FRUITFUL BRANCH(trial)

Anna the prophetess though a widow, she allowed her self and circumstance to be used of God to bring Him fruit. She used her widowhood
in praying the messiah to being. She prayed and fasted all day. She blessed many generations to come by birthing the Messiah in the
place of prayer. See Luke 2:36-38
Mary of Bethany was the sister of Martha and Lazarus. She took and broke her alabaster jar on Jesus. This was a very expensive ointment
which she might have been saving money to buy. Her action caused indignation in the hearts of the disciples especially Judas. An opportunity
arose for the high priest to lay hold on Jesus. Her action led our master to glory. Even though some translation says “a sinful
woman” yet she left behind her sinful life and took her alabaster jar and went to break it at the feet of Jesus. She took her careless and sinful
lifestyle to the saviour. She opened it up before the master without reservation. Jesus said “ I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached
throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.” Matt 26:13.
See Matt26:1-13, Mark 14:3-11, Luke 7:37-38. Mary of Bethany today is a fruitful branch. If she had not broken the jar there may have
been no indignation amongst the disciples and Judah may not have gone quickly to arrange Jesus’ death with the high priest.
Treasure Magazine
ISSUE 01 JUNE 2015
WOMAN
-THE FRUITFUL BRANCH
Saphira a wife and a church member who could have brought fruit in her very home and relationship with her husband as she agrees with
her husband to live a life of truthfulness which would save her self and her husband from untimely death failed to do so. She and her husband
died untimely. See Acts 5:1-10
Sister, what will be your own story when you leave and even now that you are still alive? God’s plan is that we bear fruit all seasons, whether
we are old or young, our lives must bring Him fruit. Ps 1:3, Jer 17:7-8.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so
easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. Heb12:1-2
The plan and desire of God in the beginning was “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply…..” Gen1: 28. That is
still His desire for us till today.
When the master demanded fruit from the fig tree in Mark 11:12-14 and the tree had no fruit; the tree was cursed never to bear fruit again.
May that not be your portion. He created you to bear fruit to His glory.
Also in Luke 13:5-7, Jesus told a story of a man who had a fig tree and went to look for fruit on it and there was none. His command was
“Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?' I hope you are not just occupying seat? The time is still on your side, arise and bear fruit unto
the Lord that it may be said of you that you are a fruitful branch.
As you begin to bear fruit beware of things that may hinder you from bearing more fruit. These include; not abiding in Christ, Unbelief,
when you do it yourself and your way, when you no longer see the father, Jesus said I do what I see the father do.
It is a blessing to be fruitful and it will be a curse to be unfruitful. May grace and mercy be released unto you to go and bring forth fruit in
the place God has placed you as your place of assignment, either in the home, workplace, community, church and generation.
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. Gn 9:7
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ut fruits worthy of honour. We did not hear that she left the menial job she used to do having being made a deacon and now decides
to sit in the seat of honour allocated to ministers, but she served the church.
Sister can your pastor commend you to another church? Or you are just a casual church goer? Can other brethren in your fellowship
sincerely commend you to another person without fear that you might disgrace them? Sister Phoebe knew that her part of the body of
Christ was her location and she brought forth fruit gloriously unto the Lord. She never demanded for honour, but another man was
asking men to honour her because of her deeds (fruits). Reward her for all she has done. Let her deeds publicly declare her praise. Prov31:31
A branch is any member or part of a body or system or a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant. A
Branch does not sustain on its own. It derives nourishment from the vine.
Every Christian woman is first a branch of Jesus {See John 15}. If married, she is also a branch to her husband and if single she is a
branch to the leadership God has placed her under either at home or at church. It is the desire of Christ for her to bringforth fruit. See
John15:1-5.
A branch can not do anything without the help of the vine. Infact the branch depends on the vine for its daily provision. It is as the
branch receives nourishment from the vine that it gets strength and all it needs to be fruitful. A branch that has been severed from the
vine can not bring forth fruit as it will wither away.
Some branches may accidentally get torn a bit from the vine but if quickly attended to would get amended and stay joined together
again to the vine so that it may bringforth fruit.
So, my sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we
might bear fruit to God. Romans 7:4
The implication of this death to the law is that you must now be attached to the vine who will nourish you with all you need to bear
fruit. Are you attach or detach from the vine?
