The God of Covenants

This morning I am going to share about the God of covenants. How many of you had your heart and spirit moved when you sang God of covenants a little while ago? How beautiful, right? Ours is so precious. He is a truly covenant God. From the beginning that he created the human being, he created us not as some think to be in heaven as a judge, serious, accusing, punitive, but quite the opposite. God's plan for humanity, the reason why he created humanity is to sustain and love him every day. And that's not just for the ones he created in the beginning, but it's for us today, and it's for all the rest of humanity ahead.

The Bible is actually a record of God's covenants with his people. And it is very interesting that the word pact occurs throughout the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, it occurs 300 times, that is, what is a specifically pact word, there are also other words like oath, promise that mean something similar, but the word pact it is an important word to the Lord and it is recorded there in many ways.

And the first time that word pact appears in the Bible is in Chapter 6 of Genesis, in that Chapter it describes the terrible situation of humanity at that moment that had fallen into violence, into perversion and says that because of that great sin, which You know, it seems to us that you know the story, God declared a judgment against that generation, a judgment of destruction because of a flood and because of their great sin God declared that judgment of destruction and God who knew the hearts of that people, was also attentive to the heart of a man in that generation, and God made an approach to Noah, who according to Genesis 6:9 look what the word says about who Noah was. He says that he was a man who found grace in the eyes of Jehovah because he was a just man, perfect in his generations and who walked with God. That is who the recipient of the Lord's covenant was at that time.

God extended the opportunity to him, to Noah, to save himself from the flood, not only him but also his wife, his children, the children's wives, and we also know that the rest of the story, a pair of each animal from each species that existed in the world at that time. And he also gave him specific instructions to build a great boat. So in that way, in the Bible, in the book of Genesis, God begins a special relationship with Noah, and he tells him in Chapter 6, in verse 18, he says, “…but I will establish my covenant with you and you will enter into the ark you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives…”

God was the one who took the initiative to establish this covenant. The covenant was for the benefit of Noah and his descendants, and Noah for his part entered into a covenant with God. Noah's part was simply believing God and building the arch. That was all Noah did, and Noah accepted the gift that God gave him, a gift of grace and unmerited mercy. Noah accepted it.

In the Old Testament he also tells us that God established a pact with other people, for example, with Abraham, with Moses, he tells us about the pact he made with David, and many times we see in the Old Testament that through the prophets he also gave He speaks to the people of Israel about his covenant with them.

And the Bible not only talks about covenants between God and men, but also tells the beautiful story of covenants between two people. And two examples of this, two precious examples in the word of this are the covenant between Jonathan and David and the covenant between Ruth and Naomi. And we have no doubt that another covenant between two people is also the marriage covenant, according to the word and deed in Malachi, in the book of Malachi, which is the last book of the Old Testament, says in Chapter 2:

God expresses a deep pain for divorce and what he says is that in those verses he declares that divorce is a violation of the covenant, of a covenant between two people.

So we see that from the beginning God has communicated to the human being his intentions to make a pact with him, and that still continues today, God makes pacts with each one of you, makes a pact with a man, a woman, single, married, children, he has no respect of persons to establish pacts.

So at one point in history it happened that the people of Israel for many centuries disobeyed the law of Moses, for many centuries they committed adultery with their husband, their maker, God. That is part of history and we also see in the word that despite the great sin that humanity had, God did not dissolve, he did not decide to dissolve the pact he had with man, which was what he deserved for sin. so great that there was, but on the contrary by his love and his mercy he established an even better pact, so he did not punish, he did not take his eyes of love off humanity, but on the contrary, he made an even better pact with humanity .

And we know that the one who achieved, the one who consummated that pact is Jesus Christ, right? By his sacrifice on the cross. And the word tells us in Hebrews 10 that by that new covenant, which was sealed by the blood of Jesus Christ, God has written his laws in our hearts and minds, and by that covenant he has also given us access, or closeness to him, when we go to him with a sincere heart. One of the previous songs spoke of our ability to approach him through the sacrifice of Christ.

