FRUITFULNESS

“Be fruitful and multiply.” was the first command that God gave man. God desires that human beings be fruitful in all that he has given them. He himself is a fruitful God. This is seen as in the time of creation, the earth was void but God made it fruitful the animals in the field, birds of the air, and living creatures of the sea. He made them so that they can multiply and fill the earth. This is a great example of being fruitful.

God has given us the ability to multiply since He created us in his own image and likeness. He has given us gifts and talents and desires us to be fruitful in them. Everything God has put in our hands should reflect his power of fruitfulness. We see at the garden of Eden God visits Adam to see how he is doing with the gift he had given him. This shows that every now and then God will always come to his servants to see what they are doing with their God given abilities. Are they being fruitful?

Your ability to bear fruits determines the level of stewardship God will grant you. Every time God visited Abraham or even Jacob and saw that they were being fruitful with what he had entrusted them, he gave them more. God made Kings to become a blessing to Abraham e.g. King of Gerar Abimelech who gave Abraham sheep, oxen, male and female slaves and a thousand pieces of silver. Melchizedek King of Salem who was also a High priest blessed Abraham.

We also see Isaac planting seed in a foreign land and reaping same year a hundred times as much as he had planted. The Lord had surely blessed him. He became very wealthy; he owned flocks and herds and a great household such that the Philistines envied him! Genesis 26.

God increased Jacob so much that he surpassed his master Laban in cattle and sheep. He became fruitful even as he went back to his father’s house; he had two wives, eleven children, servants, numerous goats, donkeys, cows, bulls…

Fruitfulness also comes as a result of walking in obedience to God’s commands. Leviticus 26:1. Just like God promised His blessings to the Israelites, if they walked in obedience they would be fruitful. God’s blessings of fruitfulness are contingent on our responsiveness.