GOD Chose You – Be Fruitful

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BILL: That blessing on your life
is about to bring you

restoration. In other words,
stuff that’s been dead or stuff

that’s been stolen that the
blessing that’s on you when you

start operating in it, even
though it looks dead in the

ground, a scent water that means
a drop of water. Well, let’s

substitute the word water for
the word, I can put a drop of

the word on this situation
that thing will live again.

BILL: When Jesus
got into Peter’s boat

and taught and then
had Peter to pull all

those fish in, what did Peter
do with his business after that?

Now, okay. Okay. Okay. All
right. Okay. Don’t want a whole

lot of guessing here. Peter left
everything and followed him.

Exodus chapter 4. Now watch this
what he told Moses because Moses

has got to lead people and they
got to follow Moses. I’m telling

they going to follow you. In
Exodus chapter 4, please. And

verse 17 and thou shall take
this rod, talking to Moses, in

thine hand and where with thou
shall do what? You’re going to

do miracles with this rod. Now
you don’t have a rod like that

you have your words. Let’s look
at Joshua, Joshua chapter 1.

Let’s look at Joshua chapter
1, watch what they’ve said to

Joshua. Now he’s coming after
Moses and Joshua chapter 1 verse

16, and they answered Joshua and
said all that you command us we

will do. And whether soever you
send us, we will go. Watch this.

According as we hearken
unto Moses in all things so we

hearken unto you. Only the Lord
thy God be with you as he was

with Moses. I’m saying that the
knowledge God is giving you is

called grace knowledge. It is
knowledge that doesn’t come by

the senses. Sense knowledge, all
of it comes through work. You

got to work to get it. Usually
it’s sacrifice. It’s usually

people spend a lot of money
and so forth to get all this

education. You’re going to get
knowledge by faith. I’ve got to

come over here because see, I’m
talking about being fruitful.

See you going to bring forth
something that’s not been seen.

And I call it disruptive
innovation. Now, when God is

calling you to do that, let’s go
to John chapter 15 in verse 1,

he says, I am the true vine and
you and thy father is a husband.

And the husband is the one who
takes care of the vine. Every

branch in me that beareth not
fruit. What does he do? He takes

it away. Here’s what he’s
saying. If you got a rose bush

and you get some roses off the
bush for you to get the luster

that the rose bush is to give
you concerning each rose, you’re

going to have to clip some other
roses. God made it that way.

That for the Lester to come out
of your life, something’s going

to have to be clipped. I’m
talking about being fruitful.

Now, let’s put the next verse,
put that same verse up there.

Let me finish that. And he says,
every branch in me which beareth

not fruit he taketh away. And
every branch that bears fruit,

he what? Purges, or prunes, or
clips it away that it may bring

forth what? More fruit. God is
not trying to restrict you He’s

trying to get more fruit out of
your life. And now you are clean

through the words, which I have
spoken to you. You’re going to

see what that means in a minute.
Abide in me and I in you as a

branch cannot bear fruit of
itself. So you were never able

to do original thinking. Now I
said original thinking. Cause I

think somebody wrote the notes
for last service and they put

thinking, you are supposed to
think, I mean, you go out there

that Roosevelt road and don’t
think and walk out in that road

you’re going to be a box of
meat in the morning. But you do

think, but you don’t do original
thinking. I didn’t decide.

Pardon me. I didn’t think of
coming to Chicago. Wasn’t my

thought. That wasn’t my thought.
First place, I didn’t have any

Chicago money. How many of you
know it takes money, moolah,

denarii, change to live in
Chicago? But that wasn’t my

original idea, wasn’t my idea to
start a Joseph business. That’s

not my idea. Wasn’t my idea to
move to Forest Park, wasn’t my

idea. In fact, I fought it. They
said, pastor, you know, that’s a

place up there in Forest
park and it’s a little place on

Madison street and so
forth, Pastor that looked like

something that we should go to.
I said, okay sister. Sure did.

Wasn’t my idea. Because the
first reason why it wasn’t, it

was disruptive. It’s disrupting
your normal train of thought.

Why? He’s trying to get you off
of self. Abide in me and I in

you as a branch cannot bear
fruit of itself. Except that

abide the vine no more can you,
except you abide in me. I am the

vine and you’re the branches.
And he that abideth in me, what

is he going to do? And I in him,
the same bringeth forth what?

Much fruit. For without me you
can do what? Nothing. Nothing.

