Wisdom Mag Issue 12 draft 4

is that God Himself is your allotted portion. Whatever your
desires may be, even if it is not yet in existence, He will create
it! The All-Sufficient God is your portion! You can only ‘take hold
of Him’ or rather appropriate His all-Sufficiency through the
covenant. Friend, all your portions in God are included in the
covenant. In fact, the New Jerusalem Bible version says it this
way, “..my lot is all I could wish for.” Moreover this covenant is
both a will and a testament, and it made us an heir of God and
a joint heir with Jesus Christ. By the tenor of this eternal
covenant, we were adopted into the family of God and given
the privileges of sons. See Rom.8 v 15-17, 1 Cor.3 v 21-23, Gal.3
v 15-17, 4 v 4-7 and Heb.9 v 16-17, It is all you need in time and
eternity. May God in His infinite mercy give us the heart and the
desire for the covenant and the ability to work faithfully in this
covenant with Him. May He create in us according to His love, a
steadfast and a committed heart just as like Abraham and cause
the voice of this prayer to be heard; to let it come up to His holy
dwelling place in heaven, as He did in the days of Hezekiah
when “the priests and Levites arose and blessed the people,
and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to His holy
dwelling place, in heaven.” May He implant the desire and the
love for the covenant in us and incline His ears to hear.
Amen. Ps10 v 17.
Thirdly, this covenant is ‘well assured’ or ‘guarded
or ‘secured,’ and therefore cannot fail. It is referred to in Isa.55
v 3 as the ‘sure mercies of David’. Please read with me: “Incline
your ear and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; and I
will make an everlasting covenant with you-The sure mercies
of David.” When Jesus, the greater David, to whom this promise
was made, rose from the dead, this ‘sure mercies of
David’ became the possession of all the children of God who will
ever receive Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour; the federal
head. This is written for us in Acts13 v 33-34.“God has fulfilled
this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is
also written in the second Psalm: ‘You are My Son, today I have
begotten You.’ And that He raised Him from the dead, no more
to return to corruption, He has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the
sure mercies of David.’” Everything about this covenant is sure
and well assured; and when we channel our desires and hopes
through it, they cannot fail more than God can fail. Jesus stands
as the surety or guarantor of this covenant. Heb.7 v 22. He is the
only one who has ever died and risen again to probate His own
will. What He died for, He is enthroned at the right hand of the
Majesty on high to make sure we get it. This is why the
covenant is the springboard of hope and desire. There is no heir
of salvation who is hopeless, no not one! Eph.2 v 11-12,
says: “Therefore remember that you were once Gentiles in the
flesh- who are called Uncircumcision by what is called
Circumcision made in the flesh by hands- that at that time you
were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no
hope and without God in the world.” When I look at the state
of the Church today, its poverty and lack of understanding of the
covenant, it moves me to tears. Why should we continue to live
as Gentiles, as if though we are without Christ, aliens from the
commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of
promise? Is not our lack of understanding of covenant the robber
and the armed man that has kept us captive? Friend, I challenge
you to take a good look at yourself, reflect on what you are and
where you are as opposed to where you ought to be or where or
what you could be by the covenant and let that challenge and
move you to the depth of your being. Let it move you into prayer
and the laying hold of other means of grace to make this
covenant your experience. Beloved, if Jesus went to the limit by
shedding His blood to make this covenant available to us; it will
be a crime on our part if we do not do all that lies within us to
make it our living experience. Let His Blood be precious to you
and the purchase of His Blood and let that move you to your
knees as you cry to God for an understanding of a covenant
union and the establishment of His covenant with you! The word
of the Psalmist is conclusive here; “They do not know, nor do
they understand; all the foundations of the earth are unstable.
I said, ‘You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most
High. But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the
princes.’”The covenant provided for us to live as gods in the
world. It is the covenant that is the wellspring and the fountain
of strong and robust faith. Oh, how we need to long and desire
for God to make us a witness of the power, the blessings, the
wisdom and the glory of the covenant! See Isa.55 v 4. God told
Abraham, “And I will establish (set up on a firm or permanent
basis) My covenant between Me and you and your
descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting
covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after
you.“ Gen.17 v 7. You are the seed of Abraham in this
generation, so you are qualified for the best and the highest
expression of covenant lifestyle in this generation. Are not, “All
the promises of God in Him Yes and in Him Amen to the glory
of God though us?” You have a covenant right to cry to God to
establish the same covenant with you as He did of Isaac, Jacob,
David, and so on. Beloved, nothing else satisfies apart from the
covenant! ”Why do you spend your money for what is not
bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen
carefully to Me and eat what is good and let your soul delight
itself in fatness/abundance.” Isa.55 v 2. Nothing outside of the
covenant guarantees your fulfilment or satisfaction; only the
covenant is guaranteed and tailor-made for your nature and
your need!
To be continued on the next edition
BEAUTIFUL & COLOURFUL
NIGERIAN YORUBA CULTURE
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God.
Culture that Glories God First and Foremost,
Brings Pleasure to God.
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