PROMISE 18 - ANOINTED FRUIT BEARERS

PROMISE 18 – ANOINTED FRUIT BEARERS
Yourwife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table. – Psalm 128:3
There are three primary aspects to this wonderful promise. This verse tells us that the children of the righteous will be:
1. Fruit bearers. Olive trees bear fruit. Symbolically this means the children of God’s people will be fruit bearers. They will bear the fruit of the Spirit (the character of God), the fruit of good works, and the fruit of souls won into the kingdom of God. (See John 4:36; Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 5:9, Phillipians 4:17)
2. Spiritually hardy. Olive trees are also very hardy plants that can grow well in rough and rocky terrain. So the children of the righteous should be very capable- though the grace of God- to handle the rough, rocky territory they face in live.
3. Anointed. Olive oil is a strong, biblical symbol for the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The anointing is even referred to as “the oil of gladness” (Ps. 45:7, Heb 1:9) and the “oil of joy” (Isa. 61:3). So God is promising that the children of the righteous will be producers of the anointing-that they will manifest the power of God as they minister the truth to others.
PRAYER DECLARATION
Lord God, on the basis of Psalm 128:3, I pray that my child will be like an olive plant at my table, that Joshua will bear much fruit, and be a blessing to others and a praise to God in the earth. If he/she faces rough and rocky places in life, I believe my child will be able to endure with your help. I confess that the “oil of gladness” (the anointing of the Holy Spirit) will flow though Joshua powerfully to extend the Kingdom of God in this world. I speak these things knowing that Your Word will not return void. It will accomplish what You have declared. In the name of Jesus, amen (LET IT BE SO)!