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    Covenant Relationships
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    Covenant Relationships

    By Dr. Hazel Hill and Dr. George Hill

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    This book will help you understand how to overcome offence, deal with betrayal, go beyond revenge, to healing and possible restoration of friendships. The long-term benefits of healing and restoration far outweigh the short-term satisfaction of revenge. Covenant Relationships will also help you protect yourself against deception, stay free from resentment, follow after truth, and maintain a right heart attitude. Refusing a spirit of bitterness and keeping a right heart attitude will keep you moving in the right direction. Without good understanding of these things, covenant relationships and fulfilling God’s plan for your life will always remain elusive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Hazel Hill
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9780920567692
    Covenant Relationships
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    Dr. Hazel Hill

    Since their humble beginnings in Lethbridge in 1979, Dr. George and Dr. Hazel Hill, have birthed a worldwide network of churches, Bible colleges, ministry training and outreach centers, orphanages, women and children’s shelters, rescuing children from the sex trade in Cambodia as well as many other missionary endeavors.She is the author of the best selling book Praying God’s Word. Her heart is to minister to leadership and to see women reach their destiny all over the world.Dr. Hazel has been at the forefront of everything that the Lord has done in these past 3 decades. One thing is for sure - no grass will ever grow under Dr. Hazel’s feet. If she’s not leading a mission team somewhere, writing another book, speaking at a conference or encouraging one of the pastors, she’ll be posting something on Facebook.She has been heard to say, that she would “Die with her boots on”. Her tenacity, strength and vision have fueled an ever evolving movement. Through all the years of trial and triumph, her prophetic accuracy has strategically brought direction to this worldwide organization and to the thousands of lives and ministries joined to it.One of the mandates of her missions program exemplifies her courageous pioneering spirit:We will not just hand out fruit but we will plant as many trees as is possible in every nation through the planting of church-planting churches. Every tree has a limit to its potential growth but a forest has no limit as to how large it can grow!Hellen Keller once said: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”.

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      Covenant Relationships - Dr. Hazel Hill

      Covenant Relationships

      by

      Drs. George & Hazel Hill

      Published by

      Victory International Publishing

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2006 by Drs. George and Hazel Hill

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the authors.

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Covenant Relationships

      Copyright © 2006

      ISBN: 978-0-9743265-4-2

      Digital ISBN: 978-0-920567-69-2

      Printed in Canada

      Published by

      Victory International Publishing

      Dedication

      Dedicated to the worldwide Victory Family of Churches, which has been built upon the foundation stones of covenant relationships for a God-given purpose, family, local church, or nation.

      Thank you for being willing to pray together, stay together, grow together, and help build God’s kingdom together.

      Thank you for being willing to follow us, as we have followed Christ, on a journey that has taken us all beyond forgiveness, offence and revenge; a journey that has brought us into the power, blessing, synergy, and supernatural accomplishments made possible through genuine covenant relationships.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Covenant Keepers

      Chapter 2: Becoming Covenant-Trusted Friends

      Chapter 3: The Critical Need of Covenant Relationships

      Chapter 4: Friends that Stick Closer than Brothers

      Chapter 5: A God-Centered Covenant

      Chapter 6: Covenant’s Restoring Power

      Chapter 7: Real Covenant Requires Emotional Stability

      Chapter 8: Covenant is not Covenant Until it is Tested

      Chapter 9: Restoration of Apostolic Covenant Power

      Chapter 10: The Apostolic Company

      Acknowledgements

      About the Authors

      Books By Drs. George & Hazel Hill

      Introduction

      My wife and I have written this book to help people develop long-term, meaningful relationships. The Scriptures tell us that in the last days, just before the return of Christ, there will be a major breakdown in relationships.

      …You will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

      (Matthew 24:9-12)

      This book will help you understand how to overcome offence, deal with betrayal, go beyond revenge, to healing and possible restoration of friendships. The long-term benefits of healing and restoration far outweigh the short-term satisfaction of revenge. Covenant Relationships will also help you protect yourself against deception, stay free from resentment, follow after truth, and maintain a right heart attitude. Refusing a spirit of bitterness and keeping a right heart attitude will keep you moving in the right direction. Without good understanding of these things, covenant relationships and fulfilling God’s plan for your life will always remain elusive.

      For the church to accomplish its God-given mandate it will require what I call apostolic companies – people who have come into a covenant relationship with God and one another – to work together to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come (Matthew 24:14). Will it happen? Yes it will! Will you be a part of it? The choice is yours!

      My wife and I have come into a covenant relationship with God and one another in our marriage of around forty years, which today is like the days of heaven on earth (Deuteronomy 11:21). We have also built the Victory Church Movement – now expanding around the world with thousands of local churches, schools, colleges, orphanages, and a host of creative outreach ministries – on the foundation stones of covenant relationships for a God-given purpose that is bigger than any one person, family, local church, or nation. We have learned many things in the process, and we have endeavored in this book to impart some principles and lessons from our own successes and failures that will enable each one of you to build more rapidly and effectively than we have. We hope you will be able to learn from our mistakes, build upon our successes, and go on to create great families, local churches, and movements that will help change the world and usher in the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Go on, I dare you to read on and become part of a world-changing, history-making, God-loving, God-rearing apostolic team!

