Faith for Multiplication

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Faith for multiplication begins with recognizing that God Himself is a God of increase, and that everything He creates carries this imprint. Multiplication is not merely a concept to understand but a reality to enter by faith. Just as a single seed becomes a forest and a couple becomes generations, God takes what is given to Him and causes it to overflow.

This multiplying faith grows under the New Covenant, where God changes our hearts and expands our capacity to desire, dream, and believe. God works within us both to will and to act according to His good pleasure, transforming personal blessing into collective impact. Multiplication, then, is not a reward for exceptional performance but the outcome of covenant love at work in a surrendered life.

Yet this journey of multiplication will face resistance. Unbelief, discouraging voices, and spiritual opposition attempt to shrink vision and distort identity through accusation and condemnation. Trials refine faith, hardship builds endurance, and weakness becomes the stage for multiplied strength. God turns deserts into springs, lack into abundance, and affliction into testimony—not because of human merit, but because of His blessing.

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Beyond simply understanding multiplication, you need to grasp the true meaning of the word that has a tangible impact on your faith.

God is moving throughout our churches worldwide, and we are part of that.

We have witnessed restoration in many areas of our church. In 2025, I can clearly testify to the restoration of our youth ministry under the leadership of JP and Deborah. Vine Christian Academy expanded to more than 80 students. We had the most remarkable Maturity and Leadership Training Course classes ever with Pastor Giles. Our church's men’s leadership saw substantial strengthening through the active involvement of many brothers in the Legendarios.

Multiplication is within God

Multiplication is within God and within everything God created. 

A single seed can generate an entire forest.

Even in deserts around the world, with proper sand movements, people are showing that any soil can become fertile.

One pair becomes herds, flocks, and multitudes over time.

A single couple can generate an entire generation. 

(My father was remembering with me his love story with my mom 50 years ago, and what was only 2 is now 17 people, not counting the in-laws)

God multiplies what is given into abundance: manna fed an entire nation daily from heaven (Exodus 16).

We must have faith to enter that multiplied provision.

faith Increase.

Under the grace of God, He doesn’t just restore what was lost; He surpasses it. God responds that not only repairs but also overflows with multiplication.

In 2026, I expect not just crumbs, not mere drops, but an abundance of grace upon grace.

I am sincerely asking that we, together as a church, reach a new level of faith in 2026.

2 Thessalonians 1:3 3 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

The word, [ὑπεραυξάνω huperauxano] is intensive increase, to grow luxuriantly.

The image depicts a healthy tree growing in fertile soil, symbolizing a fruitful tree that rewards the labor of the gardener. 

Paul had planted and nurtured, and God provided a plentiful harvest. Their faith grew stronger, and their love increased; this was true not only for some notable individuals but for everyone.

That should be our target as a church.

To believe together that the era of insufficiency has ended.

Trust and affirm that the period of lack is over.

So, facing your year expecting that whatever is now a debt will ultimately turn into your surplus.

While restitution speaks of healing and restoration, multiplied restitution indicates that you will emerge healthier than ever before. From a blessed person, God will make you a blessing to many.

The blessed boy.

Think about the boy whom the disciples found. 

John 6:6-9 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”

You are blessed like this boy.

Among the whole multitude, you are the only one with enough provisions. But now, you decided to give it all to Jesus. What was a blessing for you has now become a blessing for thousands. 

Jesus found you. This boy entered history as the greatest provider of all time. His portion was enough to bless him and make him a blessing for others.

John 6:11-12 11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”

This story asks us how much we want for 2026. The Lord can give us according to what we want.

I need to emphasize that you should open up about what you desire.

As much as you want.

In almost every chapter of the Bible that discusses the New Covenant, one of the clearest clauses is that God would change our hearts according to His own.  

Jeremiah 31:33-34 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

In the previous chapter we see the association of the New Covenant to multiplication.

Jeremiah 30:19 19 Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving,

and the voices of those who celebrate.

I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;

I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.

In Ezekiel, which speaks of the change from a stony heart to a new, soft heart, we also find a multiplication promise.

Ezekiel 36:26 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

How many of you are part of the New Covenant? If you are in Christ, you belong to the New and Eternal Covenant, as described in Hebrews 8 and 10. This transformation of the heart is key to your dreaming bigger and envisioning more, which is essential to the New Covenant. This is affirmed in Joel 2 and Acts 2. 

Philippians 2:13 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Do you see the desire to lead a Lifegroup as coming from the devil? What about your willingness to support the new project at Vine Christian College? Are you motivated to influence the next generation of kids through fostering?

We must embrace that multiplication is part of the New Covenant.

