Covenant Talk
Title: The Blood Covenant-Part Three--What is Covenant?
by Michael Isaacks
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Partner Profile |
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• Name:
Michael Isaacks
• State: Texas
• Favorite Verse:
Psalms 103:12
• Favorite Quote:
We walk by faith,
not by sight.
• Hobbies:
Christian music,
reading, computers
• Date of Salvation:
unknown, saved
as a young child
• Latest News:
Today ( 26 October 2000 ) we celebrate 2 years of bringing a daily Word from God to His Covenant Partners! I am still in awe at the things God is using me to do for Him!
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Webster defines a covenant as "a mutual agreement", an engagement entered
into between God and a person or a people." When you add the Hebrew,
Greek
and Aramic languages to the definition, then the definition of a covenant
becomes:
"A solemn, binding agreement between two or more parties that cannot be
broken
except by the death of the one who breaks it."
Early wedding ceremonies included the practice of cutting the finger of
the couple
to be and taping the two marriage partners fingers together so the two bloods
flowed
together, thus sealing the blood covenant being made between the two.
Imagine what this realization would do to the divorce rate in America if
marriage
partners realized and knew that they entered into a blood covenant in marriage
and not just a relationship.
The wedding ring replaced the practice of
cutting the marriage partners' fingers
and taping them together so the two bloods would become one as they made
a
blood covenant. (Aren't you glad?) (If some wives who had knowledge
of the blood
covenant they and their cheating husbands had entered into, their cheating husband
might find themselves breaking the covenant right there in the bar if you
know what
I mean!)
Have you ever ignored the "begats"? (I have, plenty of times!) Would
they
be quite as boring if you knew that "begat" meant "made a covenant with"?
A covenant can last up to 4 generations! Have you ever wondered why Indians
were so much into becoming "blood brothers" with each other? They were
making a blood covenant!
We didn't name this daily devotional "Covenant Talk" because it was a
neat
sounding name. We dedicated it to God so that He could speak to His
children
through it to strengthen the covenant relationship between Himself and us, His
children.
You might be saying; "You did not use one single scripture in this!"
You're
right, so, let's close today with 1 Chronicles 16:15 - 16:
"Be ye mindful always of His covenant; the Word which He commanded to a
thousand generations;
Even of the covenant which He made with Abraham, and of His oath unto Isaac.
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting
covenant."
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I am 35 years old, married with 1 daughter named Faith
Harmony which in the Greek means " believing in one accord ". I have a daily
devotional entitled " Covenant Talk " as well as a " Covenant Talk " Club
in Yahoo Clubs. " Covenant Talk " goes out to over 30 people via email,
" snail mail " and print out. My family and I also minister in local area
nursing homes.
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