Devotionals on Promises

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• This is only until the double lesson has been fully learnt: (1) that a living faith can rejoice in the Living God, even when feeling and experience appear to contradict the promise (Rom. 8:28, 29); and (2) that the divine life only predominates as the life of the flesh is held in the place of death, inoperative (Rom. 6:11a).

• But for aged Simeon, death was no future, fretful fear for he had a promise..
• Faithful Men Few have received such an astonishing promise, but those who did receive such a pledge, had to accept it, unquestioningly by faith..
• And he was able, through the Spirit’s leading to grant his young disciples request..  for Elijah said: if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so.” 2Kings 2:10 your request shall be answered. By faith Enoch, Elijah, Simeon believed the promise and lived in expectant waiting. Enoch waited his translation. Elijah waited his transport and Simeon waited to see the Lord’s Christ. Enoch waited over 400 years and Simeon waited for the rest of his life. Their promise was given, accepted, believed and they waited – they waited in humble anticipation.
• Rom.8:28. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to US-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9

• This truth was planed by God in eternity past and this fact was accomplished by the Son of God and is a forever given promise.
• What a promise!

• All of God promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding es!(2 Corinthians 1:20 NLT)
• What are the promises for?
• The promises were never intended to be a matter of personal pleasure, either in the case of Israel or in our case.... As the Lord's children we are often found in situations of personal embarrassment, personal difficulty, personal suffering, in a place where things for us are hard.
• That may sometimes be all right, and yet if the motive should ever be definitely a purely personal one, we can take it for granted that the promise will have no fulfillment.
• It seemed that the heaven was closed, that there was no way through, no answering voice, no sense of a listening ear; and with deep heart exercise about the matter you have been tempted to doubt the promise, question the faithfulness of God, raise questions as to the truth of His Word.
• In such experiences we learn that the promises are not for us as things for our personal interest, but wholly and utterly for the glory of Christ, to bring about a greater measure of the fullness of Christ in us.
• That is God's required ground for the fulfillment of His promises.

• Each verse, packed with a promise of love..
• Promise of Love Each verse pointed out His plans and purposes..

• Jesus Christ The central character of God’s never-ending love-story features the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the fulfilment of the past – and the promise of the future.

• It is by deepening our faith in His promises that we can finally trust in His love.

• To rightly divide the creations He made is to know who we are in Christ.  And there’s one area of division that many Christians have overlooked - Heavenly and earthly promises that link with heavenly and earthly dominions.
• so that God’s promise to Abraham..
• Transfer of Power How important it is to understand this transfer of power in the Word of God. How important for the believer to rightly divide heavenly and earthly promises. How important for Christians to rightly divide heavenly and earthly sovereignty.

• Lasting Truths Shall I go on!!!!! ? These are truths as lasting as the eternal Godhead. These are secure promises of God to all His children..

• When we dismiss Scripture as a pipe-dream, we’re not trusting His precious promise.
• But God promises to provide all our needs according to the His riches of His grace – and He will wait for us to realise that He alone is our above-all abundant God.

• He preordained that those chosen would be conformed into the likeness of His Son..  and God took the responsibility to save us body, soul, and spirit by grace – through faith.  God Himself decided He would save us totally – for we could not save ourselves.  And every promise of God is yours by grace, simply because you trusted His Word.

• God expects believers to respond to His word and His promises with faith.
• Biblical Faith Biblical faith is a confident trust in God’s character, ability, promises, and word.
• God expects believers to respond to His word and His promises – with faith.
• Confident Trust Biblical faith is a confident trust in God’s character, ability, promises, and word.

• Eternal Purpose God’s eternal purposes center in the Mew creation, the promises, and the one body.
• Spiritual Truth IN HIM you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; IN WHOM also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” Eph.1:13 Through time and through eternity, this heavenly fact is expressed in many forms, Through the cross, this eternal reality is wrought in literal and experimental forms, but always, Always, ALWAYS the same principle emerges:- always, ALWAYS the same abiding, infinite, glorious, spiritual truth is manifested.

• Threefold Promise Salvation is 100% God’s by grace through faith.
• And Scripture gives many proofs, promises, and pledges of this wonderful truth.
• A believer who trusts God’s word in this matter will live his life the grace-promise-faith way.
• The grace-promise-faith way is God’s way, but the law-works-merit way is the way of the flesh.
• The one who doesn’t live grace-promise-faith way doesn’t negate his eternal security in Christ, but will live a defeated Christian life, for eternal security “kicks-in” immediately at rebirth, and each person of the Godhead guarantee their eternal security.
• The Spirit’s Guarantee In Ephesians 1 and 4 believers are sealed unto the day of redemption with the indwelling Holy Spirit of promise, Who was given by the Father and sent by the Son.
• All-Embracing Guarantee God’s guarantee of eternal and life is for all believers, whether they choose to live the grace-promise-faith way or ignore God’s word and live the law-works-merit way.
• Demonstration of Unbelief Those who doubt their eternal security are actually demonstrating unbelief, by saying God isn’t able to keep His promises and pledges and that Christ’s work on the cross was not sufficient.
• When we trust God’s promise of eternal life, it delights His heart: for without faith it is impossible to please Him,
• With regards to the Christian walk (sanctification) a believer either lives the grace-promise-faith way or the law-works-merit way.
• And let us seek to live by faith and not by sight and to live the grace-promise-faith way rather than the law-works-merit way.

• We look closer, and we see something in its place, full of promise, and of much more value.

• Living in sin?Feeling the effects of our sin?No hope?No future?No promise of eternal life?In condemnation?
• for us, for our sins so that we may be forgiven and reconciled to Him, with the promise of eternal life.
• the promise of a relationship with Him through faith and prayer and worship.
• In allowing fear to ‘seize your troubled mind’ we allow it to seize our hearts, our faith, our lives, The wonderful part of Amazing Grace is the promise that Father God’s grace can relieve your fears, if you cast your cares upon Him – and if leave your worries and fears at the foot of the cross.
• In dying on that cross our Lord Jesus Christ, as He had promised, reconciled us to Father God in the forgiveness of our sins and the assurance of eternal life with Him and His Father – and the promise that He was leaving His Holy Spirit with us to live in us and amongst us until we die or until He returns.

• A Fervent Love Stripped of all and in poverty of spirit, one would think that He’d no more to give.  He had already bequeathed to all who hung Him on the Tree,  the Precious Pardon of God Almighty - to a dying world.  He had graciously bestowed on His companion in punishment... The Promise of Paradise, Today… to a dying man.  But there before Him, in dumb disbelief and paralysed in their agony, were two of those, beloved of Him.  Standing in that little group of mourners were two who had been His beloved companions:- When Jesus, therefore, saw His mother and the disciple standing by, whom He loved, He saith unto His mother, 'Woman, behold thy son!' Then saith He to the disciple, 'Behold thy mother' – and from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

• Prepare Hearts Should we not take the warnings of Christ as seriously as His precious promises?

• it was destined to pass away. The new was the fulfilment of the promise – a complete revelation. The old was not meant to satisfy..
• It warns of neglecting salvation, falling short of His promises..

• Promised Helper He comforted them with the promise of the Holy Spirit – the heavenly Comforter. He pledged to ask the Father, to give them another Helper like Him, to be with them.. the Spirit of truth, Who was already with them but would one day live in them.
• Christ did not describe church age doctrine – that was to be Paul’s responsibility, but He did comfort them with the promise of His permanently indwelling Holy Spirit.
• The promise of the Lord Jesus was something that was to take place in the future. The promise to the disciples was to be something entirely new for the Church age.
• The moment they place their trust in Jesus they are baptised into the body of Christ – and in John’s gospel, Jesus promises the Spirit will abide with us and will be in us.

• What I learn and experience in myself makes me rejoice to believe on Another in whom every promise of God is Yea and Amen. -C.A.C.

• In a somewhat extended life and ministry, again and again I have seen dear people of God who were out in the open going on with the Lord in the liberty of the Spirit with great promise and then theye been caught in some sm.They simply are helpless to escape themselves from the tenets of that sm.Again and again Ie seen it!

• Father’s Promise Our eternal security is not based on our own abilities but founded on God alone. The salvation of all the redeemed is established on the Father’s promise.

• Bond of Peace This beautiful promise is much overlooked amidst it more enviable cousins, and yet Paul exhorts us, keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

• Why Delay Jesus loved Mary and Martha dearly – so why would He delay their cry for help? Daniel was beloved of the Lord – so why did he have to wait for an answer? God was the friend of Abraham – so why the unendurable delayed promise?

• Faith is man’s response to the promises of God and God expects us to trust Him.  But biblical faith can only be biblical faith if Jesus is central to our belief.
• Biblical faith has confidence in God’s character, His Word, His ability, and promises.
• It anticipates total trust in God’s character, revelation, promises, plans and purposes, It excludes ALL legalistic regulation, man-made interpretation or meritorious works.

• Never forget the privileges of son-ship only come the “grace-faith-promise” way and cannot be acquired the “law-works-merit” way.

• Hungering and Thirsting Then be reassured Christian – for this is the sign of a healthy spiritual state. He who hungers and thirsts after righteousness will be filled – and that’s a promise.

• Son of Promise God determined to bless Jacob from before birth but Jacob wrestled and strove.
• God had chosen Jacob as His son of promise, but Jacob used deception and deceit.
• Promises of God Jacob knew the promises of God.
• Jacob knew that his were the promises and his were the blessing and his was the birthright.
• Just as you, know the promises of God – just as you know that you have been chosen: chosen in him before the foundation of the world.
• Fleshly Jacob had a heart that was hardened towards his Lord, and the birthright and the promise and the blessings were his, but the birthright and the promise and the blessings were held, in abeyance: as it is written: God loved Jacob…with an everlasting love:

• The great prophet and voice of one crying in the wilderness…  the one who had prepared the way for Him Who was to come, had been cruelly murdered to suffice a foolish promise.
• Promise of Rest It is His lovely presence that gives us the blessedness of rest.
• You must believe that His promises are binding and true. You must rest in His Word for He Who said it is faithful and true. You must believe that it IS possible so to live moment by moment, resting in Him.

• We have evidence of Christ’s first coming and they only had the promise.
• God keeps His word and we have a precedent that gives us confidence, that future promises will be fulfilled.
• Confident Assurance None of the saints in Hebrews received the promises, but they lived in the confident assurance that God is faithful: and these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.
• Their lives were lived knowing God’s promises would be fulfilled one day – if not in this life then in the eternal state to come.
• But fulfilled Scripture should give us confidence and conviction that all He promises will take place, but yet how often we doubt His Word when things go wrong – perhaps we should note the parallel statements in Hebrews 11.
• We trust the many promises of God required by faith in the confidence (hypostasis) of things not seen.
• Confident Fulfilment The saints in Hebrews all died, confident that one day all promises would be fulfilled.
• We have the privilege of looking back on many fulfilled promises, knowing that with equal confidence we can look forward to the promises that will one day be fulfilled.
• Promise of God Let us look forward to His soon coming, with the same inner confidence and conviction that all that He has promised will one day come to pass.

• and all His promises are ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’ in Christ Jesus..

• What happens when faith grows paper-thin and hope in God’s promises dissolve?
• I can dismiss the promises in His Word that speak of His love for me, His child. I can throw away my confidence, and pour scorn on any veiled, future reward.

• Spiritual Bliss How many of us, like these shepherds, have been in the very presence of God?  How many of us, recall that wonderful transfiguring time, and long for its return?  How many even question the glorious promises, bestowed on us from earlier days? How many start to wonder if the closeness, once discovered, when in His Presence..  was but an illusion; a dream; a forgotten hope; a lost delight – as they also leave that high point in their lives and walk away (leaving their first love).

• Non-dispensational teachers have endeavored to bring over the many promises of the physical and material aspects of kingdom salvation into the present dispensation, giving hope of material prosperity and physical health, as well as political peace.

• God gives us promises in a quiet hour; He seals our covenants with great and gracious words.
• These trials give us opportunities of linking on to the mighty promises of God and finding through the trials come blessing that wonderfully glorifies Him, or else, missing God, turns the blessing into a burden that fills the heart with weariness and pain. -G.W.

• Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness' (Rom. 4:3), when his faith apprehended the promise of God; yet it was nearly 40 years after that this Scripture was fulfilled, when he offered his son.

• Believe His Plan How reassuring are the promises of our great Shepherd of the sheep.

• For a believer who is not yet established in the risen Lord Jesus, it is a temptation to go to the promises of the Old Testament for comfort.

• O Joy that seekest me through pain,I cannot close my heart to thee;I trace the rainbow through the rain,And feel the promise is not vain,That morn shall tearless be.

• Promises of Christ The Lord Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to indwell those that believe in Him. He promised that the Holy Spirit would show us all things. He promised that His Spirit would guide us into all truth. He promised that His Spirit would open the Scriptures to us… as we live and move and pray and in the Spirit – as we allow the Spirit to instruct and to correct – as we offer ourselves a living sacrifice to Him – as we abide in Him and He in us.