And so he invites us through that new covenant, he invites us to come closer to him. Our God is a totally personal God and he wants a personal relationship with each one of us, which is why he establishes pacts. And under that pact he has invited us to relate to him, not only now, but for all eternity, because we know that when we make a pact with Jesus we do not die and are buried, everything remains there, we do not go to a place of suffering but rather we have an everlasting covenant to be in his presence for the rest of eternity. And part of the pact is also to be able to have an abundant life here on earth, not only do we expect a great final reward of our days, something beautiful, but today you and I can live full lives in our human relationships because we are children of pact.

It is something very beautiful, being children of God and being children of the covenant is something that brings richness to our lives. And now I want to share 4 characteristics that I see from the Scriptures that relationships that are based on pact have, in the pact mentality, because we are not children of pact at all, right? We are covenant children to have a covenant mentality, a covenant approach. And that obviously implies extending it to all the human relationships we have on a day-to-day basis.

The first characteristic of this pact, of the pact mentality, is that it is initiated for the benefit of the other. We have already seen how God burst into history at a time of sin, of great sin, and began conversations with Noah. Noah was a faithful man, he wanted a relationship with God, but he did not initiate this covenant, he did not have the power to do so. However, we see that God started it for the benefit of Noah. In other words, God did not have a hidden motivation in that pact. He was not really going to receive any benefit, rather his purpose was a genuine, clean purpose to bring life to a situation of imminent destruction for Noah and his family. And after the flood ended, he went, not only saved him with the construction of the ark, but also gave him something else, he gave him another proof of his mercy for the simple joy of Noah, and for promise to all generations.

And you know what that is, right? That he told her, that as a seal of his promise, and a sign that he was never going to destroy humanity like this with a flood, was that at the end of each rain there was going to be a rainbow and that promise we still enjoy yours. me too. Sometimes we underestimate, it is something of nature but it is something else, there is something supernatural and the stories of the Bible are not just pretty stories, God is happy when we can see beyond and see the supernatural of things in the world. So it's an example of this characteristic of God making covenants, or one covenant being made for the benefit of another.

Another example occurs in First Samuel where he tells us about Jonathan who worked for David's absolute benefit. You know the story, David was basically persecuted by Jonathan's father, he wanted his death, and even from the beginning, even Jonathan knowing that David in a sense could be his competition for the throne because he would be heir to the throne, not He saw that, but he loved David so much that he did for him only for his benefit, and we see that in this verse, in verse 4 of First Samuel 18, it says:

“…and Jonathan took off the cloak that he was wearing and gave it to David and other clothes of his, even his sword, his bow, and his belt…”

And in the same way that he gave those tangible things, he also gave him his protection and his genuine friendship. And he did it, not for his benefit, but for David's benefit. So it's the first characteristic of a covenant mentality, when we do something for another for the benefit of the other.

The second characteristic that we see in covenants is that they are established on unconditional promises. And one example from Scripture that illustrates these characteristics of unconditional promises in relationships is the story of Ruth and Naomi.

Ruth did not agree to Naomi, you know the story is that Noemi's husband, the sons of her two daughters-in-law died, there was nothing to look for in the land where they were, there was poverty, hunger, and Noemi decided to return to her land. And one of her daughters-in-law, Ruth, makes a pact with her that precisely illustrates a pact promise, an unconditional promise, and Ruth did not make a pact, no Naomi telling her, Naomi, if you assure me that things are going well in Bethlehem, if you assure me that It will not bother you that I return to my land, if I try and I realize that it is not what I want, I do not want to go to Bethlehem, then I will go with you. She did not put conditions on him. We see that instead Ruth made to her mother-in-law one of the most beautiful covenant statements in Scripture that is so beautiful that it is used a lot at weddings. In fact, in the wedding card of our marriage, my wife and I, we put that Scripture. And that Scripture says thus:

