• There is nothing spiritual about settling for second best!

• God is the "God of Increase".

• God wants to bring "Increase" and "Multiplication" into our lives.

• Time and time again, God declares that His desire is to bless His people and bring "Divine Increase" into their lives.

• In our last time together I gave you "The A,B,C’s of Walking in Divine Increase. We saw the principle in the Word and I said that we need to:

1. Agree with God
2. Believe that "all" the Promises and Provisions of God are for us.
3. Claim it, Confess it, and Cry Out to God for it.

• Today we want to look at "The Principle of Multiplication".

The Bible actually begins with God’s declaration of "The Principle of Multiplication".

READ: Genesis 1:22,28

Genesis 8:17

Genesis 9:1

(Insight) God’s promise to Abraham was "multiplication and increase".

Genesis 22:17 (Following the offering of Isaac)

"……indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

For when God made the promise to Abraham (Gen. 22:17), since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

I believe that these are days of "multiplication" and "increase" for the people of God.

• But, we must agree with God and cooperate with Him.

• Multiplication and Increase are not going to happen in your life just because it sounds good.

• To walk in God’s increase requires faith, obedience and faithfulness.

A Time of Enlargement (Multiplication & Increase)

Dr. Bill Hamon’s newsletter; Summer 2001

• At our International Gathering of Apostles and Prophets last October (2000), the Lord spoke through Prophet Chuck Pierce:

• At the Watchman Intercessors Prophetic conference April 25-27, God led us to declare a SHIFT in the heavenlies for the Body of Christ. This marked the end of a period of divine frustration ---- where God was allowing many to become dissatisfied with their present situation so they would press forward. Now that July has come, the season of testing is ending!

Folks:

• Look back at where we have walked as a Church over the last nine months.

• Look at the frustration we have lived with!

• I’m claiming this "prophetic word" in my life and for us as a church.

• By God’s Grace: the frustration is behind us……..the time of testing is over and enlargement (multiplication & increase) is coming!

• I receive it by faith, in Jesus’ name!

• The price is faithfulness and perseverance.

• God generally allows testing to come into our lives to see if we will lose heart or compromise when the fulfillment of our vision seems to be "delayed, hindered or slow in coming".

• Dr. Bill Hamon says: "The new place doesn’t come without a challenge!"

1. In our personal relationship with Him.
• Wisdom: Psalm 112:1-3
• III John 2 (God wants your soul to prosper!)
2. In our relationship with one another.

Psalm 133:1-3

John 17:21 "…that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me."

3. In your personal ministry

God wants to enlarge your borders……your sphere of influence.

 

4. In your finances.