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Covenant Keeping God
Contributed by Gbemisola Fafowora on Aug 21, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: God is not a man that will ever lie and when He speaks it must come to be in our lives.
God will forever be faithful to His word, for He is the living WORD and when He speaks it will be as He says not otherwise. God speaks all the time and His word will never lose it's power in our lives to His glory. He has been speaking from the beginning and He will continue to speak to us as long as we maintain an intimate relationship with Him.
He is our heavenly Father that loves and cares for us His children. A Father will want to communicate with His children, and He does so in different ways, God speaks to us with His voice , He speaks to us through His word and through dreams, He can also use His prophets to speak to us.
We will see examples of God speaking to His children in his word and every time He speaks situation changes and lives are been transformed.
God is a covenant keeping God
The reason of Jesus' coming was to introduce to us a new covenant and He did so by going on the cross and dying for us. His death made it possible to enter into this new covenant and He said this to us in the following books of the bible about the new covenant:
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
What Jesus did was for us all and He wants us to understand the meaning of COVENANT.
The biblical meaning of covenant is:
A written agreement or promise usually under seal between two or more parties, especially for the performance of some action.
And it's also
The conditional promises made to humanity by God, as revealed in Scripture. The agreement between God and the ancient Israelite's, in which God promised to protect them if they kept His law and were faithful to Him.
Therefore, God makes an agreement with us and keeps to the agreement as long as we are faithful to Him. He said in 2 Timothy 2:13 "If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself." This simply means that if we decide not to trust in Him because of what we are going through or because of what as happened in our lives that as made us to question His promises in our lives? God is saying to us that in all circumstances of our lives, He will always prove Himself in our lives by been faithful to us and by making sure that His word does not fail in our lives.
Let's have a look in the word of God about the people God made a covenant with@
God's covenant with Abraham
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying: “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised; and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant. He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
