Team Work Means Covenant

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Team Work Means Covenant

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Are you in covenant or contract with God?

We are called to something great but we can't do it ourselves. This will necessitate covenant with God and people. God's covenant is unilateral and everlasting. God blood covenant ultimately says to us "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse." The Don Corleone most  famous quote in the movie Godfather was "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Don Corleone's statement reflected a blood covenant between the Godfather and his minions. It was unilateral and everlasting. Your contract with debt, disobedience, anger, estrangement, deafness, blindness, jealousy, Sodom and Gomorrah unequally yoked relationships, lack, malice, disappointment, envy, "Egypt", greed, sleepless nights, abandonment, fruitless existence and barrenness is null and void.

The future of any covenant relationship will be decided by mercy. Mercy suits your case. Loyalty is the act of Mercy. Loyalty is giving someone something they can not find anywhere else. I am asking you to make an appoint with someone (team) to agree with you concerning the gifts and treasure in you. You will make an appoint with the team until you agree. Amos 3:3 (Amplified Bible) 3Do two walk together except they make an appointment and have agreed? You will find that person when their values match your values. The person will look like your dream. They will say  "Let us make" consult about it and concur in it. They will give a word of consultation and offer covenant. They will offer Mercy and Loyalty to your dreams and aspirations. Mercy suits your case. Loyalty isthe act of Mercy. Loyalty is giving someone something they can not find anywhere else.

You, your ministry, marriage, singleness, your destiny, assignment, finances will not flourish and survive without teamwork and covenant.  It is a false doctrine that you can do anything with God. It is also heresy to believe that you can succeed without covenant relationship (church and natural family). You must sing the song of humility before God exalts you. It is the song of humility "I need you to survive."

Are you in covenant or contract with God. Will you be like Peter and hear the cock crow and be disloyal. Has your flame dimmed by the disappointments in life. Are you lukewarm; wretchedly fluctuating between a torpor and a fervour of love concerning church, God, and ministry. (cliarovß, Chliaros, khlee-ar-os'     , from chlio (to warm), tepid, lukewarm , metaph. of the condition of the soul wretchedly fluctuating between a torpor and a fervour of love.) Has financial stress, marital, relationships, betrayal, vocational limits, beaten you down. . Revelation 3:16 (Amplified Bible) 16So, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth!

Mercy suits your case. Loyalty is the act of Mercy. Loyalty is giving someone something they can not find anywhere else. dox, Checed, kheh'-sed    , mercy, kindness , lovingkindness, goodness, kindly, merciful, favour , good , goodliness , pity, reproach, wicked thing.  Micah 6:8 (King James Version) 8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?PMB

Paderewski (Story of Mercy)

There were once two young men working their way through Leland Stanford University. Their funds got desperately low, and the idea came to one of them to engage Paderewski for a piano recital and devote the profits to their board and tuition. The great pianist's manager asked for a guarantee of two thousand dollars. The students, undaunted, proceeded to stage the concert. They worked hard, only to find that the concert had raised only sixteen hundred dollars. After the concert, the students sought the great artist and told him of their efforts and results. They gave him the entire sixteen hundred dollars, and accompanied it with a promissory note for four hundred dollars, explaining that they would earn the amount at the earliest possible moment and send the money to him.

"No," replied Paderewski, "that won't do." Then tearing the note to shreds, he returned the money and said to them: "Now, take out of this sixteen hundred dollars all of your expenses, and keep for each of you 10 percent of the balance for your work, and let me have the rest." The years rolled by,years of fortune and destiny. Paderewski had become premier of Poland. The devastating war came, and Paderewski was striving with might and main to feed the starving thousands of his beloved Poland. There was only one man in the world who could help Paderewski and his people. Thousands of tons of food began to come into Poland for distribution by the Polish premier. After the starving people were fed, Paderewski journeyed to Paris to thank Herbert Hoover for the relief sent him.

"That's all right, Mr. Paderewski," was Mr. Hoover's reply. "Besides, you don't remember it, but you helped me once when I was a student at college and I was in a hole."
Edward W. Bok, Perhaps I Am

The generally accepted idea of binding or establishing a bond between two parties is supported by the use of the term berit [tyir.B]  The Idea of Covenant. The term "covenant" is of Latin origin (con venire), meaning a coming together. tyrb, B@riyth, ber-eeth'   covenant, alliance, pledge , between men ,  treaty, alliance, league (man to man) , constitution, ordinance (monarch to subjects) ,   agreement, pledge (man to man) , alliance (of friendship) , alliance (of marriage) , between God and man , alliance (of friendship) , covenant (divine ordinance with signs or pledges) , (phrases) , covenant making , covenant keeping , covenant violation, ... In the Old Testament the word covenant comes from the Hebrew berit. It means "'covenant; league; confederacy.' This word is most probably derived from an Akkadian root meaning 'to fetter'; it has parallels in Hittite, Egyptian, Assyrian, and Aramaic. Berit is used over 280 times and in all parts of the Old Testament" (W.E. Vine, Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words, 1985, "Covenant"). God's covenants contain two especially important components: terms and duration. Although humans may reach covenants or other agreements through their own devices, God's covenants with people are usually unilateral. He alone determines the terms and conditions; humans choose whether to accept them. Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology.