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Dedication

To my covenant wife, partner and dearest friend of thirty years, Rev. Mrs. Rita Korankye-Ankrah.

Thank you for standing with me,

I love you.

“My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of my lips”

Psalm 89:34

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Acknowledgements

I am most grateful to God who “met” me in Holland in June 1991 and changed the course of my life.

To all my sons and daughters who have believed in my covenant with God and supported my ministry with their prayers, presence and finances.

God richly bless you.

Introduction

“…I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. ²And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

— Genesis 17:1-2

Are covenants relevant to us today? Oh yes! Does God change? No. Do His word and principles change? No. If God is and remains unchangeable and He is the author of the concept of covenants then know this, covenants are as relevant to us today as God Himself is. It is through covenant that He established His promise of an eternal relationship with us.

My own life is a living testimony of the efficacy of covenants.

On the 19th of June 1991 while living in Holland struggling to make a living for myself and my family, I had an encounter with God that changed and transformed my life. On that day, I entered into a covenant with God. The Lord said to me:

1. Bring people into my presence through prayer, praise and worship.
2. Preach salvation, healing and deliverance as well as messages of hope that are relevant to the needs of people.
3. Bring comfort to people and provide them with a place and an atmosphere of love, care, sharing and fellowship.

In return for my obedience, the Lord said, “If you respond to my call, I will bless you abundantly and change the destiny of your family.”

From that day onwards, I have strived to walk in this mandate and faithfully maintained my covenant relationship with God. In return I have seen the fulfilment of God’s promise in my life. The Lord has blessed me exceedingly, far above my expectations. This covenant with God has not only blessed me but has also blessed my many sons and daughters who have connected to it. When I consider my life, from whence I came, to where God has placed me now. I know of a truth that the Lord has been faithful.

What is blessing? In simple terms, it is a supernatural covering over you that ensures that you prosper in every area of your life. This promise is available to anyone who would walk in this special relationship with God.

Consider Isaac, a beneficiary of the covenant between God and Abraham. In Genesis 26:12-13, the Bible records that the Lord blessed Isaac, and he “began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous” in spite of the famine that was raging in the land.

Blessing ensures that where others fail, you succeed.

Blessing is when you go out empty and return with two companies (Genesis 32: 10).

Blessing is when you are considered insignificant and relegated to the background, but God picks you up as He did David, a poor shepherd boy; and raised and moulded him into a king.

It is my desire that this book will open the eyes of your understanding to how God relates to us through covenants and the bountiful blessings that you and your generations will enjoy from it.

God is looking for another Sam Korankye Ankrah to raise, mould and use. May you be the one.

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Is There Anyone Left To Be Favoured

One of the central themes of God’s word is how He connects to specific individuals to bless them, their descendants and the generations after them. This is evident through the Old and New Testaments. I have discovered that for every individual who experienced a long chain of blessing from God, one thing was evident- a covenant relationship.

God established a covenant relationship with Noah in a period when the unrighteousness of mankind had increased and become displeasing to Him. This was as a result of his relationship, and reverence of Him. Noah received blessings of multiplicity, dominion and influence over the earth.

God appeared to Abraham, called him out of his kindred, established a relationship with him, and blessed him. God’s eternal covenant with Abraham today is the bedrock of the Christian faith. The benefits of this covenant are available to every child of God through Jesus Christ.

“And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

—Galatians 3:29

God established a perpetual relationship with Israel by covenant after taking them from captivity to the Promised Land with Moses as the mediator of the covenant. Their many years of slavery came to an end. This covenant was in fulfilment of the promise of God to Abraham (Genesis 15:13-14).

Through Jesus Christ, God established a covenant relationship with humanity to abolish the curse of sin and death introduced by Adam in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3). The shedding of His precious blood became the blood of atonement which reconnected the believer to God. God loves to establish covenant relationships with individuals, families and nations. He showed this by covenanting with individuals who walked blameless before Him. For such people the uncommon favour of God followed them. This was the story of King David and Mephibosheth.

“Now David said, “Is there still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

—2 Samuel 9:1

Around this time, King Saul had disobeyed God and walked in his own ways. God had stripped the kingdom from him and condemned his household to destruction. The men of his house had therefore perished and died yet due to King David’s covenant relationship with Jonathan, Mephibosheth was spared. Further, the king showed him kindness and lifted him to the place of honour which normally would not have been available to him.

Where Mephibosheth was unqualified in several ways, covenant qualified him:

He was lame in his feet and was not permitted by law to sit with the king in the palace.

“For any man who has a defect shall not approach: a man blind or lame, who has a marred face or any limb too long.”

— Leviticus 21:18

His place of residence did not qualify him to sit with kings.

Mephibosheth was from Lo Debar, a secluded town from which nothing good came. People of low regard were found there, amongst them was this son of Jonathan (2 Samuel 9:4).

No action on his part qualified him for recognition and elevation before the king. The blessing came to him because of his father. His own actions would not have qualified him for this uplifting.

Despite all these limitations, the outcast sat at table with the king in the latter years of his life.

“And Mephibosheth, who was crippled in both feet, lived in Jerusalem and ate regularly at the king’s table.”

— 2 Samuel 9:13 (NLT)

King David’s long standing covenant with Jonathan was the key to Mephibosheth enjoying the covenant mercies.

“Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.”

— 1 Samuel 18:3

In this covenant, Jonathan did four things:

• He gave his armour
• He gave his garment
• He gave his belt
• He gave his weapons

“And Jonathan took off the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, even to his sword and his bow and his belt.”

— 1 Samuel 18:4