• Indeed, when rightly divided, the beautiful truth of eternal security was gloriously upheld, for it is laid on the firm foundation of Christ and the unbreakable promises of God.

• Completed in Christ From Genesis to Revelation there are promises of blessings that have past. From start to finish there are countless blessings that are still yet to come. Every blessing we have is so secure that God wrote it in the past tense – and all are completed in Christ and all are secured by His sacrifice.

• after being taken to the heights of glorious expectation of our future promise, believers start to be severely warned of the consequences of falling short, as over and again warnings are given that we don’t fall short of the promised rest.
• Egypt – A Type I believe as we get closer to the return of Christ and His coming kingdom these warnings should be taken very seriously. Israel was redeemed from Egypt – just as we are redeemed from the world, but Israel fell short of the promise and neglected their salvation – just as we are warned that we too can neglect so great salvation. Paul clearly tells us in 1 Corinthians 10:6: now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. God was not pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

• Yes, the maturing believer is a Spirit-dependent student of the Scriptures, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1.4).

• Faith accepts God’s promises as truth.

• There is no other way to develop faith except through the testings and trials of life – and there is no other way to face those trials except by standing on the promises of God.

• Belief necessitates a decision of the will, to live on the truth of God’s promises.
• God’s Promises If peace is offered to the mind that is stayed on Him and focused on Him, I must focus my mind on Him and trust in His immutable Word.
• I must believe what He promises, accept His gift and refuse to be anxious, or I live a defeated life — a life where I see the condition of my problems, instead of my position, as a blood-bought Son of the Highest.
• But faith is the key that unlocks our hearts to His precious promises.
• Faith is the heart acting upon the promises of God.

• STUDY - Once Upon Eternity So  do not cast away your confidence, (your trust is God) which has great reward, for you have need of patient endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise..
• Man, within his spiritual capacity, is able to avail himself of what God has said, and then man (redeemed man), is to live and to act and to pray accordingly.  The ‘just’ shall live by faith… the ‘righteous’, ‘redeemed’, ‘spiritually-alive’, ‘new man in-Christ’ shall live by faith.  Why, you ask – why should we live by faith?  What, you ask – what is the point of simply trusting God to do what God has said?  Let us eat, drink, and be merry, and party in this life, for tomorrow we die!!   Why you ask… because God has ordered His amazing creative plans and purposes to include you.  Before the foundation of the world, He set these plans in motion, to involve you.  He has designed that those with patient endurance will receive the great promise: for you have need of patient endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” Heb.10:36

• He had uttered some of the most astonishing words from the cross; His Precious Pardon, Forgive to His malicious persecutors; His Promise of Paradise – Today, to His penitent co-convict; His Amazing Love – Provision, to the woman who bore Him; His Anguished Outcry – MY GOD, as He was made sin for humanity; His Final Offer of Grace - I Thirst..

• And rightly so, for this is one of God’s very precious promises to His own children.

• We were without the promises of God; the Scripture of God and the Messiah of God.
• Now, God’s promises are ours – His Word is ours and Christ Jesus is our own Saviour.  Spiritual blindness is replaced with spiritual knowledge, understanding, and light.

• Promises and blessings have mainly to do with the milk of the Word.
• This involves a negative attitude toward all doubt of His promises or anything that would raise a doubt; and it also involves a continued refusal to rest upon appearances or feelings, even though these may come in great abundance.

• No Fishing The great D.L Moody once noted that if God promises to cast all our confessed sin into the depth of the sea, we must not get out a fishing line and keep pulling them back in. If God has forgiven you, then accept His forgiveness and forgive yourself as well.

• Truth of God NEVER doubt the pledge of His Word,NEVER doubt the pages of Scripture,NEVER doubt the promises of the Bible,

• Unique Birth Christ would not have an ordinary birth, but rather would be born supernaturally. His unique birth was prefigured in the Old Testament by Isaac, the son of promise. He was to be formed in a unique, mystical way for He was to be both God and Man.

• Trust Me and believe My many precious promises – for they are all yes and amen in Me.

• Promises of God The Word of God is replete with promises outlining His trustworthiness.
• Throughout the Bible, He assures and reassures with many precious promises.

• Does that mean that God, their Benefactor, withdrew His promise?

• He is always there, for His promises are ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’ In Christ.

• How much more, when we view the looming obstacles of our own fortified Jericho, should we stand on the truth of God’s promises?

• His compassion is so vast, that he promises that it is new each and every morning.

• Precious promises and messages of hope, from the God and Giver of all hopefulness.
• A Powerful Promise Every great achievement for the Lord has the dynamic of hope underpinning it..

• John 17:13 These astonishing words were spoken at a time of deepest grief and intense loss, but they contained a promise that joy would come in the 'morning'.
• And know the promise is not vain,

• He makes you a promise, and then you have to wait and wait and wait and wait. He capsizes all the circumstances of life, and turns them into disasters.

• The truth of His Father-heart of love has at times become warped and distorted, as He is manipulated into the image of a demanding brother; a scornful mother; an abusive father… as God’s love and His forgiveness; His promises and His precepts are twisted to blaspheme His holy character. Many will not face the truth that their view of God could be thus distorted.

• God’s Promise The way of the world is in stark opposition to the directive of our Lord and King, but this is a promise that we should both apply in life and continue to pray through.
• Every promise of God is 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ to those that are His children, but this is a promise from God that partners with our own responsibility as parents.
• Sure Promise The wise parent starts to both pray-for, and teach their child in the way they should go.
• In doctrine and duty the child can be taught to delight in the way that they should go, and the sure promise of God remains, that when they are old they will not depart from it.
• He will bless all who, in His strength, endeavour to bring up their children to trust Him, He will keep His promise to protect your children from all the enemy’s assaults.

• God’s Precious Promise This wonderful open secret permeates through the pages of scripture like perfume. It is found in Paul’s letter to the Romans, as well as other confirmatory chapters, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God – to those who are the called according to His purpose.
• God’s Best Purpose Let this precious promise of God be the bedrock of your trust in Him. Let the truth of these words to His erring child, sink to the very core of your being. We may not understand the life-storms that upset the fragile craft to which we cling. We may be confused and ‘wrest’ in life at ‘some things hard to be understood.’ 2Pet.3:16. But as with the Word of God..
• the promises of God are all ‘yes’ and ‘amen’ in Christ 2Cor.1:20. Let us accept that God’s best purpose in our life is being carried out despite life’s twists. We are being changed into the likeness of Christ so that we too will be a sweet aroma unto the Lord..

• Growing In Grace - STUDY For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, He swore by Himself.Hebrews 6:13
• Eternal Benefit The assurance of our salvation and promise of eternal life is an established fact in scripture, and each person of the Trinity is involved in our salvation and security.
• My resolves and your promises may fail, for we are human and we are fallible.
• But when God has resolved to carry out a plan, it will happen without fail:- God made a promise to Abraham, and because He could swear by no greater, He swore by His thrice holy name.
• The plans and pledges of others will fail, but the promise and pledges of God cannot fail – NEVER in the eternity of eternities.

• At Pentecost, He poured out His gracious promise to the church.
• The day is coming when God will pour out His gracious promise to Israel: and afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions – for God will write His Law on their hearts Joel 2:28
• Faith in the Church Age This promise to Israel is yet future for Israel.
• This promise to Israel will happen at the end of the tribulation, but this promise to the Church has already happened: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.

• Blessed Hope Not one of the promises of scripture have ever failed in the past.
• Four thousand years of promises and prophecies, translated into Christ’s first appearance.

• A future hope – an expectant hope when God’s promises reach their climax.
• these three promises: but the greatest of the three is love.
• Three Gifts Yes, there are three amazing gifts that have been bestowed on all that believe – Faith, and Hope, and Love – these three gifts – these three promises, but the greatest of the three is LOVE.

• The Spirit Himself has given us His assurance that God’s plan will be completed. The Spirit of promise is safeguarding the inheritance of all believers. The Spirit has sealed us and indwells us – as the Guarantor of God’s pledge to us.

• Comforting Words How we delight to stand on the precious promise of God, in those times of difficulty and distress, knowing they are all ‘yes’, and ‘amen’ in Christ.
• how we rejoice to rest in the precious promises of God.
• It is vital to trust in the promises that flood through the Holy Scriptures for they are indeed food for the soul; refreshment for the weary; hope for the dejected and sufficient for all our needs in the day of trouble.
• Yes and Amen In the meantime, in His grace – let us rest on the precious promises of God knowing they are all ‘yes’, and ‘amen’ in Christ – knowing that all things work together for good to those that love God..

• Faithful Builder But God never forgot His promise to Israel, His adoptive firstborn son: “and so all Israel shall be saved”.
• And He’ll never forget His promise to the Church – His adopted children: “I will build My church” – but I will build it in My way and not in the way that you think.
• DID NOT RECEIVE THE PROMISE, WOW!
• Why did they not receive the promise that God Promised them? God having provided something better for US – so that THEY should not be made perfect apart from us.

• Examples of Faith The Bible gives many examples of God’s purpose being worked out in the lives of others – men and women who lived by faith; believed His word; trusted His promises.

• What a promise of God to you!
• What a promise of God to you!
• What a promise of God to you!
• What a promise from God to you!
• God’s Promises Scripture is the inspired Word of God.
• What a promise of God to you!
• Is this not wonderful security and glorious assurance?  What a promise of God to you and me..

• Great Salvation The Salvation that is given as a free gift of grace to all Who trust in the name of God’s only begotten Son, is a great Salvation that was given to man by God; announced to the world by angelic beings; confirmed by all Who heard and received the glorious gospel of Christ and recorded for our learning – to guide us into all truth and to give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.

• There are promises that you will receive all that remain unfulfilled.

• He it is that also opens up the Word of God with a promise - to guide us into all truth.
• We Who are born of the Spirit have access to all the truths and promises in the Word.

• Listening Heart It is His Word that will confirm His promises to our listening heart.

• What a promise to rest your weary soul upon. This assurance was given to the confused disciples at the ascension of their Lord. The understanding of this difficult saying was later given to the apostle Paul: lo I am with you always..
• Ever Present Promise And He did redeem this mortal coil with His blood, shed on a wooden cross..
• How – how could He make such a glorious promise, only to slap them down again?  Because it was the truth….. 'Thy word is truth'.
• Never doubt the promises of the Bible, 'For the word of the LORD in the mouth is true.' 1Kings 17:24 The word of the LORD in the mouth of the Author of Scripture is true.
• We are His blood-bought children whose assurance in Him is secure, for His promises are true – they are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ.
• To you is the promise, 'Lo I am with you always, even to the consummation of this dispensation.'

• Precious Promise Peter wrote: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness – through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these, ye might be partakers of the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:2-4.

• God’s Promise Stand still and watch and wait and witness the salvation of God Ex.14:13 Ye shall not need to fight in this battle.

• Covenant Promise Thus says the LORD: I remember you..
• He will remember His promises to you and He will come to You.

• Yet these truths are as binding on the heart of God as the blood-drenched cross, These promises are solid and as secure as Christ, the Rock of our Salvation.
• Yet the full magnificence and wonder of this, awaits us in hushed anticipation – heaven holds hidden in its golden hand many unfulfilled promises.
• Precious Promises Heaven does indeed hold many promises... promises of freedom from sickness and sin – promises of joy everlasting.
• And as with Abraham and the saints of old who have not yet received the promise, the time for His appointed return will come and it will not be delayed, Hab.2:3

• Precious Promise They are promised they will not be overwhelmed by the onslaught from Satan.

• All three unite in our future promise in Christ when we shall see Him as He is – for all are founded in the assured anticipation of the glory that shall be revealed.

• We were saved by the Spirit and baptised into Christ and sealed with His promise.

• Isaiah 35:6  This truly must have been a most exciting time to be living in Israel for although they were under the yoke of their Roman overlords – the kingdom of heaven was at hand. This meant that the king was coming – God’s promises to Israel were to be fulfilled.

• God had chosen Jacob to be His son of promise, but Jacob used deception and deceit.
• Jacob’s Strategy Jacob knew the promises of God.  Jacob knew that through him, all the families of the earth were to be blessed.  Jacob knew that God had chosen and appointed Him above His worldly brethren.
• Jacob knew that his was the birthright – his the promise – and his the blessing..  just as you know the promises of God – just as you – know that you have been chosen: chosen in Him before the foundation of the world.
• And his birthright and the promise and the blessing were his, but the birthright and the promise and the blessing were held, in abeyance – and as it is written: God loved Jacob..

• Promises of God I will visit you.

• Divine Nature of Christ We share in His DIVINE NATURE and have received His precious promises.
• Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world. 2 Peter 1:3

• Ephesian Promises We are empowered with the indwelling Spirit to work in and through us – now. In Ephesians Paul outlines the work of the Spirit in a life that is submitted to Him..
• staggering promises and privileges that we have NOW –  promises and privileges that are listed in Ephesians.
• Spirit of Promise 1.
• We have the Spirit of promise: whereby we are sealed.

