Many believers do not know what to do with their covenant. They don’t pray it, and they don’t say it. David spoke covenant all the time. He came with covenant words against Goliath.
We need to understand that our Covenant with the Lord is a blood covenant. We are redeemed by the blood of the Lord. Our faith is in the blood and God’s words. A blood covenant is a relationship. A relationship that has blood and words, agreements and very specific things that are coming from the Lord. Covenant can only unfold in a relationship. You don’t make covenant with yourself.
We use our covenant rights to attack. When we put our foot in sound and song, we enforce our rights and the Lord destroys our enemy for us! Be in the Word of God for yourself to understand the rights that you have in the blood covenant with God.
There is a specific pathway to covenant relationships:
When we are born again, we are immediately part of the covenant of God. Starting out we don’t know His Word and covenant well, but we have to grow. We have to come up into the ways of the Lord. We will only progress in our covenant relationship with the Lord when we are planted.
The 5 stages of covenant relationship as depicted by Abraham’s walk with God:
Touch:
God made the covenant with us. God and Jesus with One another. But He came to us. He rescued us. He touched us. It’s not us. God initiated this relationship and the relationship has different phases. “¹ Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1 NKJV). “² I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; Verse three, “³ I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse those who curse you” (Genesis 12:3 NKJV)
Integration of ways:
When God tells you to do something, do it. You cannot say that you are integrating with God and staying in the old place. Not obeying Him is not integrating your ways. We are integrating ways with God and with His messages that are coming Sunday after Sunday. Strategic questions will come when you submit to God by touch and integration of ways. ⁴…Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him (Genesis 12:4 NKJV).
Strategic intentions:
God makes strategic intentions clear. He speaks to us clearly. The Word of the Lord is coming to us to answer strategic questions. 1 After these things, now Abram is in motion. Me and you are in this covenant relationship with the Lord and some of us find ourselves at different stages. For Abram, which things? He started with touch. Number two, integration of ways. Abram did leave his old place to go where God was leading him. You cannot say that you are integrating with God and you stay in the old place and not obeying Him. Very, very important for us to understand. So, things after these things, things are moving forward. The word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” So, God touched us. God planted us. We are integrating ways with God and His messages are coming and His messages are coming. So, questions from our hearts will come and it must because this is a relationship; God talks to us, we talk to the Lord. 2 But Abram said, “Lord God, what will you give me seeing I do not have a child?” (Genesis 15:2 NKJV)
Divine productivity:
Going into divine productivity God will show you those things to come, only through covenant. You cannot skip the pathway. He answers us through covenant. One coming from your own body will be your heir (Genesis 15:4, NKJV).
Covenant:
You grow in each level. You develop. You have to be faithful. God is performing His covenant, all His blessings and obligations towards you, but you cannot jump. This is where the blessing is.
This is an ongoing process. If you do not come this way, there is no destiny. This is the pathway for divine covenant relationships. God gave us gifts unto gifts, Pastor John and Sharon, to help and equip us.
It’s God’s Words and His plans. We are children of the supernatural. We choose as we receive the covenant words from God in every message that’s coming to us. Those are the promises. We have the blood of Jesus and we have the words of Jesus. It’s about the supernatural, not the natural.
We have to recognise what’s happening in our own house, and in this house, this ecclesia, we listen to the Word of God, and we do not make our own plans.
Say: Lord, thank You for Your words coming to me. Thank You that I can see where I made my own plans. That I can repent, Lord, because You’re taking me higher. There’s more, Lord. It is still time of reset and we are still crossing over.
God is writing on our hearts. He’s giving it to us step by step, taking us higher and higher. This is our covenant with God. By the blood of Jesus Christ, we are redeemed and we have His words. And that’s our choice from here on what we’re going to do with that.
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