God makes covenant with us and the covenant is totally and completely undeserved. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation ,Ex 34:6-7 KJV. His covenants are an expression of His pure love for us. Many times we miss many of the blessings the Lord has for us because of our unbelief. One of the primary reasons people sometimes find it hard to believe God is, because they don’t truly understand the very essence of who he is. Our God is a God of love & relationship, His nature and character are founded in truth and love. Although this alone is beyond human understanding and mans frail reasoning we still must yet have the faith to believe him. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb 11:6 KJV. We must remain true to our part to trust and depend on him. Our God is a GOD that does not and cannot lie. His love for us is true. This love is perfectly expressed in the scripture in I Corinthians 13:4-8, 4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away KJV. His promises to us never fail, because Love never ends. Love is love, in spite of our response.
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The scripture reveals that before Christ came, he took an oath before God to be a priest unto the people. God says that he will never change His mind in regards to the oath Christ made. It further states in the oath that He swore to Christ and Christ accepts the responsibility to be an eternal High Priest for us. Now because of that oath and the sworn Word of God, Christ is able to make intercession and intervention for us, and we can know that we are standing in the power and force of a better covenant. Christ is now the strength and guarantee of this new covenant, because it is sworn by God to God. The Lord further swears to Himself through His Son, that he will always be for us and keep his children in His divine power and love. Christ is longsuffering toward us, because he will not break the oath He swore to himself to keep us from falling. The power of the promises of the Lord is found in the assurance that He is a God of truth. Because Christs’ priesthood is unchanging, he is therefore able to save us completely, perfectly, and finally. This guarantee is not only for today but for all time into eternity. Our hope is fortified by Christs’ power to keep us. Because He is timeless, limitless, totally undefiled, and victorious over death. His word spoken to us is complete and unbroken. We should always live in the confidence that the original words of his intention will be performed throughout our lives. Whatever issues you may be facing in life, you can rest in the fact that the Lord is greater than them all. Search the scriptures for in them are all the answers for your life. Find your peace and safety, in The Loving Arms of the Father.
Because we are heirs and joint heirs with Christ, the spirit of God bears witness with our spirit that we are His children, and heirs to the promise that he has spoken to us. 16The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: 17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together, Romans 8:16-17 KJV. God was so serious about the promises that He makes to us, that when He made them He looked to swear them to us by the greatest thing He could find. Since there was nothing greater than himself, He swears an oath by himself, and declares, “I swear by all that I am I will bless them and their seed after them”. God places the seal of His word by the strength of the greatest thing available, which is his own strength, integrity and power. The awesome thing about this is that when he swears and declares the word of His oath He does so before all heaven and earth. Before angels and principalities, men and beast, before things present and things in the future. God declares before all creation that he will bless and keep us because we are his children. We now have received the blessed gift of the spirit of adoption and we can boldly cry, “Abba Father”. So much more than a natural father, God places it all on the line to show his willingness to bless us.
