I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Saturday morning, the 28th of December, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We go to the Book of Daniel 9:4:

“O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments,…” 

Then we go to the Gospel of John 14:14-15. The Lord says:

“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.”

Wow! Did you hear that? But this is a condition involved here. Verse 15:

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.”

You see folks, if we are going to be serious about God and we are going to keep the covenant that we have made with the Lord, then He says He will do whatever you ask Him to do, but He will not do it if we are not keeping His covenant with us and His commandments. What am I saying? What I am saying is that if you are married and your husband leaves you or has an affair, he has broken his side of the covenant, the covenant he made on your wedding day, therefore the covenant is no longer valid. You can’t keep half a covenant. When you promise the Lord Jesus Christ that you are going to serve Him and walk in His ways, He will keep His side of the covenant because He never breaks His side of the covenant but the covenant will not be fulfilled if we break our side. That is why when it comes to a thing like marriage which is sacred, we need to understand, He will never break His side of the deal as long as you keep your side of the deal.

When we walk with the Lord and we obey His commandments, He will give us whatever we ask. I have experienced it in my own life. But when we disobey Him, we go our own way and then we cry out, “Lord, where are You?” He says, “I am here but I cannot honour My side of the covenant if you continue to wilfully sin when you know it is wrong." Today, come on, let’s repent, let us say sorry. Come on, let’s do it!

Father, 

In Jesus’ name, we want to ask You to forgive us for always crying out, “Lord, where are You? Why are You not keeping Your side of the covenant?” when we know wilfully, we are going against what You called us to. We repent of that today and we start afresh.

In Jesus name, Amen.

God bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.