There is an old adage that says, “Every oak tree was once a nut that stood his ground.” The idea is that once planted the acorn grows roots that eventually descended deep into the ground. For endless months that acorn grows, first a stem, then a branch, then leaves, gradually bit by bit, season to season it multiplies in size. It’s thin stem transforming into a thick trunk. It’s twigs maturing into huge branches, then a proliferation of leaves appearing, and eventually, the tiny acorns began to appear, first one then thousands. After years of growth, it stands huge covering a vast area, visible from miles away. Its own acorns falling annually, littering the field, providing food to many creatures. That little acorn now a mighty oak tree, home to many kinds of birds and other wildlife. Mighty oaks from little acorns grow. To become a fruitful oak tree takes a long time; it’s a passage through many seasons, producing its first fruit only after seven years. Achieving our dreams follows a similar process, but many of us are not aware that to reproduce ourselves takes time. It can’t happen quickly. We have to sink our roots deep into the ground, so we can get to a place were we have the capacity to multiply. God never establishes us with the idea of being settlers. When he establishes us it is for the purpose of launching out, expanding our influence, multiplying life. God gives us strong roots so we can accomplish what is designed for us. He wants to bring multiplication to everything we do. From the very beginning in Genesis it says, “God blessed them and said, ‘be fruitful and multiply’”. God’s intention was that we be fruitful and that we would multiply. He wants us to take what we have been established in and multiply it. The word of God says we are the planting of the Lord. We have been planted and have every chance to produce fruit. We are reformers and must begin to put down our roots, to take root in our territory, to take dominion and to multiply ourselves where he has planted us. Even after God had destroyed the world through the flood, He came back and said to Noah and his sons, “be fruitful and multiply”. In this day and age we need to purposefully multiply righteousness because wickedness and darkness have invaded the earth and even infected the church. God is saying, “I am establishing you in the land, I am raising a standard to begin to multiply my message, to multiply yourselves as servants of righteousness.” So we must develop the infrastructure to support the multiplication. Let our roots reach deep into the soil, and have our tree grow up into the promised oak of righteousness. This begins with each of us having an open heart that is able to receive the seed of the word of God, to believe the Word so it can take effect and reform and transform our lives. As we root ourselves in the word of God, we can start to multiply His kingdom in our lives, and extend God’s influence in our domains. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tribewithavibe" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tribewithavibe?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
