Increase and Decrease

UV 3538/10000 Increase and Decrease I will multiply on you man and animal; and they will increase and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly, and I will do better (things) for you than at your beginning. Then you will know (with great confidence) that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 36 v 11 The Lord promises to make us even more prosperous post- Covid than before. He will multiply us and cause us to increase and be fruitful physically, intellectually, socially, emotionally and spiritually. He Himself inhabits our souls and occupies our hearts. He promises to do better things for us than before, than at the beginning of our faith walk with Him. He does it to boost our faith and increase the impact of our testimony of His faithfulness. Hence, we can look forward with hope, courage and confidence at the future, at our latter days. He will send the latter rain as a heavy downpour not as the shower of blessings we had experienced at the start of our journey with Him. The Lord strengthens us to face our challenges and He establishes our work and proves our words. He does not let any of it be in vain or fall to the ground without result or impact. He keeps us from lurking evil from within or without. As the days pass, we should be increasingly optimistic and joyful, not depressed or gloomy. We should deal effectively with anything that blocks or divides our blessings. It could be doubt, regrets, fears, hurts, bitterness, disappointments. The Lord will turn the weapons of the enemy into sweetness or sources of glad tidings. Our focus, too should be to “be better, feel better, do better.” In other words, we must keep excelling in whatever we put our hands or minds to. On achieving any measure of success, we should turn it into praise and glory to the Lord. The more blessed we are, we should humble ourselves more before the Lord. This is the only way to avoid pride and defeat the temptation to take the glory for ourselves. He should increase and we should decrease as time passes on.