From Faith to Covenant: Understanding Your Rights in God's Kingdom | Open Book | May 27, 2025 | CR

Crystal Rivers | Open Book | May 27, 2025
Recognize Your True Position
You are not an outsider begging God for help—you are His child with inherent rights and privileges. Just as earthly children don't need "faith" to receive from their parents but simply know their position in the family, you don't need to struggle with faith when you understand your covenant relationship with God. Your heavenly Father loves you exactly as He loves Jesus, and His good pleasure is to give you the kingdom.
Shift Your Approach to God
Stop approaching God as a beggar pleading for mercy. When your earthly children need school fees, they don't beg—they simply inform you because they know it's your responsibility as their parent. Similarly, you should approach your heavenly Father with the confidence of a beloved child, not the desperation of an outsider. Replace pleading with declaring, begging with bold requesting, and uncertainty with confident expectation.
Understand What Belongs to You
Healing is not a favor God might grant if you have enough faith—it's your covenant inheritance. Provision, protection, and spiritual authority belong to you by birthright through Christ's blood. The enemy has no legal right to put sickness on your body, poverty in your finances, or fear in your heart. These are covenant violations that you have authority to address.
Exercise Your Spiritual Authority
Instead of saying "God, please heal me," learn to command sickness to leave your body. Rather than begging for breakthrough, declare your covenant rights and enforce spiritual laws. You have been given power to become a child of God, which means you carry His authority. Use the name of Jesus not as a hopeful request but as a legal declaration of your position and power.
Know What Has Been Freely Given
God has already provided everything you need through Christ. Your job is not to convince Him to give it to you but to recognize and receive what has already been made available. The Spirit of God dwelling in you reveals the things that have been freely given to you—spend time learning what these are instead of focusing on what you lack.
Transform Your Mindset
You are not a sinner hoping for mercy—you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. This isn't something you work toward; it's a gift you've already received. Stop seeing yourself as unworthy and start operating from your true identity as God's beloved child. Your horn of authority can be exalted like that of a unicorn when you walk in the knowledge of who you are.
Deal with Opposition Correctly
When challenges arise, don't blame God or beg Him to intervene. Recognize that Satan is the source of opposition and address him directly. Command him to take his hands off your life, your family, your health, and your destiny. You have been delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son—this is your present reality, not a future hope.
Practice Covenant Confidence
Begin declaring daily: "I am a child of the covenant. I am born of God. Satan has no power over me. Death has no authority over me. Destruction cannot touch me. I know the things that are freely given to me by God." Make these declarations until they become the foundation of how you see yourself and approach every situation.
Apply This Understanding Practically
When sickness attacks your body, don't pray for healing—command the sickness to leave because healing belongs to you. When lack threatens your finances, don't beg for provision—declare your covenant rights to abundance. When fear tries to grip your heart, don't ask God to take it away—cast it out yourself because you have not been given a spirit of fear but of power, love, and sound mind.
Live From Your Inheritance
Stop waiting for God to do what He has already empowered you to do. You are not a victim hoping for rescue but a victor enforcing your rights. The kingdom of heaven belongs to you, spiritual authority has been delegated to you, and covenant blessings are your inheritance. Live from this reality rather than hoping to achieve it.
Your transformation begins the moment you stop seeing yourself as an outsider seeking God's favor and start operating as His child exercising your legitimate authority in His kingdom.