O LORD, MAKE ME FRUITFUL
Message of Pastor Olawole Dahunsi

Text: Gen 1:28

 “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 moveth upon the earth.”

Gen 35:10-12

 “And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.  11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.”

Gen 28:3-4

 “And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;  4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.”

Gen 8:17 

“Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.”

Gen 9:1

 “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”

 and verse 7 “And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.”

The desire of God is that every of His children be fruitful and prosperous. From the passages above, we can see that the first thing God said is ‘be fruitful’ meaning that His desire for us is to be fruitful.

What does it mean to be fruitful?

1.      To be fruitful means to have an outstanding result in what you do; in your business, marriage, academics, career etc. 

2.      It is having excellent result when others are failing

3.      It means to be highly favoured and succeeding where others are struggling

4.      To make progress.

5.      Having positive impact or effect in everything you do and anywhere you are.

6.      To be fruit means to be relevant: There are people that are living and nobody knows anything worthwhile about them. When you are not in a place as a fruitful person, people should be looking for you to show that you are relevant or valued.

7.      It is to be fulfilled

8.      It mean to be exceptionally good in your business.

9.      To multiply, increase, yield good harvest and good fruit

10.   To be fruitful means to impact lives and be relevant to your people.

Note: Success in life is impactation. So if you cannot impact others, you are not successful.

11.   It means to flourish according to Psalms 92:12 “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.”

12.   To be well in your health and everything.

13.   Fruitfulness means to yield more fruit to the kingdom of God. John 15:1-2 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” and verse 5 says“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

Different Types of Fruitfulness

1.      Physical fruitfulness: Psalms 92:12, Deuteronomy 7:14. This is a situation where everything around you is doing well. When you touch anything, it sprouts and blossom.

2.      Spiritual fruitfulness: A person can be spiritually fruitful when his relationship with God is perfect. He does things for God without looking at anybody nor waits for compensation from anybody. His spiritual children are always around him and his life style draws people to God. He wins souls to the kingdom of God.  

A man was selling knives and any one that buys from him; he wraps the knife with a track (gospel track). One day, a certain man came and bought a knife from him with the intention of committing murder. As he unwrapped the knife he saw the track and began to read it; before he got to the end of the track, he was weeping. He ran back to the knife seller and confessed to him he was about killing his brother with the knife but the message gotten from the track made him to take a U-turn to Jesus Christ. That is how he gave his life to Christ.

 Are you there and you cannot affect lives positively? Or are you a lecturer and you cannot call a student that is misbehaving and talk sense into his head?
How many people have you impacted? Even at 90 years, you can still make a change in your life to impact others.

I pray for you, every power that is killing fruitfulness in your life shall be roasted in Jesus name.

3.      Mental fruitfulness: God has given you mental fruitfulness, high intelligence but what are you doing with it?

4.      Financial fruitfulness

5.      Social fruitfulness: Having good relationship with people around you. That is, any one that meets you will want to be your friend.

To Be Fruitful, You Must Have The Following:

1.      You must have a seed which is Christ in your life. The seed here is your salvation.

2.      A good soil which is your place of worship for nurturing your salvation. What church do you attend? Can your church nurture your salvation? If not, then change the church to a Bible believing church.

3.      Watering and fertilizer: Your prayer life and Bible study are the watering and fertilizer. You need to always study the word of God and render your service to God if you want your salvation be nurtured.

4.      Constant taking care of that seed: Constant nurturing of that seed (your salvation).

Levels of fruitfulness

·        Fruitful

·        More fruitful

·        Much fruitful – you bear more than you can handle

·        Continuous fruitfulness- he or she continues to increase and expand regularly.

·        Ever fruitful – even when the person has departed this world, his fruit is still increasing and prospering.

Why Do You Need To Be Fruitful?

·        You need to be fruitful because you are a child of God and God wants you to be fruitful. Heaven desires above all things that you prosper

·        You are created to be fruitful.

·        To showcase the glory of God.

·        To prove to the world that you are a child of God

·        You must be fruitful so as to attract other people to God. People will come to you and tell you “I am you neighbor, your church member or relatives” when you are successful.

·        It is an evidence of God’s blessings in our lives.

·        Without fruitfulness, one becomes irrelevant. So fruitfulness brings relevance because only the fruitful can be known and celebrated.  The unfruitful cannot be celebrated and heard. When he/she is talking, people will be moving away.

Qualifications for Fruitfulness:

1.      Total dependence on God - Deuteronomy 7:14

2.      Ask God to help you to be fruitful.

3.      Know and follow the word of God totally. John 15:5

4.      Have faith in God and be faithful to God and to others.

5.      Live a holy life: The eye of the lord is on the righteous. A life of righteousness is an essential qualification for fruitfulness

6.      Be a good giver: give to God, men of God, the poor and the needy around you. A fruitful person is a giver, he/she is not a stingy person and he understands that if one does not give, he/she will lose.

7.      Always look for an avenue to do good to people and the work of God.

8.      Keep off from things that kills fruitfulness. For example - unforgiveness, malice, anger, fornication and adultery. Sin generally kills fruitfulness.

Brethren, remember, I told you that there are levels of fruitfulness. But what I pray for you is that you will be ever fruitful.  Bow down your head and talk to God. Ask Him to remove anything that kills fruitfulness in your life.

Prayer points:

1.      Any agent of darkness eating up my seed, die in Jesus name.

2.      My seed of greatness, what are you doing in witchcraft coven, come out in the mighty name of Jesus.

3.      O lord my father, make me ever fruitful in Jesus name.

4.      I receive power to be fruitful in the name of Jesus.

5.      Powers that say I cannot be relevant in my days die in the mighty name of Jesus.