No, no, no, no. Okay. Here’s the
branch. Here’s the tree. Let’s

say I’m a tree my arms are the
branches. Now what if one of the

branches got struck by lightning
and is half hanging on, and this

is an Apple tree, it’s half
hanging on. How do you think

that will affect the
fruitfulness of the branch?

Alright, either no fruit or
fruit that that’s not fully

developed or whatever. Why?
Because the branch is not firmly

attached, come on, it’s not
family attached to the vine. And

when God gives you a step of
faith, he’s trying to get you

committed to the vine.
He’s trying to get you firmly

attached so that you will depend
on him. If you don’t depend on

him there’s only one other
source, Matthew chapter 6 verse

24. There’s only one other
source. And he says here, man

cannot serve two masters either
he’s going to hate one and love

the other. Else he’ll hold to
the one, hold to the one, hold

to the one and despise the
other. You cannot serve God and

mammon. There’s a system out
here that Satan got that he

wants you to depend on because
he’s got to get some fruit in

this earth. And so if he can get
people to separate from God or

at least be in the church, but
listen to the devil, then he can

get them to do what he wants
to do. And now God’s work and

purpose is now being delayed of
getting done. But you are coming

here to learn that you’re not
the original thinker, that God

is going to give you the
thought. Now, as you purposely

move in obedience to God, you
attract an anointing to make it

happen. See, he doesn’t want you
to make it happen. Not by might

nor by power, but by my spirit
saith the Lord of Hosts. Say

amen. So every step of the way
God’s telling me to do more,

what do more? What I mean by
do more, it means less of Bill

Winston and of God. Man, he
telling me to do something now,

I’m saying, Lord, Jesus, am I
done enough? No, I want more

fruit. Let’s go. Go to
Chicago from started at Lake and

Pulaski. I better come over the
other place now. It’s getting

hostile, it’s hostile
over there. No, no. Are you

following? It’s very important
because God wants all the fruit

out of your life. Now we’re
saying, Hey, all right, the

blessing is on me. Now, how did
God operate? Because the same

way God operated is the way I’m
going to operate. Say amen. He

said to Adam, be fruitful.
Come on, multiply, replenish the

earth. Didn’t he say that? And
subdue it. Look at Noah. Look at

Genesis chapter 9 and verse 1.
This is after the flood. After

the flood, you read it in the
Bible, everything wiped out. He

said the trees wiped out, the
animals wiped out, everything

except what Noah had on that
boat. Well, it’s an ark, but you

know, I say things like that on
a boa and people write me, that

wasn’t a boat that he had.
That wasn’t a fish of Jonah, you

know? And that wasn’t this. I
want to write them back saying,

mind your own business and get
some fruit in your life. You

know, they miss the whole
point. I’m trying to tell them a

principal and they’re dogging
me out on that. And God blessed

Noah. What? He did what to him?
He empowered him. And then he

said to Noah what? Said what?
What else? What else? What else?

That’s it? No, he didn’t say
subdue it, that ain’t up there.

Now my point to you is, I was
just trying to see how many of

y’all just following the crowed.
Okay. Now, but here’s what I’m

saying. I’m going to use the
blessing. And I said, we are

turning jails, come on, help me
into boarding school. I’m going

to act like God, I’m gonna, I’m
gonna see what I want and decree

a thing. Say amen. And God’s
going to make it happen. Now for

you to do that, you gotta know
who you are. Say amen to that.

And I’m saying to you right
now, God has big plans for you

because what he did look what
he said in Matthew chapter 13 in

verse 31. Glory to God. Remember
what he said now, every tree in

you that the father has not
planted shall be rooted up. I’ll

try that again. Every tree in
you, every belief system that

God didn’t put in you, God’s
going to get it out of you. Look

what it says up here. In the
parable he’s saying the kingdom

of heaven is like to a grain of
mustard seed, which a man sowed

in his field, which indeed is
the least of all seeds. But when

it is grown, it what? Is the
greatest among the herbs. And

what else? Becomes a tree, come
on, that the birds of the air

come and lodge under the
branches there. You see what I’m

saying here? Now God’s saying
for you to replenish the earth,

I want you to replenish the
earth. Now, where are you to get

the ideas from? Going to get
them from God. Cause you don’t

have original idea. God knows
exactly what he wants to do,

watch this, and chose you to
do it. Am I right about it? He

knows exactly what he wanted and
spoke to what he wanted it to

come from. Meaning that he
wanted fish and he spoke to the

water. He wanted cattle he spoke
to the earth, but he wanted you

and spoke to himself. But now he
spoke to himself and produce you

to act like him. So what you
want, God is now speaking to you

for you to bring forth
what? Lord have mercy. This is

powerful stuff. Now say I am
intelligent. Now that means that

you’re going to know things that
the most educated people in the

world don’t know. So just, just
receive that. Am I right about

it? That means also because of
this grace knowledge and grace

skill, God’s going to give you
skills that you didn’t have to

go to learn. He’s going to give
you proficiency without years.

