TEACHING TRANSFORMATION MINISTRY

Genesis 44:2-12 "Also put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money." So he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. 3 As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. 4 When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, "Get up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?   5 'Is not this the one from which my lord drinks, and with which he indeed practices divination? You have done evil in so doing.'"   6 So he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words. 7 And they said to him, "Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do such a thing.   8 "Look, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord's house?

As we learnt last week, we are the generation that has enjoyed the best covenant, the covenant of grace. We represent a kingdom of excellence and greatness. Jeremiah 31:31-34 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 - 32 "not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the LORD.   33 "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 "No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will for

Covenants which have not been destroyed will hinder us from attaining our blessings. There are cultural covenants which were spoken and established over in our childhood, and which must be broken so that we can walk in the divine covenant of grace, where the precious blood of Jesus Christ speaks for the believers’ lives. Nature hates a vacuum. Our lives must be attached to the glorious covenants of God or those of the dark evil world. We can never be in-between. Nature is influenced by covenants. Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) are agreements (covenants) made by nations to run and govern the world policies. Every country and government is led and controlled by established agreements. People make agreements consciously while others engage the same unconsciously. These covenants eventually affect our overall way of life. Our great grand-parents may know of generational covenants made upon us which are unconsciously affecting our ways of life to a greater degree. These c