PROMISES, CONVENANT & BLESSINGS OF GOD.

Going through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation we find numerous and immense blessings, promises, and covenants that God has given to us as His dear children.   Let us start by giving the definitions of the word promises, covenants and blessings.

The definitions are according to Cassell’s English Dictionary;

Promise is a verbal or written agreement or engagement to do or forbear from doing some specific acts. It could be ground or basis of expectation especially of success, improvement or excellence. It could also mean giving grounds for favourable expectation.

Covenant is defined variously as :

a. An agreement on certain terms.

b. Formal agreement under seal.

c. An agreement between God and a people or group.

Blessing however, is divine favour, an invocation of divine favour or happiness or a gift. Promises and blessings are usually generalized e.g. seed-time and harvest, the  promise of rainbow, the blessing of minerals etc.

Covenant for a special group like the children of God, co-heir with Christ. A covenant was made between God and Abraham. The original utopia, the garden of the Lord is situated in modern day Iraq a desert but a place where four rivers parted  to give life supply to their area. It is like a blessing of the spirit flowing from God’s throne, like in Iraq God has given us assurance of more blessing in our own land. Therefore we should not allow anything to tamper with the joy of blessings. We differ from Satan because we have valuable gifts of peace and joy that he does not have.

The word of God can be compared to a seed that is sown; it will receive water and warmth, break up and sprout into a new plant that will produce fruits and seed perpetually.  When God speaks, they happen so He makes good all His promises. The patriarch Jacob represents the beginning of another generation or more importantly, dispensation. The dispensation of Jacobs is that of his relationship with God. From Abraham God has been using the the word  YOU  but as from Jacob God changed it to MINE . The culmination is that Jesus came to cement the relationship between God and man.

God——————————–Jesus-a-link————————————-Man

Jacob the ancestor of the Israelites served as a link between the Jewish nations until Jesus did it for all mankind including Israel Gen.28 vs 16-17.   Jacobs says God is here and i do not know. This episode makes Jacob to realize the presence of God in His life and those of his descendants. He built a tabernacle to God as a remembrance. The tabernacle represents the earthly abode of God.

To preserve the posterity of Israel God made Joseph,(Gen. 45 VS15) to be a preserver of his generation. His brothers who were traitors like Judas to Jesus could not destroy the dream of Joseph. Gos was telling the generation through Joseph that vengeance is mine.  God allowed famine so that the dreams of Joseph would come true. We can learn from here that when God is out of one’s life, one is exposed. God was in Joseph’s life and He preserved him but the secrets of his brothers evil deed were revealed later. This is an assurance that no enemy has any clue about us and therefore His promises to us will surely come to pass(will be fulfilled). As Joseph was a blessing unto his brothers so also must we be a blessing unto our brethren.

In Gen 45:10 God has reserved the land of Goshen for the Israelites,His people because God told Abraham,the great grandfather of Joseph, that his descendant will come to Egypt where he will make them a great nation: Goshen was a place that is near to Joseph the preserver of life to his family.It was a temporary camp of God.

a) The presence of God.                                                                                                            

b) There is provision of God.

c) Abundance of God.

d) Protection of God.

e) Light of his presence.

Anywhere we are, God is always around us. The Psalmist say’s surely goodness and mercy shall follow me.