• Here is the time for faith to hold fast the Master's promise and the Father's gift, and to trust that the Holy Spirit is within and will guide.

• and Israel will be the head and not the tail of the nations… for the promises of God are without repentance.

• Christ has done all for our initial salvation by the “grace-promise-faith” way.
• As sons and He does all for our ongoing salvation by the same “grace-promise-faith” way.
• Life of Grace Once we have been saved by grace, we are to be sanctified by grace; to grow in grace, and to mature in the faith – to live our lives “grace-promise-faith” way.
• Faith or Self-Merit Paul explains that because they didn’t continue in the “grace-promise-faith” way, they returned to the old ways rather than remaining in the new way.
• They substituted the promise of the Christ-life for a works-orientated life.
• They replaced the new “grace-promise-faith way” for the old “law-merit-works” way.
• Legalism and seeking to merit God’s favour by producing good works in ones own flesh is an impossibility for God is only pleased with one thing – the finished work of Christ, and that is apprehended by believers who live the grace-faith-promise way.
• And Paul’s epistles are full of warnings about not returning to this way of the Law – the “law-merit-works” way, and his letters are dripping with instructions on how to live by grace – how to live the “grace-faith-promise” way.

• Faith rests on promises.
• Great faith rests on the great promises of God.
• ourishing, leading, supporting and fulfilling my weak faith: Until it is not I but Christ that lives in me – that lives in you as well. When we dilute the Word of God, we weaken the faith that rests upon the Word of God, and lessen the promises that are therein contained.
• So take each prayer and take every promise at its full value and claim its full richness for your own life.

• Total Trust Total dependence on God is faith in Him; trusting His word; believing His promises.  But it is more; even more; much more – it’s trusting Him to do what is right and best.

• It is the continual, progressive, self-revelation of God Almighty. It is an ongoing, step-by-step unveiling of God to His people. His Word contains both precepts and promises, poetry and prophecy. His Word is a love letter to every believer – which says I love you.
• Divine Love This love is not the frothy romance of novels – nor the passion of a paperback. It speaks of strength and stamina, pain and long-suffering patience. It speaks of heartache and endurance. It speaks of deep disappointment, and yet an abiding forgiveness. It speaks of love that never fails, despite the grossest betrayals. It speaks of tenderness, regardless of the most ruthless duplicity. It speaks of forbearance and grace, in spite of deception and disloyalty. It speaks of the deepest affection – a love that never gives up – that never ever fluctuates, no matter what. It speaks of His precepts and promises through poetry and prophecy.
• Fulfilled Promises Scripture is replete with promises fulfilled and vows completed:- The Lord visited Sarah – and He did unto Sarah as He had spoken.  Joseph told his brothers – God will bring you up out of this land. The Lord fulfilled promises to Abraham, Hannah, Mary, Zechariah, Simeon. Similarly His people, the nation of Israel. We read in Hebrews 11:32 I have seen the affliction of my people..
• ot one word of all the good promises the Lord has made to Israel had failed, all came to pass… And what more shall I say?
• For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained PROMISES……….
• Witness of the Word God’s faithful love and tender forbearance is seen throughout scripture, His Word and promises never once failed throughout the past 6000 years. The Word of God is witness to that fact, and untold saints who passed this way before can vouchsafe to this truth. Because of the past faithfulness of His Word, future prophecy is assured. God is not man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfil it?
• Tremendous Truth God’s Word is still as true today as it was in days of old. His precepts and promises, poetry and prophecy are as fresh as ever. He is the same yesterday, today and forever.
• Consider Jesus When we are tempted to base our love and faith on temporal things:- on passing events or fluctuating feelings – on human schemes or hopeful speculations… just consider looking away from the temporal to the eternal. Consider looking away from the earthly to the heavenly. Consider looking away from the terrestrial to the celestial. Consider the immutability of God’s promises and prophecy.

• Have we yet absorbed the magnitude of such a precious promise?
• A promise which is 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ?

• A Promise Paul tells us in 1Corinthians 1:10 that..

• Yet, at the closed, guarded gate of Eden, a wonderful promise had been given. A Saviour would be sent, and that One would be the seed of the women.
• To the many, the glorious promise had reduced to an almost forgotten dream.
• To the few, it was expected… anticipated. To the small, tiny, declining remnant alone, that hope remained truly alive. Oh, how much like those waned, failed hopes of believers in this day and age. How similar to the way the promises of His return has been dismissed today – faded like the morning mist..  evaporated like a dry, dusty, desert puddle. How indistinguishable from the apathetic body that awaits Christ’s glorious appearing.
• at the expense of securing His promise in their hearts – instead of His anticipated arrival – and our wise spiritual preparation. 'Hope deferred makes the heart sick…..' we read in Proverbs 13:12.

• A Precious Promise There are many promises that are associated with meekness..

• Should we not have faith in that ALL God’s promises to us are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus our Lord?

• until we stand on the promise of our position in Christ – we miss the mark in our commission.

• rivers of pardon and promises; streams of love and grace; cascades of His fellowship.
• All that this man turns his hand to do shall prosper – what a promise.

• All the promises in His word are yes and amen in Christ – for me.
• But like all the faithful who’ve gone before we have not yet received the promise – but it is a fact of the present with a future realisation.

• A Pleading Man Nehemiah knew God and was prepared to remind the Lord of His precious promises –  promises that had been made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – to Moses and Israel.
• He rehearsed many of the promises that God made to Israel in the ears of the Lord..
• We need to pray into the promises He gave to the Church and intercede on her behalf.
• Promises of God Nehemiah knew what Moses had said and pleaded with God to keep His promise: please remember what You told Your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful to me, I will scatter you among the nations… but if you return to me, obey my commands and live by them, I will bring you back'.
• Nehemiah 1:9 Nehemiah had lived his whole life in exile, but he never forgot the word of the Lord –  and his prayer reflected a man that placed his full trust in the promises of God.
• God’s word is unchanging and His promises span from generation to generation, and like Nehemiah, we can plead the promises of God for His Body, the Church – that we all will be sanctified in Christ, as God conforms us into Christ’s likeness.

• Man of God Nehemiah was a man of resolve – a man of action – a man of God – a man of prayer. Nehemiah was a man who loved his God – obeyed His word and trusted His promises, and so God used this man of Israel to be an instrument in His purposes for His people.
• Promise of God Nehemiah admitted that all the fault lay with the errant nation of Israel and not God. He knew he and his forefathers were guilty as charged for they’d not obeyed God’s Law. He knew the whole nation was well-deserving of God’s righteous and just punishment.
• He reminded God of His promise to His people – before continuing his prayer..

• Our former self is no promise of what we are going to be… they are remnants of what we were – a ruined sinful creation 'in fallen man'.  And righteous saints, past and present discovered this to be true.

• Whatever, therefore, may be the nature of the suffering or trial through which we have to pass, let us ever account that God is able to fulfill all His promises.
• For all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen (2 Cor. 1:20).

• God’s Promises If there is any doubt that you are loved with an everlasting Love..
• Trust in God’s promises and rest in His love... secured before the foundation of the world, through the Son of His Love.

• With the men of faith, we hold fast to His promises and trust in His love.
• Promise of God For without His help we could not face unafraid, the stony path before us.

• God Has Promised Like the arm of the Lord and the wing of the eagle, the promises of God are not unsubstantial. Hath God said and shall He not fulfill? Hath God promised and shall He not perform? Numbers 23:19 Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?
• God Has Spoken God has spoken; His word is truth; His promises are sure; His pledge is guaranteed; His oath is binding; His covenant is everlasting.

• Divine Nature We share in His DIVINE NATURE and have received His precious promises.
• His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him Who called us by His own glory and goodness. He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world. 2 Peter 1:3

• He is the Holy One of Israel, Who gave us our Scripture, our promises, our Saviour.

• The Word of God is a love-letter, that is bursting with treasures of promises.
• Perhaps the most precious promise there, is that we are accepted in the Beloved. Nowhere in Scripture is His glorious grace more evident than in this little book – or we are like Mary highly favoured.

• Every kind of appeal was made to Him to persuade Him on the impulse of the moment, or in response to an entreaty that seemed to promise success, or by an argument that appeared to be the truest wisdom, to move, act, speak, do something as out from Himself....

• Blessed promise!If you aspire to be a son of consolation; if you would partake of the priestly gift of sympathy; if you would pour something beyond commonplace consolation into a tempted heart; if you would pass through the intercourse of daily life with the delicate tact that never inflicts pain; you must be content to pay the price of a costly education - like Him, you must suffer.

• Abraham waited 100 years to have his Isaac – his son of promise from God.

• God’s Word We do this by taking Him at His Word – trusting His All-Embracing Promises – believing that He IS and that He rewards those that diligently seek Him Hebrews 11:6 But as watchmen on the wall we must also look into the mirror of our own soul.

• Promise of Peace You are a precious child of God.
• How frequently does the brutal accuser point his icy finger of doubt on His promised Word, with the accusation, 'hath God said'... did He truly promise you peace?

• It is during the time of our being broken that we learn that His promises concerning us cannot be broken.

• It is for Him to make good the glorious promise that sin shall not have dominion over you' (Rom. 6:14).

• Words of Faith AMAN – Abraham was given a promise, and he trusted God: he BELIEVED.. (aman) which means that Abraham was propped up, supported or carried by God.
• YAHAL – In Psalm 119 we read: remember Your word to Your servant, in which You have made me HOPE.. (yahal) and this too refers patient endurance as we wait for God in the trials of life and trust His promises.

• Finished Work If you have even one doubt about the provision of God, you are in this category. If you have a question-mark over the promises of God, this applies to you, too. If you doubt God’s love or question your security in Christ, you deny His cross..  for these are wrong perceptions of Christ’s finished work on the Cross – this is an incorrect understanding of all God’s attributes – His justice and love.

• that He remove any strongholds, thought patterns, and religiosity – that He shows them the folly of materialism, of fear and of self: for the Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2Peter 3:9
• We thank Him that He is utterly faithful to keep His promises to us, for if you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. John 14:14

• In the true prayer of faith' the intercessor must spend time with the Father to appropriate the promises of His Word, and must permit himself to be taught by the Holy Spirit, whether the promises can be applied to this particular case.

• This negative processing of His, finally brings us into His positive promise of Philippians 1:6 – being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

• The angles declared a promise, not a prophecy.
• a pledge for whosoever will  This is a profession of God’s promise to people of goodwill towards Him.
• Promise of Peace This was the precious message that wafted down from the heavenly host that night. This was the pure joy that was offered in the hills of Judea that silent, still, holy eve.
• This was a promise is made to all – all defiant men – all men of rebellious heart – a promise to all who would believe on the only begotten Son of God.

• Coming Messiah Threading through the Old Testament are prophecies and promises of the coming Messiah Who was chosen of God to be His special representative and anointed king. Many references and titles, names and offices describe this long-awaited Saviour …  He was Seed of the Woman; Lion of Judah – Immanuel; Messiah; Mediator and Man. He was the chief Shepherd and faithful Witness and the root and the stem of David.
• Zacharias rejoiced that the promise made to their forefather Abraham was to be realised and that they would be enabled to serve the Lord in freedom and without fear – for the Seed of the woman would be manifested and the Messiah of Israel would redeem His people. Emmanuel was to come.
• Zecharias the Priest Without a doubt, this was a shout of victory, for the enemies of Israel were to be routed, and Israel was to be rescued from the hands of all that hate them… The walls of their enemies were to be broken asunder, as pictured in the walls of Jericho, so long before. Zecharias rejoiced that God’s promise to their father Abraham was to be realised, and his nation would be enabled to serve the Lord in freedom and without fear.
• Future Prophecy But Zacharias trusted God to fulfil His promises – to raise up a horn of salvation in the house of His servant David… to save His people from their enemies and from the hand of all who hate them… to show mercy promised to the fathers and to remember His holy covenant, which he swore to Abraham… that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life – and that day is coming… very SOON.

• But he embraced a God-given dictum, and a timeless promise..
• a promise that is 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ:- Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved… For there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we 
must be saved – except Jesus, for Jesus saves… Jesus, remember me..
• Words of Promise Though the process of mortal death may be feared by all the mortal race – though the pain of physical dying is shunned by all humankind..
• this promise unfolds what death is to a believer..

• He purposes, resolves, promises, struggles, weeps, and fails again.

• He promises the oil of joy for mourning.
• He promises the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. 'Oh!,'  you question, 'Are these promises just for the few, or am I also to be included?'  If this were not the truth for all His children, then God is a liar..
• Spiritual Joy These promises are for you too, beloved, for God is no respecter of persons/ But remember that spiritual joy accumulates no interest, in the spiritual deposit box..

