OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-SATURDAY-18/06/2016-BE FRUITFUL -BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
BE FRUITFUL
Memorise
And
he said unto them, Go ye into the world, and preach the gospel to every
creature. Mark 16:15
Read
John 15:1-7,
1 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.
3 Now
ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide
in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide
in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 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.
6 If a
man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men
gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye
abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall
be done unto you.
KJV
MESSAGE
In Mark 16:15, Jesus didn’t give His
disciples a piece of advice but a direct command. This instruction was not
without any backing, He promised them His presence even unto the end of the
world. This is why we need to be bold in carrying out this instruction. We have
been anointed to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ (Isaiah 61:6). The
greatest of all fruitfulness is the ability to win lost souls to the Kingdom of
God. There is no achievement that surpasses this. You may have the anointing to
raise the dead or carry out signs and wonders, but if the ability to
win souls is missing in your calling, then you are not yet fully obedient
because this is the greatest of all instructions; to win souls back to the
kingdom. One of the most fruitful persons in the Bible is John the Baptist, not
for the miracles in his ministry but in calling people to repentance. Are you
fruitful? Are you wining souls to the Kingdom or you are satisfied seeing
unbelievers in their hopelessness? You are fruitful when you can’t allow the chronic
fornicator to go without knowing Jesus. You are fruitful when you don’t allow
thief to end up in hell. You are fruitful when you don’t allow that smoker to
continue in his sin. You are fruitful when you stop that liar from being a
vessel in the hand of the devil. In the mind of God, there is no sinner without
a future and there is no saint without a past. It is God that helps in
transforming our lives, yet there is the need for people to bring sinners to
the cross so that the flesh can be crucified.
It is privilege to be called disciples in
the vineyard of God. God can get results without us but it pleases Him to
include us as co-labourers in the vineyard. God wants you to be fruitful. He
wants you to do greater works than He did. You cannot afford not to have
results to show despite the opportunities and abilities He invested in you.
There are many people going to hell on a daily basis and God wants to use you
to deliver them from perdition and eternal condemnation. The only people who
will be fruitful in this end time are those who choose to remain and abide in
Christ. From time, God has always taken away those who are not fruitful. Judas
was taken away because he did not produce any fruit. This is why you need to
allow Christ to specially cultivate you so that you can bear fruit. You must
submit to the Word of God and become obedient to His ways. It is not knowledge
of the Word that saves but obedience of the Word. To produce fruit that is
profitable to the kingdom of God and relevant to one’s spiritual development,
one must abide in the source from which all spiritual life emanates. The gospel
is for the entire world, hence, we should preach it everywhere we find
ourselves.
Action Point
Look for someone that is not
saved in your place of work and begin to share the gospel with him or her.
Bible in one year
Nehemiah 9:1-11:24,
Ecclesiastes 9:1-6
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