Change is Our Friend

1. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth
(Genesis 1:28)
– Every thing reproduces after its own kind
– Seedtime and harvest-without seed there can be no harvest
– Be fruitful and multiply; replenish and dominate
– Fruitfulness is a covenant agreement between God and man–
Balaam said, “I received a commandment to bless, and he has blessed and I cannot reverse it (Numbers 23:19-20)
– Barrenness is a direct assault, confrontation, and desecration of the law of Genesis

1. God says, “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” (Psalms 89: 34)
2. God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man that He should repent; hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless, and I cannot reverse it. (Numbers 23:19-20)
3. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us- for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”-in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles. (Galatians 3-13-14; Genesis 24:1;
Genesis 15: 1-3; Genesis 17:6-8; Genesis 26:1-14)

1. The spirit of barrenness seeks to make God look like a liar before humanity. It challenges the first prophetic word that God spoke over man.
2. This a spirit of stagnation and limitation. It wants you to remain where you are-no progress. It hates enlargement and growth.
3. You don’t see any return on anything you do.
4. It does not want to believe that God’s disposition is to bless you. He wants to bless His people.
5. Barrenness is a mentality or mindset that restricts what heaven wants to send your way.

1. Barren womb-Impossible to get pregnant; cannot carry the baby to full term, e.g.
Sarah, Hannah, Rachel, and Elizabeth (Exodus 23:26; Deuteronomy 7;14)
2. Financial Barrenness-Works with the spirit of error; living in the past, lack of time management, bad management, everything you touch withers, can’t bring to completion, holes in your pocket
3. Territorial barrenness-Barren grounds, land won’t produce (2 Kings 2:17-22;
Nehemiah 5:1-3)
4. Professional barrenness–Can’t seem to break out of the your career into something better, remain in minimal level for years, other people who started with you exceed you (Psalm 84:7)
5. Spiritual barrenness-Can’t seem to break out of sinful patterns; no revelatory flow in the word of God, dry prayer life, creativity dried up, etc.
6. Ministerial barrenness-The ministries of spiritual leaders, no matter what they do, remains small for many years. They are not able to enjoy the fruit of their labor
(Isaiah 3:10)

1. In that same day there were 3,000 souls (Acts 2:41)
2. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved (Acts 2:47)
3. And the believers were the more added, multitudes both men and women (Acts 5:14)
4. And the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly (Acts 6:1-2, 7)
5. And much people were added unto the Lord (Acts 11:
19-24)
6. The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied
(Exodus1:12)

1. Zacharias and Elizabeth-They were righteous before
God; walked in all the commandments of God, blameless, but fruitless (Luke 1:5-7)
2. Hannah-No sin mentioned in her life; her husband was a great giver (1 Samuel 1-2)
3. Isaac was the seed of Abraham, yet he and
Rebekah were barren in land and barren regarding children (Genesis 26:1-2)
* Each had a fighting spirit

1. Abraham and Sarah–Genesis 12-18
2. Isaac and Rebecca–Genesis 25:21
– And Isaac pleaded to the Lord for his wife because was barren-
Genesis 25:21
3. Jacob and Rachel-Genesis 30:22-24
– And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb
4. Elkanah and Hannah–1 Samuel 1: 20
– That she gave birth to a son and named him Samuel saying,
“Because I have asked of him of the Lord.”
5. Zechariah and Elizabeth–Luke 1:24
– And after these days, Elizabeth his wife became pregnant

1. Prayer opens closed doors – “door of utterance be granted” (Colossians 4:3)
2. Prayer opens closed heavens-“while Jesus prayed…”
(Luke 3:21)
3. Prayer open closed wombs–“Abraham prayed, God healed” (Genesis 20:17-18)
4. “And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit” (James 5:13)
– Fruit comes as a result of prevailing prayer
5. Jesus said, “My house shall be called the house of prayer.” (Matthew 21:13)