God makes covenant with us and the covenant is totally and completely undeserved. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation ,Ex 34:6-7 KJV. His covenants are an expression of His pure love for us. Many times we miss many of the blessings the Lord has for us because of our unbelief. One of the primary reasons people sometimes find it hard to believe God is, because they don’t truly understand the very essence of who he is. Our God is a God of love & relationship, His nature and character are founded in truth and love. Although this alone is beyond human understanding and mans frail reasoning we still must yet have the faith to believe him. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Heb 11:6 KJV. We must remain true to our part to trust and depend on him. Our God is a GOD that does not and cannot lie. His love for us is true. This love is perfectly expressed in the scripture in I Corinthians 13:4-8, 4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away KJV. His promises to us never fail, because Love never ends. Love is love, in spite of our response. Once we learn that he is a God of truth, our expectation will then be based on His word, which is truth. The perception of our circumstances does not change the truth of God’s intention nor His faithfulness concerning his promises. It’s not until we exchange our nature and character for His that we will begin to believe and see the results of his promises for our lives. To show us that He was serious about the promises that He has made to us, and that beyond a shadow of a doubt He is sure to perform the word that comes out of his mouth, the Lord confirmed the word by an oath, Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath. This was so that, by two unchangeable things (His promise and His oath) in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled (to Him) for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before (us). Heb 6:17-18 AMP We which have come and run to him for refuge and help in the time of trouble can know that he is not only able to keep us, but is willing and desires to shield us by His grace. The bible says that the Lord will not break his promises. It also declares that he will repay those that look away from him and keep those that follow his commands 9. Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; 10. And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face, Deut 7:9-10 KJV. The Lord even swears by his own holiness that He will not break his word of covenant that he speaks to his children 33. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips, Psalm 89:33-34 KJV . It says He is Faithful to the Word He has spoken and He will never suffer his faithfulness to fail in our lives, and he is a very present help in the time of trouble. If we acknowledge the Lord in our going forth, then we can be assured that He will establish us. Another reason we can hold on to the word of God is because the scripture speaks to the fact that God cannot lie. 1. Paul, A servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; 2. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began Titus 1:1-2 KJV. He is not slack concerning His promises. As we go through our days and deal with the issues of life, we can know that he is not like men that are truce breakers. He is a God that will be steadfast concerning His word for us.II Peter 3:9 says, 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance KJV. As far as God is concerned a promise is an unbreakable oath. Therefore the things He has promised us in our lives must come to pass. They cannot fail, because the Lord never fails. Just as we can depend on the sun rising in the morning and the moon in the evening, so can we hold fast and rely on the Lord to be faithful to His word.
There is no greater evidence of His love than the covenant He made with us. Having made a covenant (an unbreakable oath) He voluntarily bound Himself to us as our God, with us as His people. “Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of wood unto the drawer of thy water: That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord they God maketh with thee this day: That he may establish thee today for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath: But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day (Deuteronomy 29:10-15 KJV).” Through that binding covenant we receive Christ, salvation, the cross, redemption, and ultimately eternal life with Him. All of God’s covenant promises spring from His desire for relationship with His children. Like a loving human father, God has plans for each of our lives. The Bible says: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil to give you an expected end (Jeremiah 29:11 KJV). God’s good plans for us are backed by the authority of His Word, which is powerful and cannot be broken.” The sun, moon and stars are all held in place by the strength of the very Word of God. Though heaven and earth will eventually pass away, not one jot or tittle of the Word of God will fail. The Lord is very serious about the words of promise that come from His mouth. Whatever the issue you may be facing today, take assuance in the fact that you have a loving covenant keeping Father who desires most of all that you would have true fellowship with Him, and that as you grow day by day, you learn to trust Him all the more.
The bible says that the devil is the accuser of the brothern, and ceases not night and day making accusation of our unworthiness before the Father. What we have to do is learn to not allow the accusation of the enemy to be our word over our lives. Many times in my life, it was me who was my own worst critic. I refused to allow myself to be blessed, because I always thought I was unworthy. There was always something that I was doing that was stopping the Lord from just exploding in my life. First it was because I was smoking. Then it was because I didn’t pray enough, then it was I didn’t fast enough, or at several times, when I was fasting, then it was rejected before the Lord because I ate a Snicker Bar during the fast… A Snicker Bar. How religious is that! You get to the point where you are so self condemning, that you find yourself always trying to meet the standard, instead of folling the heart of the Father. Trying to meet a standard that could never be met, trying to earn the justification that was freely given, and even if you had to earn the extravagance that the Lord wanted to pour upon you, you could never “work” enough to earn it. Not realizing that the more I tried, the more I stunk up the place, because I tried to be God. I tried to make my own righteousness. When I did good, I decided my own reward. If I do this today, then I will get this result tomorrow. “If I don’t say anything wrong today, then tomorrow something good will happen to me”. I even decided my own punishment. I would say things to myself like, “Because I did this and that wrong, then even if I repent and ask forgiveness, then I can’t be excused from the repercussion, or the penalty of that sin, so this is the result I am going to get”. Everything I did, I was judge and jury, and really didn’t need God much, because I already decided what I would do and what I would get based on the actions I took. Make this the day that you declare, “Today I just choose to simply trust Him”. |
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