29 Jun The Blood Covenant #26

Blood Covenant Praise Overview

In this profound 26th installment of The Blood Covenant series, Pastor explores the transformative power of covenant relationship with God through Christ’s blood. After six months of teaching, he emphasizes that the entire Bible centers on one covenant – the blood covenant that governs our earthly and heavenly relationships. The message reveals how covenant requires 100% commitment from both parties, yet God’s everything far exceeds our nothing. Living in a corrupted world while functioning under heaven’s rules requires understanding the exchange system of covenant: we give God our weakness, finances, and time, and He returns His strength, provision, and healing. Central to this exchange is praise, which Scripture reveals as identical to strength. When we offer continual praise to God, especially in difficult circumstances, He releases His power to silence our enemies and transform our environment. The sermon connects Judah’s name (meaning praise) to demonstrate how lifting hands in surrender and thanksgiving activates heaven’s authority on earth. As corruption increases globally and prophetic signs accelerate, believers must learn to live from heaven’s perspective while remaining engaged in earthly responsibilities through the power of praise.

Blood Covenant Praise Outline

• 0:00 – Introduction: Six Months of Blood Covenant Teaching: Pastor reflects on 26 weeks of covenant teaching and its fundamental importance to all Scripture
• 3:30 – Covenant Requires 100% From Both Parties: Explaining the mutual commitment in covenant relationship between God and believers
• 8:15 – Two Kingdoms: Earth vs Heaven: Understanding how to function under heaven’s rules while living in a corrupted earthly system
• 12:45 – The Divine Exchange System: How giving to God results in receiving from heaven – life, provision, strength, and healing
• 18:20 – Praise Equals Strength in Scripture: Examining how praise and strength are identical words in Hebrew, ordained by God
• 24:10 – Praise as God’s Prescription for Environment: How continual praise changes spiritual atmosphere and defeats principalities
• 28:40 – Living from Heaven While on Earth: Practical application of maintaining heavenly perspective during earthly challenges
• 32:15 – Judah’s Blessing: The Power of Surrender: Understanding Judah’s name as praise and the significance of lifted hands in worship

Scripture References

Philippians 4:19, Psalm 8:2, Hebrews 13:14-15, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Psalm 22:3, Matthew 21:16

Key Takeaways

• The entire Bible revolves around one blood covenant established through Christ’s sacrifice, governing all our relationships with God.
• Covenant requires 100% commitment from both parties, but God’s everything far exceeds our nothing in the exchange.
• We must learn to live by heaven’s rules while functioning in earth’s corrupted system through Christ’s authority.
• Every sacrifice we make to God – time, finances, life – results in divine exchange from heaven’s unlimited resources.
• Praise and strength are identical in Scripture; when we praise God, He releases His power to us.
• Continual praise is God’s prescription for changing our spiritual environment and defeating enemy forces.
• Lifting hands in praise represents surrender to God’s authority and activates heaven’s power on earth.

Blood Covenant Praise Notes

After six months and 26 messages on the blood covenant, this teaching emphasizes the foundational truth that all Scripture centers on one covenant relationship established through Christ’s blood. This covenant governs how believers relate to God, earth, and heaven, making it essential knowledge for every Christian. The pastor stresses that covenant relationship requires complete commitment from both parties – 100% from God and 100% from believers. However, this arrangement favors believers significantly since what we bring to the table is essentially nothing compared to God’s everything.The sermon addresses the challenge of living as covenant people in two kingdoms simultaneously. The earthly kingdom is described as corrupted, divided, and influenced by demonic forces affecting even well-intentioned people. In contrast, the church operates under heaven’s kingdom with perfect unity, built by Jesus Christ against whom hell’s gates cannot prevail. The key is learning to function under Jesus’ authority and heaven’s guidelines while remaining engaged in earthly responsibilities.Central to covenant living is understanding the divine exchange system. When believers surrender their lives to Christ, He gives eternal life in return. When we give our corrupted earthly resources, He provides incorruptible heavenly ones. Financial giving results in divine provision according to God’s riches in glory, with the promise that God’s blessings come without sorrow, unlike worldly wealth. Time invested in God’s Word and fellowship yields health and healing benefits both in this life and the next.The connection between praise and strength forms a crucial theological point. Using Psalm 8:2 and Matthew 21:16, the pastor explains that praise and strength are identical words in Hebrew Scripture. God has ordained praise from children and infants specifically to silence enemies and avengers. This means that when believers offer praise, especially during difficult circumstances, God releases His strength to defeat spiritual opposition. The weakest believer has access to the same divine strength as mature Christians through praise.Praise serves as God’s prescription for environmental change. Over every earthly municipality, spiritual principalities seek to express themselves through human personalities, but these forces should be under the church’s feet. When believers praise God consistently, His Spirit expresses Himself through His people, creating a different spiritual atmosphere that allows God’s presence to manifest powerfully.The teaching emphasizes continual praise as described in Hebrews 13:14-15, which calls for offering continuous sacrifice of praise through Jesus while acknowledging this world is not our permanent home. This continual praise enables believers to live from heaven’s perspective even while handling earthly responsibilities like work, family, and daily pressures. When feeling weak or overwhelmed by world corruption, believers can still find strength to praise God, resulting in divine strength exchange.The sermon concludes by connecting Judah’s name, derived from the Hebrew word ‘yada’ meaning to lift hands in praise and thanksgiving, to the practice of surrender. Raised hands represent recognized posture of surrender to authority, signifying complete submission to God’s power and willingness to let heaven’s authority operate through earthly circumstances.

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