Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Fruitfulness is the will of God. Barrenness is not of God.
Every living thing is supposed to produce fruit. The identity of an entity can
be determined by the fruits they bear, for example you can tell a mango tree by
the mango fruit it bears.
Fruitfulness is a precursor to increase. Increase is a
function of fruitfulness and multiplication. Therefore, fruitfulness which
always births multiplication is a precursor to increase as the yield from
fruitfulness leads to multiplication and multiplication leads to increase. Please
read Jeremiah 29 verses 5 to 6, Genesis Chapters 1 verse 28, 9 verses 1 and 7.
God demands and requires fruitfulness and increase from His creation. Fruitfulness
is a command from God to His creation because every creation of God is divinely
capacitated to be fruitful.
The nation and company of nations can only proceed from you
if you are fruitful because fruitfulness births multiplication and
multiplication births expansion. Be fruitful and multiply. It is the fruitful
branch in Christ that is pruned to bear more fruit but the unfruitful branch is
cut away. Stagnancy leads to retrogression and retrogression to obscurity. It
is fruitfulness and multiplication that makes an individual, family, families,
communities and nations expand to the North, South, East and West. Please read
Genesis Chapter 28 verses 13 to 15. Jacob to whom God made this promise was
very fruitful in every area of life. He bore twelve sons and a daughter and all
twelve sons had many children. Jacob was also very rich in material goods and
financial resources. His unique animal husbandry gave him several flocks out of
the flock he kept for Laban and his sons.
By the time Jacob went to Egypt as Israel, the Bible records
that they were seventy persons and by the time they were leaving Egypt as the
nation of Israel, the Bible records that six hundred thousand persons excluding
their dependents and other persons who tagged alongside them, described as the
mixed multitude.
