Once this was said the weak person would become excited. He would realize his problems had been solved. He was no longer powerless. He had nothing to worry about anymore because now anyone who would try to rough him up would have to face the godfather, the one with all the power.
Leaving his meeting with the head of the family the little guy would have a whole new attitude. He’d go out to face the world knowing, Everything is handled. All I have to do now is whatever the don asks me to do, and the don knows I don’t have anything. So, whatever he asks me to do he’ll provide me with the wherewithal to do it.
That’s what a family covenant is all about—and as born-again believers, we’re the family of God! We are in blood covenant with Him, and He has favored and graced us with His exceedingly great and precious promises.
Talk about something that should give you confidence! God’s promises are as powerful as He is because they’re composed of His words—and He uses His words differently than people do. People primarily use words to communicate, but God uses His words to release His faith. He uses them to put His mighty power to work to create and to change things.
Have you ever read what happened in Genesis 1 when the earth was without form, and darkness was upon the face of the deep? God said, “Light be,” and light was!
God’s words still carry that kind of power. His promises can do anything He can do. Because He spoke them they contain His creative ability. So when they’re received and acted on in faith, they come to pass.
If you need evidence of this, look at what happened as a result of the exceeding great and precious promises God gave in Old Testament times about the coming of the Messiah. Those promises brought Jesus to the earth! The promise in Micah 5:2 even determined where He would be born. It said, "Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting” ("NKJV").
That promise controlled armies and kingdoms. It set in motion the events that put Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem at just the right time for Jesus to be born there. It controlled the movement of the heavens so the Magi would see the star at the proper place and proper time, follow it, and find the newborn King of the Jews.
Think of it: All those things happened because God gave an exceeding, great and precious promise about the future—and it worked. God said it, the prophet Micah delivered it, and 715 years later it came to pass.
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