Best title of a post ever, I need more of these 🙂

So what this post is about is my experience making covenants with God and the unexpected things that have come out of those covenants.

A covenant (to me) is an unbreakable agreement with God. However, it’s more than just an agreement. It’s a spiritually binding relationship with God through which He accomplishes His purpose & His kingdom. Covenants can be both between God and man, and vice versa. I don’t claim to be an expert in covenants, but I do know this..

There is no return receipt for a covenant with God.

My covenants with God were made with the understanding that if I ever break any of them, then all of this goes away. Everything.. No more wisdom to speak. No more power to lead. No more conviction in my purpose. No more doors of opportunity.

Isaiah 45 is tattooed on my chest for a reason – “He has broken the bronze gates that have held me back, He has shattered the bars of iron that block my way so that I may know that He is the Lord, who has summoned me by name..” (ISAIAH 45:2-3).

I made some pretty strong covenants and was very blessed to receive some unexpected & powerful gifts in return. At the time it never crossed my mind that I would get anything. I didn’t ask for anything & I didn’t expect anything. I just believed with all my heart and soul that if I did this, God would somehow help me survive the situation I was in.

All I know is I guess that’s how believing in God with all of your heart and soul works..

“Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.” (Mark 11:22-23)

Since then, I have been tested severely in my faith and those covenants. Tested daily, and almost failed many times. Even declaring to God I was done, that I could no longer take the pain of holding them. I’ve wanted to go against His Word so many times, not believe in what He has told me and just plain give up and go back to a happier, simpler, easier life where people accept & understand me more. Where I just go live for the next good time. Wash, rinse, repeat…

I’ve followed His Word to the letter and seen things blow up in my face in a moment when everything seemed like it was going so well. I’ve tried to leave certain situations and literally had His voice speak to me and say “DON’T”.

Well, Covenants don’t serve my needs, they serve His.

Serving your covenants will be tested – Again I had to recently make one of the hardest decisions of my life, one which I know I made correctly, because afterwards God chose reveal to me the meaning of some very powerful words that were spoken to me a few months back. At the time I thought I knew what those words were about, at least taken literally. In retrospect I had no idea.

Here’s the thing too that I found out about covenants that I never would have guessed..

When you make a covenant with God, he lets you in on His secrets.

I thought I knew what His words meant, but let me tell you – after He revealed to me the meaning of those words, it blew my mind what they actually meant.. never in a million years would I have thought that’s what His plan was. But that’s how God works, that’s how BIG God is.

He is so much bigger than our present, our lives, our thoughts, our daily struggles, etc. At the end of the day those words were not about me, they were about others.

Should you make a covenant with God? That would be up to you. I have no idea what your situation is, what your needs are, what your calling is, etc. But I do know this, if you take anything away from this post it would be:

Everyone in life has a calling, and if you plan on truly fulfilling that calling, then you’re going to have to enter into a covenant with God. And if you do, it is forever.

I can’t guarantee that I’ll succeed, that I won’t fail. But I will try. After all, I’m human. I’m not anointed, or whatever. I don’t consider myself above others. I’m just answering a call from God and trying with all my heart to succeed. Trying to follow what He is asking me to do.

Everyday there’s so many things left I want to say, people I want to reach, problems I wish I could solve, peoples lives I wish I could change. I’m sure that will be my future for many years to come, but I know that if I follow His word and His purpose for me, over time I WILL do all of those things and more..