"... do not beg me to leave you and separate me from you, because wherever you go I will go and wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people and your God my God, where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. So do Jehovah to me and add to me that only death will separate the two of us…”

That's an unconditional promise, right? Another quality that covenant relationships are based on is agape love. We enter into pacts for love, that is the basic reason, we enter into pacts because we love. God entered into a covenant with Noah because he loved Noah. Jonathan entered into a covenant with David because he loved David. And it is a pact that is not necessarily lacking in the emotion and feeling of love, but it is something more than that, it is a practical love, it is a love based on fidelity and mercy that is renewed every day. In other words, it is not a light love, it is a love that goes beyond our selfishness and puts its interest in the other. It is what the Bible calls agape love, that we see a beautiful passage in First Corinthians 13 about all the qualities of love. So that's what the covenant is based on. One of its foundations is agape love.

And covenant relationships are also based on permanent commitments. We saw earlier the permanence of Ruth's covenant. She was engaged to Naomi until the end of her days, right? He said, where you die, I'm going to die, where you live, I live, they bury you, they bury me too. So it was a permanent commitment.

And Jonathan's betrothal to David also endured even after Jonathan's death because when Jonathan died David did everything he could to find Jonatan's only descendant in order to extend his covenant to him. So we see it is unconditional and it is permanent, it goes beyond the here and now.

And we see repeatedly in the Bible that God's covenants with his people are eternal in scope. For example, in Deuteronomy 7, verse 9, it is one of my favorite verses in the Bible, Deuteronomy 7:9 says:

"...know then that Jehovah your God is yes God, faithful God who keeps the covenant and mercy to those who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations.."

That's a lot of time. So, as a bird's eye view, I wanted to establish two things: one, that God is a God of covenants, that is the first, and second, that those with whom he establishes covenants are also called to establish covenant relationships in their lives. And we all have the opportunity to establish those covenant relationships, we have many relationships in our lives. So God is a covenant God and he is part of our calling as covenant children is to extend those same covenant qualities to others in our lives.

And in our lives we are faced daily with the challenge of choosing between two diametrically opposed mentalities: one is the biblical covenant mentality and the other is the contract mentality. Both the pact and the contract consist of an agreement between two people, that's basic, right? But unlike the pact, which we have already seen the characteristics that it has, the contract is based on what benefit I can get from this relationship. In other words, it is looking at my need and my desires.

That is the first thing, what benefit can I get from this relationship. It is also based on what the other is going to give me in exchange for what I give him. Again, a self-centered mindset. And it is also based on my right to end the agreement if I believe that the other is not fulfilling their part. That is a contract mentality. Sure, in our life we have to make contracts, right? You are not going to buy a car without being given a contract specifying what the agreements are. We know that, but it is the day to day of things, let's say that they do not have eternal relevance. But when we're talking about relationships, having a contract mentality is very different than relationships that are established under a covenant. And once again a pact is established, that is, the pact mentality includes the benefit of the other, doing things for the benefit of the other, in unconditional promises, in practical love, agape, and in permanent commitment.

And the pact we see that it is the opposite, it is something that I do for my benefit lately, it is not for love, it is not for the benefit of the other but for my own. And we as covenant children have to resist the temptation to operate in our relationships with the contract mentality. Many of us have adopted that mindset prevalent in our culture. If you look around you see all the many human relationships are based on the contract mentality, and a contract does not have the enduring elements that a covenant does.

That is why the divorce rate is so high, that is why adultery is so frequent, that is why distances and quarrels are established in different relationships, for simple and silly, insignificant things we break relationships with others, that is why we end friendships and for That's why we stop talking to someone when we feel offended. It's all because a contract mentality is at work in us and not a long-range, covenant mentality.

And God wants something better for his children. I believe it is time for us to live miserable lives in our relationships, when in reality we are called to much more and as we have covenant relationships, God is going to bless us in a special way.

He wants something better for us, he doesn't want us to make relational decisions based on contract. He wants us to do it based on the fundamentals of a covenant mentality.

