good morning my friends i'm pastor
stephen brooks welcome today to our
midweek bible study called
morning glory i'm so happy that you're
here
today we're going to be in the book of
second chronicles
chapter 15 we want to look into the
fascinating aspects
of god's covenants there's different
types of covenants
we're going to look at one particularly
today that we're going to
move towards but i think that
many of god's people i'm referring to
the christians
they understand the new covenant
which is a covenant of salvation but
there's also
other covenants god made a covenant with
the jewish people for example
there's a abrahamic covenant there's the
noahic covenant there's the davidic
covenant
but the most important thing is that we
understand
the new covenant which is salvation
through christ
we're saved by grace through faith
praise the lord so if that's the only
one
that you ever understand then at least
you make heaven praise god which is
something that you'll be eternally
joyful that you
understood that covenant praise god and
we thank god
for those that preached the good news of
salvation through christ the new
covenant the
born-again new birth experience praise
the lord
but today we're going to study aspects
insights of god's covenant and his
various covenants praise the lord
particularly one of them
second chronicles chapter 15. let's
start in verse 1
and let's open up in prayer heavenly
father we ask that your holy spirit
would come
upon today's teaching and that he would
anoint
the eyes of our understanding so that we
can
not just have a history lesson or have
head knowledge although those things are
important
but father we ask that your scriptures
would be
it would be your living word to us that
this would be
in essence our daily bread now father we
thank you you never designed us just to
live on bread alone
but by every word that proceeds from
your mouth
so we thank you for our food today let
us eat it and understand it
now thank you father for insight into
your
covenants in jesus name we pray we all
agree
and say amen praise the lord
now the spirit of god came upon azariah
the son of
obed and he went out to meet asa
now of course asa is the king over
judah or the southern kingdom and he
went out to meet asa and said to him
hear me asa and all judah and
benjamin now the tribe of benjamin
which is uh composed of a lot of
left-handers
often when you see the tribe of benjamin
mentioned you'll
you hear about how they could all sling
the men could sling a stone with their
left hand
and so it appears that a lot of them
were left-handers for all of you
left-handers out there
such as myself maybe
maybe uh if you're not jewish perhaps
you're part of the spiritual
tribe of benjamin hallelujah praise god
and remember
you know you had king saul come out of
the tribe of benjamin
you also had paul the apostle
who could verify his lineage
through the tribe of benjamin but in
some ways benjamin would end up being
absorbed into the
larger overall tribe of
judah and thus the southern kingdom was
basically known eventually as
judah you had a similar thing taking
place with the northern 10 tribes
where things just began eventually over
time to congregate pretty much
in the area of ephraim and then ephraim
kept growing and had a strong
influence and so ephraim became a term
to not just to designate their tribe but
really the northern 10 tribes in a sense
became known as ephraim
the southern two tribes became known as
eventually as
judah hear me asa and all judah and
benjamin
the lord is with you while you are
with him if you seek him he will be
found by you
but if you forsake him he will forsake
you now this is something that's very
important
to understand about covenant god is
always faithful to his word to his
promise
and to his covenant but
he did not create us as robots
by the way that's why there was a
different type of tree
placed in the garden of eden to do what
to give man
the ability to choose between right and
wrong the ability to
obey god and yes god commands
and god directs but we we
have to yield and make our own decision
to either obey or disobey praise the
lord i know i'm speaking to
the obeyers praise the lord the ones who
delight in the commandments of the lord
but it is possible to forsake the lord
as sad as that is
this covenant is something that god will
uphold as long as we meet the terms and
conditions of that covenant
in other words you could walk out of
that
covenant marriage is a covenant and
there's terms and conditions to that and
somebody
just says you know i i'm out i want out
i want to run wild i want to go crazy
then the other party the other person
cannot say well hey
you know you you can't run away like
that that person can if
if for some crazy reason they chose to
there is a teaching in the body of
christ
uh predominantly out of the baptist
community the envelope
an evangelical community called it's a
doctrine called once saved always
saved let me be the first to say that i
am a firm believer
in the security of the believer in
christ
and god holds you with with cords of
love
and that love is very very strong in the
presence of the holy spirit
is very very strong but my friends
that doctrine once saved always saved is
not correct
you can walk away should you be crazy
enough or foolish enough to do it
i've only known a few people in my
lifetime to do that
and uh god had a covenant with israel
and as long as they met the terms and
conditions of that covenant
things are going good and if you have
some tough challenges you'll
you're going to overcome if you have an
enemy that comes against you you're
going to win
as long as you're right with god that
covenant is in force
and it will override any circumstance
any difficulty
it can allow you to live the life god
has planned for you to live and god will
do miracles and supernatural things
to keep you going in the right direction
when you're in covenant with him
oh oh my friends but we must be aware
that again we're not robots we can make
choices
we're going to make the right choice and
we're going to serve the lord and we're
going to reach the end of the finish
line
and we're going to cross it and hear
well done good and
faithful servant praise the lord so i i
cannot agree with that doctrine once
saved always saved that's not scriptural
that's meant as a good intention to
express god's love
his mercy and his long reaching arm
but uh it is very much possible to walk
out of a covenant
even of a covenant of salvation as
tragic as that would be
but my friends uh we're going to lean
strongly on the lord
trust in him and he is going to be
faithful to complete
that which he has begun in us we're
going all the way with the lord and
we're never going to forsake him praise
god regardless
of what would come our way now verse 3
for a long time oh wow for a long time
israel has been without the true god
i think it's important for us to
understand whether it was
the southern kingdom of israel judah
benjamin or the northern kingdom
even when the nation was in apostasy
let's take the northern 10 tribes they
went into some really bad stuff
but really up until the time of ahab
and when ahab married jezebel even
the kings before him that were wicked
they never really went off the cliff
in a sense even if they were worshiping
jehovah they and they were worshiping
other false gods
they would still that in this
form of bizarre mixture they would still
put god in the equation
for example the golden calves that the
northern 10 tribes worshiped
in two areas bethel and dan and my wife
and i have been to bethel we have seen
the literal altar area where the the
the golden calf in that in that town was
set up at and the remains are still
there today not not the golden calf of
course
but even when they worship the golden
calves
they still would incorporate god into
that worship and they would basically
say things like
jehovah we acknowledge you as the golden
calf and we worship so it's
yeah it was it was it was wrong but they
still had not
like completely put god out of the
equation
until ahab married jezebel and when she
came in
uh you know with the phoenician king as
a father
uh her father was even named
after baal and so that was the epicenter
of the cult worship of bale
and astra well she brought all of that
with her as the king's daughter
when she married ahab as king and now
you have a queen
that's full-blown into occultism and so
she
was a big influence really you could say
that
they both co-reigned together she was
calling a lot of the shots
yes he was still king and he had a he
had his input but they were they were
