Our Covenant by Andrew Murray “And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” (Jer. 24:7) Do not pass these words lightly. They express the very highest experience of the Covenant relationship. It is only when His people learn to love and obey His law, when their heart and life are together wholly devoted to Him and His will, that He can be to them the altogether inconceivable blessing which these words express, “I will be your God.” All I am and have as God shall be yours. All you can need or wish for in a…
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Copeland: Covenant, joint heirs Years after Isaac’s birth, that covenant was still strong in Abraham’s mind. And nothing—noteven a request from God Himself—could shake his confidence. We see this in Genesis 22. There God asks Abraham to place his only son on thealtar and sacrifice him. How could He do this after promising Abraham that he would become the father of many nations through this son
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I got a headache last night. I don’t get headaches, so I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. I know I couldn’t think straight. The only thing I knew to do was to cast any evil off and command my body to get in line with God’s will for me to NOT have that headache. I hate pain. That makes it easy for me to identify and quickly get on top of it. But we can get accustomed to things that oppose the Lord by slowly absorbing the things around us from the world. Things can get left…