The Covenant keeping God

Wednesday 1 July
READ: Gen. 12:2- 3
MORE LESSON: Exo. 2:23-25

The Lord is the covenant keeping God. From generation to generation, God has always related with His people by covenant. The covenant with Abraham was one example. There is a covenant of deliverance, greatness and prosperity that God made with Abraham. In Genesis 12:2, God said, And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. That is a covenant- an agreement between God and Abraham that anything that is associated with him shall be blessed and in turn shall be a blessing. So you can get into a covenant relationship with God and you could even have specific covenants for specific areas of your life.
In Gen. 22, God told Abraham to sacrifice his only son and Abraham set out in obedience. When Abraham got to the place where he would sacrifice his son, God showed up and provided a lamb for the sacrifice instead of his son. Abraham named that place 'Jehovah Jireh' – meaning God the Provider. (Gen 22: 14). That was the beginning of God's covenant of provision with His children which guarantees that in every situation of lack, God will show up for them.
The covenant of provision is the reason why you must not be a poor man. This is because God has sworn that you will not be poor. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth: 3Jn.2. Whatever attempts to make you poor is an enemy to the covenant of God. God's covenant cannot be broken for God cannot lie. Poverty is an enemy of God and God will definitely be victorious over the enemy and not the enemy over Him. When poverty ravages your life, invoke the covenant of God and declare that there is a covenant between God and Abraham your father, which guarantees that you will not be poor. God is bound to fulfil His covenant. There is nowhere God hears about His covenant and shuts down because that would amount to failing in his promise.

When the children of Israel were in bondage in Egypt, they got to a point where they cried out to God. Their cry for help caused God to remember His covenant with their father Abraham. So remaining under bondage is after-all a choice! The day you choose to cry out for the covenant to speak for your help is the beginning of a new dawn. Do not remain in bondage to poverty, sickness, oppression or any evil. You are the seed of Abraham by the reason of adoption through Christ Jesus. Remind God of His covenant today and He will rise up for you. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: Psa. 89:34.

Prayer/Action
* Command anti-covenant activities of the devil in your life ended now.
* Invoke the covenant of Abraham to begin to make way for you from now on.
* Ask God to remember His covenant with Abraham and war with every spirit of bondage in your life.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, you have done it again. You have given me January-June and will do it again with July-December, in Jesus’ mighty name.