THE SIGN OF YOUR COVENANT (3)

Post date: Jan 12, 2021 12:33:33 AM

You will not remain in the ark forever, you will be brought out by the word and power of God into what only God had prepared, into a new life and new inheritance that Satan or his agents will not be able to take from you. We read that Noah did not just come out from the ark at the end of the flood, as God commanded him to get in, so God commanded him to get out. The ark was a place of shelter against the rain and the flood that was about to come, a place to preserve life for the future to come, and a place to show obedience and patience with God. “The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male, and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male, and its mate, and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.” And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.” Genesis 7:1-5. Noah, his wife, children, and their wives and everything else that went inside that ark that day was safe and preserved from destruction. Where God had sheltered you, He will keep you safe and everyone with you at that place will be safe also but it is very certain, God will not abandon you in that place, He will remember you; He will take you out at the right time; position you in the right location, and establish you in what He had planned for you.

When God sheltered Noah, He did not abandon him there, and when He took him out from the shelter in the ark, He did not abandon him to roam the earth aimlessly. He said to him clearly, “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you, the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground, so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.” So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds, everything that moves on land came out of the ark, one kind after another.” Genesis 8:16-19. They were to come out and multiply, be fruitful, and increase in number. That is what God will do in you, for you, and through you. Multiply you, make you fruitful, and increase you.

Thereafter, Noah came out from the ark with his family, from the place of his shelter against the rain and the flood, he was thankful to God, and in being thankful, he decided to offer a sacrifice in appreciation. That thankful act of his sacrifice that day prompted God to remove the curse He had placed on the earth when Adam sinned. Your sacrifices to God can remove generational curses on you and your family; it can open doors that you had never imagined; grant prayers that you have forgotten will ever be fulfilled, and it can reposition you for the good things that God is bringing on the earth, not the evil. Without Noah praying and asking God for anything after the flood, this is what God said He will do; “And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in His heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” Genesis 8:20-22. That is what an acceptable sacrifice can do for you; that is what a sincere thanksgiving from your heart can do for you; and that is what God desires of you at all times. Noah did not just jump out to the ground from the ark, he thanked God after the flood, showed God his sincere appreciation through his sacrifice, and God accepted and honored Noah’s unasked sacrifice with a promise never to curse the earth again, the forgiveness of past acts by Adam, and a covenant of unending blessings. The sign of the covenant continues. For prayers, Click here