“For You said, 'I will surely treat you well” (Genesis 32:12)

Jacob was afraid, because the last time he saw his brother Esau, he was mad enough to kill him for stealing his inheritance. In this Scripture, Esau is coming to meet Jacob with an army. In desperation, Jacob reminds God of the promise He made to him 21 years before: “For You said, 'I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude” (Genesis 32:12). 

 To remind God of His covenantal promise is the very best way to pray. He held God to the ultimate standard, "You said". God's faithfulness is always the best argument, but a covenantal promise is pure gold. “God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Numbers 23:17). 

 The amazing thing about being IN Christ, is YOU ARE THE COVENANT the Father made with the Son. If you have a divine promise, it’s great, but greater still is being the covenant. 

That’s why the Apostle Paul didn’t think it impetuous or presumptuous to say, “If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:31-39).