A Covenant is an agreement between two or more people/beings. God is a covenant-keeping God, whatever He has agreed to He fulfils.
God can make or enter a covenant with Man, and Man with God. Man can also enter into an agreement with the devil either knowingly or unknowingly.
What types of covenant do you have?
- A Covenant between God and man: God made a covenant with Abraham, even though he was an idol worshiper, but because of the covenant he had with God, God enlarged his cost and made his descendants like the dust of the earth.
- The Covenant between Man and fellow man: King David made a covenant with Jonathan, and he kept his words. Ruth also made a covenant with Naomi and she followed her to death.
- Convenant between Man and God: Jacob entered into a covenant with God. He wrestled with God and declared that He will never leave God until He blesses him, and because of his persistence, God blessed him and changed his name from Jacob to Israel.
- A Covenant between Man and Satan: Many people go into covenants with the devil both in secret, knowingly and sometimes unknowingly. They do all possible best to keep or live a secret life, but spiritually they are like dead logs of wood. The devil’s main job on earth is SKD – Steal, Kill and Destroy.
Is Covenant the secret of Long Life?
To have life is to:
- To have life is be spiritually fulfilled
- Being personally fulfilled in all you do
- To be financially fulfilled
- T enjoy mentally fulfillment.
Therefore we should refuse all things that will make us not live a fulfilled life.
The reason David lived a fulfilled life was because he constantly renews his covenant with God. Every time King David sins against God; he always humbles himself before God and asks for forgiveness. Through Praise and prayers, King David constantly renews his covenant with God.
There are two major ingredients that make up our Lives that are very important to God.
- The breath we take: According to Genesis 1 Vs 26 – 29; Life began from the Biblical creation. Of all the creatures of God, man is the direct duplicate of god – “in his own image he created man”. Man ONLY became a living being after God breathed into him. Thus without the breath of God, we are nothing. What makes’ a man Great are not the earthly possessions, but the breath of God he has in him.
- The Blood that runs through our veins and arteries: According to Leviticus 17 vs 11; “The life of a Creation is in the blood”. Blood is so precious to God.
These two elements are very vital to a human being, and what the enemy wants is to take either of it from you. But the Bible has already given us a forewarning about the situation, thus we need to be extremely vigilant and constantly renew our covenants with God always.
12 Secrets of long life (Psalms 34:1-12)
