1. Be Fruitful

2. Be Fruitful 1. Created to be Fruitful 2. Flow of Fruitfulness
3. Sowing and Reaping
A. Seeds Need to be Sown to Produce Fruit
B. Seeds We Sow Determine the Fruit We Grow
C. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing

3. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Give a portion to seven, or even eight, for you do not know what calamity may happen on the earth. If the clouds are full of rain, they empty out on the land; and if a tree falls to the north or south, in the place that the tree falls, there it will be.

4. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. As you do not know the way of the wind, or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; likewise you do not know the work of God who has made everything.

5. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not let your hand rest; because you do not know which activity will find success, this way or that way, or if the both will be good.

6. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
2 types of Wind & Clouds:
2 Corinthians 7:5-6
…when we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, and we were troubled on every side. On the outside were conflicts; on the inside were fears. Nevertheless God…

7. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Fear:
- Failure
Matthew 25:25
I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground.

8. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Fear:
- Failure
- Hurt

9. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Fear:
- Failure
- Hurt
Overcome
God is with us
Isaiah 41:10
Do not fear, for I am with you…
Romans 8:31
If God is for us, who can be against us?

10. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Fear:
- Failure
- Hurt
Overcome
God is with us
God’s Love Removes Fear
1 John 4:18
…perfect love casts out fear…Whoever fears is not perfect in love.

11. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Fear:
- Failure
- Hurt
Overcome
God is with us
God’s Love Removes Fear
Focus on God
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.

12. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Sense of Inadequacy:
Exodus 14:10-13
Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent…I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue…Send, I pray, anyone else.”

13. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Sense of Inadequacy:
Overcome
God Does the Work
Judges 6:15-16
“O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.” Then the Lord said to him, “But I will be with you, and you will strike the Midianites as one man.”

14. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Sense of Inadequacy:
Overcome
God Does the Work
Zechariah 4:6
Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord.

15. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Sense of Inadequacy:
Overcome
God Does the Work
Luke 24:49
I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.

16. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Sense of Inadequacy:
Overcome
God Does the Work
Weakness – Greatest Strength
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
(God) said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefor most gladly I will boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me…when I am weak, than I am strong.

17. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Sense of Inadequacy:
Overcome
God Does the Work
Weakness – Greatest Strength
2 Corinthians 3:4-6
We have such trust through Christ toward God, not that we are sufficient in ourselves to take credit for anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who made us able ministers of the new covenant.

18. Reasons People Don’t Sow or Stop Sowing
Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not let your hand rest; because you do not know which activity will find success, this way or that way, or if both will be good

19. Reap at a Different Time than we Sow
Be Fruitful
Reap at a Different Time than we Sow