mutually ruling together
and she took israel into a place where
it had never been before which was
a total dismissal of god
uh where it was complete devotion to
baal complete
and baal was the male deity asher was
the female deity
and it was complete worship to them and
she
instituted the own uh the owned uh
uh priestly system for that form of
worship
and all the awful things that went along
with it so
you have to understand uh when it says
for a long time
israel has been without the true god
they've always had a mixture
but oh mixture is awful there's only one
true beautiful living god praise the
lord father son holy spirit
three in one blessed be the lord
now for a long time israel has been
without the true god
without a teaching priest wow and
without law
without a teaching priest is a real
tragedy here's why
in those times those ancient times you
did not have
the phenomenal privilege of what we have
today which is
books or god's word in a printed form
praise god for the printing press and
for digital presses and offset presses
and anything to do with books praise god
they didn't have that so uh there were
very few scrolls
even upon which the torah god's word
god's instructions god's
guidebook or guidelines for the way that
they were to live as a chosen select
covenant people
there were very very few scrolls so the
whole nation had to rely upon what
the priest because the priest would
teach the people
first of all the commandments of god
then they would interpret the
commandments like okay this is how you
do it and so forth and
they would make it simple and easy for
the people to understand
but my friends if there were ever
compromise
within the priesthood if there were ever
corruption
within the priesthood what's that going
to do that's going to affect
the people because the priests in
essence are setting the tone
for the whole spiritual conduct and
nature of the way the israelites are
going to go because why
they're the ones communicating to the
people to the israelis saying
this is how we're going to live this is
what god says to do
and so suddenly if you get them up there
and they're they are
the teaching priests but now they're
teaching wrong or they're teaching
compromise or
they're saying this is okay when god
never said it's okay how can we say
from a modern day perspective they're
trying to redefine truth
then that's going to have a huge
influence not only upon the nation but
also upon the king
upon the king as well because he's not a
priest he's not doing that full time
he's over here administrating he's
governing that's what a king does so
he's relying on the priest
also so if things go bad there and they
did
there's corruption there it's uh you
have to understand
in some ways god's going to hold the
people responsible but not with the same
weight
that he's going to hold that priesthood
responsible because they're the ones
that are leading
the people god's people away from true
worship to him
so for a long time israel has been
without a
the true god and be without a teaching
priest and without a teaching priest
you just pretty much don't know what to
do and
without law if you don't know the law
you can't obey it and if there's nobody
to teach it to you
you're left trying to just figure out
how to live your own life and you
maybe have memory or recall of what you
heard when you were young
perhaps as a priest was teaching the law
but maybe had another priest come along
later say oh we don't have to do it like
that god didn't really mean that
we can do it like this god allowed this
and that and the other and before you
know it there's confusion among the
people
there's no laws and it's not like you
could go out and grab a book and say
well i'm going to find out for myself
there were no books
there were no books and they're very
very few scrolls
so a very very very dangerous situation
for the nation
to fall into a place like this now but
when in their trouble they turned
to the lord god of israel and sought him
he was found by them
by them so now in the southern kingdom
things have been going a little better
but still a lot of trouble in the
northern kingdom
uh there's nothing but coup after coup
and war
after war sometimes even between the
northern and southern kingdom
but outside of that there's just crazy
stuff going on
and you never want to be living your
life with uh
chaos you're not designed for that okay
unless there's a war or something that
you have to walk through that's beyond
your control
and then in those scenarios god's
presence and god's peace and his
protection will be upon you but ideally
that's not the way that you want to have
to
live your life now verse 4 again but
when in their trouble they turned to the
lord god of israel and sought him
he was found by them verse 5. and in
those times there was
no peace no peace is no fun
it's not a good place you want to be in
where you're harassed
physically you're harassed in your mind
you're harassed maybe on the job
you're harassed in your finances you're
troubled on every side
that's not that's not a good place to be
that's that's denoting somewhere around
here we have an absence of the law
or an absence of obedience to what god
said to do
and it allows doors wide open for the
enemy to come in
and really stick it to the disobedient
lord have mercy and in those times there
was no peace to the one who went out
nor to the one who came in what does
that mean constant trouble
constant trouble when you get up in the
morning you start the day the moment you
get go i mean it's trouble on all sides
and it doesn't end when you come home
it continues all night long you don't
know if they're going to break the door
down
they're going to come in you don't you
don't know if you're going to get shot
killed you have no idea
there's there's war going on all over
the place
but great turmoil was on all the
inhabitants of the lands
while so nation was destroyed by nation
now these these are tribal nations but
then again that just because it's a
tribal nation doesn't mean it's
only a hundred two hundred people know
some of them are large
and so you have thousands and thousands
of people with all these wars going on
nation being destroyed by nation
and city being destroyed by by city for
god troubled them with every adversity
not a fun place to be why uh not
knowing how to walk with god
not knowing what he requires maybe we
could say
clueless of the covenant
not a good place to be look at
look my friends you're going to have to
work the word ignorance is not an excuse
well i didn't know that was in there
well that's why your life
is having those challenges that's why
you're getting hit like that well i
didn't know that
but see ignorance is not an excuse and
maybe you didn't know i
i grew up in a church that loved the
lord we understood the covenant of
salvation
and for that i'll be eternally grateful
if i had to grovel through life
and get pummeled by the enemy because i
don't know how to defend myself at least
i had christ at least i was on my way to
heaven
well as you continue with god and you
dig into his word you find out
who you are in christ the authority you
have to
rule and govern over your life and walk
in the blessing of the lord
but see those things were never taught
me outside of the covenant of salvation
when i was raised in church and so we
would sit in church and
we would in many ways just hear the
gospel message preached over and over
again
but what do you do with that when you're
already saved so there was no further
revelation
maybe i could say it this way there was
no further light and it was reflected by
the fact
in the in the church that i was raised
in and others that i would tend that
within that the same denomination
there was always something wrong with
the lighting i could be in a
in the in the service and it's like
could somebody
turn the lights up a little bit i can i
can hardly read my bible why is it so
dark and gloomy in here that natural
lighting deficit
was a reflection of the spiritual
deficit we did not have enough light
to overcome the enemy we did not have a
knowledge we did not have enough
knowledge of god
and his covenant to have victory in life
now we had
we had our tickets punched for heaven
praise god we had eternal life within
our hearts
but uh you know you're going to need
some more
while you're down here on the earth
you're going to need insight into the
covenant
to walk in the blessings that god has
made available for you they will not
just automatically fall upon you just
because you're born again
and i know many of you have discovered
that praise god yes you