• Foundation of Hope Hope rests on the nature and name of almighty God. Hope stands on the promises and character of the Lord Most High. Hope believes in His fundamental goodness and eternal wisdom. Hope reflects back over His never-failing goodness and His immeasurable mercies. Hope looks steadily ahead to the promised fulfilment of His word of the Kingdom.
• Hope promises of a creation, subdued under the kingship of the Lord of glory, and hope rejoices in a heaven where sorrow and distress flee away, and where the Lord shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
• that we should be joint-heirs with Him, in His coming Kingdom. He has bestowed on us unbreakable promises and an unchangeable truth.
• God of Hope We read: Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil, where the forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become High Priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews.6:17-20
• Heavenly Hope But remember, He is soon coming to set up His kingdom, and has indeed set a hope before all believers - the hope of His heavenly kingdom, where overcomers will one day rule and reign with Him… The promise of an earthly kingdom, with Israel as the head and not the tail of the earthly nations..

• Are His promises at an end for all time?
• All such presumptions are foolish for God’s promises to hold fast forever.
• He still keeps His promise to never to leave us nor forsake us..
• Such promises from God sustained his faith until his deliverance came.
• He still encourages us with these words – “Do not fear” He still keeps His promise – never to leave us nor forsake us.

• Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet. 1:4).

• Chapter 4: gives examples of men of faith and God’s promises to those who live by faith.
• grace alone by faith in Christ alone, and in chapter 5 we discover His promises are yes, and amen in Christ.

• King David Although the promise of great blessings and a land inheritance came to the people of faith through Abraham, perhaps the most stupendous promises given to man – were made to Israel’s King David.

• Christ’s Righteousness We have been imputed with justification and imparted with sanctification. We have been sealed by God’s Holy Spirit in promise, until the marriage of the Lamb.

• Abraham did not waver in unbelief at God’s promise but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, because he was fully convinced that what God had promised He was also able to perform. Romans 4:20-21
• Trusting God’s Word Abraham believed God when he was called to leave Ur – to travel to a distant land. Abraham trusted God when he was told that he would be the father of many nations. Abraham had faith in the truth of God’s word and trusted Him to fulfil His promises. Oh, Abraham did some stupid things like trying to help God – but the bottom line is.. God knew his heart and KNEW Abraham depended on God to keep His promises. And the trust that Abraham had in God was credited to him as righteousness.

• Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.
• Father of Faith Abraham, is often called the father of faith, and God gave him some truly amazing and wonderful promises.
• This promise was to Abraham’s offspring – to his descendants – to his “SEED“.
• The True Seed Scripture as always is its own interpreter – and should there be any confusion about the identity of the ‘Seed’ mentioned in the Abrahamic Covenant, the Holy Spirit moved Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, to clarify the true identity of the SEED… we read:- The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed.

• Testifying Tool Scripture with it hundreds of promises and prophecies is only a tool..

• Precious Promises The word of God is filled with examples of God’s faithfulness to His people. The Scriptures are packed with many precious promises of God to His children. The Bible is the way that God speaks to His people today – and He is faithful.
• And all He wants from us is obedience to His Word and trust His precious promises.

• Three-Fold Seal God The Son promised that we would be sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise. God The Father sealed us and gave us the Holy Spirit as an assured down-payment. God, the Holy Spirit, sealed us until the glorious day of full and final redemption.
• And God’s indwelling Spirit is our guarantee that His promise will transpire – and the final delivery of God’s purchased possession is at the rapture or at the resurrection of the dead.

• Expect a week of promise, abundance, blessing, and favour and He will keep you in perfect peace because I stayed your mind on Him!”

• If we confess the wrong things we have done to God, He promises to forgive us.

• This is not because he hates us, for He knows the plans He has for each of us: plans for good and not for evil – to give you a promise and a hope of salvation.

• Trust His Promises If God is remaining silent, don’t imagine that it is because He does not love you.

• This loyal, godly Old Testament saint, exemplifies a true man of faith, who pleased God. For he believed God; he trusted God, he watched, and he waited – and yet Simeon, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. Heb 11:39 ..
• We desire evidence of His love and verification of His promises, and how we long for the insight of His heavenly treasures..
• confirmation of His precious promises.
• But we too must “SEE” the salvation of God – through the spiritual eye of faith, and we must “KNOW” the promise of His Word, with the understanding of the heart.

• It is not in our personal clinging to a God-given thing, whether it be a promise or a possession, but faith's restful and fear-free holding on to the Lord Himself.

• Joab stood a great test of loyalty and shunned the worldly promises in many areas.

• Abraham in the land... yet the very promises given him of God seeming to be denied.
• When all seems gone, the conflict so great, the experience so strange and there is no key to the situation; we are tempted to question whether the promises were even of God; everything is so contrary to what we expected, we begin to wonder if we are all wrong!

• Nehemiah and Daniel Nehemiah wept in prayer over Jerusalem, repenting of the sins of his nation, and Nehemiah reminded God of His promises to His people.

• Faith begins and ends with the promises of Christ.

• We need to put the word of God to the test, for His promises are true.

• And lest we missed the first and second mention of ALL, He sprinkles that little word throughout Scripture – in so many precious promises.
• But He tells us if we seek Him and His kingdom and live righteously before Him. He will supply all things needful and all essential things will be added to us. He will better provide for His children than for lilies and sparrows! He will ensure the daily necessities of life will be added and poured into our lap. If God’s promises are sure, then no circumstances can displace His assurances. If God’s Word is true, then no action or governmental law can overthrow His oath.
• Word of Promise His proof and guarantee that His Word and promises and provision is sure..
• is the gift of His Beloved Son in Whom He is well pleased – so that we can be made adoptive sons, whom He also loves and loves so dearly! If so great a gift is forthcoming from the Father, He will not withhold the smaller gifts that are needed for our daily survival. Ours is not to worry, but to trust in His loving provision. His is to carry out His never-failing promises and His vow to you.
• Faithful God But is it possible to trust Him in ALL things to provide ALL things? Well, I wonder if you have been placed in a position where you entrusted your three young children to a steward on a four-hour sea journey with a promise to them, that on their return they would be taken to their new home and yet in your trembling heart you knew only too well that no such place existed? I have. And as I turned to face the stark reality that I had five days to achieve this… less than a week to fulfil this enormous task. I searched for vacancies in basements and attics.
• Never-Failing God Christ had nowhere to place His head and maybe in a way, I began to understand just a fraction of what that meant. But would I have to follow in His poverty-stricken footsteps even here – as each ‘pushed-on’ door continued to be slammed in my face. My faith was weak and my heart was crying and my courage was far from valiant! And encouraging phone calls came from my mother – that “He would provide…” Inspiring support from one who had also trodden this homeless way before me. Yet I almost despaired that God’s promise included me as well.
• Matt.6:33  These are just some of the ALL-embracing promises of God – to you.

• We reckoned His promises true as we trusted in His love..
• Believe Him to fulfil the promises that He has given you in His Word – and remember this:- I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.

• And as a result we question the character of God; we question His Love; we question His Forgiveness; we question His Promises – we question His Word.

• In Christ, we have a better promise.

• that faith without love is really very ineffective. Thirdly, every promise in Revelation 2 and 3 brings you back to loving Jesus. Fourth, every crown we can gain has its roots in love. Fifth – there is nothing we can do of ourselves. All these are vital principles of the Christian life. All these truths are foundational Gospel facts.

• The capacity and proportions of His promises are innumerable.

• Judgement and Promise It was Obadiah who announced a blistering message of judgement on the nation of Edom but his warning message to these descendants of Esau concluded with a beautiful promise of a Saviour (Who is Christ the Lord) – Who would come to Zion.
• Promise to Abraham It was to be a time when all the land promised to Abraham would, at last, be rightfully inhabited by Israel – from the river of Egypt to the great river – the river Euphrates. It was to be a time when the Dead Sea would be healed and filled with a multitude of fish and a river of water was to flow out from beneath the Temple of the Lord.

• We must wait for the promise of the Father, they were told in Acts 1:4.

• Core of Life Sometimes however the stark reality of life shadows this amazing eternal God, and past promises of love and grace..

• There is the story of Israel together with the covenant promises God made to them through the fathers.
• Promises of God There was the land covenant given to Abraham and the kingdom promise made to David.

• We’re to live by His precepts and be encompassed by His promises in prayer and praise – for He is our Father.

• Time of Training David sought comfort in his Psalms - knowing God's promises are sure and Paul gloried in his thorn - knowing that His grace is sufficient. Present circumstances which press so hard and wound so deeply..if surrendered to the Lord..

• Trust His Word Worry can also mean: I do not believe that God can keep His promises to care for me. It’s casting doubt on the truth of God’s word – it’s unbelief in His promised provision. When worry is taken to its final conclusion – worry is effectively calling God “a liar!!”  But He is our strength and stay.

• God made covenant promises with Israel – and one was a conditional promise.

• Confident Rest Waiting and watching in quietude of spirit, is to confidently rest in Him. It is to assuredly be persuaded in His purpose, His promise, and His initiative.
• Precious Promise Your very spirit may feel overwhelmed, in a surging ocean of deep despair, all thy raging waves and thy buffeting billows are gone over me.

• Grace is the promise.

• or take back the promises that He bestowed. His mood towards me never changes.
• Eternal Promises Never, ever consider, that God has changed from the truth of His Word.
• His promises are everlasting and His truth is all-embracing, for He is the immutable God Who is changeless in time and through eternity.

• when clouds of hopelessness seem to linger in a thundery sky. These are often times when one needs to wait in hope… until the longed-for deferred fulfilment of a precious promise is at last rewarded.

• God’s Greatness Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice;Tender to me the promise of His word;In God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice.
• Tell out, my soul, the glories of His Word!Firm is His promise, and His mercy sure.Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the LordTo children’s children and for evermore.

• They show Jesus as the Seed promised to Abraham – Who will reign in great power. They identify Christ as the fulfilment of so many Messianic prophecies and promises.
• In Romans 15 Paul tells us that Christ became a servant to the circumcised (Israel), to demonstrate God’s truthfulness of God’s word - in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs.

• His promises are altogether sure and without repentance..

• by faith offered up his only begotten son (of promise) to God.

• Since the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. (Hebrews 4:1 NIV)
• For those who, like the New Testament writers, have a real burden and sense of responsibility for the spiritual life of God's people, one of the most heart-breaking things is the way in which so many who gave promise of going right on with the Lord are caught in some side-track and turn to something other or less than He meant for them.
• Their new discovery, or light, or guidance, as they speak of it, by reason of the let-up of some tension, solution to some problems, promise of release into self-realization, and escape from pressure, when the novelty and glamor have worn off is found to have been deceitful waters, producing Jericho's fruits which fall before they are ripe....

• Education, politics, news – unrest, uncertainty disorder and chaos all combine..  and fear of the future and a loss of hope is the inevitable outcome – and lack of faith is the insidious bedfellow of hopelessness and despair… UNLESS… Unless we can hold fast that what is good – hold on to the promises of God.

• Grace-Promise-Faith There are two paths believers can follow in their Christian life, either grace or law, either faith or works, either promise or merit, either God’s way or man’s way.
• The “grace-promise-faith” way is described in Scripture as a ministry of life: the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
• Rom.8:2. This path promises freedom from the law of sin and death and by living our life God’s way we are not placing ourselves under any man-made regulations or laws – we are not placing ourselves back not under condemnation.
• A Christian living the “works-merit-law” way, will find death, failure, and misery, while one living the “grace-promise-faith” way will have life more abundantly.
• Paul describes the serious consequences of living the “works-merit-law” way while outlining the tremendous advantages of living the “grace-promise-faith” way.
• The “works-merit-law” route, as opposed to the “grace-promise-faith” route.
• Law is man’s work, founded on the man’s merit and accessed through law, while grace is God’s work, founded on the promises of God and accessed by faith.
• Any believer who has strayed along the “works-merit–law” path and its ministry of death can be restored to the  “grace-promise-faith” way and its ministry of life for, His mercies are new every morning – great is His faithfulness.

• Those who start down the second path will make a conscious decision, to renounce all false imaginations and images of God built up over time – to refuse to believe the minds-eye photo that has been developed through life – and to believe without doubting that God’s Word is true and His promise sure.

• STUDY - Character and Attributes of GOD  Word of Men “I Promise …”  “Trust me… ”   “Take my Word …”   “I wont let you down ….”    How quick we are to believe the friend, the boss, the parent who makes a commitment.
• Broken Words “I promise I’ll take you to the park tomorrow,” and then tomorrow comes and goes. “I’ll always be there for you, no matter,” then circumstances, feelings or life changes. How quick we are to believe that promise. How easy it is to break our word. How desperately hurt we feel.
• God’s nature If we have an understanding of God’s nature we will trust His word. Without an understanding of God’s nature we will oscillate with instability.. often based on the broken promises and shattered lies made by imperfect man: but hath He said, and shall He not do it, or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?
• Word of God In His Word God said to all who believe in His name:- I promise …  Trust Me…  Take my Word …  I won't let you down …  And lo I Am with you always…. How important that we do trust Him, Who little by little is unveiling Himself to our understanding.