Exodus chapter 31:1, just look
at it now. Now I’m talking to

everybody in here. I’m saying I
don’t care whether you’re 8 or

80. I don’t care whether you’ve
got a poor family, rich family,

I don’t care whether
you’re third grade education or

whatever. I’m not downing
education, I’m just letting you

know the government is not your
problem. Because what you got

the government can’t stop. Look
what it says here. It says, and

the Lord spoke unto Moses
saying, watch this. See I have

called by name Bezalel the son
of Uriah, the son of Uri, of the

tribe of Judah. And I have
filled him what? The Spirit of

God, that’s the spirit of
intelligence or wisdom. And

wisdom and what? And
understanding and in what?

Knowledge and in all what?
Manner of what? Workmanship. In

other words, skills. Skills.
So David never fought Goliath.

Goliath had been trained and
skilled from his youth. David

never fought like that. Yet,
David slaughtered Goliath and

everybody in there. And I’m
telling you, you bought to take

the lead over the world and you
got to take the lead cause the

blessing is on your life. The
first thing you do it got to

receive the blessing, watch
this, and have faith in what the

blessing said. Now the blessing,
when you got it on you, no

matter where you go, it will
protect you. Say amen to that.

That blessing, the only reason
it got to Job like that is

because the blessing stop. Look
what it says here in Job chapter

1 and verse 9. Let’s try that
one right there. Then Satan

answered and said the Lord, does
Job fear you for not. Hath not

made a hedge about him and about
his who? House and about all

that he what? Has on what? Every
side thou has what? Thou has

what? Blessed the work of his
hand. Job was blessed. No way

Satan could have gotten to Job.
The only way he got to Job is

Job got fearful. Look at it. Job
chapter 3 verse 25. And if you

get fearful that hedge will try
to drop in your life. So you’re

not gonna fear anything from now
to the day Jesus comes. For the

thing which I what? Greatly
feared is come on me, and that’s

what’s what? I was afraid of
has come to me. Are you with me

here? So say the blessing is on
my life. Now I want you to go

over to Job and chapter 14,
please. And Job chapter 14 and

verse 7. There is hope of a tree
if it be cut down that it will

sprout again. And that the
tender branches or branch

thereof will not cease. Watch
this. Though the root thereof

wax old, in the earth and the
stock thereof die in the ground.

Yet, through a scent of water,
it will bud bring forth boughs

or branches, like a plant. Now
what does he saying? He’s saying

that blessing on your life is
about to bring you restoration.

In other words, stuff that’s
been dead or stuff that’s been

stolen. That the blessing that’s
on you when you start operating

in it, even though it looks
dead in the ground are scent of

water., that means a drop of
water. Well, let’s substitute

the word water for the word. I
can put a drop of the word on

this situation that thing will
live again, come on. That dead

marriage will come to life. So
I’m saying to you right now that

the blessing needs to be added
to your thinking or be fruitful,

multiply, replenish the earth,
because Amazon can do that. Or

somebody else can do it. Maybe
they don’t know God, I don’t

know the situation, but I do
know this, you know God. And

what he’s going to give you
is going to be far above all

principalities and powers. Why?
Cause you’re not coming to take

sides. You’re coming to take
over. And the first thing you’re

going to do is come into
a neighborhood and decree

something. Look at Isaiah
chapter 32. Look at Isaiah

chapter 32. And my people shall
what? Dwell in what? A peaceable

habitation in sure dwellings and
in quietness and resting places.

