And he said to the vineyard-keeper, ‘Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?’ Luke 13:7.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I blessed you to be fruitful, very fruitful, from the beginning. I gave you dominion over the earth and I empowered you to increase and prosper filling it with beautiful projects and lovely gardens modeled after the starter I gave you in Eden. I did not bless you just to be busy but to give success to the work of your hands, success that would bless you and others so that all would be filled with glory. And now in Christ, I have given you even more to bless with, My power in you to make healing flow through your hands and My Words in your mouth to establish Heaven on the earth that My good Will may be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
I bless and increase you to be a blessing, not to pile it away where only you can get it.
And He told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man was very productive. And he began reasoning to himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no place to store my crops?’ Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’ So is the man who stores up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.” Luke 12:16-21.
If you are not giving, you are only taking, and your life is cluttering up the ground.
Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity. He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need. Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:25-32.
This all has to do with being fruitful. What you produce with your life is not just about the material things of the world, though it includes those, but also about what words you speak to others, do they edify or tear down? Do you give forgiveness or withhold it? Do give kindness or harshness filled with blaming and shaming another? Do you lie or speak the truth? To you extend anger or a gentle spirit? I told the thief to work so he would stop taking from others and causing them hardship and instead go to work so he could give to those in need. I want to turn him into a blessing so I can bless him to be a blessing.
Jesus shows you how to be fruitful. Attach to Him and remain in His Words and let His Words remain in you. When you are in Christ, you are attached to Him before Me and My life flows into you by the Holy Spirit making your spirit produce the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Once My Word of truth plants in your heart if you cultivate it by faith it will come to full growth unto harvest.
Jesus told you how to be fruitful, and it is all about our relationship. Once you are in Him I can go to work making you complete in Him and fruitful unto eternal life. I bless you to be a blessing and each believer, like Abraham, has the ability in Me to bless everyone in the whole world from beginning to the end of time. And in Heaven you are all a blessing to one another and Me. There is fellowship and partnership in the Kingdom as you have never known it on earth. It is a whole new level where everyone has been perfected in love.
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:4-5.
There are things that are very deep here so you do not want to just skim the surface. You are the branches and He is the vine, without you He can bear no fruit on the earth, for the fruit appears on the branch, but without Him you can bear no fruit, for the branch receives its life and supply from the vine. This is done as a partnership where you are His Body to do the works He did and greater because of your attachment (connection) with Him by faith and He is your head directing the body but a head with no body accomplishes no great works. A body cannot operate without its head and the head cannot operate without its body. We are one in My Son.
But there is more. What are fruitful deeds? How do you check if you are bearing fruit or cluttering the ground as you suck out the life but do not return it?
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
Here you see the language, if you acting without love, YOU ARE NOTHING, and you profit nothing.
But then you could say, if you are acting with love YOU ARE SOMETHING. You are someone to be welcomed by all for what you do blesses others and yourself.
And who is Love? I AM and so is My Son for in seeing Him you are seeing Me. And He did all He did with love. That is why Jesus told you that APART FROM HIM (APART FROM LOVE) you can do nothing. John 15:5.
Now, you know that faith without works is dead. What are the works of faith? For they are My works.
Therefore they said to Him, “What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.” John 6:28-29.
Great works come out of a relationship with greatness. Lasting productivity flows from continual communion with Me, the eternal One.
Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life. This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do. Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.” John 17:1-5.
Jesus gave Me glory by completing the work I gave Him to do. What was that work? Salvation. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil. He came to seek out and save the lost. He came to undo the works of the devil, which are sickness, poverty and eternal death. He came to save you, to redeem you, to take away your sins so that the blessing could come upon you and the promise of the Spirit by faith. He came to bless you to be entirely new in Me. He came to reconcile you to Me. And now in Him I have made you ambassadors with a ministry of reconciliation. The one who wins souls is wise.
Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. Daniel 12:3.
I have put all your sins on Christ and accounted you righteous with My own righteousness in Him. Lead others to that same righteousness, for those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life through Christ Jesus your Lord. Romans 5:17. Share the wealth, it is not meant to stop with you.
Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16.
I so loved the world that I gave you Jesus that all who believe in Him shall never perish but shall have eternal life. You have eternal life. Share the wealth and bring others to the Kingdom with you. No giving, no fruit, a dry and barren branch.
From the beginning I have blessed you to be fruitful and the fruit I am looking for is that which is produced in love. The kind that makes people overflow with thanksgiving to Me for you and glow with My glory from the light emanating out of you.
For the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth. Ephesians 5:9.
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you. For behold, darkness will cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord will rise upon you and His glory will appear upon you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.” Isaiah 60:1-2.
Shine like bright lights in the world you are offering it the Word of life. You have the light everyone is looking for, do not hide it under a bushel basket or under you bed. Let it shine like a beacon divine.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.
And that passage of Scripture defines a fruitful life. And guess what? It also gives you a look at Me for I am love. And you are in My image and according to My likeness.
It is time to seek Me with all your heart so you can bear fruit that will last. The fruit of the Spirit in your spirit.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23.
And I am also looking for a certain kind of fruitfulness that is My Will for all who are in Christ Jesus:
We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone. See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people. Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:14-18.
If you will rejoice always in the good I am doing and have done, pray without ceasing as My royal priesthood joined in prevailing prayer with Jesus, your great High Priest, and give constant thanks for who I am to you and what you have in Christ, I can work with that and bring you complete in spirit, soul, and body before My throne to reward you for a fruitful life pleasing unto Me and giving joy, grace, and wonders to the world.
I love you. Attach to Jesus and the fruit will follow, branches cannot stop the blossoms and the fruit when they are firmly attached to a good vine. Remain in My Word and let My Word remain in you and the fruit will come.