12 THEN you will CALL upon ME and go and PRAY to ME, AND I will LISTEN to YOU. 13 AND you will SEEK Me and FIND Me, WHEN you SEARCH for ME with all YOUR HEART."
Jeremiah 29:12,13 (NKJV)
• The Secret of establishing a covenant with God.
- God says He would not hide what He wanted to do for Abraham: "SHOULD I HIDE MY PLAN FROM ABRAHAM?” THE LORD ASKED" (Genesis 18:17 NLT).
- For you to get to the point, or level that God will not hide HIS plans from you, in your walk with Him, you had to be someone who obeyed Him absolutely.
- Unwavering commitment, and total obedience; without questioning or looking Back would be required of you by God (Genesis 22:1-3).
• The depth of your covenant relationship with God is determined by your past Obedience to all the instructions which He has been giving to you!
- If you have been walking with Him in absolute Obedience, you can stand before Him to ask for something: either for the self, someone else, a group of people, a town, or a city, and for a Nation (Genesis 18:23,24).
- God will answer your requests If you had a good standing with Him (Genesis 18:23-33).
- Covenant is established through the Obedience to the instructions given by God; and it gets deeper by living an obedient life.
• Doing God's Will might not be easy, but it is possible.
- When you passed through difficulties because you wanted to obey God, you become an authority in the Kingdom.
- If you suffered because of disobedience, It would add nothing to you, but keep you long in whatever predicament and delay your journey in life (1 Peter 2:20; 4:12,13).
- Disobedience gives the devil, a right or an opportunity to oppress and batter your life.
- However, there is a reward for whatever sacrifice you made, that is, what you passed through or suffered to obey God (Philippians 2:5-11).
EVEN Jesus passed through something in His bidding to obey God (Hebrews 5:8,9). - What you would notice when you are suffering in order to obey God is, comfort would be coming intermittently, particularly If you were getting wearied and about to give up.
SUCH a suffering strengthens your covenant relationship with God. - Any Major step of obedience strengthened and deepened your covenant with God.
- Note: Another major step of obedience took by Abraham provoked the Blessing of God to be released on him; when he took the step of sacrificing his son, Isaac, in order to obey God (Genesis 22:1-5,9-12).
- God did swear to bless him, and He did that with an oath (Genesis 22:16-18; Hebrews 6:13-14,16-18).
- What Abraham did moved God to pronounce a special blessing on him (Genesis 22:17,18; Hebrews 6:14).
• Obedience will cause your words to be weighty, when you speak, it would be honoured in the spirit realm of light and that of the darkness.
- You become a known figure, in the realm of the spirit (Acts 19:15).
a. Angels and demons will obey your words or commands.
b. You become God's friend and confidant (Genesis 18:17; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Psalm 25:14; Isaiah 41:8; James 2:23).
c. God would consider you If He had to do something around where you are, especially if it would affect you, and those who identify with you, one way or Another (Genesis 18:23-33).
d. When you decree, It will stand! (1 Samuel 3:19).
e. When you take people's matter to God in Prayers, He would consider it, and If He would not, He would let you know the reason or reasons for not considering it (Numbers 14:17-20; Micah 7:18-20).
f. God will tell you about the cases of the people, what He had planned to do to them—especially those who had done wrongly (Numbers 14:11-20). He would let you know what they had done wrongly and what He did plan to do to them. He would tell you before He punishes them (Genesis 18:16-21; 1 Samuel 3:10-18).
g. If you brought people's matters to Him, asking for His help on their situations, or asking Him to counsel or Will on them; He would consider the requests you had brought.
• Your act of obedience and covenant walk with God will earn your posterity, the generation after you; favour in His sight (Deuteronomy 8:18).
- Your obedience, covenant walk with God, would give them favour, help, or forgiveness, as the case may be—in the sight of Him.
- David's descendants experienced this:
9 THE LORD was very ANGRY with SOLOMON, FOR his HEART had TURNED away from the LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, WHO had appeared to him TWICE. 10 HE had WARNED Solomon SPECIFICALLY about WORSHIPING other GODS, BUT Solomon DID NOT LISTEN to the Lord’s COMMAND. 11 SO now the Lord said to HIM, “SINCE YOU HAVE NOT KEPT MY COVENANT and HAVE DISOBEYED MY DECREES, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your servants. 12 BUT FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FATHER, DAVID, I WILL NOT DO THIS WHILE YOU ARE STILL ALIVE. I will take the kingdom away from your son. 13 And even so, I WILL NOT TAKE AWAY THE ENTIRE KINGDOM; I will let him be king of one tribe, FOR THE SAKE OF MY SERVANT DAVID AND FOR THE SAKE OF JERUSALEM, MY CHOSEN CITY” (1 kings 11:9-13 NLT).
• If God would have to punish or chastise because of the gravity of whatever they did, the Sin committed by your descendants; He would still have mercy because of the covenant He had established with you—as a result of your past Faithfulness—Obedience.
- Your act of Obedience would still be speaking, long after you had gone, if Jesus tarried.
• Strive to obey God, do His Will, you are not doing it for yourself alone, but for the people who identify with you and your posterity—the Generation to come.
• The grace for absolute Obedience is imparted to you in Jesus' name.
- Should there be any sickness in your body, receive your healing now in Jesus' name.
- Hold of the devil on your health is broken now in Jesus' name.
Peace!