONCLUSION:
- GOD IS IN CONTROL FROM START TO ACCOMPLISHMENT
God is still SOVEREIGN and in control for Everything happen in His all creation
Daniel 4:17:
[17] The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’
ISAIAH 46:9-13:
9. remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
10. declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
11. calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.
12. “Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from righteousness:
13. I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.”
- KEEP AN OPEN MIND AND SPIRIT
John 15:1-2:
1. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
2. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
We can only be fruitful When our life is plug in to the true vine of the life of Jesus Christ.
Let the Holy Spirit guide you and give you the fresh revelation that will makes you a man of full creativity and than you will produce the great and use-full PRODUCT that will help others to achieve Their calling
- LOOK INSIDE YOURSELF
ABILITY WILL ATRACT ANOTHER ABILITY; Creativity Will attract another creativity
“YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL BY THE STANDARD OF THE WORD AND NOT BE FRUITFUL. BUT YOU CANNOT BE FRUITFUL BY THE STANDARD OF THE WORD AND NO BE SUCCESSFUL”
JOHN 15:7-8:
7. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
8. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
OUR LIFE WILL BE MEANING-FULL WHEN WE KNOW THAT WE ARE LIVING IN GOD’S BLESSING AND BE FRUIT-FULL IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS JESUS’ PRAYER, “LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN”.
HAPPY 28th ANNIVERSARY ROCK SYDNEY.
Let the BLESSING of GOD makes us FRUITFUL in every aspect of our live.
SOLI DEO GLORIA & JBU ABUNDANTLY.
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