“Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” 
              — 2 Samuel 23:5

This covenant is divine in its origin. “HE hath made with me an
everlasting covenant.” Oh that great word HE! Stop, my soul. God, the
everlasting Father, has positively made a covenant with thee; yes, that
God who spake the world into existence by a word; he, stooping from his
majesty, takes hold of thy hand and makes a covenant with thee. Is it
not a deed, the stupendous condescension of which might ravish our
hearts for ever if we could really understand it? “HE hath made with me
a covenant.” A king has not made a covenant with me-that were somewhat;
but the Prince of the kings of the earth, Shaddai, the Lord
All-sufficient, the Jehovah of ages, the everlasting Elohim, “He hath
made with me an everlasting covenant.” But notice, it is particular in
its application. “Yet hath he made with ME an everlasting covenant.”
Here lies the sweetness of it to each believer. It is nought for me
that he made peace for the world; I want to know whether he made peace
for me! It is little that he hath made a covenant, I want to know
whether he has made a covenant with me. Blessed is the assurance that
he hath made a covenant with me! If God the Holy Ghost gives me
assurance of this, then his salvation is mine, his heart is mine, he
himself is mine-he is my God.

This covenant is everlasting in its duration. An everlasting covenant
means a covenant which had no beginning, and which shall never, never
end. How sweet amidst all the uncertainties of life, to know that “the
foundation of the Lord standeth sure,” and to have God’s own promise,
“My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of
my lips.” Like dying David, I will sing of this, even though my house
be not so with God as my heart desireth.

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• A Believers Sincere Petitioning Prayer is Accepted - 2009
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