Therefore God is expecting from your life the fruit of:
a. Repentance Matt 3:8, Amos 6:12
b. Righteousness Heb12:11, 1 John 3:7, Is 3217, Matt 5:16, Ps 92:12-end, Phil 1:11, James 3:18
c. The Holy Spirit Gal5:22-24,
d. Souls
e. Maturity 1 peter 2:1-3,
f. Fruit unto holiness and life
g. Fruit of the gospel: Rom1:13, Col1:6
h. The womb “Sing, O childless woman, you who have never given birth! Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem, you who have never been in labor.
For the desolate woman now has more children than the woman who lives with her husband,” says the LORD. Is 54:1.
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the c flocks of thy sheep. Deuteronomy
28:4
Priscilla– as a minister and a minister’s wife
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus. They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to
them. Greet also the church that meets at their house.Romans16:3-5
Sister Priscilla was just a believer like you and I. Brother Paul testified that she and her husband risked their lives for him and even all the
churches of the gentiles. She made her home a church unto the people of the Lord. Whenever an emergency meeting erupt and they
call Sister Priscilla to host them, she’ll joyfully agree with her husband to host the brethren. She made her home a church for the brethren.
If brethren asked your permission to come and meet in your house would you not say, they will mess up your house? Remember a
church meets in Sister Priscilla’s house. She was a fruitful branch unto the lord and the brethren in her days.
What shall we say about women like:
Hannah, who was taunted to the point of leaving her location but stayed despite the wind that was blowing in her home, she remained
fixed to the Lord.
She was married to a man who carry in his loin a notable prophet. Her husband has a second wife who had already given him sons, yet
in the record of God Prophet Samuel was to come through his loins. Brother Elkanah has settled down for the sons given to him by
Peninah. This man called Elkanah was from Ephrata which means fruitful. Hannah in perseverance and being focused on what God can
do bringforth Samuel, the prophet Israel ever needed. She was a fruitful branch as there is no way you will mention Samuel and not
mention Hannah and Elkanah who was the dad.
Naomi who was once a withered branch but reconnected her self back to the Lord and she became fruitful in disciplining Ruth and
even carrying in her hands, one of the great grandfathers of our Lord Jesus Christ. Are you withered as well, battered by the problems
of life? Christ can give you hope again. He said "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” Mat11:28. If you return
to him he will cause your withered branch to bring forth fruit again. Return back to the Lord as Naomi did, though she left her place of Assignment
due to circumstances of life but she returned and she later became a fruitful branch. Ruth 1, 4.
Esther who as a wife saved her husband from killing God’s own people by signing an ungodly decree and she also brought deliverance
to her nation (the Jew). She did not have Access to a man she married, her people were subject to sudden destruction, but yet she submitted
to the law that whosoever appear before the king without been summoned shall die. She let go of her pursuit. She realised that
that was her place of Assignment and she arose to do the work appointed to her by the Lord. She became a fruitful branch indeed before
God and before her people. See Esther3, 4, 5
It has always been God’s plan for the life of each woman to bear the above fruits. Many women of old bore it through their abiding in
God. Their lives are still speaking to us in our days.
We’ll trust the Lord to speak to us once again from His word as we look closely into the matter. We’ll look at the scripture below to
grasp an understanding of what the Lord is saying to us.
Then Moses led the people of Israel away from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the Shur desert. They traveled in this desert for three days without water.
When they came to Marah, they finally found water. But the people couldn’t drink it because it was bitter. (That is why the place was called Marah, which
means “bitter”) Then the people turned against Moses. “What are we going to drink?” they demanded. So Moses cried out to the LORD for help, and the
LORD showed him a branch. Moses took the branch and threw it into the water. This made the water good to drink. Exod 15:22-25a. NLT
There are two issues in this short story that I’ll want us to look at carefully. First is the bitter water and secondly the branch.
Namman’s wife Maid who though in captivity did not cease revealing her God to gentiles. She referred her master’s husband
(Namman) to her God who was working through the life of Elisha. She did not see the fact that she was taken as a slave to a foreign
land as an unfair thing from God but she saw Aram and even the house of Namman as her place of assignment unto the Lord and she
brought forth fruit unto the Lord. She was a branch in God that was located to Aram. Slavery is only a means to lead her to her place
of assignment. Circumstance did not stop her to be fruitful by bringing a soul to the Lord. By her pointing to her master Elisha the man
of God, do you that the man vowed never to worship his former god anymore but the living God – the God of Israel. See 2 King 5:1-
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Tabitha who was fruitful in the hand of the Lord to her community, she cared for the widows and the needy in her community. Even
after her death, her works still praised her.
Tabitha was placed in her community which was God’s location for her fruitfulness and she did not fail God but brought forth fruit gloriously.
See Acts 9:36-41.
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The way God’s eyes go thro and fro so also is Satan walking all over to take somebody. “Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan.