• rise up my love my fair one and come away from self–pity and mental moanings. He did not promise to change our daily lives..
• God’s Promise He promised to change US.
• He promised to change me, so that He would shine through my every word and every deed.  He promises to conform us into His likeness and His beauty, so that Christ be formed in me and Christ be formed in you.

• Empty Promises How true a statement Jesus said to the thirsting woman: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again.
• Earth’s empty promises are vain vows..

• The other, the land of promise, with rest instead of desert wanderings, and with abundance instead of want - symbols of the two stages of the Christian life.

• Faith Versus Fear Sometimes it is the promises and truth of the Word of God that darkness assails..

• A Good Work At the point of new birth He who began this new work in you made a promise.

• and every promise.

• Paul outlines both options in his epistle to the Galatians:  1) the grace-promise-faith way and  2) the works-merit-law way.
• The grace-promise-faith way is 100% achievable and done by God for man.
• Blessings abound for those humble enough and courageous enough to seek to live their life the grace-promise-faith way.
• Paul’s Challenge Paul challenges those given initial salvation by grace through faith with these words: are ye so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?  He is saying, having begun ‘the grace-promise-faith way’ are ye now made perfect by ‘the works-merit-law way?’ Many believers aren’t properly schooled in these two contrasting ways of living the Christian life and fall into the works-merit–law trap.
• The grace-promise-faith way is the ‘spiritual’ route.
• All believers are born-again the ‘grace-promise-faith’ way, for salvation is simply: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved – by grace thru faith, which is a done deed.
• Faith Not Works Believers make a choice to either live God’s way, which is the ‘grace-promise-faith’ way, or man’s way, the  ‘works-merit -law’ way.
• To grow spiritually is the responsibility of each believer, but like justification can only be achieved the ‘grace-promise-faith’ way.
• Grace-Promise-Faith Grace abounds to those that are both humble and courageous enough to walk the grace-promise-faith route.

• Should we not be as persevering and hopeful as to heavenly things? Never let us despair – for we have God’s promises at our back. God’s time for mercy will come; yes..

• His promises are altogether sure.

• Jesus the Jew Jesus was born a Jew and lived His life in full accordance with the Jewish law, for the law, promises, prophecies and salvation must all come through the Jews. And so on the eighth day, after the custom of the law, Jesus was brought to the temple, and there He was seen by Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

• They live the “law-works-merit” way – rather than the “grace-faith-promise” way.
• We are asked to have a confidence in the intangible and invisible promises of God and a conviction that God is faithful to keep His promises even though we cannot see it or experience it with our five senses.
• A Teachable Spirit To live our Christian lives by God’s “grace-faith-promise” rules, rather than the more logical “law-works-merit” rules requires us to live by faith and not by sight.
• So that we  walk the “grace-faith-promise”  way (or fly the IFR way)  rather than slipping into the “law-works-merit” way (the VFR way)

• But for the aged Simeon, death was no future fretful fear for he had a promise... that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
• Certain Promise His eyes were to be illumined by Christ, before death seized its prey.
• is it today…?   Few have received such an astonishing promise, but those who received such a pledge, must accept it, unquestioningly by faith.
• Expectant Waiting By faith Enoch, Elijah, Simeon believed the promise and lived in expectant waiting. Enoch waited his translation, Elijah his transport and Simeon to see the Lord’s Christ. Enoch waited for over 400 years and Simeon waited for the rest of his life. Their promise was given, accepted, believed, and they waited in humble anticipation.
• No, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2Peter 4:9

• And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself. Should not this promise of the heavenly Bridegroom cause our hearts to rejoice? Should not the deep desire or His heart move our own to an even deeper longing?  Knowing that He prayed: Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am..” John 17:24. Should not our yearning love for Him overshadow any concern about His delay?  For having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them to the end.

• Elijah’s Faith How often must he have been tempted to stagger through unbelief? How often must his circumstances have caused his deep resolve of trust to sink into despair – into unbelief and wavering at God’s promise. But Elijah trusted God – and Elijah waited.
• Elijah’s Promise Elijah refused to allow the visible circumstances… circumstances that screamed at him through all his senses and logic - he refused to allow them to come between himself and the promise of God.
• Elijah’s Hope Elijah refused to allow them to come between himself and the promise of God: thou shalt drink of the brook, and the ravens will bring you food. 1 Kings 17:4 And Elijah sat still and watched the streamlet become a sliver thread. And Elijah sat still and watched the silver thread reduced to a standing pool. And Elijah sat still and watched the standing pool shrink to nothing on the dusty earth. And Elijah trusted God, and Elijah waited.

• In the full Divine sense he never received the promises in his lifetime.
• At the end of his life he was still looking for the fulfillment of the promise.
• But during his lifetime within the compass of the whole range of Divine purpose there were instances of testing on the time factor; and, having been tested on that factor, the promise was fulfilled.

• Belief is a decision of the will to live on the truth of God’s promises.
• I must believe what He promises, accept His gifts and refuse to be anxious, or I live a defeated life..
• And this sort of trust opens up our hearts to receive these precious promises.
• Faith is the heart acting upon the promises of God.

• This message to the ‘circumcision’ was to testify to the fulfilment of God’s promises – the King had arrived: the kingdom was near… repent and believe on Christ Jesus.

• They can live the grace-promise-faith way or they can live the works-merit-law way.
• Right Choices Remember, there are two paths a born-again believer can follow in their Christian walk: either the grace-promise-faith way or the works-merit-law way;  either by grace or works of the law; either by promise or the works of the flesh; either by faith or by merit; either by living a spiritual life or living a carnal life; either by walking in the spirit or walking in the flesh; either by walking in newness of life in Christ or by walking by means of the old sin nature in Adam.
• Let us seek to please our heavenly Father, by walking the grace-promise-faith way.

• His promises are altogether sure.

• Both Abraham and Sarah, though reproductively dead and incapable of parenthood, trusted God's Word and became the pattern for Israel to follow - trusting God's promise, believing His Word, and living by faith.

• God has promised to deliver us; and His promises never fail.
• We have put our hope in Him, knowing that His Word is true and that His promise to deliver us again rests upon His Word of truth.

• We are faultless in Him, partakers of His promise, and stones in His building.

• Some suggest that this gesture was to welcome the first Christian Martyr into God's presence, while others think Jesus, our heavenly Mediator, was pleading Stephen's case before the Father or fulfilling His promise to confess Stephen before His Father in fulfilment of Matthew 10: Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father Who is in heaven.

• He does not fail at dawn, yet the one who does wrong knows no shame.The promises of God remain faithful and true, for He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• He is altogether righteous, keeps His promises morning by morning, and has pledged never to fail us nor forsake us.

• Let us entrust our lives and futures into the safe-keeping of our Heavenly Father Who is the God of all comforts for, like Paul, not only are we subject to rejection and hostility, sufferings and afflictions, distresses and opposition by a world at enmity with our Heavenly Father, but we have His eternal promise that He Who He raised Christ from the dead will deliver us from life's difficulties and dangers.

• God never changes, and He has promised: When you pass through the waters, I will be with You. Fear may blind our eyes to the precious promises of God and cause faith to falter, but we are called to look to Jesus in every difficult, dangerous, or distressing circumstance of life, for fear and faith are incompatible bed-fellows.

• But this was part of God's plan, instituted before time itself, so that all who believe in the sacrificial offering of Himself might be lifted out of the pit of condemnation in which we are all trapped, and by faith in Him we might become children of God and heirs of His promise.

• And Peter further explained that having been raised up to this exalted heavenly position by the most high God, the Lord Jesus also received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit which had just been poured out on all the believers who were: All-together in one place, as promised by the Lord Jesus, only a short time earlier.
• And one day, Jesus will return to fulfil the promise given to David; that a descendent will be raised up to sit on his throne forever.

• May we develop an attitude of continuous prayerful praise, for God is faithful to fulfil all His promises to His children.

• But although His people broke their covenant to Him, the Lord never forgot His people and He never will, for we have a faithful God whose Word never fails and whose promises stand fast forever.

• They were given the holy Scriptures and the promises of God Who pledged to send a Messiah Who would save His people from their sins.
• How wonderful to know that Christ's prayer continues to be answered and that God's promises to believing Israel of an earthly inheritance still stand.
• And what a comfort for Christians in this dispensation of grace, to know that the promises that God has made to the Church in connection with our own, heavenly inheritance are equally steadfast and sure.

• It is the trusting heart that has confidence in God's character and believes His promises that pleases the Lord, and it is such a man that remains persuaded of God's never-failing goodness no matter what difficulties rise up to confound the heart or confuse the mind.
• His trust in the Lord rests on the promises of our covenant-keeping God, for He has placed His Word above His holy name.

• Israel as a nation, may have transgressed 2000 years ago when they rejected their Messiah King and had Him crucified, but God is good and full of mercy and His promise to Abraham through David and his Seed stands forever.
• And despite Israel's rejection of their Messiah and the crucifixion of Jesus, the carpenter from Nazareth and King of the Jews, God is faithful to His promises and will not set aside the people He chose to be the nation through Whom the Saviour of the world would be born; the nation to Whom the Scriptures were given.

• Surely we should trust all that God has said and believe the many precious promises and assurances that He has given to His children in the Word of God?
• The enemy will taunt you with your unworthiness to receive all the promises that God has given to His people and try to scupper your faith in Him, but your unworthiness has been replaced with Christ's righteousness, and when God looks at your account, all He sees is the righteousness of His Son.

• God has promised to be with us in every situation of life, and all He wants from us is to trust His Word, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and hold fast to His many precious promises.

• When Adam heard that the Seed of the woman was to crush the head of the Serpent who deceived her, that crooked Serpent which is called the Devil and Satan, he believed God's promise of a Saviour.

• The Law was not given to annul, supplement, or alter this unconditional Abrahamic promise and so the question arose among many Jewish believers in the early Church: Why was the Law given, what was the purpose of the Law, and did it alter the terms of the Abrahamic promise?
• And goes on to explain, It was added because of transgressions, and it was added until the Seed, (Whom Paul identified as the Lord Jesus Christ) to Whom this promise had been made, had come.
• The Law is not contrary to the promise that God gave to Abraham, for the Abrahamic covenant still stands and Paul further explained how long the Law was to be implemented, from the time it was given to Moses until the Seed, Jesus Christ the righteous was sent: The Law was given to Moses until the Seed would come, to Whom the promise had been made.

• And soon, the Father's promise to the Son will be fulfilled when all His enemies shall be made a footstool for His feet.

• Starting with Genesis and the first five books of Moses and no doubt touching on many of the prophesies and promises that we hold dear, Jesus taught them all that the Old Testament prophets had written, concerning Himself.

• In that day Christ told them, when I have gone to be with my Father, you will receive the promise of the Father (the indwelling the Holy Spirit) Who is with you now but He will be IN you as a Witness that I am in My Father (in union with Him).

• In the early Church, it was hard for Jews who were steeped in centuries of tradition to recognise that the Christian faith was not an extra bit of doctrine tagged on to the Jewish religion, but the fulfilment of God's promise to make a New Covenant with them.

• It is as he seeks the Lord that he starts to rehearse the many wonders, the power, grace, and glory that have been displayed in his own life and the lives of countless others who have trusted Him as Saviour and believed in His promises of grace.

• Jeremiah knew that despite the unfaithfulness of His people, the Lord would keep all His promises to Israel.

• Whether the promises of God are for Israel or given to the Church, God's Word is true.
• His judgements are just, and His promises are yes and amen for those that believe His Word, wait on Him, and abide in Him.
• Those who wait on the Lord are those who have the assurance and inner confidence that the promises He has made to His people, and the things for which we hope, are a matter of fact and a present reality that cannot be contradicted by senses, emotions, reason, or fear.

• Not only was he Abraham's grandson and knew that God had promised to bless him and his offspring, Jacob knew it was through him and his children that God's promise of redemption would be fulfilled.
• He had to learn to stand on the promises of God and to place his trust in God's provision rather than relying on his own intellect, understanding, and cunning.
• His faith was strengthened, he grew in a knowledge and understanding of God, and became an overcomer who was spiritually prepared to relinquish to his own reasoning and to trust the promises and provision of God.

• Although his writing was not laid out chronologically as one would expect... nestled between his pronouncements of great judgement are little sections of comfort and hope which promise restoration to the people of Israel and a full and final fulfilment of God's promise, to their forefather Abraham.
• God is righteous and must punish sin, but He is also faithful to fulfil His promises to those that love Him and to reward those that place their trust in Him - for without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

• We may not have a sign in the sky, but we have a more sure Word of promise in the Scripture.

• Paul needed to address this false notion that the unbelief of man nullified the faithful promises of God.

• The Lord gives us many precious promises and proclamations about His Word.
• With such a weapon as the Sword of the Spirit, the many examples of Jesus Himself wielding that weapon so effectively, and the promises pertaining to the Word, let us all buckle on the armour that God has provided, and firmly grasp hold of the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, in both our heart and our hands so that we too may be able to stand firm in the evil day against the devil's wicked schemes.

