SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2024.
In this series, I will be writing on fruitfulness and what it entails. Fruitfulness is a deliberate and intentional decision, it is not automatic.
TOPIC: Fruitfulness is Productivity.
MEMORY VERSE: Genesis 1:11
[11]And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
FOCUS: Genesis 1:28
[28]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.
Productivity is fruitfulness. The Bible often describes a productive person as someone who bears fruit.
A business is fruitful if it creates profits and expands, anything fruitful is productive. It grows and produces just like a fruitful tree will.
Fruitfulness aims to flourish while the aim of productivity is success. There’s a need to combine these two to achieve all-round fruitfulness.
The how of fruitfulness is just as important, if not more important than the result in itself and we must be careful in our utilitarian and productive-driven culture to slow down and look at not just the end, but the means for bearing fruit in God’s kingdom.
LESSON: Jeremiah 17:8
[8]For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
God’s way of fruitfulness is described by Jesus through an overflow of love, an intentional relationship between the Father the vinedresser, Jesus the vine (and his disciples the branches).
In the Christian life, as we consider what it looks like to bear fruit for God’s kingdom, we have to ask ourselves- what is the source behind the fruit I want to produce?
PERSONAL CONFESSION: I am a fruitful vine.
PERSONAL PRAYER: Father, deliver me every form of barrenness in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Only the faithful can be fruitful.
NOTE: The only way to be fruitful for God is if your heart is His garden.
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