Satan answered the Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.” Job 1:7
The prince of Shechem had been patrolling the street. Perhaps that is what he does to ladies in that country. His assignment is to go all
over the street seeking for ladies to take into captivity. The next thing that happened to Dinah having being seen by the prince of Shechem
was that she was captured by this prince. He did not just see her and take her eyes off her but captured her.
How many sisters have been captured by immorality because of a one day trial of what is not right? Some secretly engaged in films that
will capture their mind for the devil. Some will watch programme that will capture their fashion taste after the world. Some have been
captured in immoral relationship with a man they are not married to. Some are captured by HIV virus because they only want to try intercourse
with a man they are engaged or not engaged with once; some were captured with unwanted pregnancy while their day of wedding
is set. Dinah was captured by the prince of the country.
The prince of Shechem took Dinah. Dinah was never his but because Dinah left her area of operation and went to seek for friendship
with the devil; she became a prey for the prince of Shechem. Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity
with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. James 4:4.
Lay with her
Having laid his hands on Dinah, he did not just let him go just like that. He lay with her as there was no one to rescue her. If she was in
her home there would have been someone there and she could have been rescued from the hands of the prince. This is exactly how Satan
operates in the lives of any one he laid his hands on. He must lay with such a person. He will not just let such a person go free. If
you go out to borrow the ideas of the world the enemy will take you over and lay with you. Look at Isaiah 14:17 the man who made the world
a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?
And defiled her
The prince of Shechem did not just lay with Dinah but he defiled her. Dinah wanted to be an explorer. She was captured and her life
was never the same. The prince of Shechem put her in a state of defilement. She brought total shame and bitterness to the whole family.
She could have been save from all these if she had stayed within the measure that her parent put her.
Sister, are you within the circumference of the word of God? Any life that takes any other measure like men’s philosophy will end up
been defiled. Human philosophy says “hook your self with any man, if he’s not a believer, you’ll turn him to be a believer having gotten
married to him”. This is a big lie. Many tried it and they have the devil as their in-law every day. Such ladies are beaten day by day by
their husband. Some were used as an element of getting citizenship and later on disposed. Even the further step of the prince of Shechem
to marry Dinah was that of deceit. It was to take the livestock and property of Dinah’s family. [See verse 20- 23].
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain
in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. John15:5-6
Dinah went on an exploit outside the plan of God for her life, but the prince of Shechem turned her exploit to a bitter one.
If you read the whole story of Gen 34 you’ll see how the plight of Dinah brought a total grief and fury to the family.
Now Jacob's sons had come in from the fields as soon as they heard what had happened. They were filled with grief and fury, because Shechem had done a disgraceful
thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter— a thing that should not be done. Gen34:7.
May the Lord help your heart to stay within His word as therein is your success in life. Let Psalms 91 minister to your soul, open your
Bible and read it, mediate on it as we round up Dinah a woman who was destined for fruitfulness, we never heard of her anymore after
chapter 34 of Genesis. May yours never be so in Jesus name. Amen! Dwell in God’s secret place and it shall sure be well with your soul.
Phoebe as a Deacon in the church
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deacon in the church in Cenchrea. Welcome her in the Lord as one who is worthy of honor among God’s people.
Help her in whatever she needs, for she has been helpful to many, and especially to me. Roman 16:1-2
This sister called Phoebe is not frequently spoken of in women’s meetings yet she was a fruitful branch. She was a servant of the church
according to NIV. She was a deacon but yet served the church. She did not bear title but rather served lives. Brother Paul was able to
commend her to other people by the virtue of the fruit her life has brought forth. He asked others to welcome her as one worthy of
honour amongst God’s people.
Looking at our days can we still see Deacons who can be commended like these to others? We are in a time that every one wants to be
the boss. Every woman wants to be a visioneeer, president of women’s group and many names as such. Her title was not what she bore
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The bitter water
The children of Idrael had miraculously delivered from slavery and had journed in the wilderness
for 3 days without water. I am sure they would be so desperarte to drink anything that comes their
way.
At such a desperate time, they came in contact with the water in Marah. They were so hopeful, but
by the time they tasted the water it was not drinkable. What a great disappoint!
From the above scriptures, the place where the water was, was called Marah because of the bitter
water. What is the place where you are called? What is your home, workplace, church and community called? Is it named after the type of
fruit that is coming forth out of your life?
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What is the meaning of bitter? To be grievous; distressful, causing pain; piercing; stinging, and resentful.