you feel the peace on the inside but we
must
walk in the commandments of god we must
know what they are
and even though we see things in society
and culture
changing and shifting trying to change
truth
the truth is eternal let me let me just
say this right now
you can try to change laws and legislate
certain things and say what was now out
of style is now in style and this is now
right and all that stuff but
when god says stealing is wrong
let me tell you that one billion years
from now
stealing will still be wrong
stealing will be eternally wrong why god
said it's wrong
so you cannot redefine truth you can try
you can alter books and things like that
but god's word can never be changed
so we need to stick with the
commandments and then you're going to
start walking in the covenant
and then you're going to have something
amazing take place
in your life that comes to covenant
practitioners
praise god verse 7 but you be strong and
do not let your hands be weak for your
work
shall be rewarded praise god so
asa he starts to hustle he's like yeah
we don't want to we don't want to go
wrong here
we we don't want any more of this chaos
and craziness this is not the way to
live
so they really really began to turn to
the lord with all of their hearts
verse nine then he gathered all judah
and benjamin so the uh
the area that he ruled over and those
who dwelt with them from ephraim and
that's in simeon
for they came over to him in great
numbers from israel when they saw that
the lord his god was with him
so they gathered together at jerusalem
in the third month in the 15th
year of the reign of asa so up until
that point asus had some victories and
stuff like that but still it's just been
like
there's a whirlwind going on around them
and kind of like
going through the southern area and it's
they want that stuff
finished and they offered to the lord at
that time 700 bulls
seven thousand sheep from the spoil they
had brought
then they entered into a covenant to
seek the lord god of their fathers
with all their heart and with all their
soul and
you see they're very serious about this
uh
verse 13 and whoever would not seek the
lord god of israel
was to be put to death whether small or
great whether man or
woman then they took an oath before the
lord with a loud voice and was shouting
and trumpets and ram's horns
and all judah rejoiced at the oath for
they had sworn with all their
heart and sought him with all their soul
and he was found by them
and then what happened and the lord gave
them
rest all around now that word rest
there in verse 15 in the hebrew means
that you're finally able to settle
down that's what it means um it means
hey
you can breathe easy now uh you don't
have to worry about a group of
marauders or raiders coming in with
knives and daggers taking all of your
stuff
maybe taking your kids away or you know
or murdering you
or all the craziness or maybe another
city over here
just you know for some reason attacking
you or no
god gave them rest praise god
and that's what covenant practitioners
come into you come into a place
of rest now now hey
you can't help what others might do and
the chaos that's going on in their life
if they refuse to listen
and they're doing crazy things but my
friends you can be
in a place of rest and this covenant
will shield you from the chaos
and the other crazy stuff that would be
flying out around there
and you can be exempted from that why
because you are a person of covenant
and you walk in a covenant with god so
asa was very serious about this
reformation
verse 16 also he removed uh
the mother of asa the king from being
queen mother because she had made an
obscene image of asherah and asa cut
down her obscene image then crushed it
and burned it
by the brook kidron and so he's like
well
uh you know sorry that we we've got to
do this but
you're out oh but he can't do that to
her well he did
and so he was basically saying i'm not
letting anything
get in the way of disrupting the
blessing
that we want to walk in we've had enough
of the devil coming in here through open
doors through sin and disobedience
this is no fun so we're dealing with any
form of hindrance
and out it went even if it's relative
family whatever he's
full on with serving god verse 17 but
the high places were not removed from
israel
uh understand the context of that
in the sense that again you're seeing
what i would call mixture even in
the southern kingdom they would still
the israelis would still go up on these
silly high places and they were worship
god and they did that
of course in the northern kingdom that
they had to there because that you know
they're
they're now removed from jerusalem so
you have to understand god told his
people
there's one place i'm choosing and that
one place is where i
designate official worship at and it has
to be done in a very prescribed manner
through my priest and through my levites
and that's the way it's going to be done
and that and god chose jerusalem to be
that place and the temple mount to be
the location
so you have the northern 10 tribes well
they've gone off and they've instituted
their own
mixture of worship of what they think it
should be so
they can't even worship in the right
spot so nothing they're doing is being
accepted
it's all in the wrong location much less
the fact that they're doing it with
golden
uh golden idols of cows
they're in the wrong spot but even in
the wrong spot
and even in the southern area where they
have access to go to the temple mount to
worship
they still had these high places and
when it talks about the high places yes
there would
there would be some where they have
these asteroid poles and you know with
flags set up on them and these are
carvings out of wood
of you know the goddess ashtray and that
usually would be some type of an obscene
image
and we know that there were times where
there would be idolatry
but also sometimes it wasn't so much
direct idolatry as it was again
just people getting away from the law
getting away from a teaching priest and
then
they just start doing things on their
own so if they had a high place
on the property that they owned they
would go up there and in a sense kind of
set up their own mini temple system
maybe they would
have a little altar and they would do
sacrifices there
and maybe they would burn incense there
and god god said no you're not supposed
to do that
you're supposed to that can only be done
by my priest at my temple
so you had all kinds of uh uh mixture
again in the worship
even if they thought well let's just do
it up here on top of this hill
this would be wonderful god said no
that's not the way
that's not the way we do things so the
high places were not removed from israel
so it takes takes a deeper work a deeper
cleansing god's working
nevertheless reformation is taking place
nevertheless the heart of aseal
asa was loyal all his days he also
brought unto the house of god the things
that his father had dedicated
that he himself had dedicated silver and
gold and utensils and there was no war
watch this
there was no war until the 35th year
of the reign of asa praise god now this
is amazing that we are now
looking at a time of 20 years that
passed
since asus said look as king i've had it
with us just
halfheartedly serving god we don't even
know what the commandments are
we don't have the priestly system set up
i've had it i'm fed up with that
we're getting pummeled by the enemy so
the moment he said we're going to do
this right and we're going to
follow the the road map the book they
were ushered into a place of peace that
lasted for 20 years all the wars and all
the chaos
stopped whoa praise god now in the
northern 10 tribes
it kept on going because they're totally
away from the lord
and you know eventually had ahab come on
the scene and jezebel then you've got
elijah the prophet you have these
clashes going on and all of that's still
going on
up north but for those those down south
that got dialed in with god
god dialed in on walking in the covenant
and
meeting its requirements and conditions
20 years of peace
glory to god thank you jesus and i see
extended peace and blessing
in your life and really even after the
20 years the only reason
another war came on the scene in some
ways was a testing mechanism
to see what was in asus heart
unfortunately he blew it and he
although he was a good king all around
he had a poor
ending because of getting away from that
deep reliance
and trust upon the lord
praise god now let's jump further into
the subject of
covenant i've been talking kind of fast
on purpose just to cover
the material as quickly as we can as
