He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. Heb 8:7-13

In the New Covenant God gives to us the law of Christ and writes Him upon our hearts. Everything we need to know is found in this law and is our most valuable treasure! We no longer have to rely on being told the will and ways of God for the Spirit is in real-time, alive and present – in us now – who is our teacher. John 14:26.

Most of us own a device in which at our fingertips we have access to a vast network so large we cannot ever fully utilize it. How much more so, is the Living God inside of us, in whom holds all the depths and riches of everlasting life? Our God is beyond a created technology because He is everlasting and eternal.

May we ask for the Lord’s revelation to help us get this. May He reveal to us the stumbling blocks that prevent us from receiving His fullness. May we not stop striving to go deeper into Christ!

 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:2-4

There are reasons why we don’t experience what God has granted to us through His Son in the New Covenant.

We are not yet born of the Spirit John 3

The access we have to the Kingdom of God can only be through new birth. We must be given a new heart in which the Laws of Christ may be written.

Faith

What the Lord gives and who He is – we access by faith. Think of how we make transactions with the bank. We use our debit cards to make purchases or payments because we trust what is in our bank. The faith we have is not in the transactions, but rather in what is in the bank.

If we think we only have one hundred dollars in the bank the kind of transactions we execute will be limited. This is the kind of faith many of us operate in through ignorance and/or false doctrine. Until we receive the revelation of what the New Covenant is and who we are in Christ we will live one hundred dollar faith. Jesus Christ through His death and resurrection has deposited unlimited everlasting life into our accounts. This is not what most have made it, which is to mean wealth, prosperity, and fame. What the Lord gives us is only spendable in the kingdom of God because it comes by the Spirit for the spirit. That is not to say our flesh does not benefit from what God gives us.

What kind of faith do we have?

Living faith comes by putting our trust in the Living God who is I AM. It is not putting our trust in a God we once professed to believe 20 years ago or even yesterday. Our faith is based on one thing: personal knowledge of the Lord today. Who is the Lord today for us? Is He worthy to worship – now, today? Do we desire Him – today – because He is God? When He is our God – now, not just in word but in reality we will have living faith in a living God.

Making the right spiritual transactions that count.

Jesus told us the way His Kingdom works. To get we must give. To live we must die. To win we must lose. If we have not yet died (Romans 6) we cannot expect to receive resurrection life the Lord provides us and further to this, if we do not give ourselves as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1) we cannot hope to enjoy intimate fellowship with the Lord much less receive His Kingdom riches.

These are things we do not once but rather are a life-long daily doing. That means we live our lives intentionally unto the Lord.

Jesus told us that when we believe in Him and ask anything in His name we will be given what we ask John 14. Many confuse this to mean that when we say ‘in Jesus name‘ and believe, this prayer is acceptable to the Lord. This is not in the right context. We not only say ‘in Jesus name‘ we, more importantly, are living in His name because Jesus Christ is our new identity.

The New Covenant is a two-way agreement that God has made with man. He has signed it in His Son’s blood and writes it upon our heart and we sign with our lives with the pen of faith, in return.

There are two types of believers. One whose faith is dead the other whose faith is alive. One who is dead learns about the Lord, speaks about the Lord, and even shares about the Lord but does not know the Lord in a day-to-day personal way. Worse yet, the Lord does not know them. The other learns about the Lord through personal experience. The Word of the Lord comes alive and works in all who are alive in Him.

 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephes 2:4-10