Mephibosheth In Covenant (Part 2)

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Mephibosheth in

Covenant (Part 2)

Pastor Nkechi Ene (Mrs.) 1 Now when he had 9inished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

2 Saul took him that day, and would not let him go home to his father’s house anymore.

3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

4 And Jonathan took off the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, even to his sword and his bow and his belt.

1 Samuel 18:1-4 12 Then Jonathan said to David: “The Lord God of Israel is witness! When I have sounded out my father sometime tomorrow, or the third day, and indeed there is good toward David, and I do not send to you and tell you, 13 may the Lord do so and much more to Jonathan. But if it pleases my father to do you evil, then I will report it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. And the Lord be with you as He has been with my father.

14 And you shall not only show me the kindness of the Lord while I still live, that I may not die; 15 but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the Lord has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”

16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “Let the Lord require it at the hand of David’s enemies.”

17 Now Jonathan again caused David to vow, because he loved him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 20:12-17

In the previous article, I pointed out that you should recognize that you are in covenant with God Almighty and not just with anyone. I also said that when you are in covenant with God, the covenant will bring you out of Lo Debar, and it will give you direct access to the King.

In this article, I will continue from where we stopped. Remember we were looking at access to the king, as a bene9it of being in covenant relationship with God. We will also look at one more bene9it of being in a covenant relationship with God.

The Covenant Will Give You Access To The King (Continued) We left off where we were saying that the One who you are in covenant with which is God, is the One who knows everybody that

matters and your covenant with Him has given you the greatest access of all.

Another example of access to the king could be found in the story of Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus (Esther 4:11, 5:1-3). When Queen Esther had to approach the king, she was told that going to see the king without the king’s invitation could lead to her death. She asked the people to go and pray for her, and she went in anyway. The Bible says that as she approached the king, she obtained favour in the sight of the king and the same king who had made the law that nobody dares enter his presence without prior invitation, stretched out the golden sceptre, thereby giving her access. Not only did the king give her access which is contrary to the norm, he also promised to grant all her requests up to half of his kingdom. As a child of God, the hand of God is permanently out-stretched towards you. It is neither stretched with a brass sceptre, an iron sceptre, nor a wooden sceptre but a golden sceptre because it's the best. He wants you to touch the sceptre and get the best and when you touch it, you touch abundance; you touch the very best of God. Your children are a heritage from the Lord and just like Queen Esther did, go in boldly and take what your covenant has made available.

The Bible says in 2 Samuel 9:11 that the king said Mephibosheth would sit at his table continually. Mephibosheth sitting at the king’s table continually means that Mephibosheth would be eating the very best food in the land. It does not matter what level you are now, just continue to touch the golden sceptre and from whatever level you are now, you will progress. The abundance that God has already given to you as a child of God will become a reality in your life as long as you continue to touch the golden sceptre, you will become a mother of many adorable children.

Another thing that access to the king gives you is dinner conversations. In dinner conversations, you talk to the king and the king also talks to you. More opportunities and testimonies are birthed. For example, when in fellowship you may say, “ I don’t know what my life would have been without your love Jesus,” and He says to you, “My child, it's my Word that you speak from your mouth that I will do for you. Just keep speaking my Word and when I hear my Word I must perform it.”

As dinner conversations are going on, you move from one level of increase to the next and your relationship with God becomes better.

That is what happens in the presence of the king. Coming into the king's presence is not just coming in to take. You eat but you talk and

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as you talk more, your relationship with Jesus gets more interesting and intimate.

You must understand what your covenant gives you. Your covenant does not give you a religion; it gives you a lifestyle and a relationship

and David restored his right to his inheritance to him. Child of God, your covenant will restore your inheritance to you because it is your right. When God created man, He told him to have dominion.

Dominion was man’s inheritance but the enemy came and took it.

