LIVING FULL / DYING EMPTY — A SEISMIC SHIFT

Mark 4:28 – For the earth yields crops by itself: first the blade, then the head, after that the full grain in the head.

I. God’s Purpose for Fruit

Genesis 1:11 – Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth;” and it was so.

• Fruit was never designed to benefit the tree that produced it.

• Fruit is designed to Sustain Life.

Genesis 2:9a – And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and GOOD FOR FOOD.

Proverbs 11:30a – The FRUIT of the righteous is a tree of life.

• Fruit is designed to Reproduce Life – “Whose SEED is in itself.”

John 12:24 – Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the

ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

II. Fruit Is Not Generic; It’s Genetic – What you become is what you pass on.

Genesis 1:11 – Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit ACCORDING TO ITS KIND, whose seed is in itself, on the earth;” and it was so.

• Fruit is transmission.

• God changes generations by transfer, not information.

Matthew 12:33 – “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; FOR A TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS FRUIT.”

WHATEVER YOU DO NOT RELEASE, THE NEXT GENERATION WILL NOT RECEIVE.

Judges 2:10 – When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel.

• Your purpose is not what you achieve; It’s what you reproduce.

1) Identify Your Field

- Who is God calling me to invest in?

2) Release What God Built In You

- Start pouring:

▪ Encouragement, Truth.

▪ Prayer, Wisdom, Support—on purpose.

3) Shift Your Daily Prayer

- Stop praying, “GOD HELP ME, ” and start praying, “GOD USE ME.”