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Triumphant Fruitfulness

Genesis 49: 22 – 26 Triumphant Fruitfulness 2015

The picture

overflowing, generous goodness

sweetness, though surrounded by bitterness and haters

 it steadily remains standing and tender in nature, still full of life and bearing fruit

because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, the Rock of Israel (holding the root firm)

Genesis 50 15 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” 16 So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: 17 ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept.

18 His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said.

19 But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. 21 So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your children.” And he reassured them and spoke kindly to them.

The Resulting Blessing

Fruitfulness is from your abode, your habitat and unchanging environment. After the battle to stay planted, comes the blessing! After the struggle to stay sweet, to keep doing God's will; saving many lives – God releases mighty multiplication.

Philippians 2

Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

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Who, being in very nature God,

    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

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rather, he made himself nothing

    by taking the very nature of a servant,

    being made in human likeness.

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And being found in appearance as a man,

    he humbled himself

    by becoming obedient to death—

        even death on a cross!

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Therefore God exalted him to the highest place

    and gave him the name that is above every name,

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that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

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and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,

    to the glory of God the Father.