Fruitful and Multiply

Psalms 2:8-9 Ask of Me, and I will give the nations as Your inheritance and the limits of the earth as Your Possession. You will break them with an iron rod…


Genesis 35:11-12 ‘‘I am God, all-sufficient: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; and the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land’’ (Heb.).


The promises of God says, "Ask of Me, and I will give the nations..." and confirms that what He is,  " I am God, all-sufficient: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations....and kings shall come out of thy loins.." These promised blessings are for God's chosen ones not in Shechem (individualistic believers' standing place) but in Bethel (in the house of God among believers corporately.) God is a God of blessing, but whether we receive these promised blessings depends on where we are and what we are. He is ever ready, but are we ever ready too to receive and contain the blessings? Often times, we do not receive the promised blessings due to our wrong standing ground and our being not ready to receive the blessing.


This morning the Lord reminded me again of His blessing, He spoke confirming He is the all-sufficient God and commanded, "be fruitful and multiply" and promised what He would bless. This is what I have been longing and praying for. The Lord thus speak and reconfirms His willingness. However, these blessings are for the Body and in the Body, in Bethel, the house of God. To realize what the Lord has promised I must be in the Body, with the Body and be for the Body. The Lord is wise and sovereign over all, He spoke such a word on such a day, as timely as it is today. What a comfort, what a joy!


The instant "rhema-tic" speaking of the Lord is a treasure, so precious. And it is instantly fulfilling. "Lord, thank you for your promised blessing upon Your Body, the church, the house of God, Bethel. Preserve me in the church to ever enjoy the promised blessings to be fruitful and to multiply. You are indeed my El-Bethel."