The document discusses making covenant relationships central. It states that God is covenantal, and gives examples from scripture showing that God keeps his covenants. To think covenantally means to understand the nature of God's covenants as solemn agreements he initiates with humans. The document outlines how to establish a covenant relationship with God - through calling, entering into the covenant, and keeping its terms. It encourages focusing on covenantal faithfulness.

2. Make Covenant Central

3. 1. God is covenantal – so you should be!

4. Revelation 22:1-3 (NIV)
1 Then the angel showed me the river of the
water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the
throne of God and of the Lamb 2 down the middle
of the great street of the city. On each side of the
river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops
of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the
leaves of the tree are for the healing of the
nations. 3 No longer will there be any curse. The
throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city,
and His servants will serve Him.

5. 2. God is who He says He is.
You must believe this!
PROMISE
COMMITMENT
FAITHFULNESS
LOYALTY – EVEN UNTO DEATH

6. Deuteronomy 7:9 (NIV)
9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God;
He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love
to a thousand generations of those who love Him
and keep His commands.
2 Chronicles 6:14 (NIV)
14 He said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God
like You in heaven or on earth - You who keep Your
covenant of love with Your servants who c
wholeheartedly in Your way.
God keeps covenants

7. God reveals covenants
Psalms 25:14 (NIV)
14 The LORD confides in those who fear Him; he
makes his covenant known to them.

8. God enables covenants

9. 3. What does it mean to think
covenantal?
BERIYTH – Hebrew – a compact, a deal, and
agreement – solemnised or made by passing
between pieces of flesh. I.e. the cutting of a
covenant.
Genesis 15:17 (NIV)
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen,
a smoking firepot with a
and passed between the

10. 1 Samuel 18:3 (NIV)
3 And Jonathan made a covenant with David
because he loved him as himself.

11. Psalms 25:14 (NIV)
14 The LORD confides in those who fear Him; He
makes His covenant known to them.

12. Genesis 15:18 (NIV)
18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with
Abram and said, "To your descendants I give
this land, from the river of Egypt to the great
river, the Euphrates..”

13. Leviticus 26:42 (NIV)
42 I will remember my covenant with Jacob and
my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with
Abraham, and I will remember the land.

14. DIATHEKE
“Last will and testament. A declaration of purpose.
The declaration of one person’s will. Not an
agreement. An arrangement of one person with
power. You Can accept or reject it, but you cannot
change it”
“In every case in Scripture when a covenant was
instituted between God and man, God is the initiator.
Man did not come to God with a proposal seeking God’s
approval. God came to man declaring His will and seeking
man’s adherence. A covenant is a contract between God
and man, drawn up by God and presented to
can accept it or reject it, but man cannot

15. Galatians 3:17 (NIV)
17 What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430
years later, does not set aside the covenant
previously established by God and thus do
away with the promise.

16. 4. How do you establish a covenant
relationship?
Calling
Entering
Keeping

17. Deuteronomy 29:1 (NIV)
1 These are the terms of the covenant the LORD
commanded Moses to make with the Israelites
in Moab, in addition to the covenant He had
made with them at Horeb.

18. Deuteronomy 29:12 (NIV)
12 You are standing here in order to enter into
a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant
the LORD is making with you this day and
sealing with an oath

19. 2 Chronicles 15:12 (NIV)
12 They entered into a covenant to seek the
LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their
heart and soul.

20. Isaiah 56:6 (NIV)
6 And foreigners who bind themselves to the
LORD to serve Him, to love the name of the
LORD, and to worship Him, all who keep the
Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold
fast to my covenant -

21. Hebrews 11:8 (NIV)
8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place
he would later receive as his inheritance,
obeyed and went, even though he did not know
where he was going.
See also: Heb 3-4

22. Deuteronomy 29:9 (NIV)
9 Carefully follow the terms of this covenant, so
that you may prosper in everything you do.

23. Psalms 103:17-18 (NIV)
17 But from everlasting to everlasting the
LORD's love is with those who fear Him, and
His righteousness with their children's children
- 18 with those who keep His covenant and
remember to obey His precepts.