The primitive church that was in its first love believing that the coming of the Lord was near, was characterized by a genuine and generous love. It was a covenant church where they shared food, did charitable works generously, and what happened for that? Because the people around saw that pact mentality, in the early church that's why they added to it. They were attracted by that love and commitment that they saw that was lived in that context of the primitive Christian community.

Have you ever wondered if the way you conduct yourself is a way that attracts the attention of others so that others approach you and want to have what you have. Have you wondered if where you are that place, that relationship is better because you were there. That is a good question that we have that, in our relationships, in all of them, are still casual relationships, let's say, where perhaps we are not going to see that person much more, our question is, am I conducting myself with a daughter or a son of covenant. Do others see something special in me that they also wish they had in terms of relationships? Do I leave the place better because I was there?

I often have the habit of when I go to a place and see, for example, I don't know, in a bathroom I see that there are papers lying on the floor, I have the habit of picking it up and leaving it better. That is natural, practically, but do we also leave an environment, a visit, an interaction with someone better, we leave a, let's say, a pleasant smell, a special perfume because we have been there? And what leaves the person wanting to know what we have and where we get it from?

That is up to all of us, to leave that positive trail behind each one of us. Possibly the covenant relationship between two people that has the greatest repercussions is that of marriage. Marriage is not another institution within society, quite the contrary. God instituted it, one of the main purposes of marriage is to bear witness to his love on earth. That is what marriage is for, not to live unhappy lives, not for my benefit, no, it is for us to be able to project the love of God here on earth, through the practices that identify the character of Christ, which you know are long but some are: patience, forgiveness, grace, and service. So that is one of the purposes of marriage, to bear witness to God here on earth, that extends to the family, to all relationships.

If we remember the traditional vows that are made in a wedding ceremony, we see that it contains covenantal language. For example, one of the wedding ceremonies may say something, I take you as my husband or wife and I promise to love you and be faithful to you in riches or in poverty, in sickness or in health, in all that life takes away, and in all that life throws at it. Life gives until death do us part.

That is crystal clear covenant language. It has all the covenant elements. And we make these beautiful statements, in that beautiful dress in front of the pastor and the witnesses, and we do it with emotion and conviction in that moment. And we believe it for a while, but then life slaps us in the face and we come to a reality, right? That relationships are not so easy and we forget when disagreements arrive, difficult times, when temptations arrive, when moments come that shake us because they go exactly against what we want for our lives, and little by little What we do is that we allow the contract mentality to take control of the relationship and we dangerously devalue, underestimate the relationship and stop investing in it.

The pact is dying and is then replaced by a contract mentality. We begin to meditate if it's worth it, since I'm not getting the benefit that I thought according to my expectations, we thought, well, and this, I'm no longer getting happiness. Many of us determine the health of a marriage based on whether I am happy or not, and then that process that occurs enters a marriage relationship very little by little, it is a gradual process until it can become the hallmark of that relationship. It is no longer a covenant relationship but rather a contract relationship. So we are taking another identity and it is no longer what God originally wanted. I encourage you, that if this is your house, you are married and that is your case that you see that it is more the mentality of a contract that is entering into your relationship, it is time that you review and go to God's original plan for establish a marriage that is truly covenantal.

I am not telling you that because you have a covenant marriage, there will be no difficulties, no, I am not saying that. What a covenant marriage allows you to do is that when difficulties come, when discomfort comes, even betrayal, then we can act with the justice of God, not based on the flesh, on the contract, but on the basis of justice. of God. That's what a deal is for you.

I have had the privilege of meeting many couples who have been on the brink, sometimes even divorced, and by both recovering the covenant mentality, they have been able to recreate a relationship based on covenant. So that is not impossible, and I know that, I am privileged to have heard the story of many people, many of you who, despite terrible, terrible difficulties, have chosen to act from the point of view of a mentality of covenant. And I see how God blesses the life of a person who resists the temptation to have a contract mentality and to reject because I am not receiving exactly what I think I deserve, I want, because I am not happy, but they have continued fighting until God He has given the desires of his heart. Sometimes it costs, but the benefits that we obtain in the long run redound, they are not only for us, but for future generations.

