The Process for Forming a Covenant

Before the Ceremony
Terms of the covenant	Blessings & cursings
Choosing the representatives	Each family or group needs a representative that is the best example of that families strengths.
Choosing a place for the ceremony	A place big enough to gather both families for the covenant ceremony.

In the Ceremony
Covenant sacrifice	Each covenant is formed in blood. This sacrifice is given to their God, to receive from God the blessings of the covenant.
Walking through the blood	Because the covenant changes your life. The blood over the feet of the representatives signifies that their lives are different after this time.
Repeating the terms of the covenant	All the members of both families need to know all the conditions of the covenant.
Trading of coats	Jacket symbolized authority - "My authority is your authority."
Trading of belts	Belt holds weapons and purse - "Take my sword (weapons), your life is more important to me than my own."
Cut and combine their blood	"My life is your life, my blood flows in your veins, and your blood flows in my veins. You are my family."
Change of names	After the covenant ceremony, this is one new family, all the members of both families are part of the new family.
Covenant meal	The same as the last supper of the Lord. Bread represents flesh, wine represents blood. "Take my body and eat of it, take my blood and drink of it."

Verse	Promise of God
Gen 11:31	Tarah took Abram, Lot, and Sara his daughter-in-law, wife of his son Abram; and went from Ur of the Caldees in the direction of the land of Cannan; but he stopped and lived in Haran.
Gen 11:32	Tarah died in Haran.
Gen 12:1-3	God promised Abram that he'd give him the land, descendants, and blessings, this was while Abram was still in Haran.
Gen 12:4-5	Abram left Haran, and traveled in the direction of Caanan when he was 75 years old.
Gen 13:14-17	Abram and Lot seperate. God promises the land to Abraham and his descendants again.
Gen 15:1-21	The covenant ceremony between Abram and God.
Gen 17:1-27	When Abram was 99 years old, God reconfirmed his covenant with Abram and changed his name from Abram to Abraham. God gave a sign to Abraham - circumsicion.
Gen 22:15-18	God confirmed the covenant because of the obedience of Abraham in offering his son Isaac upon the altar.