Thursday November 19th, 2020
« He (Master Jesus) cuts away every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will produce even more fruit. »
12 “Then it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
13 And He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock, in the land of which He swore to your fathers to give you.
14 You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.
Many use the words barrenness and fruitfulness interchangeably, but there are marked differences between the two.
- Barrenness is the inability to bear fruit as a result of challenges that may be unknown to the victim and beyond his/her power to surmount. The solution to barrenness is ultimately in the hand of God.
- Fruitlessness is failure to bear fruit under normal circumstances, sometimes due to uncleanliness and sickness.
Our Lord Jesus Christ said that anyone not bearing fruit would be taken away.
You will not be taken away from your place in the mighty name of Jesus.
Luke 13:6-9 amplifies the fruit-bearing responsibilities of children of God.
The vinedresser in that parable is none other than Jesus, the compassionate advocate, pleading on behalf of fruitless trees in the vineyard of God which is the world.
I pray that all your efforts will not end up in fruitlessness in the mighty name of Jesus.
Are you bearing fruit?
If so, what type?
A sinner must bear fruit meet for repentance according to Matthew 3:8. For believers, we must win souls into the Kingdom thus fulfilling the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20.
For believers more importantly, we must bear the fruit of the Spirit as documented in Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV which says:
« But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. »
Draw a soul-winning plan for yourself and your family and sincerely follow it through.
Also, pray that the souls you win will abide after the conversion.
Being fruitful requires being genuinely born again and abiding in God.
The Lord will give you the grace to bear much abiding fruit, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Prayer focus – Father, please completely destroy fruitlessness in my life and family, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Author – Bishop Enoch. A. Adeboye.
Edited by Naomie
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