Fruitfulness, God's Covenant by Apostle Johnson Suleman: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Fruitfulness Is a Settled Covenant

Fruitfulness is not something God is still working out. It is a covenant that has already been settled. In Genesis 2:2, the Bible says God rested. He finished creating the heavens and the earth. That means there is nothing new God will do for you — he has already done everything. Every structure for healing, for fruitfulness, for multiplication is already in place. What God wants is for you to activate the structure.

In Genesis 1:22, before God said be fruitful, the Bible says he blessed them. That blessing means everything needed for the next instruction was already placed in you. He blessed them saying be fruitful — meaning the capacity to be fruitful was embedded in the blessing before the command was ever issued. The same pattern repeats in Genesis 1:28: God blessed them, then said be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue, and have dominion.

Your dominion is incomplete without fruitfulness. And your fruitfulness is already funded by covenant.

What God Considers Fruitfulness

Fruitfulness is fertility, productivity, and multiplicity — but God's standard goes further. He wants you to be fruitful after your kind. A person who has children who do not replicate their covenant values, who have strayed from the faith, who cannot carry the family's legacy — before God that person is considered unfruitful.

Absalom had three sons and a daughter. Yet in 2 Samuel 18:18, he said: I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. He built a pillar and named it after himself. A man with living children, who in the end had to name a stone to carry his legacy. The children were alive but could not carry what he stood for. God expects fruit after your kind — children of honor, of value, of destiny.

Five Hindrances to Fruitfulness

1. Anxiety and Doubt

   Philippians 4:6 is clear: be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, let your requests be made known to God. Once you have prayed, do not allow your monthly cycle, your medical reports, or your circumstances to determine your faith. The enemy's primary weapon against answered prayer is the reappearance of the original symptom, designed to make you believe the prayer failed.

   When things are about to get better, they often suddenly appear worse. When Jesus was walking toward the demonized boy in Matthew 17, the demon — which had been quiet — threw the boy to the ground the moment Jesus came close. That manifestation was not evidence of more power. It was the enemy's final reaction before departure. If you do not understand spiritual warfare, that kind of reaction will cause you to stop praying at the exact moment you should continue.

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   The Time Factor

   Sarah received strength to conceive after she had passed the age because she judged faithful the one who had made the promise (Hebrews 11:11). She was ninety years old. Zechariah described both himself and his wife as old when the angel appeared. Age is immaterial to God. Even the medical condition called menopause is a pause — not a permanent stop. Anything that pauses can continue. The time factor does not limit God.

3. Science

   1 Timothy 6:20–21 warns against the opposition of science falsely so-called. Doctors give reports, and those reports carry enormous psychological weight. But the report of the Lord is what stands. When a daughter of the house was told by her doctor that what she carried was a fibroid and not a baby, she replied: Doctor, I'm also telling you what I know. She gave birth in that same hospital nine months later.

   Do not become a victim of science. Thank God for doctors — they serve a genuine purpose. But concerning what God has spoken over your body and your womb, the word of God is the final authority. Science cannot determine your fate.

4. Human Philosophies and Traditions

   Colossians 2:8 warns against philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men. There are demonic altars being raised over families, conditions being imposed — someone must come to the village, a sacrifice must be made, a ritual must be performed before fruitfulness can come. Christ has redeemed you from the curse of the law. He was made a curse for you, hung on a tree. Every demonic tradition contending your fruitfulness must be shattered.

5. Alternatives

   The moment the mind begins to consider adoption as the only alternative to fruitfulness, faith has already been abandoned. Adoption is not wrong — but it should never be the default conclusion of someone who has not yet received what God has promised. Your womb will carry your own.

Three Boosters of Fruitfulness

1. Reprogram Your Mindset

   Carry a fruitfulness mentality. Romans 12:2 says be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Philippians 4:13 declares you can do all things through Christ. When asked about your situation, do not say you don't have — say not yet. Call forth those things that be not as though they were.

2. Service

   Exodus 23:25–26 is one of the most specific promises in scripture: you shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless your bread and your water, and he will take sickness away from your midst — and there shall be nothing cast their young, nor barren in the land. Service is a guaranteed fruitfulness booster.

3. Present Your Issue Before God

   Psalm 2:8, Zechariah 10:1, Matthew 7:8: ask, and it shall be given. Bring what the doctors said before God. He already knows. But the act of presenting it — of saying, Lord, this is what they said; I know it is not what you have spoken — is an act of faith that releases heaven's response. Whatever medical verdict has been spoken over you, present it before the God who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you ask or think.