Listen, this is not the devil
city. This is a city of God. And

every place the soul of your
foot should tread upon he’s

given to us. So he’s saying
wherever you go, you can decree

peace and not one gun will be
shoot. Say amen. You can quiet

your neighborhood down starting
tonight. Now decree peace, and

you’ll see peace in your
neighborhood. Once you speak it,

empowered by the blessing, the
blessing knows what to do. You

don’t have to do anything else.
Jesus only spoke results. No man

need food of you forever. That’s
done. Peace, be still. Lazarus,

come forth. He said Lazarus come
forth. Everything’s you had in

your body, everything… Now
because it’s the father in you.

He is doing the work. There’s
reason for clipping away things

in your life. The reason
leading you in faith so you

have to depend on him is
to make you Holy. You are

clean in my word. God’s
separating you from the

world. Why? Because you’re
about to draw the world to God.

BILL: Well, I trust
that you were blessed by

today’s message. Now here’s a
point you want to remember.

Jesus is the vine and
you and I are the branches. Now,

what do I mean by that? I mean
that he said, I’m the vine and

you are the branches. Now, if
he’s talking about bringing

forth fruit where do fruit grow?
They grew up on the branch and

you and I are supposed to give
our life, get our life from the

trunk, from the roots and that
life flows through the branch,

and it actually brings forth
fruit on the branches. So notice

what happens. We bring forth the
will of God in this earth. He is

the one that we’re attached to.
Now what happens if somebody is

not firmly attached? Then it’s
very difficult for the power and

the life of God to flow into the
branch. If somebody takes an ax

and kind of half chops a branch
off, what’ll happen to the

fruit? The fruit are not that
big or not that you have that

vitality so forth. Why? Because
they’re not getting all the food

source from the trunk or from
the vine. So what I’m saying to

you is when God gives you a step
of faith, he’s just trying to

get you firmly attached. Why?
Because he said you bring forth

much fruit and your fruit shall
remain. Praise God. He wants you

to bring forth something that
will attract people to Christ.

And let me tell you, he has done
that in my life. I’m telling you

these steps of faith. At first,
it looked uncomfortable and so

forth, but I took the step
anyway and look what God has

done. Look how far he’s spread
this ministry. Every step was a

step of faith. And what was
I doing? Bringing forth much

fruit. Praise God. Powerful
teaching. Makes sure you get

that teaching, it’s powerful.
Well, this is Bill Winston

saying until next time we love
you and keep walking by faith.

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BILL: I don’t know about you,
but I’m ready to turn these

cities around. I said, I’m ready
to turn these cities around.

FEMALE: We need help and
bless the families and the

children. Thank you Dr.
Winston, for blessing me

and my family. This
is truly a blessing.

FEMALE: It’s a lot of single
parents like myself that’s

doing everything by theyself and
this actually is a big help.

FEMALE: Oh, this is huge
for the Detroit community.

Some of us are like swamped
in bills and in property

taxes and this is excellent. We
appreciate the blessing.

FEMALE: And being out here
handing out Uber and gas cards,

that really helps me. And thank
you for your city tours, for

the resources that you
bring to our neighborhood.

MALE: We want to thank
you Dr. Winston and

Operation 10 City
Campaign and all of the

pastors and ministers and
people that have come out to

serve. It has been phenomenal
and we are forever just blessed

because of your leadership.
Thank you so much. We’ve had

opportunity to pray for so many
families. I mean, we prayed for

people that were gang members on
Southwest side of Detroit, our

single mothers, every single
person is being prayed for.

MALE: Thank you for touching
this family. Thank you for

this mother, and thank
you for these kids. We

ask that you touch
their lives right now.

FEMALE: Pitch competition
was important for Detroit

because sometimes
the city of Detroit can feel

lost or forgotten, and I want
everybody to know that you’re

not forgotten and that there
churches out there pastors out

there, Dr. Bill Winston,
Ministries that really love the

people of God and support
the people of God.

FEMALE: Me having my record
expunge will be the most

powerful impactment in my life
because I plan on getting

my CDL so I can be a truck
driver. I wanna give

everyone a hug. With the
guidance that you all

are giving us today,
I have a future.

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BILL: And your business is
going be so powerful. It

is going to turn people back to
God. This is your day.

No, no, no, no. You say this
is my day. You’re not going

to leave here without your
stuff. This is your day.

MALE: I just thank
you so much from

the bottom of my
heart for coming to

Detroit to help us heal
the community. Thank you.

MALE: You don’t know
what we’ve been through

here, but I feel extremely
blessed and I just

want to thank you. Thank you,
Living word, Dr. Bill Winston,

and Operations 10 City for
what you’ve done for this city.

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