A Sleeping Partner Who Benefits

When we realise how secure we are IN CHRIST, all our fears and challenges become insignificant in the light of this single truth - that we are eternaly secure.
We cant mess up our end of the covenant because the Father didnt make it "with us", but with His PERFECT Son, Jesus, who represented ALL of mankind.
When you are born again, you are placed INTO CHRIST, you are Seated with Him. He perfectly upholds your end of the New Covenant because you are IN Him and He is in you, so you simply cant mess up before God. Now thats Good News!!

By Joseph Prince:
Genesis 15:12
Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram…

"In business, sleeping or silent partners don’t work but still take home huge profits. They are like the wife of the boxing champion. He gets badly beaten up to win the prize money. But when he gets home, his wife takes it from him and says, “Thank you very much, darling!”

Do you know that in your covenant with God, you are like the boxer’s wife or the sleeping partner?

When Abraham asked God how he would know for sure that he would inherit the land that God had promised him, God made a covenant with him. (Genesis 15:8–21) But instead of cutting the covenant with Abraham by walking in between the animal pieces with him, God put Abraham into a deep sleep and cut the covenant with Jesus instead.

Jesus, the light of the world, appeared as the pillar of fire and cut the covenant with God the Father who appeared as the pillar of cloud. In other words, Jesus took Abraham’s place. He was perfect Man representing Abraham when He cut the covenant with His Father.

By substituting Abraham with Jesus, God was being gracious because if Abraham had done it, he would also have been responsible for keeping the covenant. And Abraham, being a mere man, would fail. But God the Son can never fail! Abraham’s blessings were therefore guaranteed because they did not depend on his performance but Jesus’ performance. Abraham was literally a sleeping partner, a beneficiary of the covenant.

Today, God has also made a covenant with you, called the new covenant. And like Abraham, you are a sleeping partner because the new covenant was also cut between God the Father and God the Son at Calvary. You are simply a beneficiary of the new covenant. You enjoy all its benefits without having to work at keeping it. Jesus, your representative, has already fulfilled all the conditions on your behalf. And because His obedience is perfect and His work is perfectly finished, the covenant blessings for you are guaranteed!

My friend, there is nothing left for you to do, but everything for you to believe. Don’t try to work for your covenant blessings. Rest in the Son’s finished work and receive them by faith!"


Isn't it funny how we so often find simply resting in His finished work, the hardest thing to do. If/when you have issues and challenges in your life, remember the words of Jesus that announced the glorious end to all striving to earn victory over every work of darkness (anything that reflects robbery, killing and destruction in your life) and all striving to earn favor. they were: "IT IS FINISHED"


God Blessed you
Andrew