FRUITFULNESS IN ALL RAMIFICATION

Text: Proverbs 31:10-15

Who can find a virtues and a capable wife?. She is more precious than rubies.
Her husband can trust her,and she will greatly enriched his life.
She brings him good not harm,and all the day of her life.
She finds wool and flax and busily springs it.
She is like a merchant's ship,bringing her food from afar.
She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast fornjer husband and plan the day's work for her servant.

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Fruitfulness is a step to greatness. You can not be great without fruitfulness. When your land is barren, that signifies that your land lacks fruitfulness. Fruitfulness is the answer to every barren situation. When your land is barren, the next thing that is attached to it is frustration, endless struggle, unhappiness.

Everything around you seem to crumble because you lack fruitfulness people will not want to talk good about you. Some might want to curse you because your fruitfulness is a blessing to others. When you lack this quality called fruitfulness, you are denying others their joy that is connected from you to them.

You are not a blessing to yourself alone but to others as well. When you are not fruitful to yourself, you are like a man with many desires but your goals are limited.

Take for instance, you have a very powerful car that can take you all over places but you embarked on a journey without gauging the fuel tank, it will stop on the road because the fuel is not enough to take you to your destination hence, you need a balanced fuel to take you to your destination. That's how your life is, the blood in you is your feul,when you are short of blood you are short of fuel because your fuel is your strength. If you must be fruitful, you must gauge the fuel which is in you. Like I said, the fuel is your blood and the blood is the strength to your fruitfulness.

Story
Once upon a time, there was a fine handsome man that happen to be a graduate but no job. He submitted his CV to various companies all to on avail. He was all by himself with no one to encourage or to assist him. Onghis faithful day, he got a call fro one of the biggest company, went for the interview and passed most of the interview except one. But the company need a responsible work hence, they asked him a question about his marital status and he said he was single. They told him that the company only employ married men hence, he was asked to get a wife and he was assisted financially to get a wife, he was given three months to do that, but in this period he would be reporting to the company and be given little allowances and yet not a staff. He went home lifted, went searching for his wife but before doing that, he confined on his friends on the kind of person he wanted for a wife. His friends told him to go for a working class wife because of what he is to achieve. He got married to the woman,being that the woman is connected, she asked him to disconnect from that company that offered him a job which he did. After three months the company did not hear from him so his appointment was terminated. The company where the wife works of which he now works was sold off to another company, most of the staffs lost their job, including this man and his wife. He then went back to the other company but the opportunity was no more for him. Being that the wife is a high class lady, began to disrespect her husband that it was he who brought this badluck upon her, she started messing around with men. Most time this man sat down to think on how he has lost a big time opportunity, his life became worst compared to when he was not married. He doesn't sleep at night because of different thoughts that ran through his mind, the thought then resulted to high blood pressure and killed him.

The man died without been fruitful maritally, finacially and he had a life time opportunity that could have changed his life but he failed to make use of it because of his wife.

The mistake the man did was that, he accepted to work in the company where his wife worked forgetting the help that the other company gave to him.
The Bible said "Cast your bread in many waters, you don't know the one that will yield forth fruit". But the story of that couple, cast their bread in one water this was how they lost the opportunity of being fruitful.

What have you learnt from this story?
If you must be fruitful, don't allow people to control your mind. Worknhard and always follow your spirit because your spirit will not deceive you. The man was deceived by his friends and his wife. Nobody wants to identify with you when you are not fruitful. Your fruitfulness is not attached to your wife,your family nor your friends but your strength. There is a saying that goes like this "no man is an island of himself" but we are all connected to each other in one way or the other. But no one wants to lift you if you don't lift yourself. Your fruitfulness must start within you, you must see a land within you that will yield so many different kind if fruit in it.

When you plant a crop in the ground and you depend on only rain to water it, that crop will not grow, it will only grow for its season(raining season) but dry season it will wither. Fruitfulness does not have a season, when God told Adam to be fruitful and replenish the earth God did not place a season. When God told Abraham that he would be fruitful, God did not place a season. But these people worked out their fruitfulness.

Conclusion
The word has been said that you are fruitful, but you need to work it out. There is a saying that goes like this "idleness is the devil's workshop". Are you idle? Spring forth and work out something. Don't say there is no job, you can offer yourself a job. Are you married? Don't be idle and don't allow your spouse to be idle, come up with an ideal on how you both can be fruitful. When two are doing something, the burden will be easier to carry.