Jesus is the branch that was thrown into our lives when we were yet bitter water. His death will be of no use in your life if by now you still
remain bitter. Having changed our lives from bitter water, Christ’s desire is to see us bringing forth sweetness into the lives of the many
whose lives are bitter. Could it be that men are still asking “what are we going to drink” while you are there?
Are you not bitter as a single woman because of your past experience with a brother? Are you not bitter water as a mother to your children?
When they have faced pressure at school and now come back home to drink of your life, do they drink patience, encouragement, or
anger? Hope you are not bitter water as wife to your husband? When the man comes home from work to rest, do you welcome him with
hundreds of wrongs that he did.
Do you remember that the woman of Sycar was bitter water? The master asked her “give me a drink”, the drink she could offer Christ then
was from her bitter experiences of life which formed her response to Jesus’ demand. What has made you bitter water? The master is here
again through this article to change you from bitter water to sweet one. Please open up your heart to Him.
Now to the second issue God want to raise with our lives from the scripture above as we look at the branch in the scripture as well.
The branch
God having led the Israelites out of slavery and crossed them over the Red sea with a mighty hand now took them through the desert for
some days and there was no water and the people were thirsty. Now getting to a place where water was, the water
they found was bitter. God could have asked Moses to stretch his hands over the water, or speak into the
water or stretch his rod towards the water in order to make the water of Marah sweet, as he did on the
Red sea but instead God showed him a branch. I believe there are lessons that the Lord wants to teach us
beyond just turning bitter water to sweet one.
The branch in this scripture was commissioned by God to bring forth fruit at a speculated time. The plan
of God was that this branch will sweeten the water of Marah so that the children of Israel will be able to
drink after a very thirsty journey. Remember, God knows what will happen in many years to come. Here is
God’s plan - The branch was only assigned to bring sweetness to Marah while Marah was to quench the thirst of the Israelites.
The branch was faithful in that which God had assigned her. God, who is all knowing, knew before hand that the children of Israel will
pass through this desert and they will be thirsty, therefore He prepared a branch in Him to go and stay there till the time when the Israelites
will pass through that place. As far as heaven was concerned that desert was the branch’s place of assignment.
As we go further in this study I’ll be referring to the branch in this scripture as Sister Rose. There are many issues the Lord will be bringing
to our attention, don’t hesitate to respond to the Lord as you come across issues pertaining to your life. May the Lord do beyond what
any man can do for you in Jesus name Amen! We’ll take a look at various issues step by step.
Location
In bringing forth fruit, a seed must be planted in the right soil – I’ll refer to the soil as our place of location. As you know a fruitful tree
will only grow on a loamy soil and not on clay soil.
This branch {Sister Rose} in the above scripture was in her place of assignment. She persevered, even though there was no sign that she
will one day fulfil her assignment, which is sweetening Marah for many lives to drink from. Wind must have blown to take the branch away
from its place of assignment, but she was rooted in the one who put her in that desert. This branch could have been in a lonely spot,
where no one was there to encourage her but she enjoyed a cordial relationship with God and she understood that those who were
with her are greater than those on the other side.
Sister Rose [the branch] may have been hearing of another branch [sister] that used to be part of the vine that was
sent to a particular location which is now bringing forth fruit abundantly. This could have shifted Sister Rose’ focus,
but she understood that that was where God has assigned her to stay regardless of the prevailing circumstances.
Many women in the church have been swayed away from the Lord and their place of assignment because of the
wind of fashion. They felt they could not continue to be where they are because of what other sisters were wearing

where they fellowship is not what they have been able to wear. Some left what God had called them to do and jumped into works that the
master never commanded them to do.
Some have deserted their marriage because of the wind of barreness or financial difficulty.
Some married women would compare themselves to sisters whom they both got married at the same time and now prospering financially
because of the type of man they married to?
God has placed you in that man’s life to bring forth fruit. Where sister A is, is different from where you are placed, the wisdom as to how
to operate in your home should be derived from God and not another married woman.
As a single woman comparing yourself to other sisters whom you used to be singles together before who are now married will not cause
you to be fruitful. God owns your life and knows the set time when you’ll enter into marriage as the branch in this scripture entered and
fulfilled her purpose.
As some women were blown away from their place of assignment because of wind, so also did some women leave their marriage because
of dryness which could be due to childlessness or because the state of their husband’s finance was not satisfying.
Many women have moved from one marriage to another seeking for a bed of roses, you hear such women saying, “Marriage is to be enjoyed
and not to endure”. The enjoyment they are speaking of is that of pleasure.