there's some
different verses i want us to look at
this morning
now jeremiah chapter 33 let's go to
verse 19
and this will give us an amazing example
of god's
covenant how it works jeremiah 33
verse 19 and the word of the lord came
to jeremiah
saying thus says the lord if you can
break my covenant
okay now watch this if you can break my
covenant
with the day and my covenant with the
night
did you know that god made a covenant
with the day and night
let me just ask you a question do you
think god
has done a pretty good job of keeping
the covenant the deal
the agreement that he made with day and
night i think he has
as far as i know he's never never let it
down one time
whoa incredible okay if you can break my
covenant
with the day and my covenant with the
night so that there will
not be day and night in their season
then my covenant may also be broken with
david my
servant so he is here referring to his
prophet
to the nation of israel this this
ongoing covenant that he has established
with his servant
david and he swore with an oath to
establish that covenant just like he did
with abraham
swore an oath and it was the cutting of
a covenant
what is in the covenant what's what is a
covenant it's an
agree it's an agreement between two
people based
on well-defined terms and when both
parties agree to the terms
then an oath is sworn and the covenant
begins
to function praise god now in context of
what we're kind of looking at today
it's a covenant between you and god
and the covenant is based on
well-defined terms and as long as you
walk
in those terms and those conditions
that covenant will work it'll work
doesn't matter what's going on out there
oh you should see what's going on out
there well yeah i can see it
but it won't break the covenant because
if you meet the conditions of that
covenant and you are with god in that
covenant
nothing nothing on earth or in the
universe can override it or
stop it while it's quite liberating to
walk in covenant with the lord
thank you jesus now can you imagine
can you imagine a person a christian
saying well
you know pastor stephen i wish i had a
covenant like that with god that could
be that stable but um
i don't know if something like that
would really uphold i mean after all
we're living in very tumultuous times
i don't know if god can help me get
through all the things that we're facing
today
that would be just as silly as a
christian saying you know what
it's one o'clock in the afternoon but
i'd tell you pastor stephen i'm really
having some doubts
if god can really uphold this covenant
tonight
i i just don't know if darkness is going
to come tonight
i just have a feeling he may not be able
to pull it off tonight
how many of you know that even if
somebody uh
doesn't understand it doesn't believe it
doesn't even have respect for it how
many of you know at night time
the sun's still going to go down and
it's going to get dark
and you can turn on all the lights you
want outside and power up all the light
the stun is still going down still going
to get dark
why god made a covenant with dark and
god made a covenant
with the day well i i i
yes it did go down pastor steve but i
just don't know if it's going to come on
up
trust me god made a covenant with the
sun and it's coming up in the morning
and you could have people legislated get
all the world's politicians
and have them legislate the sun will not
come up in the morning
let me tell you right now it's coming up
you can get every army on the face of
the earth and they could all say we are
going to collaborate
and we're going to do something to stop
that sun from coming up it's not coming
up
doesn't matter it's coming up
and there is no external circumstances
on the earth or outside of the earth
that's ever going to stop it from
happening
can you see that god keeps covenant
whoa praise the lord
thank you jesus hallelujah now let's
continue
verse 25 thus says the lord
if my covenant is not with day and night
and if i have
not appointed the ordinances of heaven
and earth then i will cast away the
descendants of jacob and david my
servant
so that i will not take any of his
descendants be rulers over the
descendants of abraham isaac and jacob
for our cause their captivity return and
have mercy on them
well pastor stephen i i just i think
god's done with israel he'll never be
done with israel
he swore a covenant
glory to god well i i don't know pastor
steve may
some of these countries say they're
going to blow them off the face of the
earth and exterminate all the jews
maybe they're going to get them all no
no
never never and we'll we'll stand with
israel also
hallelujah glory to god
but even should people falter god will
never falter
why he swore a covenant he swore a
covenant
and he says in verse 25 as long as
there's day and night
let it remind you that i made a promise
to david and i'm there for israel
thank you jesus praise the lord
thank you lord jesus now if you meet the
terms and conditions of the covenant
it will work regardless what's taking
place in the earth
skeptics doubters unbelievers
famine plague recession sickness
disease it doesn't matter it can't
override the covenant
so i'm here today to say that god will
always do his part
we must do our part what's that pastor
stephen
know the covenant and obey it strictly
you need to know what's in this book
some of you
bless your hearts you take it a little
too lightly
you take you take the doctor's report
very seriously
analyze it look at it day and night and
i respect the doctors we thank god
what for what they can do but some of
you need to have
more reverence of respect for the word
of god where you treasure it above
anything that any man would say and we
thank god for things that men
and women would say to help us to maybe
diagnose a situation
maybe not just physical but also
something else and we say thank you for
your insight
and input but if you'll walk with god
as a covenant child you'll see yourself
become a high flyer
over all of the crazy things that just
boom boom boom take so many people out
thank you jesus lord we give you praise
now let's talk just for a moment
about one type of covenant there's
there's different covenants in the bible
let's talk about one because i have a
feeling
more than a feeling just to knowing in
my spirit that this is a covenant
that you really need to be tied in to
and let's take a look at some of these
covenants and the one i particularly
want to mention
back in the book of genesis the book of
beginnings good place to go to see these
things in their origin
genesis chapter 8
verse 22 while the earth remains
these things are going to happen they're
never going to stop and he lists them
while the earth remains we are told in
the book of ecclesiastes that the earth
will
always remain
we do know that in the last days when
things are wrapped up there will be a
cleansing
and there needs to be a cleansing a
complete cleansing of the earth think
about all the pollution
not just you know all the plastic
floating in the ocean
not just all the garbage in the
landfills but all of the nuclear waste
some of this nuclear waste has the
ability to last for several thousand
years before it's not
toxic or lethal anymore and there's
there's just you know
incredible amounts of radioactive waste
that that has
been dumped in the storage areas and
it's going to be there for a long time
so they
need to be a total cleansing not just of
all the effects of sin
but all of these other things that have
caused damage to the
physical realm of the earth all of that
will be cleansed and there will be a new
earth in the sense
but it's the same planet it's just gonna
be cleansed with a
phenomenal fire glory to god and that
fire will
streak through the whole universe
burning up everything
that's impure and it needs to um
think about all of the radio channels
that
broadcast through satellite and also
through antennas
you know garbage music well that music
bounces off the earth and goes bouncing
off into space
and there are songs and there that are
that are
millions of miles out there in space and
they just keep traveling
that are these radio signals that are
sending out garbage
so the whole universe needs to be
cleansed there's many other
types of garbage also it'll all get
cleansed
while the earth remains see time and
harvest
cold and heat winter and summer
and day and night shall not cease
these are all covenants that god has
made we've looked briefly at the one of
day
and night and regardless if people
believe it or not
god's going to honor that covenant with
day and
night praise the lord and it's going to
keep on working