Jesus came and restored to us a better covenant based on better

with God. The same thing applies to every believer. You were nothing before you got born again, but now, you have access to God because of Jesus. You may have been in some churches where it was only the priest that read the Bible and you were given a prayer book that man wrote and whatever the prayer book said you chanted. You

promises and dominion was also restored. I declare dominion in all that you touch and set your hands to do. Dominion means that you are in charge, and in control; you are the head and not the tail. You are on top and not below. Ziba had taken illegal possession of Mephibosheth's property but David came and restored them to him

may also have belonged to cults where you were asked to do all sorts of things. All of these you may have done because you were trying to reach God. You may also have been attached to idols but now, God has been made known to you and not just has He been made known to you, you have direct

because he was the rightful owner. Not only did David drive away the illegal occupants of Mephibosheth's inheritance, he made them to work for him and to serve him because he was the rightful owner. Child of God, because of your covenant, tell that sickness or whatever

access to Him because of the sacri9ice of Jesus.

condition you have in your body, to pack their belongings, because you body belongs to the Lord. Is it poverty that has held you captive? Is it fear, confusion, failure, or barrenness; they

The Covenant Will Restore Your Inheritance To You

s h o u l d p a c k t h e i r b e l o n g i n g s because the covenant has given you dominion. You are in charge. Refuse to be put down by anything the covenant has not given you; whether it

9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s steward, and said to him, “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.

10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had 9ifteen sons and twenty servants.)

is confusion, insecurity, inferiority complex, they have to leave. Declare that you want your inheritance restored to you because that is what the covenant does. If a common covenant between two men, Jonathan and 2 Samuel 9: 9-10

Notice something very interesting here. Mephibosheth was already eating at the king’s table. So Mephibosheth was not hungry anymore, but what did King David say to Ziba? Ziba was Saul’s servant. Saul was the grandfather of Mephibosheth. He said that Ziba, his sons and his servants are to farm the land for Mephibosheth so that he may have food to eat. Is this not the same Mephibosheth who was going to be eating continually at the king's table? Do you know what your covenant does for you? It restores your inheritance to you because it is your right. Mephibosheth was no longer a benevolence case because he was already eating at the king's table and he was eating all kinds of good food. His feeding had been taken care of, so it was no longer a function of whether he was hungry or in need. A lot of times people short-circuit the covenant in their lives because they probably just got two or three brand new cars. That is your right. You have it not because you are in need but because it is your right. In the covenant, abundance is your right.

Without this understanding, when you begin to experience abundance, you will stop doing your part of the covenant. That is why some believers when they get their 9irst contract, they stop paying their tithe because what motivated them into getting their covenant bene9it in the 9irst place was their hunger and need.

David said that Mephibosheth would no longer be hungry because he will eat at his table continually. However, because of the covenant David had with Jonathan, Mephibosheth has the right of inheritance

David could achieve what it did for Mephibosheth and turned his life around; somebody that was in fear, lame and was crippled but he had access to the king. As a lame crippled boy, he began to command lands and empires he knew nothing about. Not because he was hungry but because of the covenant. He could now feed other people with the food that was brought to him and that is making impact. When your inheritance is restored to you, you can affect the lives of others.

Make a decision today to walk in the fullness of your covenant, no more half measures. Decide not to stay in Lo Debar anymore, a barren and pastureless situation. Come out of there and get direct access to the King of kings and the Lord of lords and experience a turnaround in your life.

Anytime you want to cry out to Him, you just get on your knees, and lift up your voice to Him. You have direct access to the King and when you have direct access, you eat of His abundance. While you are eating of His abundance, you have conversations with Him and as He talks with you, you learn more things and you tap into more of His abundance. He doesn't want the conversation to end, so He says, ‘bring in more food,’ and you continue to talk with Him because His golden sceptre has been stretched out forever towards you. He is never going to withdraw His hand that He has stretched out towards you. It is stretched out to bless you, to do you good and to bring you close to Him, where He is, a wealthy place.

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