August 29 Devotion - The New Covenant

For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

فَإِنَّ هَذَا هُوَ دَمِي الَّذِي لِلْعَهْدِ الْجَدِيدِ وَالَّذِي يُسْفَكُ مِنْ أَجْلِ كَثِيرِينَ لِمَغْفِرَةِ الْخَطَايَا.

Mathew 26:28

“The word covenant means an arrangement made by one party which the other party involved could accept or reject but not alter.” (Bible professor Charles Ryrie)

                                                                                         

The New Covenant is an arrangement made by God which we can accept or reject, but we cannot alter the arrangement. The arrangement is that we are only saved through the shed blood of Jesus. When we accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour we are born again, a spiritual birth, and we are filled with the Holy Spirit and sealed forever as children of God.

“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

الْحَقَّ الْحَقَّ أَقُولُ لَكَ: لَا أَحَدَ يُمْكِنُهُ أَنْ يَرَى مَلَكُوتَ اللهِ إِلاَّ إِذَا وُلِدَ مِنْ جَدِيدٍ

John 3:3

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

¹²وَأَمَّا كُلُّ الَّذِينَ قَبِلُوهُ فَأَعْطَاهُمْ سُلْطَانًا أَنْ يَصِيرُوا أَوْلاَدَ اللهِ، أَيِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ بِاسْمِهِ. ¹³اَلَّذِينَ وُلِدُوا لَيْسَ مِنْ دَمٍ، وَلاَ مِنْ مَشِيئَةِ جَسَدٍ، وَلاَ مِنْ مَشِيئَةِ رَجُل، بَلْ مِنَ اللهِ.

John 1:12-13

The word testament as used in the Biblical Old and New Testaments originates from the Greek word for covenant.

I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:

Abba Father, thank You for loving me so much that You sent Jesus to die for my sins. Heavenly Father I accept Your Son Jesus as my Lord and Saviour. I accept Your New Covenant joyously and thank You for Your grace and mercy. Lord, I declare that I am saved through Your grace through the atoning blood of Jesus and that I can never be worthy on my own of being Your child. Father God I praise You, revere You, worship You, I stand in awe of You, I lift You up on high, and glorify Your Holy Name. Abba Father, thank You that Your deep steadfast love for me endures forever. Thank You Father for Your abundant blessings in my life, and for the riches of Your grace upon my life. In the Holy Name of Jesus I pray. To Jesus be the glory, the power, the majesty and the dominion forever and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

Jesus loves you,

In Him,

Wagdi Henein