COVENANT OF FRUITFULNESS

No one shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land; I will fulfil the number of your days – Exodus 23:26

God coded creation for fruitfulness (Gen.1:11-12). He fashioned you for fruitfulness: “…Be fruitful and multiply…” (Gen1:28). God decreed that man shall be fruitful; so nothing and nobody can make you unfruitful, unless you permit it. Fruitfulness is God’s will for you. He never wants you to be barren, dry or fruitless. God designed your body (loins and womb), mind, marriage, and ministry for fruitfulness.

God’s Faithfulness is the foundation of Fruitfulness. The Covenant of Fruitfulness therefore demands that we, who enjoy His faithfulness, be faithful in return. We must be faithful because He Himself is faithful! Our faithfulness is the proper response to His faithfulness: “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Num.23:19). Whatever God has said or spoken regarding you, He will do and make good! “Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the FAITHFUL GOD who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations…” (Dt.7:9). “The righteous shall flourish like palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Babylon…They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be fresh and flourishing” (Ps.92:12-14).

Fruitfulness is your birth right in all dimensions of life. The divine ability for productivity is inherent in every living thing that God created, but you must apply yourself to the covenant demands. According to John 15, there are three broad classes of human beings with respect to fruitfulness: the “no fruit,” “more fruit” and “much fruit” groups. JESUS is the Source of your fruitfulness. Without Him, you can do nothing. You must be sensitive to receive God’s Covenant Word of Fruitfulness. His Word comes to change and transform situations for the best. The Covenant Word brings fertility to situations of barrenness; fruitfulness to situations of unfruitlfulness; freshness to contexts of dryness; and abundance to areas of scarcity. Go forth and bear fruit, abiding fruit!