{"id":41360,"date":"2026-08-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=41360"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:53:17","slug":"the-mindset-of-increase-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/the-mindset-of-increase-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mindset of Increase. Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u041c\u044b\u0448\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0443\u043c\u043d\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f. \u0427\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044c 2\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYYKvFgyNuc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Livestream:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_n66DxWkw0I\">youtu.be\/_n66DxWkw0I<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction: the Living God and Hearing the Word<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Worship of the Living God<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no one like the Lord, neither in heaven, nor on earth, nor in the underworld. He was, He is, and He is to come. All authority belongs to Him, and He upholds all things by the word of His power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Revelation 1:8 8 &#8220;I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,&#8221; says the Lord, &#8220;who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.&#8221; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hebrews 1:3 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hearing, Reflecting and Doing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord, help me not just to be a hearer, but to be a doer. Help me to understand and to see Your word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding does not come only when we listen. We hear, we read, then we reflect, and God gives understanding. The first impression of what is heard is often emotional: a person can receive the word with joy, but understanding comes later, when a person reflects on what he has heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 Timothy 2:7 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Psalm 1:2-3 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joshua 1:8 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Increase as God&#8217;s Mindset<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Miracle Requires the Obedience of Faith<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faith Working Through Love<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Human nature often waits for a miracle as though a person needs to do nothing and God must do everything Himself. We expect that God will send a miracle from heaven, or someone who will perform it. But God wants us to act in faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the list of the gifts of the Spirit the gift of working of miracles is mentioned, and not a passive waiting for a miracle. God&#8217;s love and God&#8217;s faith in the heart move a person to action. A miracle happens when, in the obedience of faith and love, we fulfill God&#8217;s desire. We have already been given grace to do the will of God and power to live by grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 Corinthians 12:10 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Galatians 5:6 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theme: the Mindset of Increase<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God&#8217;s Mindset Shapes a Way of Life<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Many Disciples, Not Numbers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme of this word is the <strong>mindset of increase<\/strong>. We have a God of increase. Increase is His mindset. God thinks in terms of increase from the very beginning of creation, and we need to develop the same mindset that was in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Root of the Human Problem<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What is the main problem on earth today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not only unbelief, sin, independence from God, or people not being born again. The common root is the unlawful dominion of evil, and this is not about human government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who sinned first?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The devil. He became the first carrier of this infection and infects others with it, so that they would be like him. The problem will end when the dominion of satan is abolished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 8:44 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 John 3:8 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Isaiah 14:13-14 13 For you have said in your heart: &#8216;I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.&#8217; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Principle of Sowing and Increase<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When Lucifer declared independence from God, the division of the kingdom began. In God&#8217;s plan there was one harmonious kingdom with one Ruler in heaven and on earth. There were peace, trust, and love. Everything we see today is the result of unlawful rule on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The devil decided to seize the earth and uses the principle of increase borrowed from God. He wants to sow the world, schools, governments, and all spheres with his seeds, in order to spread evil. What a person sows is multiplied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew 13:24-25 24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: &#8220;The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew 13:37-39 37 He answered and said to them: &#8220;He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus also believes in the power of increase. He brought the life and nature of God to earth, becoming God in the flesh. He came to displace the dominion of evil, and He does this through the process of increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God&#8217;s Original Command<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Filling the Earth with God&#8217;s Image<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Why did God place Adam and Eve in the garden?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God told them to be fruitful, to multiply, and to fill the earth. They were created in the image and likeness of God, therefore they were to multiply people who carry that image. This is a mission that must not be forgotten while getting carried away by something else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genesis 1:26-28 26 Then God said, &#8220;Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.&#8221; 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, &#8220;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.&#8221; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Increase Is Impossible Without Discipleship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Biblical spiritual increase is impossible without discipleship. First you have to become a disciple yourself. However, God does not want a disciple to remain alone: he must bear the fruit of disciples who will also bear the fruit of disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First you need to bear fruit, and then repeat that fruit many times over. Only fruit can reproduce. A disciple is fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not to Pull Out, but to Multiply<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Ministry of Increase<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In the parable of the wheat and the tares the servants wanted to pull out the tares, but the Master said not to do this. Pulling out is not God&#8217;s way. A violent attempt to establish freedom can wound others. God has not given us the ministry of pulling out; He has given us the ministry of increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew 13:28-30 28 He said to them, &#8216;An enemy has done this.