Your covenant marriage and mine is crucial for the young generation rising up today. A few months ago on the radio I heard about a very interesting study that was conducted by a liberal social researcher. She interviewed a significant number of young adolescents about whether or not they wanted to get married. And her premise was that marriage is an obsolete institution, that it no longer has much validity at this time and that these young people were going to answer mostly that they preferred, in the future, instead of getting married, to establish a relationship of cohabitation with their partner. couple. But to her great surprise, she didn't expect any of that, she was very, very surprised, what she discovered is that the vast majority, I can't say the percent, but it was much more, it was almost 90% or more of those Young people answered that they wanted to get married, that they wanted to enter into a marriage relationship. But that's the positive part, the sad part is that they also expressed their great fear, their terror of failing in the relationship. Because? Because they have seen so many failures.

There are people who cannot even count on a healthy marriage or healthy covenant in their family. So many of these young people had not seen how a covenant marriage is lived, and because of that they were afraid. So that's a land of opportunity for us, for the church. Let's strive to have covenant marriages.

And I want to speak now for a moment to the divorced people. Sometimes things happen, sometimes it has not been in our control to keep the marriage covenant. By my words I do not want to hurt you, much less condemn you, that is not my purpose, because I know that God's pact with your life is still there. There was a failure but that should never determine the future of our life, and we always have to go ahead and have covenant relationships wherever God puts us. If we have had a failure, it is time to simply accept the grace of God and continue living as a child of the covenant, so I do not want to create sadness because I understand very well, I know that there are sad stories and God knows and I also know that God, although I am focusing on a Little about the subject of marriage, I also know that God is a covenant God for the single mother, and for the single father. That I have no doubt. And in fact a little while ago a very dear sister in this congregation told me that God had clearly told her not to worry about her children because he was the Father to her children. She does not have the privilege of having a Christian ex-husband who can be a good influence on the children, but God covenanted with her.

So in our life God will never be absent. He always, always wants to have a pact with you. But we also know that ideally the marriage relationship must remain intact and must be a relationship for blessing and we already saw from this study of these young people that it is necessary for there to be covenant marriages that give a testimony, an encouragement, a hope to these young people that it is possible, that it is possible to have a fruitful marriage.

So we already know that God is a God of perpetual covenants and that God is a God of generational covenants. Do you remember that it said that up to a thousand generations, that may just be hyperbole. I choose to believe that it is the truth, that God is there to bless my life and the life of a thousand generations after me.

And you know that the main vehicle for the transmission of the covenant mentality is your family, it is that tiny context that you think no one sees, that is where God chooses to transmit the covenant mentality. And you know that your home is called to be a covenant home, holy and set apart for the Lord. It is a privileged place where God teaches through the authorities established in that place; dad and mom, teach, or mom alone, dad only if that's the case, teaches children, the pact mentality. Included in the spiritual genes that identify you as a child of God is the covenant chromosome that you have the privilege of transmitting to the current generation and to future generations. So that's in our spiritual DNA. We are not only children of God, we are children of the covenant.

And the best foundation, and the best gift that you can give your children as a couple is to manifest the pact mentality in dealings within your home, how they handle anger, how they seek reconciliation at the root of a conflict, how they forgive each other. , how they serve each other, how they remain faithful and interested in each other. Let us never underestimate the great power that this has, how we live in the small context of the home, many things happen and that is where we transmit this pact mentality, it is on a day-to-day basis. Sometimes our actions will speak much louder than our words and it is how you choose to act with your partner, with your children, it is what you teach them, they can absorb that pact mentality like sponges and one day they will be able to build that same, under that same pact mentality because you have been faithful in transmitting it to them. That is a great truth.

