COVENANT GUARANTEE
Kingdom Kids devotions authorize Jesus’ LORDship over our lives.
Psalm 89:34: “I will not violate My covenant or alter what My lips have uttered.”
“Anger with God” devotion showed the value of listening quickly but speaking and getting angry slowly. Some commands that our heavenly Father says in the Bible are hard to swallow. We wonder why we must obey. We find it hard to believe words. The Bible is chocked full of stories that some people reduce to mere fairy tales. Some stories are simply not believable by human standards.
Noah really crammed ALL animals on an ark? (Genesis 5-8). Comeon man!
God operates way above human understanding. I’m fine with not being to explain God. I’d better not be able to explain the God I worship!
How about you?
Our Father understands that people need proof to believe that His promises will come true. How can God persuade People to obey His commands when they don’t seem valid?
Where can we find truth if we cannot believe God’s authority in the Bible?
Covenants are God’s invention that proves to humans that His word cannot help but come true. Naturally, God’s guarantee would involve spilled blood. See the lesson linked below to envision for yourself how God seals His covenants. God’s covenants ensure that what He says WILL happen. (Romans 4:20-21).
Covenants are way better than the “Cross my heart and hope to die!” guarantee that people say to promise truth.
Abraham doubted that God’s promises would come true and asked for a guarantee. Abraham doubted when God promised, “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. … and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” (Genesis 12: 2, 3b).
Of course Abraham’s human mind would doubt God’s promise, above. Abraham didn’t have even one child! How could he sire a nation? How could all peoples on earth be blessed from Abraham? Peoples means more than one race.
Take Home Nugget
Abraham was originally named Abram. Sarah was originally named Sarai. God changed their names in Genesis 17:5 and 17:15 after He commanded the covenant of circumcision for all Hebrew male descendants. The added “H” into their names infused His Holy Spirit into their bodies.
It was this Spirit Who allowed Sarah to become pregnant well past the age of fertility. It was this Spirit Who provided Abraham the energy to become a dad.
God’s Spirit lives inside each Christian who believes that we live under a supernatural covenant of grace bought by Jesus’ shed blood.
Holy Father, Thank You for enabling us to believe and obey You—even when Your promises are unbelievable by human standards! Amen.
Adapted from “How You Know You Will Inherit It” by Rev. Joseph Prince. April 11, 2018. www.josephprince.org
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