Exodus 23:22 ‘But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.’
DAILY READING; –Matthew 23:1-12; Numbers 22:41-23:26; Song of Solomon 3:6-5:1
In his book, the Blood Covenant, E.W Kenyon gives a detailed illustration of what cutting a covenant means.
He tells the story of the famous missionary Henry Morton Stanley who ran into trouble with different African tribes. especially a hostile tribe in the Congo. Eventually his interpreter advised him to enter into a blood covenant with a powerful chief to make his journey easier. .
However, when the procedures for a blood covenant were explained, Stanley found them repulsive. He and the chief would have to make incisions on their wrists, and their drops of blood would be mixed in wine and both men would drink from the cup and become blood brothers.
Stanley was relieved to learn he could use a substitute and so presented one of his African companions for the incisions of the covenant. .
The covenant also required an exchange of gifts, the tribal chief insisted on having Stanley’s white goat, which gave him milk for daily nourishment.
In exchange, the chief gave him a seven-foot copper spear. Stanley thought this was a horrible deal. His treasured goat had been exchanged for a useless spear! But to Stanley’s surprise, everywhere he went when people saw him with the chief’s spear, they immediately bowed to him in honor and respect. The other tribes recognized the spear as a symbol of the chief’s authority. And because the chief was now his blood brother, no one dared to stand against Stanley as he continued on his journey. They knew that attacking him would mean an attack on the chief.
A covenant means the two people involved have become one and what belongs to one belongs to the other. Whoever fights one also fights the other.
This gives us an idea of the importance of our divine covenant with God. We then see what it means when God says in Exodus 23:22 ‘But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.’
As we walk in covenant with God, through obedience to His Word, He becomes committed to fighting our adversaries. Because of our covenant relationship with God, we are never alone in our battles. Anything that comes against you will have to first contend with God.
Zechariah 2:8, says ‘for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye’.
The secret of young David when he faced the giant Goliath was in realizing he had a covenant partner – Almighty God!
David was so confident the Lord was on his side that he boldly declared to the giant:
‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,’
Whatever giants you may face today in your health, finances, relationships etc, instead of fighting the battle on your own, invoke the the Blood covenant against them.. By reason of the precious Blood of the Lamb, shed to establish our divine covenant with God, affliction cannot arise a second time in your life. No weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises against you in judgement, is utterly condemned.
PRAYER: Father, I thank You for providing divine security and immunity for me through the Blood of Jesus. Thank You precious Lord for bringing to an utter end every oppression and affliction in my life in Jesus Name. .
QUOTE;
The truth of God’s Word in the life of a believer is always reflective, the results can never be hidden. – WORDBITE 222.
Shalom!
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