keep on working you don't have to worry
about it you don't have to
uh you know bite your nails and get into
anxiety i don't know if the sun's going
to come up
no it's a covenant relax it's a covenant
day and night are doing their thing
god's doing his thing and it's going to
it's just going to keep on happening
forever praise the lord
and that is true also of seedtime and
harvest
now what is the covenant law here of
seedtime and harvest
and it's been a mystery to many people
but here it is laid out for us
the covenant law is that harvest only
responds to seed i need to say it again
no it's very simple
but these are insights into the covenant
particularly here what we would look as
the origins of the covenant of
prosperity that anchors
the entire covenant okay
we see here that harvest
only responds to seed praise the lord
now you're gonna have to understand that
a covenant
is different from a promise because some
things are included in the new covenant
that come as a promise that they're just
going to be imputed
into your life enrolled into your life
because there are benefits that belong
to you as a believer
but there's other things such as
engaging engaging god on his covenants
you're gonna have to do your part and
the financial covenant
it only responds to the seeds
that you sow the seeds that you sow
praise god now
the covenant of seedtime and harvest
the laws that work with this the harvest
only responds to seed
the harvest does not respond listen to
me
the harvest does not respond to your
40-day fast
now pastor stephen you've given miracle
examples of ministers who fasted
and received great financial testimonies
yes
i have and every single one of those
ministers were heavyweight givers
let's take uh let's take the miracle god
did for
dr jerry falwell at liberty university
when they faced a financial crunch
because of external circumstances
rippling through the church that
affected his ministry we could say
external circumstances
that's what it was you had some major
ministries that had
scandals and it caused christians across
america
to pull back their giving and that hit
ministries all across america including
uh dr falwell's youth christian
university that he had raised up
so he jumped in there and realized i've
got to do something uh
so that the lord will uh help me in this
situation
so he did a 40-day fast and he wanted to
talk to the lord about money
and and on the 40-day fast the lord told
him i don't want to talk with you about
money now when i say he told him that
that wasn't through a vision that was
just through the
holy spirit bearing witness within his
heart what
what god's will was and the holy spirit
basically said i don't want to talk with
you about money right now
you need to get your walk back in the
proper place with me get close
with me because he got all caught up in
the politics and you know he had
the moral majority and all this stuff
going on in dc and so he shut all of
that down
and got close to god again he got rid of
all the busyness
the things god actually he said never
told him really to do
all this busyness stuff so he got back
to the main assignments of his life in
his ministry
and that primary assignment was the
health and well-being of liberty
university
so he fast for 40 days lost 40 pounds
and he felt that the lord was going to
help but he didn't know how
so he ate for uh for 21 days he resumed
his eating
eight for 21 days regained all of his
weight in three weeks
but right after three weeks the holy
spirit spoke to him and said
now i would like to talk with you about
money
glory to god so you know what he did he
went right back into a 40-day fast
and he sought the lord and he got when
the fast was finished he felt in his
heart
i don't know how god's going to do it
but he's going to do it and we're going
to get a money miracle
and he did long story short somebody
walked onto the campus gave him a check
for 50 million dollars
came back later i think give him another
check for i can't remember if the second
one was 17 million or 30 million or
something like that
but it was it was a great deliverance oh
oh see pastor steven he fasted and god
god god rewarded him and responded only
through fasting
you have to understand this man was a
phenomenal giver
um he was an incredible giver
harvest only responds to seed not to
just fasting
well i'm fasting god's not doing it
though but this man had tremendous seed
in the ground
and for years he and elmer towns would
just travel around going from little
church to little church
and they would share the vision of a
university and uh and
they would receive these offerings and
they never touched a penny of it they
would just put it all
in a an account for the birthing and the
raising up of the university and
they would just pour their hearts into
it so the seed amount that he had in the
ground
ran way into the multiplied thousands so
you have to understand that when i tell
that testimony of be fasting and all of
that this is a man that was a mega giver
he was a very selfless giver and he was
an extraordinary
person of just in some sense it's like
giving it all to the lord
so he had the seed in the ground to uh
go along with the harvest
that he received praise god harvest only
responds to seed
now you ready for this one this
financial covenant
seedtime and harvest this covenant
of seedtime and harvest also doesn't
respond
to prayer now pastor stephen i'm going
to pray 12 hours a day
and god will be obligated to give me
some money
it's not going to work like that
it doesn't work like that the harvest
only responds to seed
not the fasting although fasting is very
important we teach about that
but that's you're trying to take
you're trying to fix something that
requires a screwdriver
and you're using a wrench you've got the
wrong tool
so you have to understand covenant what
the covenant requires the terms and the
conditions
that make the covenant work and then
with that knowledge you can step into it
and it will start working for you but
this covenant
see time and harvest you can you can't
move it by fast you can faster your
teeth fall out that's not going to cause
financial provision to be activated into
your life
you're going to have to engage that
covenant through the sowing
of seed it doesn't work any other way
you're not going to be able to get
harvest any other way praise god
and you're not going to work it by
saying i'm going to pray for four hours
a day then god will finally give me some
money
well now pastor stephen you've told many
stories about many ministers who prayed
and received
money miracles yes i have and every
single one of those ministers were
extraordinary
givers let's take reese howells a great
example
i've taught on him before he would pray
and pray and get a hold of god and he
purchased
some of the most phenomenal properties
there in wales for his
school of ministry his bible college and
these were properties that
uh leading bidders had the money to pay
and yet he would still he would still be
able to make the purchase
so often he'd be there with no money no
money and he's up against heavyweight
uh we could say corporations that could
have easily had bought them
but by his prayers god would do these
incredible miracles
the money would come and uh and he would
be able to buy it he would have the
favor to buy it they would allow him to
be the buyer
well pastor stephen sounds like you can
just pray and get money
oh reese owels when you read his life
story this was a man that
sometimes he would give everything away
there was a time where
he had a man come up to him and the band
said i'm in
i'm in dire financial straits and if i
don't get if i don't get a blessing
today somehow they're going to take
everything
everything i own and resale said well
how much do you owe the creditor
and the man said this amount this is how
much i owe
and reece howell said do not be
concerned i'm going to uh
me and another brother are going to take
care of it and so the man got all
excited he got all happy so reese howes
goes home
and in his heart he had thought i'm
going to pay for half of that man's debt
and i can ask brother so and so he can
meet the other half
and the lord said are you going to give
him a half deliverance are you going to
do the whole thing yourself the lord
said you need to do the whole thing
yourself
and rhys howe's new if i deliver him
completely it will drain my account
and i won't have any more savings but
the lord says that's my will for you i
want you to deliver him
and i do not want the other person
involved this is your opportunity
and so reece howells went and paid the
