WALKING IN COVENANT BLESSINGS

“BLESSED are the people who know the joyful sound! They WALK, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance” – Psalm 89:15

God desires that His people WALK in COVENANT BLESSINGS. He has promised to never break His covenant nor alter the Word – the Blessing – that has been released from His lips: “MY COVENANT I will not break, nor alter the WORD that has gone out of MY LIPS” (v. 34). In order to walk in the blessings of God, we must learn to lay hold on His multi-faceted covenant of health, peace, prosperity, joy, and fulfilment. We enjoy God’s abundant blessings as we learn to walk in our covenant relationship with God and take it seriously. When we do exactly what God wants us to do, then the blessings shall come upon us, and overtake us, and there is no power on earth or in hell that can stop us from being blessed. Virtually everyone is struggling to be blessed today in the world, but God is more eager to have us blessed than we are desirous to be blessed. He will however do it in His own way, not in our way.

God has His own way of doing things and getting people blessed. He wants us to quit our own way, and begin to make His way ours: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Isa.55:8-9). His way is the Covenant way. A covenant is a solemn agreement that is binding on all parties; solemn in the sense of being characterized by deep sincerity – coming from the heart. Every agreement entered into between God and man in the scripture is a covenant. Covenant blessing is help or favour received from God based on solemn agreement entered into with Him. We serve the Covenant-keeping God. He always keeps His own part of the bargain. He never forgets; never fails; and never disappoints. Hear Him:

“And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh” (Gen.9:15)

“And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob” (Exo.2:24).

“And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant” (Exo.6:5).

God the Covenant-Keeper, in turn, delights to bless Covenant keepers. For example, God had commanded Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you” (Gen.22:2). Abraham demonstrated obedience by showing his intention to sacrifice Isaac, until God stopped him and provided a substitute. This act of obedience attracted divine blessings. So impactful was his obedience that God swore: “…By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and not withheld your son, your only son, in blessings I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies” (Gen.22:16-17).

As believers, we have access to God’s greater blessings through covenants. Have you heard the joyful sound of God’s covenant? If so, walk in the light of His countenance. To walk in His covenant means to be willing and obedient to His words. When we take covenants with God seriously, He also will be committed to us. We must enter into definite covenants with God, and fulfil our covenant responsibilities before we can enjoy blessings that are attached to them. Abraham was ready to give the most precious gift in his life; he took Gods word and believed in his heart in order to receive the blessings. As we do the same, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who did it then will do it again, in Jesus name. Amen.