In our times, a loud declaration has replaced quiet obedience:
“I prophesy. I command supernatural increase.”

Yet nowhere in Scripture do we find Jesus or His apostles commanding increase over themselves.

👉🏻 Not once.

❌ Not in Acts.
❌ Not in the Epistles.
❌ Not from the lips of Christ.

What we do find is something far more unsettling and far more biblical.👇

“The Biblical Pattern Is Decrease, Not Self-Increase”

John the Baptist whom Jesus Himself called the greatest born of women did not cry out for promotion, influence, or expansion.

He said plainly:
“He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:30)

The apostles followed the same path.
• They prayed for boldness, not platforms (Acts 4:29)
• They embraced loss, not multiplication (Philippians 3:7–8)
• They counted suffering as gain, not failure (Acts 5:41)

✅ Jesus never taught His disciples to command abundance. He taught them to take up the cross.

“Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself.” (Luke 9:23)

Listen, my dear friends,
God gives increase; men do not command it.
Yes, He does so when we faithfully follow Him.

🙅🏻‍♂️ No prophet and no reverend can command any kind of supernatural abundance or increase.

Such gimmicks are not from God; they are from the devil and his agents; the wolves in sheep’s clothing.

If we faithfully serve Him; He will do it.

Scripture is precise here:
“So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.” (1 Corinthians 3:7)

Increase is God’s sovereign act;
Not man’s verbal technique.

When men start commanding what only God can give, authority quietly shifts:
• from God’s will
• to human words

That is not faith.
That is presumption.

🙇‍♂️ A new gospel has emerged, one that keeps people emotionally invested but spiritually stagnant:

“It’s coming.”
“Your season is coming.”
“Your breakthrough is coming.”
“Just receive it.”

Year after year.
Message after message.
Promise after promise.

Yet nothing comes, except offerings, loyalty, and dependence on the speaker.

Scripture warns us clearly:
“They speak visions of their own heart, not from the mouth of the LORD.” (Jeremiah 23:16)

“By smooth words and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the simple.” (Romans 16:18)

False prophecy does not always look evil.
Often it looks hopeful, positive, and motivational.

But hope disconnected from truth becomes spiritual fraud.

Listen, The True Gospel Produces Death Before Glory. Jesus did promise glory, but only after death to self.

“Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone.” (John 12:24)

The early Church grew not because they declared increase but because they lost everything and still followed Christ.

❌ No slogans.
❌ No repeated chants.
❌ No self-exalting prophecies.

✅ Just obedience, holiness, and suffering faith.

When:
• Christ is reduced to a means for “increase”
• The cross is replaced by declarations
• Repentance is replaced by manifestation language

Wolves thrive.
And the undiscerning are exploited.

Jesus did not say, “Command increase.”
He said:
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” (Matthew 6:33)

Increase, if it comes, comes from God alone and often in ways that look like loss to the flesh.

I wholeheartedly pray that “Let the Church Return”

Not to louder prophecies,
but to deeper repentance.

Not to commanding heaven,
but to fearing God.

Not to chasing increase,
but to losing our lives for Christ’s sake.

Because in the Kingdom of God,
the way up has always been down.