&#8217; The servants said to him, &#8216;Do you want us then to go and gather them up?&#8217; 29 But he said, &#8216;No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, &#8220;First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.&#8221; &#8216; &#8221; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who were previously deceived and lived on the side of the lie, but through the truth submitted to God, become fruit. At the end of the process few tares remain in the field, because many have already become part of the harvest through increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Increase Begins With Obedience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Slow but Godly Process<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jesus as the First Fruit<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Increase is a very slow process. Jesus came alone and became the first fruit. He sowed Himself as a grain that fell into the ground and died, in order to bear fruit. Over two thousand years the number of His true disciples has multiplied throughout the whole earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 12:24 24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>If we are not fruitful, do not multiply, and do not fill the earth, then we are disobedient to God&#8217;s instruction. Increase begins with God&#8217;s command. It is not a suggestion for the case when we feel like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not to Preserve, but to Multiply<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>God is not interested only in a person preserving what he received from Him. To preserve without multiplying is the mindset of the wicked and lazy servant. God gives to each according to ability, but He wants to expand our capacity. He gives us a seed to start with, and then He will ask: what have you done with what I gave you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew 25:14-15 14 &#8220;For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. 15 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew 25:19-21 19 After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 &#8220;So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, &#8216;Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.&#8217; 21 His lord said to him, &#8216;Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.&#8217; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matthew 25:24-30 24 &#8220;Then he who had received the one talent came and said, &#8216;Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.&#8217; 26 &#8220;But his lord answered and said to him, &#8216;You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. 27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. 29 &#8216;For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. 30 And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.&#8217; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Increase Glorifies God<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Who really wants to glorify God?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all want to glorify God, but it is important to understand how He Himself speaks about His glory. This question is not exhausted by worship alone, by participation in a worship team, or by conferences. These things are needed, but they must come from a heart full of gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus says that the Father is glorified when we bear much fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 15:1-2 1 &#8220;I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 15:8 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abiding in Christ and Bearing Fruit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Branch Is Joined to the Vine for the Sake of Fruit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every branch must bear fruit. Jesus is the vine, and our life is joined to Him in order to bear fruit. We are not the vine, we are branches on the vine. The life from the vine flows with one purpose: that we bring forth fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 15:5 5 &#8220;I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>God provides everything necessary so that we can bear fruit. This is not a miracle that depends only on God: a person receives His ideas, wisdom, power, and love in order to bear fruit. If a branch does not bear fruit, it will be cut off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Practical Question About Fruit<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You have already been a believer for some time. Can you point to at least one person and say, &#8220;This is my fruit in the Lord&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul had people whom he called his joy and glory before the Lord. His life was devoted to bearing fruit. Even if he could depart to Christ, he saw the necessity of remaining, in order to have fruit among people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 Thessalonians 2:19 19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Philippians 1:22 22 But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Much Fruit, Not a Chase After Numbers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transformed Destinies<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Abiding on the vine is determined by fruit. This does not mean a chase after numbers. People are not numbers. Fruit is a transformed destiny, a person whom the love of Christ has touched, whom God has pulled out of addiction and set on the right path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The life of Christ in us must be multiplied. For this it is necessary to abide in Christ, so that His word may abide in us abundantly. The word changes the mindset, moves us to do the right things, to leave behind what is useless, and to do good, even if the whole world strives for the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 15:7 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chosen for an Active Life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus chose us not for passive sitting, but so that we would go. This is not activity for the sake of activity, but purposeful and strategic activity with the goal of bearing fruit. Every day we go somewhere, hurry, and do something. The mindset of increase helps us find in this opportunities to bear fruit to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John 15:16 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>A person knows how to look for opportunities for his own benefit, friendship, and personal advancement. We need to look for opportunities to bear fruit, to build friendships for the sake of gaining people for Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Promise of God&#8217;s Increase<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">After the Flood: Fill the Earth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After the flood God repeated to Noah what He had said to Adam. God&#8217;s plan is to fill the earth with righteous people. The earth will be filled with something, and the important question is what it is filled with by us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genesis 9:1 1 So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: &#8220;Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abraham: the Promise of Nations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>God told Abraham that He would greatly multiply him, would produce nations from him, and that kings would come from him. God wants to fill the earth with righteous nations, with people who love the Lord, who rule in righteousness, and