Tuesday, 24^th December, 2024

Bible Reading:  Exodus 23:25-26

Memory Verse: If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures. Job 36:11 (NKJV)

Introduction 

Tithing, first fruit offering, giving (especially to the poor and widows), soul winning, interceding, serving God with your gifts/talents, and obedience to the commandments of God, etc., are some of the various covenant practices.

There are several covenants in the Bible, but five covenants are crucial for understanding the story of the Bible and God’s redemptive plan: the Noahic Covenant, the Abrahamic Covenant, The Mosaic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant and the New Covenant.

Four elements of covenants include — promises, terms, blood, and a seal.

What are the benefits of covenant practices?

1. Covenant practice enlists us for supernatural blessings. “If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure.” Job 36:11. It is our entrance into the practice of covenant that unleashes supernatural abundance.

2. Covenant practice engenders the release of divine favour. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and its righteousness and all these things shall be added into you.” Mat.6:33. By the time you key yourself into the practice of covenant what others are dying to get will be running after you.

3. Covenant practice is the gateway to a sickness and diseases free life. “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread and thy water, and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.” Ex. 23:25. You can’t serve God and be sick. Imagine if the saved is sick, how can he preach to the unsaved? Who will listen? You are meant to heal the sick. The healer cannot be a ‘sickler’.

4. Covenant practice guarantees longevity. In case you are not aware, the numbers of your days are 120. Anything that cannot stop you from practicing covenant cannot kill you. “There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in their land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.” Ex. 23:26.

Quote: Only covenant practitioners are entitled to covenant blessings. 

Prophetic Decree: By the covenant that created the heavens and the earth, return back to your divine original, in Jesus name. 

Prayer Focus 

1. I receive grace to obey and serve God at all times and in all seasons all the days of my life, in Jesus name.

2. I receive greater grace to seek God first every day of my life, in plenty or lack, in Jesus name. 

3. I receive grace to serve God with my gifts, talents, money, intellect, influence and affluence as long as there is breath in my nostril, in Jesus name. 

4. By the power of covenant practices, I annul every evil covenant practices working against my health and wealth, in Jesus name. 

5. I receive grace to serve God till the end of time. Even at old age I shall be fruitful, in Jesus name. 

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 2 Timothy 1-4