Hosanna Restoration Church

The key to experiencing the fullness of our covenant with God is having confidence in the covenant. No doubt the thing that stands out most in this scripture to many people is the reference to the will of God. Shouldn’t we be most excited that He hears us! Many people don’t pray because they don’t think God will listen anyway!

As we become more confident in His promises we will find our selves drawn more and more to them, rather than finding reasons why we might be praying wrong and why God might have an excuse to overlook our prayers. God states very clearly that when we call on Him, He will answer. Some of you astute Bible students have already had the thought that we must call in sincerity and truth, and that is true. But why don’t we leave it up to Him to decide about who is sincere and who is not? After all, we have all seen people get their prayers answered that we would have skipped if we were God. (Smile)

Why do people prefer to think that God really wants us poor and weak, when He is the one who said, “Let the weak say I am strong, let the poor say I am rich.” Did he call us to be liars or people who declare the truth? What makes us strong and rich? It is the blessing of the Lord. And where did that blessing come from; you guessed it, the covenant that God made with Abraham. He told him that He would bless him and make him a blessing, and that the blessing was for all who would believe. Remember, all Abraham did was believe God.

This week as I marveled the road map has brought me along He spoke to me about covenant confidence. I have always had the attitude that since God saved me He would have to keep me. Whenever He’s had a plan, He made it happen. Since the first time I met Jesus, I knew there was a lot more of Him to know. And even when I fail miserably, He is always faithful. God said that I have succeeded because I walked in covenant confidence, without knowing what it was.

And so, I write this as an encouragement to have confidence in the covenant that God established for our benefit. Accept the fact that God in all His wisdom has chosen you as the object of His affection. Believe that He desires to gather you in His arms as any loving Father would. Be quick to cast down those doubts and accusations of the enemy.

Declare that God is good and the devil is bad. If it is not good, then it is not God. For too long the church has blown off this kind of thinking and missed so much that God intends for His people to have. But now, more and more people are stepping into covenant confidence. Try it…you will like it!