Hello everyone! Welcome to Reading with Him with Janice Moore. I'm glad you're
here with me and we are going to keep moving here. This will be the next part
of Genesis chapter 1 verse 28. Last time we looked at the word bless and today we
are going to move further and I'm gonna be referring to the voice which
has a translation of this verse that is really accurate. It's very correct.
Where the other translations say, God blessed them and said, the voice says, God
blessed them and he gave them directives. So that is accurate because actually
this means that he gave them a charge which is what took place at this point.
But we need to remember here this before we go forward. It's very interesting
because God blessed them first. If you remember, that word means he pronounced
over them, he made them, he prophetically released and called forth out of them
from the future into the present, called forth in the Spirit and in the natural
that they would be successful, that Adam would be successful and that Eve would
be successful and that mankind at this point would be successful and that they
would be happy. So he was releasing this over them. So he did that and it says he
blessed them and then he gave them this directives. So it was very important that
first they were created in his image with everything that God had, less being
God himself. They were created, they were the creator of the creator, made
in his image, made like God but not God. And then God released this blessing over
them and then it was after that that he gave them the charge. So they had
everything, not only had, but they were everything they needed to fulfill this
charge or these directives. So today we're going to start in on those
directives or those charges and first we're going to look what this word means
because it's important. Adam was not meant to have a lackadaisical, easy
sit on a palm tree, leaning up against the trunk and
sticking his feet in the stream and having something good to drink and
cuddling with animals. That's not what he was called to do. It was enormous and he
was given a tremendous amount of power in the aspect of authority. So we need to
begin looking at that because the same thing has been given to us. It never
was meant to end. It was meant to walk out and to grow and expand and then
Jesus had to give all that back to us and he gave it back to us in the Great
Commission. So anyway, let's look at this word directive. It means having the power
to rule. It is not passive. It is not sitting back and hoping everything falls
into place and hoping somebody else does something about a situation. It is not
putting a head in the sand and trying to forget what's going on. It is ruling
is a place of authority. It is a place of decision-making. It is a place of impact.
It is a place of influence. A charge, which is also a meaning of directive,
means to impose a task or a duty. So God tests him with this. He said, I've made
you like this. I have now given you everything and made you in every way
needed to be successful. I speak success and I speak happiness over you. Go do
this. Put your boots on. It's marching orders. It's time. It means to entrust to,
to give oversight and to be commissioned. He was entrusted with the Garden of Eden.
And it wasn't just like, wow, I'm just gonna live with these animals and I'm
going to be so bored. It was going to be his territory that was supposed to
expand, that he was supposed to rule and govern.
means, it constitutes, now if you think about charge and you take it out of a task oriented
thing, you remember there is another definition for charge and at first when I saw this I'm like
oh that doesn't work here and then I just kind of fell under by the Holy Spirit and said you know
actually it kind of does and so then I just was praying to the Spirit I'm like okay you got to
show me because I'm thinking numbers, I'm thinking credit card, I'm thinking purchasing,
I'm thinking all that and that other definition for charge is something that constitutes a debt
because of a transaction. I think I'm gonna sneeze, I don't want to and so I was like okay
can you just correlate, can you just make the bridge for me here and I began to remember then
I'd realized wow this was a covenant relationship Adam had with God. Now I know it wasn't a blood
covenant relationship because there was not yet sin but it was a covenant relationship. You think
of Father, Son, Holy Spirit and He made them like Elohim. He made them in their image. Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit were in a covenant, are in a covenant relationship with one another.
They each had given each other 100 percent. They are totally dedicated to each other,
totally standing behind each other and the same thing, the same relationship Adam was brought into
with them 100 percent. God gave him everything and Adam was expected in this covenant relationship
to give everything, surrender everything back to God. Yes he was walking in a position of authority,
yes he was called to rule and reign, yes he was called to oversee and just to
walk in fellowship with God but it was a 100 percent I worship you and I obey you
because I love you and you have all. So God gave him everything
and in this charge to do all of this and in this blessing there was a covenant relationship
involved with this to where Adam did have a debt. His debt was love, his debt was worship,
his debt was saying yes to what God had said to him every single day
and even when he would see that tree in the middle of the garden
saying yeah that that's God's that's that's not mine. I am not the creator.
I am the created and that's not mine and I will honor God.
So there was a debt so-called with the charge in that context.
So we're going to move on to what these charges were. We have a few minutes so we can go to the
first one. So if you look at verse 28 the first one in that list of charges was to be fruitful.
Was to be fruitful. So we all know you know this one's pretty easy because fruitful all itself.
You know we're talking seeds. We are talking things that grow. We are talking reproduce.
So an apple tree reproduces apples. Adam and Eve were to reproduce and have children.
