#Strength: Covenant||Genesis 26:12-34
We are still looking at strength, one of the seven spirits of God in revelation 5 and how strength will help you get your land with reference to Genesis 26. God told Abraham to look at the sky and He also told him that through him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. In other words, through him generations were to be blessed. The word Generation has got two words in it; ‘Gene’ & ‘ration’. The disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ were in His generation. Isaiah 58:12 reads, Those from among you Shall build the old waste places; You shall raise up the foundations of many generations; And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In. The Gene-ration of Jesus is greater than that of your earthly father. Your Gene-ration is what is going to determine how far you will go, that’s why the scripture tells us not to be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what [is] that good and acceptable and perfect will of God [Romans 12:2]. Jesus impacted generations because of their association with Him. The blood of Jesus works on every one and that is our DNA. The reason why we are about to impact the cities of Africa and Europe is not because of our earthly fathers but because of the Gene-ration of Jesus Christ. Paul, Silas and Timothy over turned cities [Acts 17:7-14].
So how do you get your land? Genesis 26 reveals to us four systems of land acquisition; Canaan, Philistia, Gerar, Beer-sheba. So Isaac went to Philistia because of the famine and Abimelech, the king of Philistia stopped him from repossessing his father’s land, Abraham. Isaac used the marriage covenant to get back the land; Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife [Genesis 26:8]. So how did Abraham get that land, and why is it that the same problems that he suffered, also Isaac suffered? In Genesis 20, Abimelech wanted to get Sarah the mother of Isaac and in Genesis 26, the same man wanted to take Rebekah, Isaac’s wife but Sarah was a woman of covenant. If your father struggled to get land, you too shall struggle to get it, and this is where you invoke the Abrahamic covenant. Jesus promised to give us a new covenant. He died that we might receive the blessing of Abraham because we have a covenant with God [Galatians 3:14]. Jeremiah 31:31 says, Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Remember that Judah is praise and when you begin to praise God, a covenant kicks in.
Listen: Isaac sowed in the land and reaped in the same year a hundred fold because he touched the covenant of marriage. Isaac opened the window and decided to be a witness of the marriage covenant while the king was watching [Genesis 26: 8 &12]. The love covenant will cause you to bear fruit. Therefore, you get land through the covenant, and if God promised you, His promises are Yes and Amen. The second way to acquire land is by building alters. Right now you’re in a rented house and that is your beginning but never despise the days of humble beginnings because that’s where you activate the covenant from [Zechariah 4:10]. Sometimes you might have to lease land so that you can generate enough money to buy more land. Some of you don’t even have something to show. The third way to acquire land is through obedience. God told Isaac not to go to Egypt that He will bless him in the land of Philistia [Genesis 26:2-3]. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Obedience is very important for you to get your land. The fourth way to acquire land is through sowing seed. Isaac sowed in the land of the Philistines. The covenant demands that you multiply seed and when Isaac sowed, he got a hundred fold [Genesis 26:12-14]. Which covenant are you using? Are you using a covenant of tithe, marriage or your calling? Beloved, the moment you arrive in your place, you must sow a seed. Lastly, you must have faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen [Hebrews 11:1]. You who is married, activate your marriage covenant and you will get land.
3 John 1:2 reads, Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. You need these five things to get your land; covenant, alter, obedience, faith and seed. Before you borrow money, which covenant are you standing on? Which alter have you built, because you must use an altar. I pray that the Lord will grant you the desires of your heart.
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Robert Kayanja Ministries – Missions Department
