His Covenant Goodness

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HIS COVENANT GOODNESS Pastor Charles Omofomah 41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will

God Cannot Be Blackmailed!

assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My

One thing you should know about God is that He is never afraid of

soul.’

scandal. A lot of people blackmail God when they pray to Him. You’ll

42 “For thus says the Lord: ‘Just as I have brought all this great

hear them say, “God if you don’t give me a child, people will ask

calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I

where is my God.” That is cheap blackmail, and a lot of believers are

have promised them.

specialists at this but it will get you nowhere. Believers have been Jeremiah 32:41-42

In this article, we are going to look at the nature of God’s goodness to His covenant people. God is a good God to everyone but He is particularly good to His people. Speaking of His people, I’m referring to those who are in a covenant relationship with Him.

asked at several times in history where their God is, but He is still on His throne doing good every day, and if you will partake of His goodness He will give it to you. There is only one way to truly “blackmail” God, and that is with your faith. Each time you express your faith, God cannot help but do what you ask Him to do. Just as there is nothing you will do to make God lie because He cannot lie, so also there is nothing He has promised you that He will withhold

God does not bring evil on His people. The words “I have brought” is

from you when you believe.

used here in the permissive sense. God allows because you allow.

God does not bring evil on anyone because there is no evil in Him.

God desires to do you good with gladness and rejoicing. He will not

He only brings good on His people. I will just focus on one aspect of

do it haphazardly. Let me assure you that God will bless you with

God’s goodness in this article, as it relates to fruitfulness or

pleasure because when someone does good with pleasure, he does

childbearing. God wishes above all things that you prosper (3 John

not struggle neither does he do it half-heartedly. Sometimes our

1:2), and be fruitful (Genesis 1:28). He says the earth is full of His goodness (Psalms 33:5), but because the earth is full of God’s goodness does not mean you will partake of it. God wants you to partake of His goodness, He does not want you to suffer in the midst of plenty but that is what is happening to most of His children. They suffer in the midst of plenty. That will not be your case, in Jesus’ Name!

brothers, sisters or parents give us all sorts of excuses when we ask them for something, but when we persist after a long while, they are wearied and would let us have it. God does not give good things like that. He will do you good smiling. One good reason why God will do good is because of the covenant. When God says He rejoices when He does good for you, it is because of the covenant. God will do you good because it is His will and He will also do it because the covenant compels Him to.

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When David asked if there was any man left in the house of Saul for him to show kindness, Mephibosheth was brought to him.

Mephibosheth was lame and helpless, and may have been told that

petitions. You should get to a point where you know that God will

David was a wicked man who hated him with a “passion.” Yet this same man was the one who was set to do him good by restoring all that belonged to his father. This was because David had a covenant with Jonathan. Even if it were inconvenient for him, he would have

God’s Covenant Goodness Is Found In Christ!

done it by compulsion. In the same way, because you are a child of God and you are in covenant with God, and because of the covenant God is obliged to do you good. God’s actions towards you will end in goodness.

God Cannot Break His Covenant!

God said to Abraham and to Israel, and even to you His child, He will never break His covenant with you because it’s an everlasting covenant (Genesis 17:7). Even if you have sinned or done wrong, God will not break His covenant with you because His ful_illment of the covenant is not dependent on your doing right or wrong, rather it is dependent on the covenant

do you good. You receive His goodness by faith.

6 That the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

Philemon 1:6

All of God’s covenant goodness are found in Christ and if you are in Christ, then you already have them, but you have to acknowledge that they are yours. You don’t deserve them but because you are in Christ you can have them. This is because there has been an exchange called the great exchange.

A man cannot be punished twice for the same offence. Every offence you have ever committed or you will ever commit, Christ has been judged and punished for them and you should not be punished for them.

You may still be in that unfruitful state not because of what you have done but because of your

itself. This may be hard for you to take, but understand that when a son does wrong and offends his father, it does not stop the son

ignorance. The Bible says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...” (Hosea 4:6), and

from being a son. Even if the father decides to take out his name from his will and say, “You are no longer my son,” that does not stop him from being one.

There is a level of relationship that God wants you to attain with Him, and when you do that, you will only move upwards. God will never break His covenant with you, and no devil is strong enough to break the covenant that God has with you. He is real and His goodness will manifest in your life.

When I wake up every morning, I pray for an amount of time. You should do it too. Schedule a time and spend quality time with God. However, don’t think God will do you good because of the amount of time you spend in prayer. The amount of time you spend in prayer and in the Word will only make you know more of God’s goodness and take advantage of it.

God doesn’t do you good because of the amount of time you prayed; He does good to you because He is good. That is why some believers have the problem of comparing themselves with another person who isn’t “much of” a Christian like they are by what they think God has done for that other person. They forget that the other person may just be walking by faith to receive all he has, and since faith is the only thing that pleases God, they’ll receive their

not because there is a devil who hates you so bad and wants to tell you that God’s Word is not true. The Bible says, “For we do not wrestle against =lesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places“ (Ephesians 6:12).

You may say, “Pastor, you don’t know I slept with married men and committed several abortions.” Agreed, you were foolish then and should not have done that, but it has been judged when you confessed it to your heavenly Father. You cannot be punished twice for the same offence. Jesus Christ has been punished, and you were in Him when He was being tortured. When God judged Him, you were in Him. When He was justi_ied, you were justi_ied with Him. That is why the Bible’s _inal judgment was that by His stripes, you were healed.

It is against the law of the land to punish you for the same offence twice. The punishment has been meted out already on Christ. You can stand up fruitful and free. This is the _inality of everything. You should not sin but if you have already sinned, repent, turn away from it and do not live in condemnation. Fruitfulness is in the grace of God, received it by faith. It’s all yours.

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