      Dr. George Hill

      Chapter 1

      Covenant Keepers

      Promise Keepers was an organization raised up by the Lord in the United States to challenge men not only to make promises, but also to keep them. Hundreds of thousands of men came together in stadiums all over the United States and began to declare:

      We are going to be men of our word. We are going to keep the promises we have made to our wives, children, pastors, churches, and to our nation. We are going to be promise makers and promise keepers.

      We need to get back to making a covenant with an understanding of what it really means. One major part of this involves being promise makers and promise keepers.

      We must make good on our promises. We must return to the place where a handshake signifies an unbreakable agreement or bond. We must get back to the place that if we say we are going to do something, we follow through and do it no matter what. After all, if a person’s word is no good, how can they be trusted?

      Thank God, we can count on Him to keep His Word. In fact, it is impossible for God to lie or contradict His Word (Hebrews 6:18). God thinks so highly of His Word that He has magnified it above His Name (Psalm 138:2). As Christians, we must make every effort to imitate our Heavenly Father and back our words with corresponding action.

      Covenant Relationships Started with God

      A covenant is an oath that seals the relationship between two people or parties. The Bible itself is divided into the Old Covenant and the New Covenant (also called Testaments). The words of the Bible are the basis of our covenant relationship with God.

      The Old Testament sign of God’s covenant with Israel was circumcision. Blessings were pronounced for those who kept the covenant and curses for those who broke it (Deuteronomy 28).

      The New Covenant is signed and sealed in the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our circumcision is spiritual, that of the heart (the inner man) through the born again experience. The Holy Spirit is the witness of our covenant, and communion is prescribed to keep us ever mindful of this awesome covenant with God (Romans 2:28-29: 8:16; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26).

      Marriage between a man and a woman is a God-ordained covenant relationship where two become one flesh (Ephesians 5:31). During the wedding ceremony, the couple speak vows to each other in the presence of witnesses; rings are exchanged and worn as a sign of the covenant made between them.

      Reasons for Covenant

      There are three main reasons for entering into covenant relationships: protection, united purpose, and increased power.

      Protection

      The weaker seeks a covenant with the stronger for protection. In the marriage relationship, the husband is called to be the leader and protector of his wife and children. He is to guard his home from intruders (both spiritual and natural) who would try to drive a wedge between him and his wife or harm her or their children.

      In the Body of Christ throughout the world, more and more small ministries and independent churches are recognizing their need to have the protection afforded through joining together in covenant relationship with churches that are solid in the faith and whose leaders are seasoned and proven in integrity and excellence in ministry. The Victory Church Movement, as a family of churches throughout the world, has made a God-centered covenant to love, help, and protect every church and its members.

      Purpose

      When two parties share and pursue a God-given purpose, they join their resources (time, talent, and treasures) so that they are able to accomplish more together than they ever could separately. Victory Churches of a particular Nation and Victory Churches International are working together to fulfill God’s purpose. We enter covenant relationships based on sincere love for the Lord and for people.

      The heartbeat and driving purposes of this movement, Nationally and Internationally is:

      Leadership Development, Church Expansion and World Missions.

      The heartbeat and driving purposes of each local church is:

      Evangelism, Discipleship and Mobilization. And the goal is to help each person find and fulfill the specific call of God on their lives.

      Our ultimate purpose is to work together locally, nationally and internationally to reach the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ and make disciples who will:

      1. Love Jesus and follow Him.

      2. Love His word and obey it.

      3. Love His church and be involved in it.

      4. Love one, Win one and Disciple one.

      The desire and motivation to do all of this is the direct outflow of our covenant relationship with God. The people who know their God shall be strong and carry out exploits. (Daniel 11:32)

      When two believers, or groups of people, share and pursue a God-given Holy Spirit anointed purpose, not only are all things possible, they are probable (Mark 9:23).

      Power

      In Matthew 18:19, Jesus said, Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. When two people come together in agreement on a God-given purpose, they have potentially increased their power tenfold – for one can put a thousand to flight, but two can put ten thousand to flight (Deuteronomy 32:30).

      Imagine what could be accomplished when hundreds, thousands, or even millions of believers agree together and move in harmony to fulfill a God-given purpose!

      It is time for the church to rise up in the power of the Holy Spirit and use its God-given weapons against its common enemy called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. (Revelation 12:9).

      This is not a time of peace; it is a time of war. There is no such thing as peaceful co-existence between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness. There will be no lasting peace until the Prince of Peace returns and sets up His kingdom of peace. Jesus said, This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come (Matthew 24:14). For this to be fulfilled it will require a focused, unified, passionate effort as we work together expanding Christ’s kingdom.

      In Covenant relationships, there is protection, united purpose, and increased power!

      The apostle Paul exhorted the church at Philippi:

      Let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, [may I] hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in on spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. (Philippians 1:27)

      United action increases our effectiveness! Let us not just think about uniting and working together, let us do it for the glory of God and the coming of His kingdom of peace!

      It is time for the church – the sleeping giant – to wake up and become the militant, miraculous, triumphant church God intended

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