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It is not God’s responsibility to give you wealth; God gives us the power to get wealth. Ignorance and covenant wealth do not go hand in hand. If the covenant is the womb from which God will give you wealth. We need to understand what the covenant is all about.
God established a covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3. The word ‘bless,’ here means to empower. To ‘empower,’ means the anointing. Deuteronomy 8:18 says, “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish His covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”
Genesis 12:4 says, “So Abraham departed as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot went with him…” Abraham obeyed God immediately. Obedience is a powerful activator of the covenant. You cannot walk in covenant with God when you are disobedient to his ways. No sooner than God promised to bless and empower Abraham, there was famine as we are told in Genesis 12:10, “Now there was a famine in the land and Abraham went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land.” In the midst of famine the covenant was working – Genesis 12:16, “He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.” Genesis 13:1 says, “Then Abraham went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him to the south. Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold. The blessing that came in chapter 12 had started working. What made Abraham rich had its root in the blessing. The riches were not the blessing; the riches were a result of the blessing. It is the blessing that makes you rich. All Abraham did was to obey God in moving out of where he was and the covenant of blessing began to work. Obedience therefore is the stronghold of the covenant. God knows how to get profit in the midst of famine. God fought for Abraham when he went for a war in Genesis 14 and protected his marriage when Pharoah wanted to take his wife in Gen 12:17 because he was in covenant with him. When God is in covenant with you he does not break it.
In Genesis 15 God made promises to Abraham and introduced him to the blood covenant. You cannot be in covenant with God and not give. If people do not want to give to God it is because they do not understand covenant. The strongest covenant on this earth is the blood covenant. In Genesis 17, Abraham’s name changed from Abram to Abraham. God added part of his name to Abraham’s. When you are in covenant with God your name will change. His name changed from the father of all creation to the father of many nations. Genesis 17:23 – “So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every, male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him.” Abraham entered in to a blood covenant with God.
Galations 3:13-14 – “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith.” The blood that was shed when Jesus died connected us connected to Abraham. You are an heir to every promise that God made to Abraham if you have Jesus. Galations 3:26-29 – “For you all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you were baptised in to Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all alone in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” If you have Jesus in you, you have a legal right to everything that God promised Abraham.
How do you activate the power to get wealth?
1. Obedience
2. Power to give – John 10:17, “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I received from my father.
You cannot be in covenant and not give. If you are in covenant with God there is nothing you give that will not come back – Genesis 22:5, “And Abraham said to his young men, ‘stay here with the donkey: the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you’” Hebrews 11:17, “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up by his only begotten son, of whom it is said, ‘In Isaac your seed shall be called,’ concluding that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.” When you are in the covenant, no matter the seed that you sow, it will be raised back.
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