UNDERSTANDING A COVENANT 1

"BUT THE LORD DID NOT WANT TO DESTROY DAVID'S DYNASTY, FOR HE HAD MADE A COVENANT WITH DAVID AND PROMISED THAT HIS DESCENDANTS WOULD CONTINUE TO RULE, shining like a lamp forever."
2 Chronicles 21:7 (NLT)

• God is a covenant keeping God.

• If God has made a covenant with you and promised to bless you or whatever, He will surely make good what He has said. He always stands by His Word!
• God is too righteous to lie: “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE, NOR A SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT. HAS HE SAID, AND WILL HE NOT DO IT? OR HAS HE SPOKEN AND WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD AND FULFILL IT?" (Numbers 23:19 Amps).

• There is power in covenant. It is higher than a promise. A covenant is established with someone, by God, through obedience to His instructions (Genesis 22:1-3,15-18).

• God would not establish a covenant with whoever is disobedient to Him—His Word or commands or instructions.
• What differentiate a covenant from a promise is sacrifice. If a promise would be made a covenant, a sacrifice would be demanded by God. Without a sacrifice, there is no covenant.
• Whoever would be qualified for a covenant to be established with, by God; a sacrifice would be required from him or her.
• A Sacrifice can be a material thing, or your position, or attainment, or aspirations or goals, or whatever is precious to you. If God would establish a covenant with you, He will demand something that is precious to you as He did ask Abraham for Isaac (Genesis 22:1-3).
• God might require you to sacrifice your attainments in the world, that is, you abandon things and the level or position you have reached and follow Him to propagate His Word and Kingdom (Mark 2:14; Philippians 3:7,8).
• In some cases, you might be asked to give your belongings; material acquisitions (Luke 8:2,3). Your affection and time might be demanded for. The time you use for pleasure might be required to be used for God and His Kingdom.
• Someone, a Believer, who is a sport enthusiast, might be required to offer the time he or she uses for such a pleasurable activity.

• God usually would test whoever is going to be used or blessed by Him. He may require you to give up something precious or endearing to you. He would demand for what you love doing as a sacrifice. The time you spend for things Important to you are always demanded by God for Himself or His work.

• Promises, hope, dreams that are yet to come true, and things you are yearning for, could be demanded by God as a sacrifice.
• A young medical student, who thinks after his medical school, he or she would practice and earn money, might be called to the ministry or mission work without given the opportunity to work with their certificates. IF such obeyed, that would be considered a sacrifice in God's sight.
• If you are an executive officer in your work, and you discovered there is a call of God on your life to do the ministry work fully, and you chose to obey and forfeit All the pleasures and material benefits; such also would be considered a sacrifice in the sight of God.
• Sacrificial obedience would move God to establish a covenant with you as a believer in Christ Jesus. Following God would have to cost you something! And not ordinary things, but precious things in your life (Luke 14:26).
• Whoever, a believer, is not ready to sacrifice anything for God's purposes would not be considered for a covenant based relationship with Him.
• If I may ask you, What have you sacrificed in the course of following God? What has it cost you to do His Will, or obey of His instructions?
• Following God should cost you something, and not ordinary things, but Important and precious things; for you to qualify for a covenant based relationship with Him.
• You check it, all the people God established a covenant with in the Bible, they all sacrificed one thing or another that are precious and important to them. THE likes Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, and a number of others, sacrificed things precious to them.
  ABRAHAM had to leave his father's land for an unknown destination or place (Genesis 12:1-4; Hebrews 11:8); And after that, he was asked to sacrifice his son, Isaac, whom he waited for twenty five years before he could get (Genesis 22:1-3).

• Obedience is all He needs.

• Whoever did obey God, does His Will when He commanded, cannot but be rewarded and be considered for a covenant relationship with Him:
  "BY FAITH ABRAHAM OBEYED WHEN HE WAS CALLED TO GO OUT TO THE PLACE WHICH HE WOULD RECEIVE AS AN INHERITANCE. AND HE WENT OUT, NOT KNOWING WHERE HE WAS GOING" (Hebrews 11:8).
• Obedience to God's commands might not be easy, but it is rewarding, If you did obey.
• Many years after the demise of David, God still remember the covenant He made with him that his descendants would continue to rule forever (2 Chronicles 21:7).
• What immortalizes or memorializes your work and name is, the covenant God established with you. You should strive or endeavour to do what would move God to cut or establish a covenant with you.
• God is usually moved or touched by whatever sacrifice made by someone for His name, work, and Kingdom (Hebrews 6:10). WHATEVER is done for the good of His name, work, and Kingdom, is usually rewarded by establishing or cutting of a covenant with the person that would last for many generations.
• Note:
  a. Be committed unwaveringly in your services in the Kingdom of God on the earth.
  b. Be faithful, and obey to the letter, on every instruction given to you.
  c. Give sacrificially. Do what you have never done before for the sake of God's name and Kingdom.

• You will not fail in Jesus' name.

• Whatever God has not planted in your body is uprooted now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
• You are made whole and completely deliver from every affliction in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
  Peace!
  TO BE CONTINUED

STEPS TO SALVATION
• Take notice of this:
IF you are yet to take the step of salvation, that is, yet to be born-again, do it now, tomorrow might be too late (2 Corinthians 6:1,2; Hebrews 3:7,8,15).
a. Acknowledge that you are a sinner and confess your Sins (1 John 1:9); And ask Jesus Christ to come into your life (Revelation 3:20).
b. Confess that you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and that you confess it with your mouth, Thus, you accept Him As your Lord and Saviour (Romans 10:9,10).
c. As you took the steps A and B your name is written in the Book of Life (Philippians 4:3; Revelation 3:8).

• If you took the steps As highlighted above, congratulations, It means you are saved—born-again. Join a Word based 1 in your area and Town or city, and be part of whatever they are doing there. Peace!

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