And many of us do not give importance to the generational transmission of the covenant mentality. Many of us live locked in the here and now and we allow the here and now to dominate our decisions and our relationships and we waste our lives a lot, we sometimes live it mediocrely, we give ourselves to others with little generosity, even more stingy those who are closest to us. Life escapes us, sometimes, if you take water in your hands you can't hold it, right? He leaves and sometimes that happens to us with the opportunities that God gives us, they slip out of our hands just as water slips out of our hands. And we miss opportunities to grow and to establish relationships that bring honor and glory to God and that make the next generations receptive to his covenant. Because they remember, it is there, it is on a day-to-day basis where we teach this pact mentality.

I can challenge you on this day to recognize that in you there may be things, behaviors, thought patterns that prevent you from having full pact relationships, perhaps some, the change does not have to be that big, others perhaps yes, but you I can challenge you today to analyze yourself and see if you are establishing pact relationships with those who are closest to you, look, even with friends, even with friends we have to have pact relationships, because we can bring a lot of blessing and we can help someone who does not know the Lord, to enter the Kingdom, by the way we treat him.

I can challenge you to make changes in your life that allow you to commit to invest yourself, to invest yourself, not money, not anything, to invest yourself in the well-being of others through a permanent commitment, solely for the benefit of the other. Those are things that we have to analyze and examine ourselves and see if we are giving everything that God wants us to give.

Remember that you are a child of the pact that you have been, as we have said before, separated and designated by whom? By Christ, no less, by Christ to receive the benefits of a new covenant. Remember that in you are the same resources to make a pact that were in Jonathan and David, in Ruth and Naomi, those same resources that they had are in you today. You can establish those relationships if you want to and have Christ as your partner in that work.

And I encourage you not to give up in those difficult relationships, sometimes the easiest thing to do when discomfort comes, especially when it takes a while to give up, never return evil for evil, quite the contrary. Be faithful and merciful, persist in loving even when you do not see immediate fruit. How many times have I not seen other people's situations where the result was not seen, there was no result of love, of the sacrifice of a person, but over the years a miracle happened. It happens so much with children, right? They stray from the ways of the Lord, they go into rebellion, but if you persist in having covenant relationships with them, you are going to see something miraculous. I assure you, I have seen it so many times and I know that God does it, even if it is the last day of that child's life, you do not know what God can do, and it is up to us only to act with that child based on the covenant .

Learn to be faithful and merciful, when you pray ask the Lord to teach you to love. We all need that, everyone, everyone. None of us loves here as Christ loves his church, so we need to ask for forgiveness, confess our faults, our limitations in our ability to love and ask God to increase that in us to be able to love as a covenant child .

And I also want to ask you to increase in yourself the vision of your impact on the present and future generations. Never underestimate the impact that you can have through a covenant relationship with your wife, your husband, your children, your extended family, your friends, your neighbors, with the brothers of the church, never underestimate the importance of that. the benefit of a covenant relationship.

And I want to end by saying, recently, on August 22, an important event occurred in my family, in my life that opened my eyes to the importance of growing in the covenant mentality. I understood better that day, August 22, than the supernatural aspect that constitutes the foundation of all covenant relationships. That day I had the privilege of witnessing the birth of my first grandson, Caleb Jonatan, and when I looked at him it was like the future opened up for me, it opened up in front of me and after obviously admiring his little face, little body, little fingers , of aaaaah, of all those things that we do when a baby is born, after that quietly in my spirit I prayed, I spoke to my heavenly Father and I thanked him because that little boy, Caleb was born in a covenant family that has a mentality of covenant.

I thanked him for the covenants that bind us to each other in our family, even with those who have recently been added to our family, I also thanked him for his parents, who have the conviction of the covenant, and who are preparing and have that awareness of the great responsibility that they have to transmit their faith to that new generation in this case, to Caleb. And I thanked God even for the name, because they took the time to choose a name that also reflects their covenant mentality. So I gave thanks for all those things and I asked him, Lord, help me, help us to model love for this little baby who is born today, help us to model love so that he understands very well from an early age the pact that God has with him and the importance of the pact relationships, and that he can become the person that God wants him to be, that nothing that we do as parents, as grandparents, as uncles, nothing prevents or is a stumbling block for him to arrive at what in the mind of God he has been determined to be.