• He discovered that all the promises, precepts, pronouncements, and judgements of the Lord, are not only sweet to the taste, but become food for the soul, instil joy in the heart, and give sweet wisdom and discernment to those that honour His name.
• And may we declare forth His precious promises, precepts, pronouncements, and judgements, which are sweetness and joy to those who trust in Him; to Whom be all praise and glory forever and ever, AMEN.

• The Law of Moses and God's promises to David were given to direct the nation towards the road of righteousness and the path to peace where they would find rest for their soul.

• Sarah, the free-born though physically barren woman who miraculously bore Isaac, gave birth to the child of promise.
• By faith, Sarah received the ability to conceive, beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful Who had made the promise.

• He details the wonderful truth of our acceptance in the Beloved and lists some of the many precious promises that we posses as members of God's heavenly family.

• No matter how far any of us have strayed, His promises to the church are as sure and His promises to Israel.
• His chastening rod may hurt or wound us, but His promise of grace will help and heal.

• We have already received many precious promises that are found in the Word of God.

• It is a precious promise to all His children, for we have been made kings and priests of the living God - and have a guarantee that His Word is true and His promises are 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ.

• The story of Abraham's two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, and the struggle that took place between the two women (Hagar, the bond-woman who represents slavery to the Law, and Sarah, the free-woman who represents our freedom in Christ) resulted from the fleshly schemings of Abraham who decided to help God to fulfil His promise to give him a son.
• We are now ministers of the New Covenant of grace and all who have trusted Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting are children of the free-woman; children of promise.

• He is our good, merciful, and faithful God Whose promises cannot be broken and Whose Word can be trusted implicitly.
• We need to consider the rich promises that have been poured out on us so lavishly, and we need to reflect with thanksgiving on all that the covenant of grace into which we have been brought means; through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• He had come to fulfil God's promise to His people, Israel.

• But like so many holy men of God who were used to pen the Old Testament Scriptures for our learning, Ezekiel also gave a promise of Israel's eventual restoration and their return to the land of Israel.
• There are many that like to say that God has replaced Israel with the Church, but those pronouncements do not heed the truth of the Word of God, Whose promises are yes and amen in Christ Jesus, and Whose Word stands fast for ever and ever.
• The promises God made to Abraham, Isaac, Israel, and David stand firm and are irrevocable.

• He explains that having been eternally saved by grace, we should glory in the trials and tribulations of life which God uses to develop in us perseverance, a godly character, and an unshakable and eternal hope in the loving promises of God.
• The precious promises of God are poured into our hearts by the Spirit, and Paul cements his argument with the assurance that while we were weak and ungodly, without strength and without hope – Christ, the good and gracious God, died for us ungodly sinners who were dead in trespasses and sins.

• He gave them a promise of future peace and wonderful hope, not a pledge of punishment that would result in their ultimate disaster and destruction.
• They were to harken to God's Word and be careful not to be hood-winked by the deceptive teachings of false prophets, and they were given a promise that at the end of 70 years, the Lord would restore them to their homeland.
• Jeremiah's letter to the Babylonian exiles encouraged the people and brought with it a beautiful promise: 'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'

• Solomon recognised that God had shown loving-kindness to his father, increased his kingdom, and fulfilled all the promises He made to the great king David.

• Our confidence rests upon the sure promises of our all-powerful God Who reminds us throughout His Word, that He is the Almighty, Sovereign Ruler of the universe, and has given us His assurance that no weapon, whether physical or spiritual, will prosper against His blood-bought children.
• Although this passage may have been addressed to Israel, it is true for all God's children in every dispensation; for no weapon that is formed against the people of God will prosper, and every tongue that accuses them in judgment will be condemned. We are blessed to know that this is a promise to all God's people: This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me, declares the LORD.
• His is the power, and the kingdom, and the glory, and no enemy of His Church will prevail against His chosen ones: Vengeance is Mine and I will repay, is the Lord's promise to those that are His children.
• Let us remain confident in His superlative promises of grace, which are the heritage of the saints; for the tongues that rise up in accusation against the people of God will be silenced forever when they stand before His Great White throne of judgement: And they will know that I have loved you.
• The promise God gave to His chosen people Israel is as sure for the promises He has made to the Christian Church: 'No weapon that is formed against you will prosper, and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn, for this is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,' declares the LORD.

• Together with the disciples and apostles, we rejoice in the sure promise of the hope of God's glory, when our bodies will all be changed in the twinkling of an eye, to become like unto His glorious glorified body. 
• Our hope in the glory of God is the earnest desire and joyful expectation of the consummation of God's rich promise to us, which is grounded on the sure foundation of His eternal Word and His unchangeable character, for then we shall see Him face to face in the fullness of His glory, when still more abundant blessings will be showered over our heads.
• If suffering causes us to set our minds on things above, not on things of the earth - if suffering causes us to fall on our knees crying out to the Lord; if suffering causes us to put our hope in the Lord and the sure promise of His return, then shouldn't we also rejoice in our sufferings?

• The devil may do his worst, but we can stand on the promises of God through the tough times we will inevitably face.
• God's Word promises that He will keep us as we go through the difficulties and dangers because His grace is sufficient, and His strength is perfected in our weaknesses.

• And so they were given a promise: He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God - and I will write on him My new name.
• The same promise that was given to the Philadelphian Christians can become our promise, when we love the Lord our God with all our heart, and when we love the brethren with the same godly love that comes through Christ.
• The precious promise to become a pillar in the Temple of God, should thrill the hearts of all born-again believers, for this is a reminder that we have the permanently, indwelling Spirit of God Who has become our 'life' through time and into eternity.

• They heard His voice, they trusted His Word, and their faith expanded to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting: You are the Messiah the Son of the Living God, was their confession, and they believed that God had sent Him into the world to save His people from their sin: I give eternal life to them, was Christ's promise to those who believe, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.
• And, as if all this were not sufficient, He made a promise that should rejoice the heart of all His children, and calm every questioning soul: No-one will ever snatch them out of My hand, were His comforting words.
• And may we never forget that His promises are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Jesus Christ our Lord.

• Or are you mystified as to why His precious promises are so long in coming?
• The glorious time of Israel's restoration is couched in this declaration from God, for He has promised to save His people from their sin, and His promises to Israel will never fail, just as His promises to the Church are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord - and our present sojourn in this fallen world, is likewise hastening to its grand finale.

• His was a life that began with great promise when the Angel of the Lord announced his birth to the barren wife of a man named Manoah.

• In His wisdom, He purposed that salvation would be fulfilled through the Jewish nation who were given the Law, the Prophets, the Psalms, the covenants, and the promises, and through whom the Messiah of Israel and Saviour of the world was to come.

• To them belonged God’s adoption as a nation, and the glorious Shekinah presence of the Lord.They received the special covenant promises of God, and were also entrusted with the Law together with the temple worship – and God’s Word cannot be broken.

• Though we and our Christian brothers and sisters are facing the terrors of today, we have the Word of God that contains many precious promises that are all 'YES' and 'AMEN' in Christ.
• Let us determine that despite the destruction and violence in the world... and the strife, corruption, and injustice we witness, we will stand firm on the Word of truth and trust God to fulfil His promises - for the vision Habakkuk received is as relevant today as it was in the distant past.

• But their hope in the earthly kingdom had blinded their understanding that Calvary's Cross must precede Christ's kingdom, and that it was necessary to first establish the heavenly (spiritual) kingdom (currently under the dominion of Satan), before those earthly promises to Israel could finally be fulfilled.

• There is no time nor place where His sacrifice of intercession does not reach us, thus underlining His promise: I will never leave you nor forsake you.The more we learn of God's Word and the wonderful covenant relationship that He has with His Church, the more we discover His showers of blessing and abundant privileges raining down upon our heads and come to an understanding of Who God is, what He is doing, and all that He has planned for those that love Him.

• We are to mature and ripen our precious faith, and we are to stand on His promises and believe His Word.

• God has strewn our path with encouraging promises, which are scattered throughout His Word.
• But can we trust His promises?
• The promises of God are founded on nothing less than the perfection of God's holy nature.

• Jesus Himself reminded us that it is not we who speak when we are sent with God's words on our lips, but it is the Spirit of our Father Who speaks in us.The promises of God do not change, for the Word of the Lord stands fast forever and ever.

• How precious to know that not one promise from God has failed and we can be assured that this same Jesus Who died and rose again, is coming back to take His Church to be with Him forever, and He is also returning to set up His Millennial Kingdom; ALL for the glory of God.

• Paul also reassures us in Philippians, that when God starts a good work in the life of a Christian, He promises to bring it to completion.
• The infiltration of apostate teachers and heretics in the early Church was a serious problem just as it is today, because those teaching a false gospel can only promise their followers a false freedom, a false christ, and a false salvation, because they are slaves to their own greed and corruption, for whatever gets the better of a man makes him its servant.
• They may be enamoured by the deceptive promises of a sugar-coated gospel, a counterfeit saviour, and a promise of heaven, but they are never justified.

• The truth of the gospel of Christ and the reality of his Saviour was so tangible to Paul, that nothing could separate him from the love of God and the many precious promises that are given to all believers.
• Let us unashamedly draw ever closer to our faithful God in confident assurance that He will indeed carry to completion all we have entrusted to Him on the day that Christ returns for His Church, for ALL His promises to us are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ.

• God is not slow to fulfil His promises to us, and any perceived delay in the mindset of man cannot invalidate the perfect, unfolding plan of God.
• Indeed, some are openly mocking those who are eagerly awaiting the coming of the Lord Jesus and Peter talks about these people: Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming?

• Instead of being a voice crying in the wilderness to the lost and executing our ministry of reconciliation between fallen man and a holy God, we have weakened our very voice and become a play-thing in the hands of the enemy.Nevertheless, we have the promise from Christ, Himself: I will build my Church and the gates of hell will NOT prevail against it.

• God is working His purpose out and He will come back at the right time, not too early, not too late and Peter gives us insight into His timing: The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

• A living faith in God's Word and the confident hope in His promises are two graces that embrace each other in love at the foot of the Cross.
• Has he never made a promise that has not been carried through to its fulfilment, and it is incumbent on us to know what His Word says and to believe the promises He has given.

• His decision to believe God's Word, leave his home, and set out for the land God promised him, was a decision of obedient faith, and in the book of Hebrews we read how he looked into the far distant future, with full assurance that the promises God made to him would be fulfilled. 
• Old Testament saints believed God's promises and,throughout their lives, looked forward in faith to the coming Messiah Who would save His people from their sin and bring in an everlasting kingdom of righteousness. Old Testament saints were justified before the Cross, and gained His approval through their faith.

• It is to maintain an unswerving assurance that the promises of God are all 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• The strength of hope is to believe in the reality of the promises of God: promises that we cannot yet see with our physical senses, but facts we discern with the eye of faith.

• We also have Christ's promise that He is never far from any of us and will never leave us nor forsake us.

• Abraham's faith was severely tested when he had to wait for 25 years for his 'son of promise' to be born to his elderly, barren wife.
• At times, his faith grew weak, and at times, he did not understand, but through it all he discovered that God is always faithful and His promises are always sure.

• Such fear becomes a trap, for fear of man paralyses our heart, whereas a reverential, trusting heart in the promises of our heavenly Father means safety.

• In like manner, the faith of a Christian needs to be pure, unblemished, and perfect, and the trials of life are designed to purify our hearts, increase our dependence upon the Lord Jesus, deepen our love for our Saviour, enrich our spiritual lives, strengthen our hope in His many precious promises, and increase our faith in the Word of God.

• Not only did the Lord set the mountains in place and fixed the foundation of the world so fast they cannot be moved, but He also gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His new creation; His blood-bought children, heirs of His promise, and joint-heirs with Christ.
• These striking words express the great confidence David has in His sovereign Lord and articulates the sure trust he has in His covenant promises.

• This was the better Covenant discussed in Hebrews, which has been established on better promises.

• He believed that God raised the dead, and that God was true to His promises.

• Instead of holding fast to the Word of God and remembering His promise to take them in safety into the land He promised to Abraham, they looked at the problems that were surrounding them.

• We are His by promise, and His by permission.

• It was their failure to follow God's commands and keep their covenant promises that caused Israel to be punished, and so the restoration of the Sheep Gate on that eastern side of the city, must have played a significant role in raising the morale of the people, helping to keep them on task in maintaining the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

• God places His Word above His holy name, and although God's own curses against an errant Israel had to be executed to the letter, all the promises of God bestowed on His chosen nation stand fast for ever and ever.
• It is for God's own sake and for the sake of His holy name that God will never break His promises to Israel.
• Praise God that in like manner, He will never break His many precious promises to His Church, which is the Body of Christ, for they are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Him.
• The intentions of the Lord can never be shaken, and He is a God that remembers His covenant promises to all His people.

