"And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.'"

The very first command God ever spoke to humanity was not about worship, not about prayer, and not about sacrifice. The first command was to multiply.

Before any law was written, before any covenant was cut, before any prophet ever opened their mouth... God looked at the man and woman He had just formed in His own image and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth." That was the assignment, and it came before sin ever entered the picture.

Here's what I see. Multiplication is not something God thought of later. It was the original thought. It was the first assignment given to the first humans in the first garden on the first day of their existence. So when we talk about multiplying, we are not talking about a church growth strategy or a clever new initiative. We are talking about the oldest command in the entire Bible.

And this command didn't stop in Genesis. God promised to multiply Adam in creation, Noah after the flood, Abram at ninety years old, Isaac the son of promise, and Jacob the one who stole a birthright. God promised to multiply Israel in Egypt when they were outside the land of promise, in the wilderness when they were under judgment, and in Canaan so they could take possession of the land. Multiplication was the vehicle that overthrew the most powerful civilizations the ancient world had ever known. And when the early church began to expand across the Roman Empire, the book of Acts tells us "the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem" (Acts 6:7).

This is not a new idea. It is the oldest idea in the Bible, running from the first chapter of Genesis to the final chapters of Acts.

Now watch this... to multiply is to walk in both the command and the blessing of God simultaneously. It's not one or the other. It's not just receiving what God gives and holding on to it, but receiving what God gives, extending it forward, and watching it produce beyond what you could have ever done on your own.

And that is incredible, because it means multiplication is not about how gifted you are or how large your platform happens to be. It is about whether you are willing to take what God has already given you and put it into motion. Right now the question is not whether God has blessed you. He has. The real question is what you are doing with that blessing.

Because if multiplication is God's first command, then it is also His first expectation. It's not about growth... it's about governance. God gave the command to multiply because multiplication was the means by which His image bearers would subdue the earth and exercise dominion over it. The goal was never simply more people. T

Identify one area of your life where God has clearly blessed you and ask Him to show you one person you can invest that blessing into this week. Don't wait for the perfect plan. Just take the first step.