I shared these thoughts a few weeks
ago and feel impressed to write down the importance of coming into agreement
with God.
THE IMPORTANCE OF AGREEMENT
The main reason we do not have the
power of God in our lives that we should have as Christian men and women is
because we are not in agreement with God. We may agree in some area, and in
others we are not in agreement; and perhaps more often we are not in agreement
with one another.
Amos
asks the question “Can two walk together except they be agreed?” (Amos
3:3) Or can men or women who are not in agreement with each other walk
together? The answer is no, they cannot. Psalm 133:1-3 says “Behold, how
good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
(dwell together in agreement.) Agreement is unity. Then it says “…..for
there the Lord commanded the blessings.” The word “there” is talking
about a positional place, the place of unity or agreement.
God’s
Word indicates that when you are not in agreement or unity, you cannot have
power in your life. I am a hunter and when I head into the woods I always bring
my compass along. A compass has 360 degrees or points, which make a full
circle. If we call the needle point of the compass right on north, and 2 of us
are walking together, but one of us is just a fraction of a point off north,
how long do you think we will walk together before we begin to separate? The
further we walk, the farther apart we will become. The only recourse to come
back together is to correct our agreement to the compass. The only power we
have to walk together is to come back into perfect unity of direction. “The
power to walk together is at the point of agreement!”
The
power of God will not be fully released into our presence until there is a
point of agreement. In Acts 2 the point where the power of God came down was at
the point when “they were in one place and in one accord.” The power of
God will not be released in the home where a husband and wife are in discord
and division. God wants us to have power in our homes and His power comes into
our homes as we learn to walk in agreement. How do we do that? When you agree
with someone, in a sense you have a covenant relationship with them on the
basis of that agreement. That is where the power lies - in a covenant
agreement.
That is how Christ empowered us to become believers who have inherited eternal life through Him. The Father and Son were in perfect agreement to come to earth and lay down His life as a covenant relationship with us. The power that changes our lives takes place when we come into agreement with Christ who laid down His life for us and then we willingly lay down our life to serve Him.