Enduring financial hardship with their husband is a taboo. Some formed a club to support women and encourage women to leave their
marriage and escape to the land of pleasure. You must know that God has placed you in your home as a wife and a mother, in your locality
or church, to bring forth fruit to His glory. It is your God ordained task to be in your marriage and therefore seek God’s face for strength.
She girds herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] and makes her arms strong and firm. Prov 31:17Amp
Connected for a purpose
The destiny of this branch [Sister Rose] was connected to the water of Marah. If the branch was no more there Marah would have been
bitter for life, it would have been recorded to date “and the children of Israel could not drink of Marah water because nothing could make
it sweet.”
The branch {Sister Rose} could have been going up and down doing many things while her divine purpose in life would have been unfulfilled.
She could have been known all over the world saying she’s flourishing while as far as heaven is concerned her space is vacant and unfulfilled.
Bear in mind that it is God who can connect you to what and who will cause you to enter into your purpose in life either as a single or married
woman. God connected this branch to the water for a divine purpose - quenching of the Israelites thirst. At the set time, she was introduced
to the one [Moses] who will help her to fulfill her plan in life.
God was the one who orchestrated events that brought about the ushering of this branch into her season of fulfilment.
If God has assigned you a portion, wait on Him and at the set time, He will arrange events that will usher you into the destiny He has prepared
for you.
I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for. Jer 29: 11GNB.
The Lord shew Moses the branch
The Lord showed the branch to Moses because the branch was still connected to the vine. John15:1-8. If the branch had wandered away at
a time when heaven wants to release her into her purpose on earth that would have been an everlasting failure for the branch. This branch
was at her place of posting and God was able to show her to who will introduce her to fulfilling that which she was created to do.
She did not go about seeking for connection from one women’s conference to another nor from meetings to meetings. All she did was to
stay at the place of posting and commune with her maker. She was at the right place at the right time. Before you move further in reading
this article, are you still at your place of posting? God will only show you to those whom He has connected to your destiny as long as you
remain at the place He assigned you.
Even at a time when winds are blowing against you at your workplace, marriage, church or ministry, do not leave when God has not yet
asked you to? If He appointed you to that place He will sustain you in every time of storms and winds. Wind and storm are temporal. No
matter how powerful a storm is, it never last long. I can assure you that whatever storm or wind that have cone upon you at your place of
location will not ruin you but will make and prepare you for the day of the fulfilment of God’s plan for your life.
The Bible declares in John 1 that God created everything through our Lord Jesus. Why? In verse 1 we are told “in the beginning the Word already
existed, the Word was with God, and the Word was God”. John 1:1.
The word [Jesus] was with God. If he had wandered about, will everything be created by him? So also God was able to show Moses the
branch at the desert because the branch was still in Christ. “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce
much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5.NLT.
Rebecca only came to the well to fetch water and not to meet a suitor or get prepared for marriage. I want you to know that she
must have been of marriageable age if not so she wouldn’t have been given into marriage by her parents. She was indeed due for
marriage, but circumstances were arranged to prove her worthy and she passed.
Have you being crying and lamenting that God if you do not settle my marriage this year, I won’t serve you anymore or I won’t
marry again? It’s as if you are threatening God. God is surely faithful. Are you a woman God can give out into marriage?
God took Rebecca to her place {Location} of fruitfulness and connected her divinely like the branch in Exodus 15:25. Rebecca
became a fruitful woman because that’s God’s plan for her, but yet she fulfilled the part she ought to fulfil.
Have you been waiting on God for a husband? God’s standard is still sure; He will surely come to prove if you are fit and ready
and qualify for the man He intends to take you to. Being available as a single woman for a man to marry is not enough. Fitness is
also considered. Do not continue to delay your marriage. Availability and fitness for the master’s use is the key word. Consider your
self. Can you boldly say I’m a woman of Rebecca’s calibre?
Bear it in mind that every man has a quality they want to see in their wives as they seek God for the right wife as we see in the case
of Eleazar on behalf of Isaac. Look at what he prayed for; And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher,
I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant
Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
Eleazar asked for a woman who will let down her pitcher. A woman who will feed the camels as well. Rebecca did more than she
was requested. Go and do likewise and may you not miss your own time of divine fruitfulness in Jesus name. Amen!
Dinah – as a young woman
And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the
daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
Gen 30:21, 34:1-2.
Dinah like we all know was the only daughter of Jacob. She was the last born of Leah. She must have been pampered by her mum,
dad and brothers as the only gril in the family of 13.She may have been used to a life style of men and she desire to have a taste of
a friendship with the daughters of the land.
Dinah was destined for fruitfulness like all her brother we still hear of all her brothers today.