And you know what? Caleb wasn't born into a perfect family, no, by no means like no family is perfect. But he was born into a family that has passionately adopted a covenant mentality and that strives to live it day by day with our mistakes, yes, but we have that awareness of the covenant, of the importance that we have, for this generation that is now is being formed and the one that will be formed later.

So dear sister, dear brother, by entering into a covenant with God, God commits himself to you forever. It's not for a while, it's forever and that's a reason for joy.

In First Chronicles 16:15 King David declares referring to God these words, he says that God makes memory of his pact perpetually and of the word that he commanded for a thousand generations. Today, God remembers the perpetual pact that he has made with you and with the future generations that will follow you. Your response is simply to appropriate that pact with gratitude in your heart, with emotion, as we sang that song of pacts previously from God, which touched the fibers of our being, that is what we have to do, that is only our part : Responding to that covenant by opening our hearts with gratitude, embracing the covenant, and living as a covenant daughter or covenant son in all our relationships.

And I want to end with a blessing that is in the book of Hebrews, Chapter 13, it is the end of the book of Hebrews, it is a blessing that the author gives to the Hebrews who received the letter. Hebrews 13, 20 to 21 and says like this:

“…And the God of peace, that is for you, and the God of peace who raised from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, make you fit in every good work so that do his will by doing in you what is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever…”

Let us pray, sealing this word in our hearts on this day. Father, thank you, thank you for your word, thank you for the pact that in your mercy you have made with this church, with our families, with each one of the individuals, Lord, who make up this house. Thank you, Lord, because you have had mercy on us, you have visited us, you have broken into our personal history to make a pact with each one of us. Lord, at the end of this time of being in your presence, to adore you, to meditate on your word, Lord, I ask you to seal this word in the minds and hearts of my brothers and in my own, Lord.

Help us, Lord, to live as children of your covenant. Help us, Lord, to establish relationships that bring honor and honor to your name, Lord. Relationships where we do not establish them for our benefit, where there is no rejection because we have not received what we expected, Lord. Help us to establish relationships based on your word, Lord, relationships in which we give ourselves to each other with generosity, Lord, relationships in which we can commit ourselves to others, with unconditional covenants, Lord, and commit ourselves permanently.

Lord, we need as a people, as a society, as a church, we need Lord, testimony that you are powerful to heal relationships, that you are powerful to allow us to do all the good works that are pleasing to you, Lord, that you are powerful to give us everything we need even when in our own strength we think we can't.

Lord, I ask that you bless each one in this place, Lord, no matter what life situation they are in, Lord. I bless, Lord, the father and the mother, I bless the husband and the wife, I bless the mother and the single father, I bless the children, the singles, Lord, the little ones, the great ones, the elderly, Father. And I ask you Lord that this word come true in our lives, Lord we give you your day to day, Father, our day to day, with our struggles, with our afflictions, with our pains, with our dissatisfactions, all of this I give to you. We deliver, Lord, and we make a pact with you today that we receive your love, and we receive your power to do what you have sent us to.

Lord, heal our land, Lord, heal our relationships, Father, heal the marriage. Lord, restore marriage to your original design, Father, and may each one of us be responsible and with joy and desire to please you, Lord, let us heal what you have given us, may we be healing agents, Father, in all our relationships.

We introduce relationships between friends too, Lord bless that too. All kinds of relationships, those we have at work, at home, in the neighborhood. Bless us, Lord. Lord, we receive from you and we know that in faith we leave this place, that you are going to do the good work that you have begun and that it is up to us, Lord, to believe you and enter into your eternal covenant design, Lord . Thank you, for your love, thank you for your word, Lord. Thank you, Lord, in the name of Jesus. Amen.