All of the garden everything in the garden was meant to reproduce. The animals everything was
meant to reproduce including Adam and Eve and they had oversight over this.
That's pretty self-explanatory but for me maybe you guys have not done this but I did it.
And the next word means multiply. So you think oh well we're going to have more than one child.
We're going to have you know it's going to multiply. It's going to be bigger but
there's more to it than that and when you start going back into the Hebrew yes it means all those
things that fruitful mean but it also means takes on a whole nother meaning which is this
multiplication actually means to excel. It means to go above and beyond. It means to enlarge
and it means to heap. So that's much more than just reproduction. So think about the scriptures
that say to expand your tent pegs. You are enlarging. You're taking what you have. You're
having
success, you are excelling at that, you are doing with excellence, and then you're pushing
out those tent pegs and you are bringing in, taking in more territory, more area around
you, whether it's friends, whether it's your workplace, whether it is a school environment,
whether it is a work environment, whether it is areas of authority you've been giving
and you allow those to be expanded as you walk in excellence of where you're at, meant
to be multiplying, but it also means to heap.
So a heap is, well think of a teaspoon.
So I use cacao every morning in my smoothie and I don't just put a tablespoon in, I come
out with a heaping tablespoon and it's over and above.
So we are meant, we are called, we are charged, another word for charged is command to heap.
So everything we should do should be heaping, it should be over and above.
That is your portion, that is what God has spoken over you, that is what he said to go
and do, and he has released over you and spoken success in that area, and we are at 1122.
So I am going to stop with this today, I would like you to, just for an activation
between today and the next time we have a session, just ask Holy Spirit, just say, okay,
what does this mean to me?
How do I walk this out?
Take out your word and just begin to meditate on it, sit with him and say, okay, what areas
are you calling me to be more fruitful?
What areas do you want to expand?
What areas do you want me to reproduce?
Can I reproduce?
How would I be reproducing right now?
What adjustments do you want to make in my life?
Because when you're reproducing, you're going to reproduce what you are.
So if you have bitterness in your heart, if you have unforgiveness, if you have anger,
if you have other issues going on, whatever they may be, that's what you're going to reproduce.
If you're walking in the fruit of the Spirit, if you're walking in peace, if you're walking
in joy, if you're walking in the Word and are able to apply the Word to your life, then
that is what you're going to be able to reproduce as you're around other people.
Because we are called to disciple, disciple all nations.
That starts with your family and then moves out of your family.
It goes to the next level out and that ripple effect just takes place.
So the first thing to say with Holy Spirit in this activation is, am I fruitful?
How does this impact me?
What's going on with me?
What kind of fruit am I producing and where would you like to make adjustments?
I mean, this isn't an everyday thing.
I kind of have a, yeah, I kind of talk to God in the morning.
I talk to Him at night and I want Him to hold me accountable and He does.
He does.
He had admonished me with some things last night and I was like, okay, I missed it.
You've instructed me on this and I had to make an adjustment and I had to repent and
then you asked for forgiveness and it's all good as long as you walk out that adjustment
and as long as you do what He's told you to do.
So ask Him, say, what kind of fruit am I producing?
Where do you want to make adjustments?
And He is most gracious and loving when He does it because the Holy Spirit convicts,
He doesn't condemn.
And then ask Him, okay, multiplication, where should I be heaping?
Where do you want to grow this?
Do you want me to expand my tent pegs anywhere?
Do you want me to enlarge my space anywhere?
Or is it just enlarging my prayer time?
Is it enlarging my time of intercession?
Is it increasing there or is it increasing how I minister to other people and making
myself available?
Is it increasing that when I go out of this house, I go out with a smile and I look to
people around me and I smile because most people are not smiling and you have no idea
how much a smile and eye-to-eye contact can impact someone that you run into wherever
you are at, whether in a grocery store or wherever else, or maybe letting someone
that you don't necessarily want to in a moment get in cutting in front of you
when you're in a lane on a road whatever it is how do you want me to multiply how
do you want me to push out and do more and just doing it with his grace and his
ability it's not to be a heavy thing his yoke is easy and his burden is light but
how does he want you to partner with him in doing this so anyway I'm gonna leave
you with that today and we will continue next time with the same verse and we
will go on to the next charge in here which means to replenish and that is a
definition all of its own here I thought they were all just like man these are so
much alike but they as you're seeing they are different and although they
build on each other they all can stand on their own two feet by themselves so
it's important to look at what was expected of Adam because all those
things are still expected of us and now we have the ability of the Holy Spirit
to walk it out and we are empowered by him so that is it and I just bless you
and release life and revelation over you as you continue to grow in your
relationship with him are an established are transformed and father
we just thank you that you are good always good absolutely good you are
faithful and you you you reign in our lives in Jesus name