Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
There is no wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel without Me. You conquer evil with good. You are more than conquerors when you have Me. In any situation the way to overcome and succeed is to bring Me in. I AM with you always, I never leave you or forsake you. The question is, “Are you with Me?”
There is no wisdom and no understanding and no counsel against the LORD. Proverbs 21:30.
To struggle with Me is to struggle with love and goodness. Why would you want to do that? If you let Me in, you will win. If you shut Me out you are shutting out goodness, light, wisdom, understanding, and love from your life, which includes healing, peace, prosperity, and joy. It is hard to keep kicking against the good you are looking for, it will plunge your life into darkness and torment.
In Jesus, I am always the solution. I sent My Word to heal you, save you, and deliver you from all destruction. Psalm 107:20. It is a fearful thing to be without Me in the world because then you do not have in you the One that is greater than he that is in the world and you are without hope of eternal life. It is a fearful thing to have no one you can call upon who always has the answer, the abundance to fill your every need with plenty left over to take care of every good work, and who loves you beyond any love you will ever experience on earth. It is very hard to walk the path of life alone apart from Me. Adam tried and it filled his life with toil and sorrow. Let Me gather you into My everlasting arms and raise you high above all that would ensnare your feet along the path. I want to take you to a whole new level. And that is what Covenant is all about.
I am offering you the joy of belonging to love. I am offering you to join in the new and eternal Covenant—the everlasting Covenant of love. Once you enter it in Christ, it can never be broken. You have the possession of redemption.
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of possession, to the praise of His glory. Ephesians 1:13-14.
Why Covenant? If you will note I am always seeking to make Covenant with My people, that is, with those who respond to Me and open their hearts to Me. When Adam rejected Me and cast Me out of the world I had made for him and his descendants by using his dominion authority that I had given him against Me, I could not act in anyone’s life of the line of Adam, which you all are, unless you gave Me permission to do so. Unless you authorized My acting on your behalf.
I am the ultimate owner of the earth and all that is in it, but I have given you, the children of men, the leasehold interest and it has a term certain that is not quite over yet so My Son cannot return and break the seven seals of the title deed as yet but each of you has the authority to authorize Me to come in to your life and territory to make it like the Kingdom of Heaven, and thus plant and establish My Kingdom and days of Heaven upon the earth. My blessing makes rich and adds no sorrow (painful toil) with it.
When you join in Covenant with someone you not only authorize them to act on your behalf but you also bind them to do so. If you recall, the Gibeonites made covenant with Joshua and the people of Israel. When later the Gibeonites were attacked by five enemy kings and their armies, they sent note to Joshua to come at once to defend and protect them. They called upon the covenant bond and Joshua and the army of Israel had to come to the rescue of their covenant partners. And I was with them to fulfill their duties. That was the battle, a covenant battle, where I, at Joshua’s command, stopped the orbit of the earth around the sun, making it pause for a almost a whole day. Joshua 10:12-14.
And in the eternal bond of Covenant, for I am Spirit and a spirit bond is forever, I found a way of again entering your life and the world I had made with so much love to bless whoever would join with Me and permit Me to exercise My power on their behalf—to raise them again to My image and according to My likeness. Like the covenant of adoption you again became Mine and inherited from Me so that all I have became yours and all you have became Mine. It is the wonder of oneness that raises the lesser to the level of the greater.
But just as in marriage though the two unite as one in ownership, benefits, blessings, and responsibilities they, though one in possession, remain unique and separate, one does not become the other, the greater one is still the greater one but there is a gracious support of the one for the other so that there is no lack, no nakedness, and neither is ever alone and without recourse. Each has access, immediate access, to the other. You are never again without help just when you need it. You need only call upon the other to come to your aid. Just like the Gibeonites did with Joshua and the Israelites. You are never again without the other in the world.
Individuals, groups, and nations make covenants for the benefits of the covenant relationship. A covenant between two or more people binds them together to prosper, protect, defend, and support one another in united fellowship and loyalty. It is very serious and sacred and just as there are benefits for keeping it, there are also serious consequences for breaking the bond of loyalty.
I liken the relationship between you and Me to the marriage Covenant, for I have espoused you to Me forever in faithfulness and love. Each is responsible to see to the interests of the other, but it is primarily the duty of the stronger, richer or greater one to raise the other up to the same level. Like Boaz and Ruth. Like Christ and the Church, His body on earth.