• BUT He also knows that we have daily needs, and has given many precious promises throughout Scripture that He will be the Provider for all the needs and the Supplier of all the necessities of life – if we will but trust in Him.
• So as we trust Him to fulfil His promise to provide for our needs, remembering that He is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, let us take the words of Jesus to heart to seek HIM first, and make HIM our main focus, today and every day.

• Yet Jeremiah trusted God's promises.

• The third virtue of the Thessalonians was the steadfastness of their future hope in the Lord Jesus. His many precious promises and the blessed expectation of His soon return was not founded on empty optimism or a fingers-crossed-wishful-thinking attitude.
• When with patience, we steadfastly hope in the Lord and stand firm on the promises of God, we have an inner-assurance in His Word of truth, for God has placed His Word above His holy name.

• The people were obedient to the Lord, the land was purged of idolatry, enemies were routed, and God prospered the people in their land of promise.

• Chapter 9 reminds us of Israel's past history, their tremendous privileges, and precious promises, while chapter 11 rejoices in their election by grace, their future hope, and eventual salvation.
• Let us thank God for His faithfulness to Israel; past, present, and future, and rejoice that His promises to them, and to us, are true and cannot be broken.

• May we embrace this statement of fact as a promise of God to each one of us and rejoice that: The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.

• We are to maintain our faith in the power and promises of God, for He will vindicate all His children and His justice will shine as brightly as the noonday sun.

• God does bless His children, and although we need to confess any sin to the Lord, we should never assume that difficult circumstances are always a result of our wrongdoing, as it shows a lack of faith in His Word and distrust of His promises.
• We are called to trust Him in EVERY difficulty of life and hold fast to His promises, even when we do not understand.

• Too often, the world's opinion of riches is bound up in the baubles of this world that will one day be burned up, but let us pay heed a truth that has stood the test of time - God has chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, and this is a promise which holds true for all who love him.

• We journey through a fallen world with many dangerous pitfalls, slippery places, and dark foes seeking to destroy our close fellowship with our Lord, but in Psalm 119, we are given a beautiful promise and an eternal truth; that God's Word is a gleaming lamp to our feet that will guide us through the darkness of this fallen world and it is a shining light to brighten the pathway we take.
• His Word not only brightens our pathway, guards us on our journey through life, and warns us of each lurking danger, but it is a treasure-trove of precious gemstones to be hidden deep within our heart, for it contains words of wisdom to guide our thinking, precious promises to encourage our hearts, godly instruction on how to live as the Lord desires us to live, and it is the perfect pattern for Christian living as well as the qualified adjudicator of our daily conduct.

• The second part of Isaiah looks into the distant future with promises of a coming Saviour, while the earlier chapters deal mainly with the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles.
• Despite both Israel and Judah being carried away into exile, prophecies of comfort abounded for God's little remnant and later chapters in Isaiah are filled with promises of future deliverance.
• Whether it is promises of judgement for disobedience or blessings for faithfulness, God always fulfils His promises.
• But in His grace, God rehearsed His promises to His people Israel through the lips of Isaiah the prophet, and His Word is unbreakable: You are My witnesses.

• He had already shown them the Father in His own life, but they failed to believe His promises, trust His word, and understand His teachings.

• He has also promised to finish the good work of salvation He started in ALL His children, and has given each one the in-dwelling Holy Spirit as a guarantee that He will fulfil His promise.

• It was only a small percentage of Jews who chose to return to the land of promise with Zerubbabel.

• Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful, is Christ's promise to us.

• Nothing in heaven above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth is so terrifying that it can blot out the promises of our Creator God, for He is our sword and buckler.

• How necessary to hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, and to pursue peace and holiness for our God and Saviour Whose promises are faithful and true.

• Scripture gives witness that God's promises to his servant have been fulfilled in part, but are continuing to be fulfilled.
• Let us never forget that we have a faithful Father Whose promises to His people are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord, and should cause our hearts to rejoice in the Lord always and be glad in Him for evermore.

• We have an assurance that the promises of God's protection and His help are available for all who trust in His name.

• Should this promise not comfort our soul?

• Both the performances and the promises of God are the subject of David's high acclaim and great rejoicing in God's eternal splendour, which is further revealed in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ Who is the final revelation of the greatness of God, Whom to know is life eternal.

• We please Him when we are saved, but we are to please Him throughout our Christian life by believing His promises are true and by believing He rewards those who seek Him - by faith.
• When we rest in His sufficient strength, we always discover it is all we need, but how often we forgo the perfect peace He promises simply because we trusted in self before our Saviour, or lived in accordance with what we see rather that what God says.
• The more a Christian trusts God's Word, believes all He says, has faith in His promises, believes He is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek to know Him, the more they will grow in grace, mature in the faith, walk in spirit and truth and please Him; for to the one that has much, even more will be given.

• The promises of God to His children are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ, and God has promised that we who are saved by grace through faith in Him, have a glorious inheritance that is being reserved for us in heaven.
• Even when we prove faithless to Him, He remains faithful to the promises that He made to us, and to all who trust Christ as Saviour.

• And this promise to the Jewish nation is equally relevant to Church age believers, for we too have been created by the Lord.

• So often the comforting statements of the Lord Jesus are designed to link a wonderful promise of God to deep concerns that may surface within the heart and mind of believers, as we journey through life in an increasingly alien world.
• His promise of peace is given to those who hear and believe His Word.
• We discover His peace as we believe His promises and take them to heart: These things I have spoken to you so that IN ME, you may have peace.
• Never will we gain that peace which passes understanding unless we are in Him, in fellowship with Him, in sweet communion with Him, resting in the promises He has taught us in His Word.

• He did not trust the promise God gave to his mother... that two nations were in her womb; that two people groups would come from her and that the older twin would serve the younger.
• The day came when God needed to teach His servant a lesson that Jacob would never forget - that God's Word is true, His promises never fail, His people are accountable to Him, and that our times are in His hands.

• Stephen was explaining that even though God's promises may be delayed for a season, as in the case of Abraham, His promises are altogether sure.
• He was showing that although God's promises may not happen in the way we would like and although His timing may be different from our expectation, His Word is true.
• Indeed, His promise to Abraham was being fulfilled in Christ Whom they had crucified - and He had come to set up the kingdom of God on earth as their promised Messiah-King.
• The fulfilment of this promise was through Jesus Who was the promised Seed of Abraham about Whom the Scriptures spoke.
• Although Abraham's inheritance, about which Stephen spoke, is still yet future, it is secured for his descendants in Christ, for God's promises cannot fail.
• As members of the Church in this dispensation of grace, we can rejoice that nothing will prevent God's plans, purposes, and promises from being fulfilled - for both the people of Israel and for the Christian Church.

• Moses knew all about the God of his forefathers and His promise to release His people from their 400 year bondage in Egypt, but in his fleshly enthusiasm, he tried to do God's work in his own strength.

• It gives them confidence that He will fulfil the promises He made to their forefather Abraham and His seed forever.
• God's Word is true, His promises are sure, and His faithfulness endures from one generation to the next.

• What a glorious promise!

• We have been given the glory of the gospel of Christ and the many precious promises that it contains.

• We have a description of the eternal city of Jerusalem coming down from heaven, and a promise that righteousness will reign on earth.
• Whether this is Christ's encouraging response to the pleading prayer of those Tribulation Saints that are thirsty for the water of life (at the end of the Tribulation) OR whether it is the fulfilment of His precious promise to Church-age believers, who are longing for His any-day appearance at the Rapture (before the Tribulation) or both; these final words in holy Writ should be our daily prayer and our blessed hope.

• Unlike men who can do an about-face, alter their opinions, break their promises, modify their plans, and speak lies with the twisted tongue of the serpent, the Lord our God is immutable.
• God is perfect in all His thoughts and trustworthy in all His ways, unlike men who often distort the facts, twist the truth, and are easily tossed about like waves on the sea, God's counsel is steadfast, His promises are sure, His Word is dependable, and His Truth lasts from one generation to another.
• Praise God that despite the instabilities and uncertainties of this world, and in spite of the faults and failings of men, the Word of the Lord is sure, His decrees are unalterable, and all His promises are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Saviour.

• His promises are sure and His mercies are new every morning, but His ways are not our ways and His timings rarely fit in with our hopeful expectations.
• The Lord is true to His Word and His promises never fail, but things rarely happen the way that we expect.
• Though judgement was necessary and punishment inevitable, due to the nation's ongoing disobedience, nevertheless the promised kingdom of righteousness would one day be set up where peace and prosperity would be established and all God's promises to His people would be fulfilled.
• God's promises to Israel will never fail and those that love the Lord, trust His Word, obey His commands, and honour His name, will one day receive the reward that was promised to Abraham and His seed.

• This verse tells us of the encouraging promise that God gave to Joshua when he led the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt and into the Promised Land.
• This precious promise is no less true for God's people today who have been rescued from slavery to sin and subjection to Satan, than it was for His people who were in servitude to Pharaoh and slaves in the land of Egypt, and it all comes down to a matter of faith in God's promises - of trusting His Word - of believing the truth of His Scripture.
• His children may let the Lord down or grumble at the circumstances of their lives or try to achieve God's plan and purpose for their lives in their own strength, but all God's promises are true and He is faithful to carry out all His pledges to every one of His children, and no-one will be able to stand against us as long as we live.
• Jesus is the same, yesterday, today, and forever, and the promise he gave to Joshua, he gives to us.

• But as the time for Moses' death drew nearer, a new generation of Israelites were given an opportunity to believe God's Word, trust the promises of God, enter the Promised Land, and live a victorious life of faith instead of a defeated life of unbelief and doubt.
• Having reminded them of their history and the promises of God, the time arrived for Moses to give God's people their final instructions.

• What a great comfort it is to discover that He will be with us always and will certainly fulfil every promise and pledge that He has purposed towards us: Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, is God's promise to His servant Jacob, Behold, I will bring you back to this land for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.
• This precious promise was given to Jacob, at Bethel, as he fled in fear from the fury of his twin brother.
• As the young man slept with his head on a stone, the Lord spoke to him in a dream and renewed the wonderful promise He had given to both Abraham and Isaac, so many years before.
• The promises of God cannot be broken, and despite Jacob's deceptive behaviour, the Lord not only promised to be with him wherever he travelled, but that He would one day bring him back to his homeland and that the Lord would never leave or forsake him until His promises were fulfilled.
• The promise Jacob received that night was one that would pass to his yet-to-be-born children, who would become the Lord's chosen nation of Israel.
• The promise given to Jacob that night, was made by the God of Israel, the Creator of the Universe Who neither slumbers nor sleeps, Whose Word is sure, Whose promises are guaranteed, Whose statutes are binding, and Whose covenants will never fail - for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
• The God that stands fast on His promises to Israel is the same God that will honour His promises to the Body, which is His Church.
• Should this not rejoice our hearts and fill us with such assurance that His promises and pledge will similarly stand fast and surely be fulfilled.
• Behold: we have the promise of an eternal home prepared for us, in heaven.

• But in his Benedictus, Zechariah likened the coming of Christ to the rising of the sun.Zechariah, the old priest of Israel who received a vision from the Lord during his priestly duties in the Temple, recognised that God was about to fulfil His promise to His people.

• Abraham believed implicitly that the Kinsman-Redeemer would be born through his seed – through Isaac, his own coming son of promise.
• Through the life and example of Abraham, we are taught: With respect to the promise of God, Abraham did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God.
• He believed what God had promised him, and he had faith that God would fulfil His covenant promise in every detail, even if he did not understand how or when.
• As Abraham journeyed through life, we discover that trusting the promises of God and holding fast to his Word, is a vital key to developing our faith.
• There are many precious promises of God, and faith requires all of His children to trust His Word, believe His promises, and have faith in the truth of Scripture.
• It is a great tribute to Abraham that Paul records that with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God... and we should seek to achieve an equivalent faith that stands firm on the promises of God.Not one of us should stagger at the Lord's promises within His Word, for what God has said He will carry out to completion, for God cannot lie and will never change His mind, and the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
• He is faithful and trustworthy, and all His promises are 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus.
• What joy and gladness rejoices the heart and mind of the one whose faith does not waver in unbelief at the promises of God, for he will be strengthened in His faith and give glory to God.

• For fifteen long years, Abram waited for the birth of the son the Lord had promised, and one day the Lord appeared to him in a vision and told him to stop being afraid and gave him another, beautiful assurance, with the promise, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
• In an attempt to help God fulfil His promise of a son, Abram produced a child of the flesh through Hagar the Egyptian, but the Lord had much to teach His servant.
• First, we trust His Word and believe the truth of Scripture just as Abram did in his early life so that like him, we will be born anew at that point and credited with Christ's righteousness simply because we believe the promise of God, laid out in His Word.
• It was only by His grace through faith in His promised Word, that Abram was reckoned to be righteous and the same is true of all who believe that God's Word is true and His promises are sure.
• We finally read in Scripture that Abraham was not weak in faith; he staggered not at the promise: he was strong in faith; he was fully persuaded.

• From beginning to end, we read the unembellished history of God's rebellious, disloyal, and faithless people - and yet we read in this final verse that He did not forsake them forever, nor did He break His covenanted promises.

