The Insights

ANCHOR TEXT: “God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground” Genesis 1:28. More often than not, we do not know how good a thing is until we start seeing its’ fruits. Fruitfulness is God’s command and it implies being abundantly productive in every sphere of life; it means manifesting the attributes of God and generating qualitative and quantitative results in all that you do. God expects you to be fruitful. In the parable of the vineyard, in Luke 13:7 , Jesus told the story of a man who planted a tree, typifying each of us, and came looking for fruit on it each year. Finding no fruits for three straight years, he threatened to cut down the tree. God has created us to be fruitful and also empowered us to be, you have been endowed with the ability to produce after your kind. He is therefore grieved if we are not. ...

  David remarked longingly to his men, “Oh, how I would love some of that good water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem.” So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water… and brought it back to David… ” 1 Chro.11:17-18 The Pareto Principle states that twenty percent of what you are doing is responsible for eighty percent of the results you are getting. Only twenty percent of what you are doing right now is producing eighty percent or more of the result you are getting. Regardless of how wealthy you are, it is only twenty percent of what you are doing that is generating the wealth. Even in church, it is only twenty percent of the people in attendance that make things happen. Eighty percent of the result we see is by twenty percent of the people. Now that you know this, your next step is finding that twenty percent by all means and concentrating all your forces. As a Pastor, there are so many things I can be doing. But I choose not to do them because they are ...