WORD FROM REDEEM ZION

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

ACCESSING THE COVENANT BLESSING

Then the Lord appeared to him and said “Do not godown to Egypt, live in the land of which I shall tell you. Dwell in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.”(Gen 26:2-4). The Almighty God is a covenant keeping God. He is not a man that lies or the son of man that repents of His Word, what He says He will do and what He will do, He will always say it to His servants. The Almighty entered into a covenant (formal binding agreement) with Abraham to bless him and his descendants forever. While Isaac was yet in Abraham’s loins, he was already blessed, Isaac was born blessed because of the covenant God had with his father. Isaac was growing in to blessing, walking unto higher heights in blessings because of God’s oath or promise to Abraham. God told Isaac do not run away to Egypt, do not go and seek help from the land of bondage and slavery, do not go to the world or heathen for help, before you were conceived in your mother’s womb, I have pronounced my blessing for you through your father because of the agreement he had with me to walk before me blameless and perfect. So when the famine or season of prolonged dryness came upon the land of the Philistine in Gerar, God remembered Isaac because of the covenant or agreement He had with his father (Abraham) that He will surely bless him and his descendants forever.
The power of covenant or oath is so strong. It is capable of making you to succeed when others are failing, keep you in health while others are in sickness; in prosperity while people around you are languishing in abject poverty, gives you sweatless triumph while others are struggling with issues of life and living in defeat. God told Isaac to stay in the land, do not go to Egypt, I will perform my oath or fulfil my agreement with you as I promised your father. God’s promise to Abraham was re-enacted and revived in Isaac that, He shall be the a great nation, he shall be blessed, his name shall be great; he shall be a blessing, those who bless you shall be blessed; God will curse him who curses Isaac; In Isaac shall all his family and other families of the earth be blessed. These blessings were released to Isaac (biological descendants and Israel till today). Through Christ Jesus our Lord every one who believes God has been brought into covenant blessing of Abraham and everything God did in the biological Isaac, He isc ommitted to do and even do much more for you and me that have been redeemed and purchased by the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us for it is written “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. If you are a child of God, a true believer born of water and of the Spirit of the Living God ,I can assure you that through faith in God and patience you will receive what God has promised father Abraham through Christ Jesus, you are under the covenant of life, power, prosperity, health, royalty and priesthood.
KEY TO ACCESSING YOUR COVENANT BLESSING ·
Obedience to the Lord’s command. This is a very important factor to entering and operating in God’s covenant blessing like Isaac did obey God’s voice to stay in the land of Gerar. If you be willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land (Isaac1:19)· You must locate or discover the land of your life, the Lord's perfect will for your life, be where He wants you to be at the right time and doing what He desires you to do at every given point (Gen 26:2-3)·
Exercise your faith in God, your faith in Him must be expressed in love, humility and patience (Gen 26:7)· Hard work and perseverance is a vital key to appropriating your covenant blessing. “Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him. (Gen.26:12). No food, no blessing for lazy man that go about folding arms.
Be an incurable worshipper, Isaac like Abraham was aman that appreciates God’s grace and mercy, He was a man that knows how to raise and build an altar unto the Lord his God. Learn how to approach God’s gates with thanksgiving in your heart, enter His court with praise and declare His awesomeness, glory and power.(Gen.26:25, Psalm 100:1-3)·
Be generous and hospitable. Isaac even made a feast for the people that envied, persecuted and drove him away from his inheritance. The generous and hospitable cannot but receive God’s divine visitation that comes with ultimate blessing and breakthrough. Beloved, we can assure you that God desires the best for you in every area of life, He is daily thinking and working things out for your very best. So learn to position yourself rightly so that He can fulfil His covenant of peace, salt and unlimited greatness with you.
PASTOR BAMIKOLE B. ISAAC

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