Let’s look at what happen as she went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her
As we discovered earlier in Exodus 25 that there is a location for every one of us to function that we may bring forth fruit to the
Lord. The enemy also has its own location for every one he wants to use. Remember Satan duplicates whatever God does.
Dinah left her place of allocation and the devil connected her with his emissary - the prince of Shechem.
Dinah’s first time of trying it out changed her story from good to worst. She couldn’t get to see daughters of the land that she desired
to see as the prince of Shechem was the one who saw her. Dinah’s first trip to see the daughters of the land landed her in the
hand of the prince of Shechem. If Dinah was in her parent’s home the prince of Shechem couldn’t have seen her, he had no access
to come into the house where Dinah stayed. Dinah could not reach her desired destination (Daughters of the land). What
about you sister?
It pains my heart when I see ladies who are believers and decided to go and make friends with ladies who are not believers. Perhaps
because they feel bored or want to be reckon with. Such was the case of Dinah. She might have been tired of been the only
girl in the midst of twelve boys and desire a girl friend who can teach and talk to her about her ladies stuff.
Who is your friend? A believer or an unbeliever? Do you not know “Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be
a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14.
Have you decided to go and make friends with sisters outside Christ? You felt sisters in your fellowship are not good enough to
relate with or perhaps they are not social enough to your own standard.
Dinah had a woman in her house (her mum) but grown tired of relating with her mum every time. Perhaps she will say “Mum is
an old school”. Mum can not understand what is happening in our own days. Therefore she sought for friendship amongst girls in
the town.
He took her
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Drink my Lord
Her lip was a tool that aligns with the plan of God. From the fruit of his lips a man is filled with good things as surely as the work of his hands rewards
him. Proverbs 12:14. Remember the woman Jesus met at the well in Sychar. Her lips were questioning and querying our Lord Jesus.
But as for Rebecca she referred to a total stranger as her lord. She did not see it as belittling herself by calling this man “my lord”. She
was a woman of inner character. Though she was quite beautiful, yet her beauty was not on her head, she put her beauty aside and revered
a man she’d never met all her life.
Many are single women who move from one prayer house to another, they have been anointed over and over again; they have gone
through series of deliverance session yet no husband. You’ll hear them say is it that I’m not beautiful enough? Is it clothing that I do
not have? Many single sisters of a marriageable age have driven away men who could have married them because of high-mindedness.
When men approach them the first thing they do is to look at the man from head to toe, most especially if the man is below their standard
the man becomes an object of scorn.
The fruit of Rebecca’s lips was pleasing unto the Lord. She was kind to a man she never met all her life. She openeth her mouth with wisdom;
and in her tongue is the law of kindness.Prov31:26
Sister! Rebecca was a beautiful woman, yet she did not settle down on her beauty but she was a woman of noble character. Beauty is
nothing. Your taste for expensive clothes and ornament is not a prerequisite for the man God intends to give you to marry. But let it be
the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.1 Peter3:4
She let down her pitcher
Rebecca did not argue or prove anything to this man but she let down her pitcher which could be her career, her disposition, her certificate
to honour the request of a total stranger. If you were caught in a situation like this will you act likewise? How many women
have, because of pride missed God’s sent husband for their lives? Their career will not allow them to bend down to the demand of any
body.
Rebecca let down her pitcher. That word “let” means she allowed her pitcher and gave the man drink. She did not just show off her
pitcher to the man and then walk away. She allowed herself to be a slave to a stranger not knowing that she was meeting the criteria this
man had prayed to God for. She could have struggled with this man like the woman of Sychar, but she did not.
I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
Look at her; she was ready not to just serve the man but to extend her hand to the camels as well. She was ready to be hospitable to
any relation of her husband regardless of who they are. Did you know that camels can drink gallons of water? They are very demanding.
Rebecca proved that she will meet the demands of all family and friends of her husband. She volunteered herself to go many
rounds, draw water from the well and gave the man’s camel while the man who should have got up and help her to fetch the water sat
down making demands.
She could have said to the man that “don’t you know that a woman is a weaker vessel. You are supposed to treat me as delicate while
you get up and help me to fetch the water like Moses did to the daughters of the priest of Midian.” Rather Rebecca saw the need of
Eleazar and went all the way to meet that need. She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy. Prov 31:20
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough
Rebecca hastened as if that was her duty. She performed that duty not as unto a stranger but as unto the Lord. This shows the type of
woman she was in the home. She is a helper in the home to her parents; therefore it was not difficult for her to help outside.
