The Power Of Multiplication - 2
Since the God of increase is in us, then we must know that, as we said yesterday. But knowing something is not enough. We must know how to use what we know, how to effectively do what we have the ability to do. That is where the Holy Spirit does His part. He teaches us how to prosper. He teaches us how to increase. He teaches us how to multiply. He is our teacher, and He loves to teach us how to access what is already inside us in our spirits.
Oh, our spirit man is so full of things we have never even known about in the past, but we are learning. Oh, God is so big. He is so great. He is so awesome. He is so magnificent. He is all-powerful. I want you to get this concept. He is in you and me when we are born again. He has total power that He has given to us to operate while we are here on this earth as His representatives. We must know how to do it.
We have a how-to-do-it-manual called the Bible. He has given us the instructions on what to do. It is up to us to learn it, believe it and do it. I believe every word in the Bible. But my true test comes when I must do that word. I can believe and not do. Doing is a whole other step. It is action based upon what we believe.
How much do you believe the Bible for your personal life? Will you stake your life on it and what is in it? Are you willing to stand on what the Word says when everything around you is saying the opposite? Are you willing to act on what the Bible says when everyone around you is saying it can’t be done, when everyone around you is telling you that you better not get too far out, you better stay balanced; don’t take any risks. The Word of God is not risky at all. It is just that man has thought so long in terms of the world’s way to solve problems that God’s people have bought into the same deal. Our first thought should be: What does the Word say? Whatever it says, that is what I am going to do. That is what brings the results to my life----doing the Word.
Let’s look at scriptures on increase and multiplication so that we can begin to confess them and put them into our spirits.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.
With God’s power of multiplication, increase in us, we will increase and excel in love, abound in love. How does that happen? We have faith that God’s Word is true. That is exactly what will happen to us---we will increase in love.
How about this scripture in the Old Testament which we quote? Remember Isaiah 40:29. Read it in the Amplified Bible.
He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound].
When we understand that the power of God’s ability, His might, His power of increase and multiplication is in us, we will receive His strength, which continually is multiplied in us, in our physical body, in all of our lives. When we are weary, we need to remember this scripture.
Colossians 2:19 tells us that we increase with the increase of God. In other words, we grow in the Spirit of God. He causes us to grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7 also tells us that it is God that gives the increase. They were talking here about people who are won to the Lord. One plants and one waters, but it is God Who gives the increase. Yes, the Word is planted in us by someone or by us declaring the Word and then it is watered by the Spirit of God and He gives us the increase, the results of the Word and the Spirit together producing. Think of it. The God of increase dwells in you right now.
This brings us to a subject about which people have many teachings and opinions. We are to give God a portion of all our increase. He is the One Who produced the increase for us. Our tithes are our way of saying: Thank You, Lord, for bringing what you have brought into my life. It is a form of thanksgiving. Thank You, Lord. I give you thanks.
Let’s end our teaching today with a short confession:
Thank You, Lord, for coming to me with the power of multiplication. I am so grateful that I know You. I am so thankful for Your multiplication in my life so that I can be a vessel of multiplication, increase and growth for others. Oh, Lord, you are so good to me and I am thankful for Your power being in me. That power is Your love personified in the person of the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for teaching me about Your Love and as a consequence about Your power which causes increase in my life on a daily basis. Thank You.
Oh, our spirit man is so full of things we have never even known about in the past, but we are learning. Oh, God is so big. He is so great. He is so awesome. He is so magnificent. He is all-powerful. I want you to get this concept. He is in you and me when we are born again. He has total power that He has given to us to operate while we are here on this earth as His representatives. We must know how to do it.
We have a how-to-do-it-manual called the Bible. He has given us the instructions on what to do. It is up to us to learn it, believe it and do it. I believe every word in the Bible. But my true test comes when I must do that word. I can believe and not do. Doing is a whole other step. It is action based upon what we believe.
How much do you believe the Bible for your personal life? Will you stake your life on it and what is in it? Are you willing to stand on what the Word says when everything around you is saying the opposite? Are you willing to act on what the Bible says when everyone around you is saying it can’t be done, when everyone around you is telling you that you better not get too far out, you better stay balanced; don’t take any risks. The Word of God is not risky at all. It is just that man has thought so long in terms of the world’s way to solve problems that God’s people have bought into the same deal. Our first thought should be: What does the Word say? Whatever it says, that is what I am going to do. That is what brings the results to my life----doing the Word.
Let’s look at scriptures on increase and multiplication so that we can begin to confess them and put them into our spirits.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you.
With God’s power of multiplication, increase in us, we will increase and excel in love, abound in love. How does that happen? We have faith that God’s Word is true. That is exactly what will happen to us---we will increase in love.
How about this scripture in the Old Testament which we quote? Remember Isaiah 40:29. Read it in the Amplified Bible.
He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound].
When we understand that the power of God’s ability, His might, His power of increase and multiplication is in us, we will receive His strength, which continually is multiplied in us, in our physical body, in all of our lives. When we are weary, we need to remember this scripture.
Colossians 2:19 tells us that we increase with the increase of God. In other words, we grow in the Spirit of God. He causes us to grow. 1 Corinthians 3:7 also tells us that it is God that gives the increase. They were talking here about people who are won to the Lord. One plants and one waters, but it is God Who gives the increase. Yes, the Word is planted in us by someone or by us declaring the Word and then it is watered by the Spirit of God and He gives us the increase, the results of the Word and the Spirit together producing. Think of it. The God of increase dwells in you right now.
This brings us to a subject about which people have many teachings and opinions. We are to give God a portion of all our increase. He is the One Who produced the increase for us. Our tithes are our way of saying: Thank You, Lord, for bringing what you have brought into my life. It is a form of thanksgiving. Thank You, Lord. I give you thanks.
Let’s end our teaching today with a short confession:
Thank You, Lord, for coming to me with the power of multiplication. I am so grateful that I know You. I am so thankful for Your multiplication in my life so that I can be a vessel of multiplication, increase and growth for others. Oh, Lord, you are so good to me and I am thankful for Your power being in me. That power is Your love personified in the person of the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Holy Spirit, for teaching me about Your Love and as a consequence about Your power which causes increase in my life on a daily basis. Thank You.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 4:15 PM
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