A Covenant Relationship

8/4/21

I once heard it said that God forms His covenant with us to advance us into our future destinies.  I like that and it gives me hope that the covenant I wrote with the Lord in 2007 will continue to advance me into the calling that He has ordained for me.  But my obligation is still obedience, belief and faith that He will do as He said He would do.  Two years after writing the covenant the Lord told me: “To proclaim as Abraham did, that no matter how long or what I see in the natural that I will stand on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord’.”  And then He said: “As surely as I live, I will perform the words I have spoken.”

Why a Covenant with the Lord?  Because it is a way to hold myself and God accountable.

I explain the process of writing a covenant in My Sister’s Walk with God.  An excerpt: “In addition to keeping a journal, Cindy (my spiritual mentor) told me to write a covenant between the Lord and myself.  What did she mean?  A covenant is a contract that spells out what I would do for God, and what I expect God would do for me during a coming year.  I did this faithfully starting in 1995 every year until 2007 (I will explain later why I stopped).  

I can honestly say that I fulfilled, to the best of my ability, all that I promised the Lord during those years, and He did the same.  How did I know what God wanted from me?  I spent a week ahead of time praying for His expectations of me, and scriptures to verify I was hearing correctly.  All of this went into the covenant along with the date and my signature.  God was faithful to confirm the agreement every year with scripture addresses upon completion.

“Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it.” Galatians 3:15.   At the end of each covenant year, I would go through the year and summarize His answers to my requests as a recap of the covenant time.  And through prayer, I made sure I was obedient in upholding my end of the agreement.”

The idea of covenanting with the Lord is not unusual as the Bible is filled with covenants and promises.  From http://www.webtruth.org/eschatology/chart-of-bible-covenants/: “Simply put, a Divine Covenant is a promise from God, formalized in a legal framework, solemnized by sacrifice and guaranteed by oath.”

As I mentioned, I stopped writing a covenant because God had not fulfilled what I had asked of Him in 2007.  What are the items I am waiting for and still to be fulfilled?  I will explain in future posts.  Therefore, this will be a month-long series on covenanting with the Lord.  I want to take my time laying the ground work in case you would like to covenant with the Lord too.  He is waiting!