In Genesis 1:28 we read, “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it…”
The first thing God asked us to do was multiply. In other words, divine multiplication has been around since the beginning of time. God wants to partner with us to multiply in every area of life.
It’s so important to God that He didn’t just ask us to multiply, He commanded us to multiply.
On a wall in the Museum of Natural Science in Chicago there is a chessboard with 64 squares. In the lower lefthand corner is a grain of wheat. The display includes this question: "If you doubled the amount of wheat as you move from square to square, how much would you have when you reached the 64th square? A carload? A trainload? In fact you would have enough wheat to cover the country of India six feet deep."
That is the power of multiplication. Suppose you go out and reach one person for Jesus. Stick with that person for six months. Help, encourage and strengthen him. At the end of six months there are only two. At the end of the year there are four of you. At the end of 18 months there are eight; two years, 16. Do you know how many people there would be at the end of 20 years? More than the entire population of the world-more than 8 billion. Makes one Stop and think, doesn’t it !
A worthy prayer of Paul can be found in 2 Corinthians 9:10 “Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;”
God of multiplied seed, gardener supreme, you place us at the centre, feed us, equip us and, having provided for us, look to a different harvest— a fruitfulness of lives in service to you and others.
Multiplying God, feed us prune us harvest us that our lives might bring glory to you. In the name of Jesus. Amen
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