whole debt off
set that man free delivered him and
it drained his account but he did stuff
like that over and over again he was a
major sower a financial seed
and even within his ministry he gave
about 25 to 30
away all the time that was standard
operating
procedure and many times with his own
life he would completely empty his
personal savings
to do things to help others to be a
blessing
he was just a giver he was he was
addicted to giving
so when he's praying these are not just
prayers
oh like you know this is like some penny
picture and he's praying and god is
giving him these phenomenal properties
and all he has to do is pray
no you're talking about a person totally
sold out
that that the the main thing on his mind
is giving he's living to give and so he
is approaching god
in strong prayer off of that platform of
giving
which carries you into a financial
covenant with god and by the way when he
was buying those
phenomenal properties there was a
recession
going on in the nation the milk man came
by one morning
and said well it seems like you and this
other person
he named the famous aviator that was
very famous
because aviation was brand new back in
those days and so that was a big whoop
loss so
this aviator was a celebrity and the
milkman said seems like you
and the aviator are the only two that
know how to bring money in
because everybody was poor nobody could
buy anything and he's buying
these phenomenal properties yes god's
hearing his prayers
but he's also working off of a covenant
financial platform he's an
addicted giver
praise god see this covenant doesn't
work
by luck or chance it doesn't work
by fasting alone although fasting is
good and it doesn't work by prayer
although prayer is good doesn't work by
that alone
and it doesn't work also through human
connections
that some christians think they're so
smart they're going to join every
organization
they're going to network network and
that's good to have relationships
but they're trusting humans they're
trusting other people to come through
for them
i'm pastor steven i got a rich hand
she's got a lot of money
when she dies i want to get the
inheritance and then i can finally start
giving
well watch out she'll probably live to
be 120.
you might you might pass away before she
does you have to get your eyes off
people
as a source and you have to get onto the
covenant
which is stable praise god
and you get onto the platform of the
covenant and it is just as solid
the financial covenant that god extends
to
obedient believers which is engaged
through
giving consistent giving
and systematic tithing that covenant is
just
as solid as the covenant of day and
night
i have a feeling none of you sweat the
least bit
about the sun going down at night and
coming up in the morning
you just know god's got it and you know
what
he does but i'm here today to say this
financial covenant
that the lord extends which is not a
promise it's a covenant you have to meet
the terms and conditions
if you'll get on that covenant platform
it's just as stable
as day and night exchanging places
praise the lord just as stable as winter
and summer
it's just as stable as cold and heat
and it is the covenant of seedtime and
harvest
and it will work regardless of what's
going on in the world
but you have to work it praise the lord
thank you jesus only seed sown
equals a harvest
god is not in need and he never can be
so what he is saying is not for his
benefit
it's for our benefit to be able to
participate
in something that is so reliable as this
so my friends as long as day and night
are exchanging positions
then know that god is a covenant
keeping god and you can trust him whoo
praise the lord
psalm 89 let's go over to psalm 89
verse 34 by covenant
i will not break nor alter the word
that has gone out of my lips well i want
to harvest some other way
god's made a covenant and harvest
responds to seed sowing
well i want god to alter that he's not
going to he's not going to
you have to sow seed if you want to
harvest
whoa praise the lord
he will keep his covenant my covenant i
will not break but he
pastor stephen he might have to break it
doesn't god know what's going on out
there and how our nation is struggling
pastor stephen god might not be able to
keep the covenant because we have a 31
trillion dollar national debt and
you know we could all just end up
homeless and on the street and starving
to death no no no you have no clue of
the covenant
you have no clue of the covenant nor
god's ability to keep it and keep you
whoa praise the lord
can i show you an amazing verse
that the apostle paul laid out in the
book of ephesians
that says a lot about this giving link
this covenant lifestyle of joy
and excitement there's no more exciting
life than the covenant life of giving
sowing and reaping it's very very
exciting and it will certainly add color
to the life of anybody that chooses
intentionally
to learn the terms and conditions of
that covenant and to step into it
and say god i meet your conditions i see
what they are
harvest only responds to seed sowing all
right lord i'm in
i'm in praise god look at this this is
amazing ephesians
chapter 4 verse 28
now watch this this is amazing let him
who stole
still no longer oh by the way you could
legislate that away and say
now uh uh stealing's wrong for you but
not for us because we're the ruling
class
no stealing's wrong whoever does it it
doesn't matter who you are
if you if you're stealing it's theft and
it's wrong
in the eyes of god it will always be
wrong 10 years from now
10 000 years from now let him who stole
steal no longer but let him watch
let him labor working with his hands
what is good that he may have something
to give to him who has need
now this is the way most christians look
at this verse watch this they look at it
like this
that him who stole still no longer but
but rather let him labor
working with his hands what is good that
he may have something
with which to pay his bills wow
look god
knows you have bills but god wants you
to have a good
job not just so that you can pay your
bills
i want a good job i want a labor with my
hand so i can pay my phone bill
is is that really that exciting i've
never really gotten
excited about paying a phone bill oh
pastor stephen when that electric bill
comes in i just
love looking at it looking at all the
kilowatts i used
i i just i just such joy but look
that's no fun paying a phone bill paying
a mortgage note
i mean paying an apartment rent or
whatever it might be
there there's no like whoa whoa i live
for this
no that's that's no big deal pastor
steve i got so excited
i could buy me some noodles and canned
tuna
it's ju that's not exciting that's
that's like just like
surviving no that's not what it says
look
let him who stole still no longer but
rather let him labor working with his
hands what is good
that he may have that he may have
something to
give him who has need
if you right now have been laid off from
work
if you right now don't have a job maybe
it was covet related
uh whatever the situation was and you
find yourself in a position right now
and you don't have employment and you
don't have work but you want to work
if you will go before the lord in prayer
and say god
i'm asking you to give me the best
paying job i've ever had in my life
not solely of course for the purpose of
just paying my bills
or having my basic needs met or some
extra
you know to enjoy myself with you know
new clothes or whatever it might be some
of the things i would
make me happy but if you'll go before
the lord primarily
god give me a job that's the highest
paying job i've
ever had so i can unload some serious
giving
you'll be employed within 14 days with
the best paying job you've ever had
you will be employed within 14 days
of the best paying job you've ever had
but you have to really mean that from
your heart you have to be a person that
says god give me work
why so i can pay my bills that's not
what the scripture says that
god knows all of that but give me a job
god a really good one why
so i can give to him who has need
that's dignity of life that's why you
need overflow
so you can give you live to give
not just get consumed for yourself
consume for yourself
so that you can have extra to give
whoa praise the lord and the more you
give the more seed you're sowing
and the larger your harvest will be you
keep working that and you keep working
that
and you're on the covenant you're on the
covenant frequency
and you'll never go down you'll never go
down
praise the lord thank you jesus
hallelujah praise god one more verse
second corinthians chapter 9 verse 10.
