[Friday's Devotional] - The Blood Covenant

The Blood Covenant    God swore by His Name and by an oath that He would bless Abraham (Hebrews 6:13-20).   Abraham is the one who made an offering by cutting a heifer, a goat and a ram in two and then God walked in the blood between the animal carcasses signifying that He had entered into covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15:9-21). Abraham is also the one who offered his one and only son Isaac to God but God gave him back to him. (Genesis 22: 1-18).   In ancient cultures dating back to the time of Abraham, if one family swore that they would do certain things for the other family during a blood covenant ceremony, failure to do so spelt certain death by the shedding of their blood by the betrayed family. That is how serious blood covenants were.   Many years later, when Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane for God to "let this cup pass me by", God did not grant that request because under the blood covenant with Abraham, God had determined in His heart to reciprocate what Abraham had done for Him!  He gave His One and only Son to die for us on the cross.  Some say God would not allow the blood covenant with His friend Abraham to be compromised lest He would self - destruct!   This is why the blood covenant between God and Jesus is so powerful.  Instead of the blood of rams, goats and heifers, under God's covenant with Abraham, God replaced this with the blood of Man to establish a more superior covenant to take care of us - Abraham's descendants.   Because of this, there is now no more condemnation of those in Christ. There is nothing we or anybody else including angels can do to separate us from the love of Christ. This is because the blood covenant was between God and Jesus and it covers all the needs of mankind.   Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, 'Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll l— I have come to do your will, my God.'" Hebrews 10: 5-7 [NIV]   Today build up your faith knowing every promise in the bible is a sworn blood covenant fact that is as good as done!   Whenever Jesus performed miracles for people He always commented "your faith", has healed or saved you.   Farai Mutsambiwa Twitter Website Copyright © 2016 St. Matthews & St. Oswalds Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the Daily Devotionals Our mailing address is: St. Matthews & St. Oswalds Church 1a New Street Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 7BE United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Want to be added to our mailing list? - sign up here!