FRUITFULNESS
One day I went to a River dam in my mission field. I saw fishermen with their canoes. They came to the shore one after the other with fishes in their nets. The more they came to shore, the more the buyers were waiting to buy. I couldn't number the quantity of fishes caught that day. This is how these fishermen had been packing fishes and water animals in their millions every blessed day. These fishes never finished!
The abattoir is always bathed with blood of animals throughout the world. Theses animals never get exhausted, though, they were slaughtered everyday. One day wonders where these animals are coning from!
Every season, day, months, you see birds of different kind increasing. They keep increasing though many of them are used by human beings as food. You are curious like me how they still flock around without decreasing.
What of man! Upon diseases, sicknesses, accident and death, man is still moving on the surface of the earth. In fact, many urban cities are over-congested that people are building in the suburb villages. I traced the increase to only one source, God in His word.
God in His invinciblenesss and might created the Heaven and Earth. God created animals, birds, water animals. He did not want the creatures to end. That is why He pronounced a blessing upon them. God loved His creatures. He was happy with the outcome of His wonders.
Evil spirits were on the surface of the earth before God commanded light and made other living things l. Because God hates darkness, He had to create living but clean things to occupy the space previously inhabited by wicked spirits. For the darkness to stop finally, God commanded the birds, fishes and animals to be fruitful and multiply on the air, waters and land respectively. All the three world were filled by these creatures.
Gen.1:22- And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Gen.1:27-28- So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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 moveth upon the earth.
God created man in His image. Why? It is for man to have physical power and spiritual capacity for dominance over forces of darkness to control them.
The first humans Adam and Eve began to live on the earth. But the more they were increasing they were taking lands, dominating kingdoms previously enjoyed by Satan and his fallen angles.
If there's nobody or spirits in charge before, there's no need to take over or dominate. You don't dominate what is not contested for. You only dominate what you contend for and taken over to prevent intruders. There is no vacuum anywhere (spiritual or physical).
Something, someone or some people occupy it previously. That is why God told the Israelites to fight the Canaanites, Jebusite, Perisite and take over their lands.
Be fruitful (Hebrew-Parah) meaning bear fruit, power of procreation.
Psalm 128:3- Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Bearing fruits requires power. A pregnant woman does not sleep while giving birth. Power is required.
Multiplication (Hebrew-Rabah) to increase. When you bear fruit with power you must increase after giving birth. A family rejoices when a baby is added to the family - increasing multiplication.
To occupy (Hebrew- Mala) to replenish. To replenish is to be sociable, to refill, to supply again or to add a fresh quantity, to complete, to supply fully.
Ezekiel 27:25 - The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
If there's nobody in charge before, there's no need to take over, neither necessity to dominate. To be fruitful and multiply arose as a result of forces in action to hinder growth. Growth is a sign of advancement.
It is evident there is a pre-world that is put to naught before the new creation and man. Isaiah 14:12-14, Jer.4:23-26, Col.1:15-18. To be fruitful requires power while multiplication is the advancement of fruitfulness.
The earth was made perfect by the creation of man on it. God cannot afford to waste the earth to the devil, so He gave all the command to man to be fruitful and multiply.
Both animals, fishes and birds were important to God. He commanded them to occupy the vast land, seas, air. For them to have multiplication, they have to keep producing in large numbers. God hates barrenness for animals, plants, birds and man.
Exo. 23:26 - There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
I discovered a mystery in verse 22 and verse 28 of Genesis chapter 1. The rate at which living creatures of God including plants filled the earth is so high. The land was so fertile that from a single seed, two plants can grow. The rate of maturity of crops was very high and the long years of productivity was shortened. It is when man sinned that God cursed the ground because of man. Then, crops grow and yield at 50% rates instead of 100%.
When man multiplies then he is qualified to replenish the earth. To replenish means to refills, supply and add a fresh quantity to the earth. It was only man that God gave power to refill and add freshness to life. We are to add value to what we have.
This explains why God added inventions, science to male life meaningful and sweet. The multiplication power is in man so as to replenish the earth.
God also added that we subdue the earth. Subdueing means to use the resources in the service of God and man for total takeover. God is happy with man whenever we obey His word to take over His heritage. We are joint heirs with Jesus Christ (Rom.8:17). An heir takes over what he/she inherits.
God blessed us to be able to advance His kingdom on earth. The physical possession of land, water and space is the primary intention of God for man. He did not want His children to suffer but to be in the highest capacity of governance on earth as He is in Heaven.
As children of God, we are expected to govern the spiritual world previously dominated by Satan and his agents. Through the name of Jesus Christ, we govern the spiritual world.
Eph.1:3 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
God has already blessed us. Therefore, you are a king in your domain. The spiritual controls the physical. Be in charge. You must dislodge the spirit beings and cast them out. That was the intention of God for you. You are an extension of God. His hand joined with your hands will heal the sick. His voice through yours preach the Gospel and many are saved. His body mixed with yours causes signs and wonders. You are to subdue and govern. The blessing pronounced upon you qualifies you for this. God has blessed you to multiply and govern the earth for Him. Use all the opportunities God gave you to do service to God and bring joy to man. Multiplication power guarantees you to dominate.
Gen.9:1-2 - And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
God's blessing is all encompassing. Blessing is greater than curse. Blessing from God open doors to prosperity and favour.
The blessing from God to man makes man to dominate over all that God had created. The blessing is upon man. Man was carrying the blessing around. You don't need to feel something covering your head but it is the spoken word from God to man. God gave all these power to man.
God puts His honour upon us. All animals and fishes tremble whenever they see us. No matter how big, they will first run whenever they see man. That is the blessing in real life.
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PS.18:43-45 - Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
Spiritually too, when you speak the word of God, demons disappear. Satan loses his grips. Every evil spirit manifesting shall fade away from you when you speak. They will run out of their close places. They are your inheritance. You dont ask for it, you activate it by believing in the perfected work of Christ for you.
Demons, many times in the ministry of Jesus Christ are not comfortable to stay where Jesus Christ is. They leave their victim without Jesus casting them out.
Mark 5:6-8 - But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
For he said unto him, come out of Tue man thou unclean spirit.
Luke 9:42 - And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.
Jesus exercised these authorities as a man while on earth. These words are for you and I today. It is your right but you must believe what God said in His word for it to work for you.
Do not be afraid to dominate. Don't be intimidates by the devil's gimmicks. They are all lies intended to distract you. Believe the word. Apply the word and you will get results through the word.