TODAY’S DEVOTION (Wednesday 23rd April 2025)
“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 NKJV
WELCOME TO THE 113TH DAY OF OUR YEAR OF VICTORY
Our devotion today will continue from where we stopped yesterday. Today we are going to look at how to get our spirits full of God, alive and fruitful so that we can reap the full blessings of the word of the LORD we hear.
What the womb of a woman is in the natural is what the spirit of man is in the spiritual, and what the seed of a man is in the natural is what the word of the LORD is in the spiritual. When a man’s seed is bad, he cannot get a woman pregnant. When a woman’s womb is unfruitful, she cannot be pregnant.
In the same way, if the word you hear from your pastor is bad, it will not get your spirit pregnant with righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost; and if your spirit is not fruitful, the word you hear from your pastor, no matter how powerful, effective, or miracle producing it may be, cannot get you pregnant with the blessings or Christ life it was intended to bring into your life.
It is therefore important that our spirits be fruitful and the word we hear be good or full of God, alive, and capable of getting our fruitful spirits pregnant with the blessing it was intended to bring into our lives.
That brings us to a very important question!
How do we get our spirits full of God, alive and fruitful? Let me begin with the natural. In the natural realm, Fruitfulness is something we are born with. Apart from genetic alteration that cause unfruitfulness in men and women sometimes, fruitfulness is a gift of nature.
IN OTHER WORDS, GOD DESIGNED THAT A MAN OR WOMAN BE BORN FRUITFUL.
Our devotional text explained it all. It says, “and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply;” From this text, it is clear that God did not say be barren. He said be fruitful.
We were originally designed to be born fruitful. However, some are barren. They are not barren because God created them to be barren; they are barren because genetic alteration, satanic hindrances, or what they did with themselves made them so. Bareness was never a plan of God for mankind. God designed that a man or woman be born fruitful.
The same word was spoken to all animals. The truth is I have never seen a barren dog, goat, or fish. God created all living things to be fruitful and multiply. Now, what is true of the natural is true of the spiritual. God designed that we are born again with a fruitful spirit.
In other words, “genuine salvation experience” is God’s way of getting our spirits alive and fruitful.
When we are born naturally our spirits are dead, unfruitful, and empty of God. But spiritual birth changes everything. It quickens our spirits, transmits life into it, and makes it unfruitful to the things of this world and fruitful in the things of God. Hallelujah!!
That is why when someone is genuinely saved, he will no longer be fruitful in the things of this world.
If he was an active sinner, he will no longer be able to live that way any longer. If he were a night crawler, a drunk, a sexually pervert, a liar, a thief, a fraud, a greedy or covetous person, his encounter with Jesus will change everything. Genuine salvation experience is therefore the key to spiritual fruitfulness.
That is why it is dangerous to falsify your salvation. Do not say you are born again when you cannot tell us an encounter you had with Jesus.
GOD DESIGNED THAT SALVATION BE A FRUIT OF DIVINE ENCOUNTER, NOT SOME RELIGIOUS CONFESSION.
That brings me to why Christians are empty of God, dead in spirit, and unfruitful in the things of God. There are two basic reasons why this is so. The first is falsified salvation.
Many who claim born again are not really born again. They think being born again is joining a Church or making an empty confession. That is why they remain unfruitful in the things of God but fruitful in the things of this world. You find them living their lives the way the people of the world do.
The second reason is lack of commitment to God. Those who genuinely got saved did not keep their spirits full of God, alive and fruitful by being committed to Holy living, corporate worship, personal devotion, and in-depth study of God’s word.
Some committed for a while but threw it away; losing the substance they got when they first met Christ. Paul wrote to the Church at Philippi saying, “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.” This people got saved but refused to work it out, hence becoming empty of God, dead, and unfruitful in spirit.
If you fall into any of these categories, there is hope for you! Revisit your salvation experience and check if you really met Christ.
Then begin a fresh walk with God on daily bases. Commit yourself to corporate worship in a spiritual life-giving Church, Holy living, personal devotion, and in-depth study of the word.
The early Church leaders led the Church to keep their spirits full of God, alive and fruitful in the things of God by committing themselves to prayer and the ministry of the word.
How long you spend with God and His word in prayer on daily bases, and how far you live your days from the pollutions of sinful thoughts and influences of the corrupt world, will determine how full of God, alive, and fruitful you will be in the things of God.
People who have no private relationship with God will never have a life that is fruitful in the things of God, and those who are fruitful in the things of God, cannot be stopped by any resistance. The enemy will not be able to build a wall of resistance against them. Their branch of life visions and pursuits will always run over the wall of resistance that stops others.
It’s a new day for you!!! Amen and amen.
MAKE THIS SCRIPTURE A MEDITATION FOR THE DAY!!
“Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall. Genesis 49:22 NKJV
