DID YOU KNOW GOD HAS A COVENANT WITH YOU? (2)

Post date: Feb 12, 2019 4:51:14 AM

A covenant means a sacred agreement or mutual promise between God and a person or a group of people. In making a covenant, God promises a blessing for every obedience to His particular commands and commandments. God alone sets the terms of His covenants, He alone enables and makes the terms effective, He alone reveals these terms to the person involved in the covenant, and He alone rewards or blesses the person or people with the proceeds from the covenant. If we choose to accept the covenant, we will have to obey and follow the terms of the covenant and we will receive all of the promised blessings therein. If we choose not to accept or obey or follow the terms of the covenant, God will withhold the blessings, and in many instances, a penalty will be given and no one will escape it.

In bringing a man into covenant with Him, God goes ahead to draw the persons attention and speak to the person in terms that he or she will hear and understand the instructions and follow them. In that encounter, He will speak and make what He desires clear, He might not declare the penalty right away but He will give a hint on the blessings which He will definitely exceed when you obey and follow the command. Before God will communicate the covenant and the terms, He must have seen something in you, He must have trusted your heart and ways, He must have seen obedience, faithfulness and godly purpose in you. One is clear, God will not enter into any form of a covenant with the devil or with someone who is in covenant relation with the devil through any form of consistent disobedience or consistent actions that are always against His plans, His words, and His desires. Divine covenants are divinely revealed and divinely supported and established through righteousness and obedience to God and nothing else.

God entered into a covenant with Noah but prior to the day God spoke the words of the covenant promise to him, God saw righteousness in him, He saw peace in him, He saw obedience in him, He saw a man who had not compromised himself with the acceptable lifestyle and practice of the people and their upheld tradition, He saw willingness in him, and He saw a man He can trust and depend on to do all that He will ever command or ask to be done. In Noah, God saw a man with a difference who was determined to keep the difference irrespective of the cost and the views of the people towards him. “These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, one who was just and had right standing with God, blameless in his evil generation; Noah walked, lived in habitual fellowship with God. Now Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The population of the earth was corrupt, absolutely depraved spiritually and morally putrid in God’s sight, and the land was filled with violence, desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power. God looked on the earth and saw how debased and degenerate it was, for all humanity had corrupted their way on the earth and lost their true direction. God said to Noah, I intend to make an end of all that lives, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I am about to destroy them together with the land. Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make in it, rooms, stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, compartments and coat it inside and out with pitch.” Genesis 6:9-14

God did not see wickedness in Noah before the covenant, He did not see compromise in Him, He did not see conspiracy, greed, disobedience, or any evil desperation in him. What is God seeing in you or know about you, in your words, thoughts, actions, and feelings towards Him, His word, His work, His people, and His plans? God always reveals His plans to people He is in covenant with, and the covenants always begins with instructions to follows and ends with a promise to be fulfilled that will always make a difference, will always separate good from bad, godliness from ungodliness, it will never promote evil and will always benefit whoever is involved directly or indirectly in the covenant. Noah’s family enjoyed the result. Prayer Request Click here