Multiplication confirms God’s covenant with us.

Multiplication flows directly from God’s covenant love. It is not a reward for exceptional performance, but as the expected outcome of being loved and blessed by God.

Leviticus 26:9 9 I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.

Every area of your life, family, work, provision, and productivity is meant to be touched by an increase. Check 

Deuteronomy 7:13 13 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.

God has eyes of love for us.

Would you dare to pray bold and extravagant prayers that may seem exaggerated and even excessive for many?

I say that because it is sure to happen, you will face opposition for multiplication.

opposition promotes multiplication

The first one would be unbelieving voices, nay-sayers, and negging discouraging people trying to steal the faith in your heart for this year.

So be wise, do not share all your dreams and visions with everybody. Make sure to bring on board those who will help you stay on track in the pursuit of the vision God gave you.

You don’t need to exclude anyone from your life, but you also don’t need to expect that everybody in your family will believe as you do.

The second resistance can actually come from the enemy, bringing oppression and spiritual warfare against the great things the Lord has prepared for us.

Satan’s strategy is always the same: accusation and condemnation. He diminishes identity and distorts perspective. Goliath tried to reduce David by mocking him as insignificant, and the spies weakened themselves by seeing themselves as grasshoppers. In both cases, the battle was first lost—or won—in how reality was interpreted.

1 Samuel 17:42–43“And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth… And the Philistine said to David, ‘Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?’”

Numbers 13:33 “And there we saw the Nephilim… and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

Here is the good news: Affliction cannot stop multiplication when God’s blessing is present. Pharaoh afflicted Israel to control, reduce, and limit their growth—but the pressure produced the opposite effect. The affliction became the very environment where multiplication accelerated. 

Exodus 1:12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

The enemy does not have the authority to cancel what God has blessed. This establishes a spiritual law for God’s people: Where the enemy applies pressure, God releases increase.

The hardships just built the foundations for what the Lord will bring over us.

James 1:2-4 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Our trials are platforms for our testimonies.

Our faith will increase no matter our hardship. Once the faith becomes this resolute, unwavering state of trust, we will lack nothing. The text speaks of character formation, but also of provision release.

No might will become multipled strength

Many people faced destitution instead of restitution, yet the Lord has promised to turn what the enemy intended for evil into good for us. Prepare to encounter multiplied favor.

Even if you are tired, multiplied strength awaits you.

Isaiah 40:29-31 29 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

30 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

31 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

When ESV uses the word “increase,” it is the same word we studied previously. Let me explain multiply greatly: In Hebrew, it is רָבָה מְאֹד [ravá meôd].

That means: Wholly, speedily, an intensive or superlative; exceedingly, far, fast, good, greatly; louder and mightier.

It is almost inevitable not make a reference to what Ephesians says:

Ephesians 3:20-21 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

God evaluates us not based on performance or merit but through covenant fulfillment. From this completed work, abundance flows into every aspect of life: faith, fruit, influence, provision, purpose, and ministry.

By his blessing

At the end of the year, in my personal devotional, the Lord led me to Psalm 107

Psalms 107:33-38 33 He turns rivers into a desert,

springs of water into thirsty ground,

34 a fruitful land into a salty waste,

because of the evil of its inhabitants.

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35 He turns a desert into pools of water,

a parched land into springs of water.

36 And there he lets the hungry dwell,

and they establish a city to live in;

37 they sow fields and plant vineyards

and get a fruitful yield.

38 By his blessing they multiply greatly,

and he does not let their livestock diminish.

The Psalmist shows that rivers become deserts, and fertile soil becomes salty waste, the result of the evil of people.

But in verse 35, the Psalm states: God turns a desert into pools of water, parched land into springs of water. God feeds the hungry and builds a city. The Lord makes their fields and the vineyards to be fruitful. Why? Is it because the people are good? Is it because anyone deserves good? No. The reason for such an abundance is in verse 38.

Verse 38 explains why. It is solely because of His blessings. It is His blessings over us that we'll stop the lack and multiply us greatly.

God desires to multiply His people. 

Now that you recognize reaming and desiring in accordance with the New Covenant means an answer of faith let’s return to the Ezekiel passage.

Ezekiel 36:37 37 “Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock..

God states that He wants to increase His people, but He waits for us to ask. Growth does not happen automatically; it results from aligning with God’s will through prayer and intercession.

Blessed from the beginning. 

In two moments at the beginning, Genesis 1:28, and in Genesis 9:1, God blessed man to multiply. In every new season, we should be sure of God’s favor. God blessed so that man would multiply. 

The blessing was intended for multiplication.