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– MYSTERY OF BLOOD COVENANT –
MINISTERS ALIVE JANUARY 2025 EDITION
If a blood covenant was cut on your behalf and you do not know how it operates fully, you will not enjoy its benefits. So Satan’s goal is to make sure he takes our focus off the blood covenant; no wonder God said; “My people perish for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6), not because of Satan’s power – though he has no power but deceptive strength. I have placed this message first as an example for anyone to understand how covenant operated with a man in the Bible. Watch this: If a man knows about the covenant and falls into sin, the man will still enjoy the benefits of the covenant but if he does not know about the covenant yet live holy and sinless, so to speak he will not enjoy the benefits of the covenant.
Saul’s son, Jonathan, and soon-to-be king, David loved each other deeply, so Jonathan cut a brotherly covenant with David. In the process of time, Jonathan was killed in battle and David became the king of Israel.
One day, King David Jesse remembered the covenant he and Brother Jonathan Saul cut and he desired to find any of Saul’s generation to continue the covenant with for Jonathan’s sake (2 Sam. 9:1). He was told that his covenant brother Jonathan has a crippled son who lives in hiding with Mr Makir Ammiel in a town called Lo Debar – a place of no pasture.
The name of Jonathan’s son was Mephibosheth – a man who speaks shamefully. Everything in life was against Mephibosheth – he carries a stigma of shame, is crippled in both legs, and lives in hiding for fear of the new king, in a city of no pasture. Nothing was in his favour, except a good hideout.
David sent for Mephibosheth to honour him for Jonathan’s sake because of their covenant. When Mephibosheth appeared before David, the first statement David made to him was: “Don’t be afraid” (1 Sam. 9:7). David told him that because he knew Mephibosheth expected the worst treatment from him. He built his confidence and then pronounced restoration of all the wealth of king Saul, his grandfather. David said to him, “Fear not, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan, your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather, and you shall eat at my table always” (2 Sam. 9:7).
David told him that he will henceforth eat at his table. Imagine the honour!
David’s covenant with Mephibosheth’s father made him not lift a finger to work, yet had protection, restoration, wealth and honour.
A man whose name means breathing out shame is now eating at the king’s table – from rubbish to royalty, from grass to grace. From Lo Debar, a city without pasture, he went up to Jerusalem, the city of God. From a hide-out to the palace, and from poverty to prosperity.
What did Mephibosheth do? How long did he fast? How much seed did he sow? How many steps to success did he take? He did NOTHING! He was just a child of Brother Jonathan Saul who made a covenant with Brother David Jesse.
God and Abraham made a covenant too; on your behalf.
“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ” (Gal. 3:16).
Now imagine how blessed you are as a believer in Christ who is a seed of Abraham with whom God cut a covenant.
By believing in our hearts that Jesus rose from the grave and confessing with our mouths that Jesus is Lord, we become children of Abraham by faith through Christ and so, all the blessings of that covenant belong to us.
Gal. 3:29: “And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise”.
God provided everything down for us before we were born to just receive when we need it. Through knowledge of our covenant rights, we partake of the inheritance of the saints. God prepared the garden before Adam arrived. He had blessed us with all we would ever need on earth in the spiritual realm before we were born (Eph. 1:3).
The understanding of what God has done or should do is what separates how believers pray.
Mephibosheth was crippled yet he was exalted without effort on his part. The only thing he did was to come to David; maybe if he has legs he would have ran for fear of death in David’s hands.
One may be crippled to some degree in Ministry, marriage, business, academics, health, and finances, but through the covenant one can experience a turn-around.
The title of my first write-up which I began to distribute free of charge in 1989 was “MIND YOUR PART IN THE COVENANT”. I was so focused on what I must do to make God do His part. I was so focused on giving, telling the truth, praying, fasting etc. But God in His mercy took me from that extreme of placing confidence in my works to a place now where I see all God wants to see, FIRST the finished works of Christ. God does not really bless us based on our works but on the basis of the finished work of Christ.
I had thought I could use my faith to move God to do things until I found out my faith can’t move God because He had finished moving before I was born. My faith can only receive what He had graciously given so I have nothing to boast about today.
Sometimes while worshipping God, my mind would wander off to other issues and I am surprised. So for me, the best of any of my works is useless before the all perfect God. I don’t know about you. I am clinging to the blood covenant of Jesus that can deliver all my inheritance.
I have lost confidence in my works as a means of receiving what God has prepared for me. Today, I am walking with less of self-works but enjoying more of His blessings because I found out the secret of walking in the blood covenant.
When we are more at rest in His finished works, it helps us to engage more in prayers of thanksgiving. No wonder the Spirit emphasises thanksgiving more in the Bible. Once you know it has been provided you don’t call on God to provide but you thank Him always and just receive by faith. Boast in His works, not yours.
If you are an elderly man or woman, follow this series, because part of the blood covenant between God and Abram which belongs to you is that.
“As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age” (Gen. 15:15).
When you understand and believe in the blood covenant, you enter God’s rest. The only work you have from now is to labour to enter God’s rest. It’s better to be a man who was favoured to receive blessings than to be a man who laboured to be blessed.