Everything is shared as one that each has individually. Each possesses the other. When you believed in the good news of your salvation (Yeshuah, Jesus), I sealed you in Him by the Holy Spirit as a pledge and you have the possession of redemption. I have commanded Him to lose nothing that I have given to Him and to raise you up on the last day. Ephesians 1:13-14; John 6: 37-40.
My Covenant with you is forever. Marriage between two individuals on the earth is a covenant of the flesh, the two become one flesh, and ends at the death of the flesh. Individuals who were married on earth are not married in Heaven to one another, they live like the angels, that is, are of heavenly substance, not earthly substance. But in My Covenant with you, we unite in our spirits.
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 Corinthians 6:17.
My Spirit comes to dwell with your spirit and gives you access to Me and all I am and own. You become a partaker of the divine nature in that you can be filled with My love and light in all its fullness and goodness. We are in a relationship of love that will never perish or pass away. I will always take care of you. It is a commitment that is eternal that I will never break. When you are in Covenant with Me in Jesus you are never again out of My presence, whether in or out of your mortal body. It does not end with the grave as earthly marriage does. It is forever.
So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:6-10.
How do you enter this everlasting Covenant with Me? Jesus told you that He is the way, the truth and the life and there is no other way to Me but through Him. Why? To enter into Covenant with Me and be one with Me in love, you must be sinless and pure, holy, blameless and beyond reproach, and Jesus makes you exactly qualified as such. In Him I qualify the ungodly to the inheritance of the saints in light. In Him, I raise you up to My level and seat you in Him at My right hand. He loves you and has released you from your sins by His blood and made you a kingdom, priests unto Me. In Him I have qualified you to be with Me forever. In Him I have raised you out of the ash heap of your sins to the beauty of a perfect life in Me forever. Why would you ignore the divine invitation for so great a salvation?
Believe in your heart that I raised Him from the dead after His sufferings and death for your sins with all your sins gone and your justification accomplished and confess with your mouth in agreement with Me that Jesus is Lord and you are made righteous and you are saved. Forever sealed in Him by My Holy Spirit of promise. And then you must be born again by water and the Spirit in baptism and thereby clothe yourself in Christ and partake in the Covenant meal where you eat His body and drink His blood to have eternal life in you. The marriage feast of the Lamb in your hands.
In that communion meal you become one with Him in the consummation of Covenant. Each time you partake you proclaim His death for your healing and forgiveness and are cleansed of all unrighteousness. It is more than an enactment it is a participation in the moment of eternal salvation ever living ever new ever flowing out His life to you. No generation is not there when the bread is broken and the words of Jesus spoken and the chalice lifted and the words of Jesus spoken, the Holy Spirit goes into action to perform that Word even in your mouths as you gather round the table of the altar of your salvation and the elements are transformed within so it is no longer physical bread and wine but the manna divine and the eternal blood ever new on the mercy seat in Heaven of the greater tabernacle not made by human hands as your great High Priest ever intercedes for you before Me to the uttermost. This is eternal and in the partaking so you become as well.
Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.” John 6:53-58.
And when you are in Covenant with Jesus, He is in Covenant with Me. He made Covenant with Me at His baptism at the Jordan and sealed it as He shed every drop of His blood on the Cross. He commended His Spirit into My hands and I raised Him up with all your sins gone on the third day as I had foretold by My prophets. “You are My Son this day I have begotten you!” Your great good shepherd and great high priest—a priest forever according to the Order of Melchizedek.
Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep by the blood of the eternal covenant, Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20-21.
You in Him, He in Me, and I in Him, and I in you and you in Me.
“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.” John 17:20-23.
And that is sealed forever because Jesus will never break His Covenant with Me and He will never break His Covenant with you. And when you believed I sealed you in Him by the Holy Spirit as a pledge of your redemption of possession. I belong to you and you to Me forever in Jesus. You have blessed assurance. We have you covered. I am with you, I go before you, and I am your rearguard.
I love you and I am love. You have the joy of belonging to love forever. And that is a delightful way to live and a delightful way to be. And it is yours in Christ Jesus if you will only receive Him. Give yourself the joy of belonging to Me, do not continue in doubt and unbelief, just believe and receive to share My joy. It will do far beyond all you can ask or imagine. And that is Covenant. I cannot think of a better way of making your life one with Me. All you have to do is say “Yes and amen.” Jesus and I did all the rest.
“For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.” 2 Corinthians 1:19-22.