The Covenant Practice and Your Faith

Take note:

Covenant reveals what God has committed to do for you, while your level of faith determines how much of that promise you will experience.

In Gen 12:1-3, God establishes covenant by grace to Abraham, while by faith Abraham responded by believing and aligned with God’s terms. (By faith he moved) (Gen 11:8-9).

Walking in faith is how man says yes, to God’s covenant. (Gen 15: 6 And he believed in the LORD;

and he counted it to him for righteousness.)

Foundation for faith operations

1. Try and understand what God has committed Himself to do for you. (Exd 23:25-26) Believe Gods word above circumstances – (Rom 3:4)
2. Walk in obedience and not emotion – Obey even when it’s inconvenient (Heb 11:8)
3. Speak covenant languages – (2Cor 4:13)
4. Practice covenant service responsibly (1Cor 4:2)

How faith helps your covenant practice

1. Faith activates covenant practice: covenant practice requires prayer, obedience, service, sacrifice, holiness and thanksgiving. But none of them can be done without faith.
2. Faith is what turns covenant practice into spiritual transaction. (Heb 11:1)
3. Faith sustains covenant loyalty: Every covenant practice requires consistency no matter the situation. (Prov 12:24) It is only faith that helps believers to remain loyal when promises seems delayed. (Job 14:14)
4. Faith refuses to let circumstances define covenant truth: Even though Abraham knew that he and the wife has past the season for child bearing yet he staggered not in unbelief but was strong in hope (Rom 4:18-21)
5. Faith sustains trust to covenant delivery in the face of impossibility: Covenant people do not deny reality on ground but they interpret life through God’s promises – Duet 28:1-2.
6. Faith leads to action (James 2:7) – Faith pushes us to exercise covenant demands, The work requirement of our covenant is carried out on the platform of faith.
7. Faith helps us to walk in willing obedience: In covenant practice if assignments are not carried out in freewill obedience, it cannot be rewarded. (Job 36:11, Isaiah 1:19).
8. Covenant rights are enforced through faith: When our rights in the covenant seems to be delayed, with faith through prayers we demand their manifestation. (Eph 6:16). Whenever our covenant rights are breached, we fight back because we believe that God cannot fail in his promises. (1Sam 1)
9. Covenant fulfillment timing is always determined by faith: The quantity of faith each of has is what determines how fast our covenant rights should arrive.
10. Faith helps your endurance in the face of delay: Your faith keeps you believing in hope when our expected time is running out. (Heb 10:36).