1. Praying until the burden lifts
2. Praying until you the peace of God descends upon you
3. Praying until you have the answer
4. Praying until the promise of God manifest
5. Praying until breakthrough occurs
6. After He finished, one of Jesus disciples said to Him, Lord teach us to pray. (Luke 11:1)
7. And I say unto you ask and it shall be given you, seek and it shall be found , knock and the door shall be opened to you.
(Luke 11:9)
8. Mighty Prevailing Prayer by Duewel

Sing, O barren, you who have borne no child, Break forth into singing , and cry aloud, you who have not travailed with child for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, said the Lord. Enlarge the place of your tent, Stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pegs, for you will spread abroad to the right and to the left. And your descendants will possess the nations and the shall resettle the desolate. (Isaiah 54:1-3)
– One translation says, “‘Sing while you are barren,’ says the
Lord.”

1. Paul and Silas–Acts 16:25-26
– In the midnight hour
– Blocked and closed doors will be opened
– Praising God strengthens you–Psalm 8:2
– Praising God stops the devil in his tracks–Psalm 8:2
– Praising God puts you in the will of God-1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
– Praising God pulls down the demonic no entry wall–Joshua 6:1
– Praising God binds up principalties and powers–Psalm 149
– Praising God confuses the enemy-2 Chronicles 20:21-22

• God told Jehoshaphat: Fear not, nor be dismayed: tomorrow go out against them: for the Lord will be with you. And when Jehoshaphat had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the Lord, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army …. Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord sent ambushes against the people of Ammon. (2
Chronicles 20:21-22)

1. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty; the voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh, the voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth and strips the forest bare. (Psalm 29: 3-8)
2. Prophetic Voice – Elisha
– Healed the waters and barrenness of the land
– Healed the financial barrenness of the wife of the dead prophet
(2 Kings 4:17)
– Healed the barren womb of the Shunammite woman (2 King
4:17)
– Ministerial barrenness (2 King 6:1-7)

1. And it came to pass, that, when Elizabeth heard the salutation of
Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. (Luke 1:39-41)
2. Jesus healed Peter’s and James’ vocational barrenness (Luke 5:1-
11)
3. This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage a good warfare (1 Timothy 1:18)
4. Sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, string instruments, and cymbals (1 Chronicles 25:1)
5. The sons of Asaph who were under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied according to the order of the King (1 Chronicles 25:2)

1. What would the New Testament be like without the gifts of the Holy Spirit and power encounters.
2. Signs and wonders are the “ dinner bell” that calls the lost to feast on the “Bread of Life”-Jesus Christ.
3. In North America, we have created a theology that accommodates a powerless Christianity
4. Power Evangelism (Healing, Miracles and Deliverance)
5. Ministering the Father’s Love
6. The Glory Realm
7. Dreams and Visions

• Jesus said we would do greater works than He did. (John
14:12)
• And these signs shall follow those who believe: In my name they will cast out demons, they shall take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them: they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover. (Mark 16:17-18)
• But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses of Me in
Jerusalem, in all Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8)

1. Isaac sold hundredfold during a time of famine (Genesis.26:1-3) –
The land was not producing. Isaacs wants to pack up and leave.
But God tells him to stay where you are be planted. Isaac broke biological barrenness by prayer and financial barrenness by planting seed.
2. Hannah–Poured out her soul to God. She made vow to God. (I
Samuel 1:9-11)
God promises to give us seed to sow to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase your harvest of righteousness (2 Corinthians 9:10)
3. Elisha and Shunammite woman-This wealthy woman always blessed and fed the man of God. She built a room for him. Her seed prompted and birthed a miracle of a son. (2 Kings 4:8-17)

1. Business failure
2. Jesus asked if He can use their boat?
3. How did Peter break the business slump?
4. Luke 5:6-9 What did Peter’s seed bring?
– Great multitude of fish
– Overflowing nets
– Filled ships
– Overflow to help other business
• Without sowing of seed, there can be no increase. If there is no increase, then decrease stays in motion

1. Being born again , not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible seed, by the word of God, which lives and abides forever.
2. God planted His only begotten Son and the end result was, “For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.” (Hebrews 2:10)

1. Witty inventions
2. Local business
3. Blessing the leader