10/06/2021
OPEN HEAVENS
AUTHOR:
PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
THURSDAY 10TH JUNE 2021
TOPIC:
BLESSED FRUITFULNESS
MEMORY VERSE:
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. Titus 2:7
Bible Reading: John 15:1-5 KJV
[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.
MESSAGE:
Fruitfulness has qualifications, so does growth. Fruitfulness could be negative if the source and nature are outside the plan of God for an individual's life. There is a kind of fruitfulness mentioned in the epistle of Paul to the Galatians which is of the flesh bad and deadly:
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings...
Galatians 5:19-21
There could be positive and blessed fruitfulness as found Galatians 5:22-23:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance…
Let us look at the secret behind blessed fruitfulness. In our Bible reading for today, it is clearly stated that abiding in Jesus Christ is the secret of bearing good fruit. The first secret of divine fruitfulness is being born again. Another secret is abiding in Jesus Christ. Jesus further said:
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and in him, the same bringeth forth m