Scripture: I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered. – Psalm 89:34
The word covenant is one of the most important words in the Bible. The Christian Bible has two parts. One we call the Old Testament (the Old Covenant) and the other we call the New Testament (the New Covenant.) In each of these covenants it is believed that God made promises to His people, first to Israel, and then to what some Christians grandiloquently call the new Israel, or in other words, the Church. It is crucial to note that in both the Old and New Covenants, it was God who initiated the promise; it was not any person or people who did it. Our God is a God of covenant, of promise.
God is a covenant-keeping, promise-keeping God. And the seal over every promise is the blood of the eternal covenant raising Jesus from the dead to guarantee every blessing in the heavenly places.
This is what the Lord says: ‘If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time
[pullquote] A covenant in its simplest definition is a promise between two parties that is binding by either a verbal or symbolic oath. God would use the idea of covenant as a means of relating to man, but God would expand upon its simplest form. [/pullquote]
[pullquote] “I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.” (Jer 32:40) [/pullquote]
God has made a Covenant with you. If you ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins and come into your heart, He will.
That’s a promise that you can take to the bank!
We have a Covenant today. That Covenant is through Jesus Christ. If we are a people that will apply His Word to our life, then we will perservere in the situations that arise against us. If we don’t apply what His Word says, then we will be in trouble.
“He is mindful of his covenant forever, of the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac, which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant” (Ps. 105:8-10).
How do we know that God is a God of covenant? Look back, and look around. The covenant is everywhere, and in everything. But only to the eyes of faith is it visible.
Prayer Point
- Father please let me enjoy the full benefit of your new covenant
- Father evil covenant over my life is null and void in the namenof Jesus
- Father from today I begin to swim in Abrahamic order of blessing because of the blood of christ in the name of Jesus
