Covenant Advantage 1

Saturday 9 April
READ: Gen. 17:1-9
MORE LESSON: Gal. 3:18

Every agreement made is for a purpose, whether it is between man and man or between man and God. Whenever the greater enters into an agreement with the lesser, it is for a particular advantage. It could be for protection, increment or blessing. Whenever the lesser goes into a covenant agreement with the greater, the lesser is lifted. A covenant puts you on the same platform with the person you have made the covenant with. This is the reason why when God wants to bless men, He cuts covenant with them. Looking through the Bible, both in the Old Testament and New Testament, we see time and again God entering into agreements with His children. We see God giving a blessing with a condition, and there are several of such covenants in the Old Testament.
The first is the covenant of Eden where God asked man for one thing-obedience. The Edenic Covenant is a pre-fall agreement between God and man, where Adam was promised blessings if he would comply with the terms of the covenant. This is expressed in Gen 2:15, Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die. God gave Adam the blessing of everything on the earth but Adam broke the terms of the covenant. God had to look for another means of entering into another covenant with another generation. Remember that for every man that God enters into a covenant with, there is an advantage he enjoys.
God located Abraham and made a covenant with him, And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly: Gen 17:2. Abraham kept the covenant of circumcision and was willing to sacrifice his only beloved son as an expression of his loyalty to God's covenant. This is the reason he became so great and exalted today among all peoples. I call on you to walk in a covenant relationship with God and partake of the advantage in it. The highest covenant you can partake in is the New Covenant in Jesus Christ. The New Covenant is the basis for all biblical covenants that God made with individuals like Noah, Abraham, David and so it is superior to them all . The New Covenant is designed to bring man into a restored relationship with God through the death of Christ and obedience to God's Word. It is time for you to stick with the New Covenant in Jesus Christ and begin to enjoy all the advantages in it.

Prayer/Action
* Pray that the covenant of God will speak for you in every area of life.
* Pray for the grace to be faithful to the terms of God's covenant.
* Ask for the covenant advantage to distinguish you in destiny.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Father, today, turn every wilderness in my life to a stream of waters and my dry land into springs of water.