The X Factor

UV 1253/10,000 The X Factor

The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!

Deuteronomy 1 v 11


When we are faithful to God through many generations, the Lord will multiply us. He is the X Factor of History, Biology, Economics, Chemistry, Physics, you name it. The use of the term X Factor implies that He is invisible, mystical and mysterious. Yet He is clearly present in our lives and makes His presence evident in many ways. He multiplies us even as He blesses us. Increase comes from the Lord. Addition and multiplication is God’s math while division and subtraction is satan’s math. As long as we acknowledge with gratitude the hand of the Lord upon us and our families, the Lord remains faithful to His 10,000 plus promises. He fulfills these promises in our lifetime as well as in our succeeding physical and spiritual generations. Each of us has a physical generation, the biological offspring as well as a spiritual generation, the spiritual heirs of our faith.


We can legitimately expect and ask for a thousand fold blessing upon us in terms of our health, our longevity, our spiritual growth, the fruit of the spirit, our finances, our influence and impact in this generation. Abraham was a lone man with no physical heir. But today, he is hailed as the father of faith who pioneered the path of believing even before receiving. He has thousands upon thousands of successors or heirs, both physical and spiritual in all nations on the planet. He had been given the promise, “ Out of your seed, shall all nations be blessed.” This was fulfilled as Jesus, the promised Messiah of the Jews as well as of all nations was born in his lineage.

It is rightly said that we can count the seed in an apple but only God knows the number of the apples that come from each seed. Faith not only blesses us in our generation but it blesses thousands in succeeding generations. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the one who is consistently faithful to a thousand generations of those who fear, love and obey Him. Yet the way in which God blessed Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was different and unique. Their life stories took many turns, many detours, ups and downs. He not only blesses and multiplies us a thousand times but He also blesses and multiplies us in a thousand different ways. We have ten thousand reasons to be glad, ten thousand reasons to be thankful to the Lord and ten thousand praises to sing. Our lives short as it is is long enough for us to express these ten thousand expressions of thanks and praise in ten thousand different ways.

Prateep V Philip