Hope for the Cities
Hope for the cities was a month of discovery from covenants, rediscovering the Kingdom of heaven on earth, and short nuggets on the early church, and how Africans played a major role in Christianity. Chesed I discovered a new word, Chesed. Chesed is such a powerful word that cannot be easily described; in short, it’s loving kindness, but it’s way more than that. When you pronounce it has a strong guttural vibration from the back of the mouth. It is supposed to describe a passion that reverberated a type of passion when spoken. This word is used several hundred times in the bible, Hebrew, that is, don’t go and start searching in your NKJV or NIV versions, you will not find it. In essence, this word Chesed brings out the commitment and love of God in many dimensions, especially in covenant making, covenants that started with Adam and went through generations upon generations till it reached Jesus, His new covenant. Blood covenants were God’s way to Chesed on us. Sounds cheesy, righ...