these are all principles that go along
with this
law which is a covenant and if you work
it
it'll work if you follow the terms and
conditions
you'll be like the israelites with asa
finally found peace
he got into the word figured out the
requirements and peace
ensued and suddenly the enemies they all
got quiet
and you can settle down and have
refreshing
and blessing to stay focused on kingdom
assignments
and blessed to be a blessing
thank you jesus glory to god second
corinthians chapter 9 verse 10
now may he that's god now may he who
supplies
seed to the sower it's god to give seed
to the sower
and bread for food god knows you need
bread to eat bread for food
may he supply and multiply the seed you
have sown and increase the fruits of
your righteousness
god supplies seed to
the sower praise the lord now if you
eat all of your seed that leaves you
with an inability
to access the financial covenant because
you access the financial covenant of god
how through giving through sowing seed
pastor stephen i'm going to do 100 day
fast and i'm going to ask that god make
me a millionaire you're wasting your
time
until you get seed in the ground you
have no right to expect a harvest
and this is lifestyle lifestyle
you live to give yes you have deeds god
knows that yes you have some things you
desire
god knows that but giving giving is on
your heart
giving is on your mind praise the lord
job was loaded with wealth
he was a covenant man and he had great
prosperity
and he went around delivering the widows
delivering the poor
praise god honoring god's word
he was a strict follower of the word of
god
that's why it says in deuteronomy
chapter 28
verse 1 as it gets into all of the
blessings
it says you must give diligent heed to
observe
carefully all these commandments you
must observe that means dig
into the details find out what god
requires of you
he requires of you to be a sower and
he gives seed to the sower if you're
willing to sow
you're willing to get into the overflow
and not just consume it all on yourself
but so
you'll you'll always always be in the
overflow
because he gives seed to the sower
and as you send it out god just starts
replenishing
you send it out he starts replenishing
but then you also
start getting to the area where he
starts touching it with that
multiplication
anointing he will multiply the seed you
have sown and
increase the fruits of your
righteousness
that sounds a whole lot like psalm 112.
which is a patterned psalm of how god
wants
his people to be living and experiencing
life praise the lord
psalm 112 verse 1 praise the lord
blessed is the man who fears the lord
who delights greatly in
his commandments you have to keep them
you have to know them
you have to keep them pastor stephen how
do you view yourself as a minister
i view myself as a teaching priest
sharing with you the discoveries i've
made hallelujah
and building up god's people i
understand apostle prophet evangelist
pastor teacher i understand all of that
but we as ministers we have to make the
word of god understandable
to the people of god just like they did
in the old covenant
so that we can walk in it and experience
it praise the lord
his descendants will be mighty on earth
the generation of the upright will be
blessed
wealth and riches will be in his house
and his righteousness endures forever
praise god verse 5 a good man deals
graciously and lends he will guide his
affairs with discretion
surely he will never be shaken the
righteous will be in everlasting
remembrance
he will not be afraid of evil tidings
his heart is steadfast trusting
in the lord verse 9 he has dispersed
abroad
well if he's giving it all away sounds
like he's going to be poor no no
god's multiplying it back this is this
is the man that's working covenant
principles
he is on the covenant of prosperity he's
all over it praise god
he has dispersed abroad he has given to
the poor
his righteousness endures forever his
horn which is a representation of
strength
his horn will be exalted with honor
praise god the wicked will see it and be
grieved
he will gnash his teeth and melt away
the desire of the wicked
shall perish so we're walking in a
covenant of salvation
praise the lord but you have to after
you have to understand
the nature of jesus maybe we could even
say
the two the two the two parts of jesus
there's the part of the lord which is
the good news of salvation that presents
that is presented to you you receive
christ as your lord and savior that
creates peace in your heart
eternal security you're walking with god
and you love the covenant you've
embraced it you're you're
you're his forever as far as you're
concerned and as far as he's concerned
and you just walk it out you live it out
but there's the other part of jesus
which would be his principles
and those are what creates your
prosperity
they are the terms and the conditions of
various covenants
such as the covenant of financial
prosperity
and that is something uh the principles
that you you learn you learn praise god
and as you learn them and operate in
them
because you have to make application of
the truth then you start seeing
the rich fruit that it produces
in your life and it brings joy
it brings joy praise to lord now
i just want to invite many of you to
come into
this covenant of the lord it's a
covenant
of financial prosperity and provision
and god has no he has no trouble with
you having wealth he just doesn't want
you to be covetous
and one of the main ways to keep a
covetous spirit
from ever uh defiling you
is just keep it flowing keep the giving
flowing and if you feel
maybe that the covet this thing is
trying to come around man just start
giving
just break that thing just start giving
praise the lord
hallelujah hallelujah and
the joy of the lord will be in your
heart
praise god you start where you're at
you give at the level that you're at
and the lord will begin to lift you up
into new realms
praise god praise the lord
this is something we have to guard our
hearts because in the american culture
there can be influences to
be consumed with selfish
uh consummation of just constantly
spending it all on yourself i told you
about this a couple of years
ago it was only just maybe maybe five
years ago
i actually saw a car commercial
in a magazine took up an entire page and
the car commercial
printed out the slogan was you shall
covet and they had an image of a car all
shiny
it was a luxury car and it said
you shall covet
of course you get into that you get in
the this is not so much the car
but that thinking see that's very
essential it's very worldly
you get into that then
if difficulties begin to hit hit the
economy and things like that
you'll go down with it well you may
think we're riding high right now pastor
stephen
yes but this this world look money is a
speed machine
if you ever try to chase it you're never
going to catch it because a covetous
heart is never satisfied
you could have more and more you could
be a billionaire and multi-billionaire
trust me there's
there's toys out there that cost uh half
a billion dollars
you know and you could you could burn
through anything with the covetous
spirit because you're never satisfied
so you need to know this joy of giving
and by doing that you'll keep that covet
the spirited way and plus you also get
on that covenant platform with the lord
where you're stable
and you know some very difficult things
throughout scripture hit the nation of
israel at different times
but those who were covenant went right
on through it
even when others were going under those
that were covenant and work the
government
right on through it and so often not
only will you go through it
you'll be exalted and lifted up
wow as somebody that god uses to
represent
his covenant ways my friends become a
covenant practitioner
not just of course within the covenant
salvation
but within the covenant of finances so
that you're protected
