Multiplication

1. God blessed the human race, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and rule over it’. This blessing has never been abrogated by God. (Gen. 1:28)

2. Similarly God blessed Abraham, ‘In blessing I will bless thee and I will multiply thy seed ...And they shall possess the gates of the enemy.  And in thy seed shall all the Gentiles of the earth will be blessed. (Gen. 22:17,18)

3. The Bride of Christ (the church) that does not reproduce herself and multiply is barren because she is not in true union with Christ. (2 Pet.1:3-9; Isa. 54:1-5)  

4. A female elephant breeds only when twenty years old and then only once in a while, but the little rabbits breed every few weeks. Similarly big elephantine churches are not reproducible while the little New Testament model churches multiply like the rabbits. (Acts 13:1-3)

5. Prayer Multiplication: All major revivals in the church have been preceded by major prayer movements. 120 people praying with ‘one accord’ precipitated the Pentecost with 3000 baptisms and a worldwide CPM (Church Planting Movement.) (Acts 1:14,15; 2:5)

6. Gospel Multiplication: Abundant sowing will multiply the seed of the gospel and increase the fruits of righteousness and the gospel will sound forth in every place. (2 Cor. 9:6,10; 1Thes. 1:8; Matt. 14:6)

7. Multiplication of Miracles: Where Christ was not named, resulted in all Asia hearing the gospel as well as from Jerusalem to Illyricum. (Acts 19:8-12,Rom 15:19,20)

8. Believers’ Multiplication:  Breaking bread from house to house with gladness, results in favor with all the people. Bread is a product of God and man working together. God provides the resources like the soil, the seed, the sunshine and the water, while the man provides labour. When the  ‘Bread of life’ is shared from house to house then the Lord adds daily to the church resulting in multitude of new believers. (Act 2:46,47; 4:32; 21:20; Isa. 55:10; 58:7)  

9. Multiplication of Disciples: Focus on the Word and Prayer results in rapid multiplication and exponential growth of the disciples. (Act 6:1-7; John 15:8,16)

10. Multiplication of Elders: Spiritual fathers labour and suffer tribulations to birth ‘generational  growth.’(Act 14:22,23; Titus 1:5-9; 1Cor. 4:15; 2Tim 2:2; Heb. 13:17)

11. Multiplication of Gifts: The Holy Spirit imparts multiple charismata resulting in multiplication of the supernatural. (1Cor.12:28; Rom. 12:6-8; Acts 2:17,18)

12. Multiplication of ekklesias: Yeshua modeled the first ekklesia when he took two disciples of John to his house, which multiplied into millions. Trimming of religion and rebooting with focus on contextualized equipping of the saints for Gentile ministry leads to rapid multiplication of churches. (John 1:35-42; Acts 16:3-5; 21:20-26)

13. Multiplication of the Kingdom: The ekklesia does not live in church buildings. “The kingdom of God is within you... It comes not with observation” but when Kingdom people go to heathen homes and offer incense (worship) and sacrifice, resulting in thirty, sixty and a hundredfold multiplication. (Luke17:20,21; Mal. 1:11; Matt.13:8)