She emptied her pitcher into the trough. Sister what is your own pitcher? Would you not empty it? Stop carrying about the pitcher of
tradition, tribe, and beauty, past experience or relationship, which has been hindering you from receiving a husband from God. Rebecca
emptied her own pitcher.
Do you know that is what literally happens when a woman gets married? She emptied her maiden name, her past dispossession and
buries herself inside her husband. Would you not empty your own pitcher? Rebecca was a woman who was ready for marriage not just
by age but by character. Her action portrays to Eleazar that Rebecca will submit her self to Isaac.
She was an industrious woman. No task is too big for her to handle. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. Prov31:17
No matter what you are facing presently in your life whether marital, emotional, financial or vocational, could it be that they are
paths to you entering into that which has been written concerning you? May He who is the gardener (God) guide you through life
and cause you to walk with Him as you remain joined to Christ who is the vine in Jesus Name.
As we go further in this article I trust the Lord to open our eyes to some few women in the Bible and our contemporary time who
God commissioned as a branch to bring forth fruit. Some were able to bring forth the fruit according to the plan of God while
some couldn’t.
Our desire this time is to look at the lives of these women to see what makes them to be branches that brought forth fruit. Some
failed initially but they repented and God empowered them to bring forth fruit according to His plan.
Some of these women brought forth fruit in their homes as wives, mothers, and single women. Some to their nation, their community,
their generation and many generations to come. We’ll see some of the principles we saw in the branch in Exod 15:22-25a,
which are a location, connection and shown by God and above all bringing forth fruit as a branch. May heaven speak to your heart
as we study together in Jesus name Amen!
Eve- as a wife in the home
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the
field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist
from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst
of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to
keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the
air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And
Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And
the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib,
which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and
flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave
unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Now the serpent was more subtil than
any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat of it; neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die: For God
doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that
the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and
gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and
his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto
him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, who told
thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, the woman whom
thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, what is this that thou hast done? And the
woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all
cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Gen 2:1, 5-9, 15-25, 3:1-15
When God finished the creation of heaven and earth. He did not Rain upon the earth because there was not yet a man to till the
ground. This is what usually happens if God has not yet found a man for Himself. He made man (Adam) and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Afterwards He planted a garden and He put man (Adam) in the Garden
of Eden. In the garden were various trees and fruits for Adam to eat from and also in this garden was the forbidden tree as well.
God who created the garden for Adam to stay and work in gave Adam the rule that binds his stay in the garden.
God now looked at Adam and saw that it was not good for him to be alone. Therefore God made every beast of the field and
every fowl of the air from the ground and brought them to Adam but none was suitable to be Adam’s helper. Remember that
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Adam, the birds and beast were made from the same material – dust. But there was something that distinguished Adam from these creatures.
That is the breath of God that is in Adam.
God now had to put Mr Adam to sleep to bring out Sister Eve, who was to be the suitable helper. She can not be compared to the birds
and the beast that was formed from the ground. God was to see fruitfulness in the Garden of Eden and for this to fully take place through
the life of Adam by tending and caring for this garden that was full of different trees, fruits and animals, a helper was surely needed.
What God made in Eve was a suitable helper. If it’s just a helper, God could have just handed the birds and the beast to Adam to help in
one form or the other, remember God brought the birds and the beast to Adam to see what he will call them. Perhaps he might call them
helper because they were made from the ground like him. But God went an extra mile to make a suitable helper.
Eve was in her place of Assignment [Eden]. God has put into Eve what she needs to help her not to eat the forbidden fruit. We can literally
say that Eve was Adam’s missing rib. When she was brought to Adam, he exclaimed “this is the bone of my bone and flesh of my
flesh”. Her location was Eden which was her matrimonial home and she was to help her husband in tending the Garden of Eden and not
to enter into friendship with the serpent. Moreover she was capable of sending the serpent away from destroying the plan of God for her
husband. God packaged her to be fruitful in the purpose of God for her husband.
Women are easy to make friends with but you have to consider what type of friendship you are entering into. Friends that could have easily
taken you away from the plan of God with great ideology and philosophy. Friends who could have said to you; is this what you are accepting
from that man? I can’t take that, my husband knows me. These are serpents whose job is to take you away from your place of assignment.
If all the women on your street are your friends not for the purposes of drawing them to the Lord but to compare and contrast with one
another. Then refrain from them. If one will come and say I’ve bought the most recent bag in town and you will jump out to go and seek
for the most recent than that in order to be wiser than your friends. Beware for such was the relationship of Eve and the serpent.
