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Taking Charge Of 2020
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by Detrick Redding
re you sacrificing your comfort to obtain your
already ordained us to do. This charge is still in place.
goals? Or are you sacrificing your goals to
It’s good to be fruitful, it’s good to multiply, it’s good to
obtain your comfort?
replenish, it’s good to subdue, and it’s good to take our
The process of GROWTH requires SACRIFICE!
dominion. Therefore, passivity for the believer is really
What are you sacrificing for the process of your
a denial of what God has for us. Let’s look at these a
GROWTH toward your ultimate goals?
little in detail.
As we step into a new year, a new decade, a new day, we really need to evaluate ourselves and our
What does it mean to be fruitful? To be fruitful is to reproduce in abundance on behalf of the Kingdom of God: plenteous and abundant in the things of God. What about to multiply? To multiply is to increase on a larger scale than normal. To replenish? This means to fill up or to refill, to bring life back to what’s dead. What about subdue? This is to bring under order, refusing to allow wilderness. And to understand dominion simply means to take authority over. I am well assured that this is convicting and may seem impossible. If God has said it, then it must be possible. Listen, don’t limit these
choices. 2020 is a new opportunity to do new things
words to a narrow place in your life; expand it to your
or to enhance the good things that we are already
world, and expand it to our world. 2020, and even the
doing. God gave Adam a charge found in Genesis 1: He
days to come, are not to wildly take us by storm. We are
commanded him to be fruitful, to multiply, to replenish,
to intercede for our world, declare God’s word over our
to subdue, and to have dominion. As believers, that
world, vote in our world, speak up in our world, and
same charge is in place today.
not be ashamed of the Gospel in our world. This is our
We have the mandate to produce these God
land, and this is our responsibility!
assignments. Ephesians 2:10 also tells us that we are the purpose of good works which God Himself has
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About The Author
the masterpieces of God, recreated in Christ Jesus for
Detrick Redding, born and raised in Rome, Georgia, is a husband to Toris and father to 4 children. Called to pastor at an early age, he currently pastors at Rally Up International Ministries in Rome, Georgia. Detrick has a deep passion for not only seeing people born again, but knowing their true identity and what is made available to all in Jesus Christ.
