38 PRODUCE THEN ASK.

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

     —John 15:16, NKJV

God has already given you all that you need to produce, prosper and bear fruit. We produce little but ask for much. Yield fruit before you ask.

In prayer, come with your hands filled with offering to give to the Lord. Cain came with less than his best and displeased God. Making prayer the showcase of your lack never motivates God to give.

Prayer refuses to make lack an excuse for asking. My perspective often tells me I need more. God’s perspective always expects me to produce more. I pray to produce. I produce to invest. I invest or sow in order to see a harvest in God’s kingdom.

Don’t pray for fruit. The fruit is your responsibility. It’s the result of your sowing, tending and harvesting. Ask for the seed that you sow to bring an increase. Man plants and waters but God gives the increase.

God,

I bring to you an overflowing harvest, an overflowing heart an overflowing gratitude an overflowing love. Increase it, I pray. Amen.