Be Fruitful and Multiply:
Gen. 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
We now come to the fifth day of God’s process. Again, as we study the events of day five of creation, we are reminded that God never does anything random or without impart to you and I. Wisdom and understanding, not only regarding what God has done, but what He is doing and will do in our lives if we cooperate with His purposes. The things that take place on the fifth day are not independent of what has passed on before. We see God creating fish and fowl and we realize that since water above and beneath the firmament existed on the second day, that He could have added these creatures to the earth then, but did not. This is all about what has to happen in our lives before the blessing of verse 22, “be fruitful and multiply” can be pronounced over our lives.
Remember that the study of God’s process is an inquiry, the end of which will answer the questions for us, “how long oh God?” and “what time is it?” We cannot step into being fruitful and multiplying without cooperating with what is revealed of God’s process that precedes the sixth day. God is giving us a template and a pattern for cooperating with His creative process that is ongoing in our lives, even at the most personal and subjective level. He will not act, for instance, to bring about fifth day blessing until we have accepted second day responsibility. What do I mean by this? Let us review:
Day One – identify your potential (deep) and the darkness that is encroaching upon it (upon your life). Then do in your life what God did in the beginning: SPEAK with specificity over your unrealized potential the thing that you desire (light be). It is important that we actually verbalize this. Prayer that is not verbalized is often only wishful thinking. Be verbal and out loud in speaking over the darkness that is encroaching the deeps of your potential in God.
Day Two – Accept your boundaries. Know that over every life, there is a measure or jurisdiction that God sets. You must inquire after this and accept it as the yoke easy and burden light responsibility in your life. I once had a dear friend who moved in an astonishingly accurate and powerful prophetic word. Yet late one night, he disclosed to me that in his view, he had no boundaries or limitations in life or in God. That man is in prison today for the remainder of his natural life. He refused to accept boundaries. He never came to grips with day two in God.
You also must deal with mixture. The waters of the Spirit above (God’s spirit) and the waters below (man’s spirit) must be discerned. You have to know the difference. You must rightly divide, for the things you speak out of the Day One dynamic, will come to pass rightly or wrongly, and you don’t want, by failure to discern, to bring disaster upon your life or the lives of others. This is not a one-time affair. It is an ongoing discipline. Deal unceasingly with mixture in your life.
Having spoken over your deep, accepted boundary and limitation and dealt with mixture – NOW God calls. Now you are ready to be called into the third day responsibility that comes with the law of Seedtime and Harvest being installed in your life.
Day Three – Seed time and harvest. Now you are ready to become Lord of your own harvest. Until mixture and innate rebellion are dealt with (Day Two), it would be a curse to allow your life to produce what is in the soil of your heart. Now that the disciplines of spirit revealed in Day One and Day Two of God’s process are installed in your life, you can do what Hebrews 6:1 speaks of and “go on” in God to see the law of harvest actually begin to work effectively in your life:
[Heb 6:1 NKJV] 1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary [principles] of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Day Four – when you come into Third Day blessing and benefit in your life, you are going to gain a reputation for getting your prayers answered. This is a dangerous time to be without discernment. The curtain of the heavens must be drawn back and you need to be able to identify the relationships that will suddenly become abundant around you. It has been said that a man who is poor is a man who has few friends. A man who is wealthy has many friends, but none that he can be sure of. This is not the whole truth, but it is a truism.
In Day Four, we see the celestial bodies created that represents various relationships in our lives. Joseph dreamed of his parents and brothers as the sun, moon and stars. God told Abraham his children would be as the stars of the heavens. Jude warns about those in our midst who were merely wandering stars – twice dead, trees plucked up, waves foaming out their shame. When blessing and prosperity begin to come, as in the Third Day time of seed time and harvest, we need the discernment of looking through the natural perspective and the appearance of things, to know who and what we are actually dealing with.