who occupy a high position with a right heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genesis 17:6 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genesis 22:17 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>When God finds and blesses a person, there is increase in His intention. He wants to multiply not only the person himself, but also his seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moses and Jeremiah: Increase as a Promise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Moses asked that the Lord would multiply Israel a thousand times over. Increase is God&#8217;s promise and inheritance. But promises do not come to pass by themselves, without cooperation with the Lord. God is looking for people who will believe in this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Deuteronomy 1:11 11 May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you! (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jeremiah 30:19 19 Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry; I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>The mindset of increase affects prayers, confession, and, above all, the way of life. A person cannot enter into what he does not believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vision and the Confession of Faith<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">God Begins With One<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham was one, but God blessed him and multiplied him. In this way the Lord comforts Zion, turns ruins and deserts into a paradise and the garden of the Lord, fills them with joy, gladness, praise, and song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Isaiah 51:1-3 1 &#8220;Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him and increased him.&#8221; 3 For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>How does God turn deserts into a paradise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does God change the spiritual atmosphere of a certain place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do real joy, gladness, and celebration come?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Without Vision There Is No Increase<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>God gave Abraham the promise of a multitude of nations, but he had to struggle with the fact of his own barrenness. God brought him outside and showed him the heaven, so that he would develop vision. Increase is impossible without vision. The mindset of increase is impossible if we do not develop vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genesis 15:5 5 Then He brought him outside and said, &#8220;Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.&#8221; And He said to him, &#8220;So shall your descendants be.&#8221; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genesis 13:14-15 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: &#8220;Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are &#8211; northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>A person must see in order to have. Until we see what God has promised, it seems like a fantasy. Then the conversation stays at the level of doubts: today faith, tomorrow doubts; today hope, tomorrow a conviction that it is impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mark 8:24 24 And he looked up and said, &#8220;I see men like trees, walking.&#8221; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mark 8:25 25 Then He put His hands on his eyes again and made him look up. And he was restored and saw everyone clearly. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>We must not stop at the ruins and the desert when God is speaking about a paradise. The question is not whether God can do this. The question is whether we will cooperate with Him, believe His promise, and whether we will let faith lead us to a certain way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A New Name and the Language of Faith<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confession Based on God&#8217;s Word<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>God gave Abram a new name so that he would speak in accordance with the promise given. Abraham meant &#8220;father of a multitude of nations&#8221;. God changes a person&#8217;s language and confession not for the sake of self-suggestion, but for the sake of faith based on God&#8217;s word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Genesis 17:5 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Romans 4:17-18 17 (as it is written, &#8220;I have made you a father of many nations&#8221;) in the presence of Him whom he believed &#8211; God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; 18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, &#8220;So shall your descendants be.&#8221; (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Faith comes from hearing God&#8217;s word. This is a spiritual category. A person with a spirit of faith does not speak foolishness, doubts, fear, or only what he sees with natural eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Romans 10:17 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 Corinthians 4:13 13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, &#8220;I believed and therefore I spoke,&#8221; we also believe and therefore speak, (NKJV)<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you say about yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you say about your church?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God has promised to multiply His people, and they will not diminish. It does not matter what the beginning was or what the present condition is. God calls things that do not exist as though they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faith Is Joined With Obedience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not Suggestion, but Revelation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Confession without revelation turns into self-suggestion, which is quickly abandoned as something that does not work. But a person with a spirit of faith is not moved only by what he sees. Abraham did not focus on his own old age and the old age of Sarah, but contrary to hope he believed that everything would be as God had said, because he knew the One who promised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Obedience Completes the Equation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Vision and right words without obedience do not give a result. If a person speaks rightly and sees, but remains disobedient, the equation does not add up. Obedience and God&#8217;s principles must be joined with faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us begin to see fruit, increase, and filling. This is God&#8217;s call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Response and Prayer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Personal Decision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Who wants to bear fruit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you already see fruit in your life, desire to bear more fruit. But do not say this hastily. If the words do not come from the heart, God sees deceit in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is nothing wrong with honestly admitting: &#8220;I still have to see this. I do not yet fully understand.&#8221; Reflect until you can say: &#8220;This is what I want. This is my destiny from God. I do not want only to preserve, I want to multiply.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord, help me to multiply. I want to bear fruit that multiplies for the glory of Your name. I do not want only to preserve the life of Christ in me, I want to multiply it in others. I do not want to remain alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank You, Jesus. 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