What could have come upon Eve, who was meant to be a suitable helper? Could it be that she wasn’t studying and meditating on God’s
word? OR could it be that she had been carried away with the splendour of the garden and thereby omitted her purpose in the garden,
which was to help her husband to tend and care for the garden. Her job was to watch prayerfully and send the serpent away to where it
came from.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 1 Peter 5:8.
The serpent in the Garden of Eden was seeking for whom it may devour and Eve allowed herself to be devoured. Sister Eve’s friendship
with the serpent brought her to the place of believing what the serpent says and not the instruction that the Lord gave her husband. She
chose to believe whatever works, even if it’s not biblical. She ate the fruit because it will make her wise. This is an issue with the women
folk; many are seeking for financial, emotional, spiritual, and marital wisdom at the detriment of their primary purpose in life. Eve ate the
fruit and gave to her husband and that was the end of their stay in their place of assignment.
Sister what are you entangled with? What is the basis of your job and friendship with those groups of ladies? Is it to be better off? Why
your sudden pursuit of a new career? Is it to fulfill the plan of God for your life or to be wiser than your friends, in-laws or even husband?
Eve was brought to Adam’s life as a fruitful branch but she could not fulfill the reason why she was created. Are you still fulfilling the will
of God in your home? Eve ended up in a place lower than where God placed her, she was sent packing from her place of assignment. She
still lived on earth after that incidence but her husband’s place in God’s agenda was discarded. Consider your relationship now. Are they relationships
that will build you up in God and help you to fulfill the reason why you are made a woman? Eve lived on but not in God’s plan
for her. Consider your steps. Where will they land you? Inside or outside God’s purpose for your life? Every wise woman buildeth her house: but
the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. Prov14:1.
Rebecca - as a single woman
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house,
that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the
earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred,
and take a wife unto my son Isaac. And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs
bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest? And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again. The LORD
God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed
will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee,
then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again. And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware
to him concerning that matter. And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he
arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor. And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening,
even the time that women go out to draw water. And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness
unto my master Abraham. Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: And let it come to
pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let
the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. And it came to pass, be-
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fore he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher
upon her shoulder. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher,
and came up. And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher. And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted,
and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they
have done drinking. And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels. And the
man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking,
that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; And said, whose daughter art thou? Tell
me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto
Nahor. She said moreover unto him, we have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the
LORD. And he said blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way,
the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren. And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things. And Rebekah had a brother,
and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands,
and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the
well. And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. And the man
came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with
him. And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. And he said, I am Abraham's
servant. And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants,
and maidservants, and camels, and asses. And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he
hath. And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell: But thou shalt go
unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son. And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me. And he said
unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my
father's house: Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath. And
I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go: Behold, I stand by the well of water;
and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink; And she
say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son. And before
I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto
her, Let me drink, I pray thee. And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I
drank, and she made the camels drink also. And I asked her, and said, whose daughter art thou? And she said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom
Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands. And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and
blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son. And now if ye will deal
kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, the
thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good. Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife,
as the LORD hath spoken. And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth. And
the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, send me away unto my master.
And her brother and her mother said, let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go. And he said unto them, Hinder me not,
seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master. And they said, we will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth. And they
called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's
servant, and his men. And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the
gate of those which hate them. And Rebekah arose, and her damsels and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and
went his way. Gen 24:21-61
The heart of Abraham is the heart of every believing parent for their children. All godly parents want their children to marry from the
household of faith. Abraham now made his servant to swear an oath that he will seek for his son- Isaac a woman from his town - Nahor.
His desire was that his son Isaac will not marry a Canaanite woman. The servant agreed to follow the instructions of Abraham and therefore
he sojourned to Nahor. He did not have the name of a particular woman in mind but he prayed that the Lord will direct his step to
bring about the desire of his master.
Why could it be that Rebecca was the lady that fell into the desire of Abraham for his son? Any lady could have fallen into it.
Remember that it was evening and all the young women started coming out to fetch water. Rebecca excelled among the many young
women who were coming down to the well to fetch water. She was a woman of noble character.
Are you at an age that men termed evening and therefore you can not meet the husband God has ordained for you? All the other young
girls came out at evening time as well as Rebecca did. The age a young woman is will not stop God from releasing her into marriage as long
as she’s found worthy.
The servant may have asked the other young girls for water and they refused him, saying how dare you ask me for water, like the woman of
Sychar, therefore they miss a divine privilege of being taken as wife unto Isaac. Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Prov31:10
Eleazar asked Rebecca “Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher”. Rebecca said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon
her hand, and gave him drink. Let’s consider some lessons from the life of Rebecca
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