in these crazy days in which we live in
which all forms of crazy laws are trying
to be re
enacted that would try to put pressure
upon the saints to compromise
particularly in the area maybe at work
or career
where there's pressure to bow maybe to
sign something that
is a compromise of your principles or do
something
that would go against these these truths
i'm saying stick with the lord he'll
he'll take care of you you'll see how
faithful he is
now father i pray for your people today
let them
understand with full illumination
that you made a covenant with day and
night and they're still exchanging
places
and so father that same degree of
faithfulness is also for those
who are on the covenant a financial
blessing and it's engaged not through
praying
wishing hoping believing or endless
fasting it's engaged through
giving we thank you father we're of
course going to pray
and we'll throw in fasting incorporate
fasting
so that we are not governed by fleshly
impulses
but father we thank you that there are
some some things you've established
certain covenants that
we can only come in to those covenants
through
what the terms the print
maybe we could say the fine print
requires
and we thank you father with you it's
not fine print it's bold type
spelled out clearly and easily definable
so we thank you father god that no
matter what happens to the
global economy or even the american
economy or father wherever your people
are watching from today
that we're secure in you hallelujah
hallelujah and we thank you father god
that this is actually the time of the
lifting up of your people
not just the survival of your people
this is the lifting up
time of your people as luminaries
and as in a world that's getting darker
with sinful
tendencies and sinful behavior and we we
know father that much of this is
pre-programmed in a sense it's prophetic
unfolding of end time
events but this is the hour of the
saints to rise
so thank you father god let us be let us
be generous in our hearts
towards the assignments the purposes
that you attach us to
we give you praise thank you father
bless your people in jesus name
amen and amen now if you're watching
today's program
every covenant every covenant is entered
into
through faith and trust in christ
jesus praise the lord
there are some other covenants such as
what god has
pre-standing with the jewish people but
eternal life
the covenant of eternal life is only
found through christ alone so it doesn't
matter if you're
a jew or it doesn't matter if you're a
russian or you're an american or
whatever your descent
might be salvation is only found through
christ he's the only one that went to
the cross
and died for our sins he is the only
messiah
he's the only one so i encourage you if
you don't know him
put your faith and trust in him today if
you would like to do that
simply pray this prayer after me say
lord jesus
i'm a sinner but you died to save
sinners
like me jesus you are the christ
you died on the cross for my sins jesus
i give you my life
come into my heart right now wash me
with your precious blood thank you jesus
write my name
in your book of life i give my life to
you
now jesus i take you as my lord and
savior
now praise god christ has heard that
prayer he has answered it
and he has said yes praise god welcome
to the family of god praise the lord
amen
let's take holy communion together i
want to invite you to grab
some some grape juice some unleavened
bread
and let's pray over it and let's bless
it father we thank you for the bread
the juice we consecrate it we bless it
through this prayer
we thank you it's holy this is now the
body and the blood of jesus
now father we thank you for your
covenants
we thank you for understanding of them
so that we can be on covet these various
covenant platforms that give us
exemption
from the calamities the difficulties
that are in the earth
we thank you father that our salvation
is a full salvation
and you've made full provision
for our deliverance and our blessing
while we're in this earth
so we thank you father god let us be
observant
let us let us observe carefully all that
you require
and father you said in the book of
isaiah chapter 1 verse 19 that if we are
willing and obedient
we will eat the good of the land so we
thank you for willing hearts to serve
you
we thank you father that we choose to be
obedient
to all of your commandments they're
they're a joy to us
they are life to us and we thank you
father we delight in your word and your
ways
we give you praise father thank you for
the body
of jesus and we receive his body now
we receive his flesh now father in jesus
name
amen let's receive
praise the lord
this is a year of overflow for you you
know how to get into it
this is a year of overflow for you
constant overflow
hallelujah you'll never struggle again
financially another day in your life
when you step into this covenant which
is activated through giving
is anchored through the tithe why
commandments we obey commandments
tithing was being carried out before was
ever instituted as a
law given by god through moses
but tithing was being done by abraham it
was being done by jacob
praise the lord they were covenant
practitioners they were tithers
hallelujah so tithing is the anchor
and the giving just causes it
all to open up praise the lord thank you
father
you're going to have so much joy and
you're going to bring so much joy
i enjoy receiving but i get far
more joy out of giving praise to lord
father we thank you for the blood of
jesus we thank you father that
you gave jesus and he willingly came as
our sacrifice
thank you father god let that heart be
in us
father that even jesus had a money bag
and had a treasure
and he so often helped the poor and
father he certainly was a tither
because he kept your commandments and he
even endorsed
tithing thank you father god we give you
praise
father thank you for the blood of jesus
thank you father god for peace
like asa and the southern kingdom
experienced
when they stepped into full obedience
thank you father i see financial freedom
coming for your people
i see psalm 112 they were used
discretion and all of their
selections and choices that they used
their money for
we give you praise father god we give
you praise
we ask father that if we have committed
any sin that you would forgive us we
forgive anybody that has sinned against
us
we thank you father we ask that you
would lead us away from temptation
and that you would deliver us from the
evil one we thank you for
protecting us and preserving us from all
evil father we give you praise
we thank you for your strength and your
blessing
hallelujah thank you father god i see
some
very happy people out there
that have your heart and we thank you
father god you're going to make them
champion givers and it will be literally
extraordinary what you will empower them
to do
and it's because they're on the covenant
platform thank you father god
thank you for unveiling this to us we
give you praise father we receive the
blood of jesus with great thanksgiving
in his name we pray amen
and amen let's receive
praise the lord in closing
wherever you're at just take a look
outside the window
and whether it's day or night know this
the covenant is working and if you'll
agree to the terms of the covenant that
god laid out for the financial covenant
it's just as stable as the covenant of
day
and night and you will never have to
thank
rat race ever again you will never have
to thank
my money anxiety ever again you will
never have to worry
or stress like so many do in the world
just running
it's all they think about how they're
going to get it to consume it on
themselves how they're going to get it
it's their whole life it consumes them
but you will be stress free you will be
walking in overflow
praise god because you are a covenant
child of god
and your giver praise the lord father
bless your people
in jesus name amen see you back
next time bye-bye