This picture SCREAMS covenant!
Does God ever pester you?
He has pestered me for almost a year about a topic that caused a thousand light bulbs to go off when I learned about it. The topic is covenant. In August 2010 my Tuesday morning small group embarked on Kay Arthur’s 8 week Bible study entitled Covenant. Lord, have mercy, I had no idea how this topic would get under my skin and touch my heart. I knew God made covenants in the Bible with various people and nations, but I had no idea how serious He was about them until I studied the topic in-depth. I believe with all my heart if we truly understood covenant, our earthly relationships would be vastly improved. Business relationships, friendships, marriages, parent/child relationships. All of it.
After I finished the study, God kept pestering me about covenant. I was not really sure what point He was trying to make, so I sorta ignored Him, knowing that when He was ready to fully reveal where He was headed, I would be the first to know!!
Well…now I know. He intended for me to teach about covenant in a condensed format. Over the course of the past three weeks I have written content for a 2 hour class on covenant. As I finished writing the content I began asking Him what he wanted me to do with it. Once again, He was very specific and told me that He wanted me to ‘road test’ the material with a small group of married couples.
Really, Lord? If that is what you want me to do, please confirm it to me in a specific way. HE DID…in the very way I requested. As a matter of fact, He went overboard confirming it! So, I issued an invitation for 3-4 couples to come to my home, partake in a meal, and evaluate/critique the material I had written. That event, entitled Pass the Relationship Salt, Please, will take place this Saturday evening, August 27th.
I am laboring over this in prayer…the content, the attendees, myself, everything. I firmly believe God is up to something with this and I’m beyond excited to be part of this wild ride. Those four couples may throw their forks at me out of boredom, but I don’t think that will happen. God has made it abundantly clear this is His will and I know Him well enough to know that He will show up as the guest of honor on Saturday night and make His Name glorious.
I would so appreciate your prayers for this. I am going for maximum impact in these lives and marriages. I want them to be as blown away over covenant as I was one year ago. I want their marriages and other earthly relationships to be stronger because of what they learn Saturday evening. I want their relationship with Jesus to be sweeter because of it. I sense God already has plans to expand this beyond these four couples….but one thing at a time.
MEDITATION MOMENT: Have you ever studied about covenant? What do you know about covenant?
