Living in Covenant: The Path to Agreement with God | Open Book | Apr 1, 2025 | CR

Crystal Rivers | Open Book | Apr 1, 2025
Your covenant with God isn't a one-sided agreement where He does everything while you passively receive. It's a relationship requiring active participation from both parties. Just as you wouldn't sign important documents without reading the terms, you must understand what you've committed to—the promises, tokens, terms, and oaths that constitute your covenant relationship.

To truly know God goes beyond intellectual understanding. You cannot know someone from a distance. Draw near, enter that tent of meeting, sit in His presence. The Holy Spirit is your teacher, guiding you into all truth through intimate communion, not just during designated prayer times but in continual fellowship throughout your day.

Your labor is to know God deeply—to understand He exercises loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. His seat is the Mercy Seat, His mercy renewed daily. Before you can even use today's portion, tomorrow's fresh supply awaits. He keeps covenant and shows loyal love to thousands who love Him in return.

Are you glorying in the right things? Not in wisdom, might, or riches, but in understanding and knowing the Lord. To abide in this knowledge requires judging idols of the heart—those secret compartments where rival affections compete for your devotion.

Understand that Christ is not just someone you follow—He is a place you dwell in, your true inheritance. The protection promised in Psalm 91 isn't automatic but conditional on actively dwelling in the secret place, setting your love upon Him, and knowing His name. These aren't mere words to quote but conditions to fulfill.

Your spiritual lineage is no longer determined by flesh and blood. Through Christ's blood, you've been liberated from every generational cycle. There is no legal ground for the enemy to stand on—those cases have been dismissed. Even if you've sold your birthright like Esau, recovery is possible when you become restless against oppression and break the yoke from your neck.

True priesthood is agreement with God, but certain defects can prevent this communion:

- Blindness: Unable to see what God is truly saying
- Lameness: Unwilling to move forward in obedience
- Disfigurement: Traumatized by past experiences
- Broken hands or feet: Unable to grasp truth or walk in spiritual disciplines
- Hunchback perspective: Focused on earthly gain rather than heavenly purpose
- Stunted growth: Unchanged despite encounters with God
- Defective vision: Operating from impure motives
- Unfruitfulness: Unable to reproduce life in others

The good news is that Jesus is the Great Physician who heals these defects. His signs include making the blind see, the lame walk, and bringing the dead to life. Your transformation requires more than mental assent—it demands the work of believing deeply enough that your consciousness changes.

When you believe who you are in Christ, that identity becomes your reality. The unforced rhythms of grace teach you to live freely and lightly. Stop carrying yokes you weren't meant to bear. This world's best offering is death, but in Christ, you've been given life—abundant, eternal, and available now.