• Just before His crucifixion, Jesus had promised that He would ask the Father to send the Spirit of Truth as a pledge and guarantee that all His promises were true, that He would abide with them forever, and guide them into all truth.

• Both Rahab and every member of her family who believed the promise of salvation from God and joined her in her home with the crimson cord hanging from the window, were declared righteous in the eyes of God, and saved.
• All who are justified by faith in Christ's atoning work at Calvary are wonderfully saved, but justification is the first step towards a life that is lived by faith - day after day - a life that stands firm on the promises of God and refuses to be shaken by the circumstances that surround us, for to do so honours our God and Saviour.

• The promises of God are steadfast and sure, and they stand secure on the unchangeable and trustworthy character of God.
• How vital therefore that we pay heed to His Word, trust in His eternal promises, and not neglect our eternal salvation.

• The blessed promises of God that flood the pages of Scripture, stand securely on the unchangeable Word of God and perfect will of the Father.
• There are many examples of men and women of faith drawn from Scripture which encourage us to maintain an unshakable trust in God's Word and stimulate the firm conviction that God is faithful and His promises stand fast forever.
• God's promise to Abraham is equally pertinent for all God's children, for the faith of ALL who believe in God and the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, is credited to them as righteousness.
• It is His gracious assurance to those who are His own blood-bought children and heirs of the promise, and our blessed hope in Christ is the immovable mainstay of our soul.

• May we cleanse our hands, purify our hearts, and mourn over sin and the devastation it causes in our life, and may we praise and thank our glorious Saviour, Jesus Christ, Who died on the Cross to pay the enormous price for our sin, so that by faith in Him we might be eternally forgiven and receive the promise of life everlasting.

• David did not keep on and on questioning the Lord, but remembered God's promises of old and so he began to petition the Lord for deliverance: 'Consider me Lord and hear my cry for help.

• The day is coming when the Son of Man will return in heavenly glory to judge the Gentiles, to fulfil His promises to Abraham, to set-up Israel at the head of the nations, and to establish His millennial rule on earth.

• It is trusting that the Lord will honour His pledges and promises.
• In the previous verse, the Lord Himself promised, I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you, and all Christ's promises are 'YES' and 'AMEN' in Him.
• And the wonderful truth is that nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, and that His faithful to keep all His promises to us.

• The first three chapters of Ephesians remind us of our position in Christ and the many promises and privileges that are ours in Him, while the last three call us to live responsible lives worthy of our calling, to walk as children of the light, and to function in spirit and truth as beloved children of God and fully fledged member of the Body of Christ.
• Spiritual renewal is to be exercised in practical ways; by putting off the old and putting on the new, and the incredible position, promises, and privileges we have in Christ, should be sufficient motivation to live godly lives.

• It proclaims many mighty promises concerning the advent of the Messiah when God's kingdom of heaven-on-earth will be firmly established.
• What a comfort to know that despite their gross apostasy, the Lord remains faithful to the covenant promises He made to His people. 

• But Christian hope is founded on an altogether different principle which is rooted in God's trustworthy goodness and the gracious promises of our Heavenly Father.
• Christian hope is centred on the never-failing Word of God and His many precious promises, which are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, is the amazing promise we are given in this book.

• He invites us to cast all our cares upon Him because He cares for us and promises to be with us forever - even to the very end of the age.
• Faith in His precious promises is what God desires of us all, and we are warned that unless we trust His Word we can't please Him.
• These words of encouragement and comfort were spoken to Israel through the mouth of the prophet Isaiah: Fear not, was the command they were given, which was accompanied with the most glorious promise: Fear not - for I am with you.
• Whether the comforting words 'Fear Not' appear in the Bible 366 times or simply once, we should hearken to His Word and trust His promises for His Word is trustworthy and true.

• They touch on judgement and punishment, virtue and divine protection, sin and blessings, promises and warnings.
• This Psalm is no exception and covers many important biblical themes, promises, and truths.

• He believed that the Lord would keep His promise to make him into a great and blessed nation, and Abraham knew that to take the spoils of war from the pagan king of Sodom was dishonouring to the Lord his God.
• Would he stand firm on God's Word or be influenced by the empty promises of the evil king of Sodom?
• By faith, Abraham chose to forsake the temptations of Sodom for the promises of God, which he considered of greater value than the transitory riches this world offers. 
• When considering the choices Abraham was required to make between accepting God's permanent promises of eternal reward and great blessings through faith in the Person of Christ, and taking the temporal treats and passing perks of this fallen world system, we understand that the renouncing the things of this present life, and the suffering we may have to face, are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred upon us.

• This was the place where he built an altar to worship the Lord and this was the place where he purchased a cave, in which to bury Sarah his wife, after her death, This was the place that Abraham was buried and the place that Isaac, the son of promise was also laid to rest.
• But He is the same Lord, yesterday, today and forever, and like Abraham, we can trust His Word and we must obey His will, and by faith in Him, we also have found grace and favour in His sight, and have been given His promises that He will never fail us.

• His promises are altogether true, and His name is the LORD of hosts, for He is the Redeemer of His people, the Holy One of Israel, the God over all the earth.

• Believers are encouraged to stand fast and not to lose hope in the promise of our heavenly rewards.
• Oh, our eternal salvation is secure in Christ, for God will never renege on His promise that all who trust in Christ as Saviour will inherit eternal life as His free gift of grace, but we are also to walk worthy of Him in our Christian life, resulting in wonderful rewards.

• In chapter 36 of Ezekiel, the Lord made a beautiful promise to His chosen people, Israel.
• So broken was the nation and so sterile and lifeless were God's people, that His promise of restoration appeared to be impossible.
• In this passage, God's promise of national restoration and a return to the land is immediately followed with his vision of a valley of dry bones.

• What an incredible promise!

• Similarly, many parents are aware of the promise: Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

• Through poetry, prose, prophecy, and promises, the Word of God was gradually unveiled to the fallen sons of Adam, revealing God’s plan of redemption through the gradual unfolding of His Word of truth.

• He is our God Who will never renege on His promises nor will He default on His goodness and grace, for there is no trace of turning with Him.
• He is the immutable God Who is eternally unchanging, never altering in His character, never failing in His promises, and never ceasing in His goodness and love towards us: For every good gift and every perfect gift comes to us from our Heavenly Father of lights, in Whom there is no variation, and no shifting shadows, for as He proclaimed of old: I AM the Lord and I change not.

• It is a hope anchored on God's unchangeable promises and steadfast name, written by the Lord's dear disciple, Peter.

• When exercising faith through petition or intercession and by standing on the promises of God as undeniable certainties, we have that inner assurance that God hears and answers our prayer, for His ears are ever open to our cries for help and He responds to the faintest sigh of His elect people.

• Having been declared righteous by faith, we now have an additional promise that we will be delivered from any contact with the wrath of God, which the Bible tells us is still future for a Christ-rejecting sinful world, and it is all by faith in Him.

• Servants like Moses and Joshua, and prophets like David and Isaiah, called the nation to repent of their sin and live godly lives, with many promises of restoration and blessing on the one hand, and warnings of discipline if they refused, on the other.
• They were to hear His Word and take it to heart, for His promises will never fail.
• Those who heed His Word will discover that all His promises are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus.
• Every promise God made to His people and every word that is written in Scripture is true and will certainly come to pass at His appointed time, and in His appointed way: My Word, which goes forth from My mouth will not return to Me empty, is God's promise to the Church, as well as to His people Israel: The message, that proceeded from My mouth will not return to Me without being fulfilled. All that God has purposed will come to pass.
• His promises are not empty.
• God's Word to His people Israel is true and will never fail to succeed in fulfilling that for which it was sent, just as His promises to the Church will never be broken.
• But also His promise of wrath and judgement for the ungodly will also come to pass.

• He encourages us by letting us know that the Lord is not slow about fulfilling His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward fallen man, not wishing for anyone to perish but that all would come to repentance.
• Peter gives a wonderful description of that final part of the 'Day of the Lord', where the old creation passes away and is replaced by a new heaven and earth – for according to His promise we are to keep looking for new a heaven and a new earth – in which righteousness will dwell.

• But the Psalmist trusted the whole counsel of God and believed that His future promises of deliverance of His people was faithful and true, although he recognised that he may have to wait for its final fulfilment.
• He is still our Rock of defence and our Strong Tower in these troublesome times, and His precious promises to all His children continue to be 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• But time and again, they did what seemed right in their own eyes and so God withdrew His blessings and postponed His promises.

• Like Israel, we have a choice to live our entire Christian life in spiritual infancy; wandering in a wilderness, frightened of the 'giants in the land', living defeated and disobedient lives OR we can trust His Word, hold fast to His promises, and live a victorious life as we abide in Him, grow in grace, mature in the faith, fellowship with the Father and do not lose faith when challenged by life's circumstances.
• Once saved, Israel were not sent back to Egypt because of unbelief, but neither did they lead a victorious life in the land of promise or claim their rightful inheritance.
• Similarly, once justified, Christians do not lose their salvation, but lack of faith can keep us defeated and wandering in a wilderness of spiritual immaturity, rather than claiming the precious promises of God that are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ.

• When the Lord is given His rightful place in our lives, we have Christ's unshakable promise to be with us through all circumstances of life, so we should not fear.

• God does not promise to keep our lives free from difficulties and danger.
• These are truly heartening words that have helped to bring consolation and comfort to generations of believers young and old, who have clung to this precious promise as a spiritual lifeline.
• God's promises to Israel and those to the Church stand fast for ever and ever.

• And through their faithful witness, we who were alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world, might be brought near by the blood of Christ, to the praise and glory of God.

• But it was only when he sought God in His holy sanctuary and began to reflect on the unchangeable nature of his faithful God, that Asaph started to understand that his question was founded on his own flawed understanding during a fleeting snap-shot of time, and not secured to the unshakable promises of God that stand fast for ever and ever.

• This is a glorious statement of fact and a profound promise that keeps our souls eternally secure in the God of our salvation.
• The unchangeable nature of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, is an all-embracing assurance that His Word is faithful, and His promises are true, His saving grace is free to all who trust in Him for salvation, and none of the many precious promises contained in the Word of God can ever fail.

• We are to live by trusting God's Word and believing His promises, not because of what we see or what we feel, and there is a special promise for those who have not seen the risen, ascended, glorified Lord Jesus but have believed on Him.

• We are to believe His promises and hold fast to the Word of truth.Just as fretting should be overtaken by trust when God is the focus of our attention, so faith expands into joy when we delight ourselves in the Lord and make Him the singular joy and rejoicing of our heart. Delight yourself in the Lord, we are told.

• The truths that are packed into these early verses of the epistle to the Ephesians should rejoice our heart, steady our soul, dispel our doubts, and strengthen our faith, and we should thank Him continuously for our great salvation and the many precious promises that are ours in Christ.

• BUT God had to fulfil His promises to the patriarchs, which is why much of Christ's early teaching was only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• They were quick to boast of their adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises of a Messiah, but refused to recognise their broken covenant, rebellious behaviour, gross apostasy, and offensive idolatry.

• But we have also been supplied with many precious promises which reassure us that His grace is sufficient, His strength is perfected in our weakness, that suffering for Christ's sake is a privilege for the child of God, and that no amount of trials, tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or the sword, is able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.May we grasp this truth in His strength, and remember that in this world we will have tribulation… but that if we fellowship in the suffering of Christ, we will also be glorified with Him Who loved us so much that He died for us, that we might live for Him – forever.

• To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises; and holy men of Israel penned the Scriptures for our learning.
• But for the little remnant of Israel who trust in the Lord and hold fast to the many Messianic promises, the words of Zephaniah should be an encouragement, for despite all the wickedness and evil that is manufactured by sinful men, and the fires of God's wrath that will come upon the whole earth, he writes that God will one day remove His hand of judgement from His chosen nation, and as King of Israel, will live among His people, calm them in His love, and rejoice over them with singing.

• The Lord had just confirmed His promise to Abraham, that Sarah would shortly bear a son through Whom all the families of the earth would be blessed.

• How important to have a believing heart that trusts God to keep His promises and expects Him to answer our prayers of faith - especially when we are going through difficulties and problems.
• May we develop a trusting heart of thanksgiving and praise that believes God's Word and prays in faith - expecting Him to keep His promises and fulfil his Word.

• It was Israel who alone received God's adoption, His covenants, His Law, His promises, and His prophesied Messiah.

• If only believers would stop fretting about all the difficulties and evils in life and truly delight themselves in the Lord, by trusting His Word, resting in His promises, and committing everything into His hands, He could carry out His perfect will in each of our lives.

• His love will never fail, His promises are everlasting, and His truth will endure throughout all generations.Let us beware - for the passing cravings of this life can subtly allure us away from God’s permanent path of purity and His secure way of wisdom.

• All Scripture has been written for our learning, but the New Testament epistles give specific guidance and instruction on living the Christian life in this Church dispensation.God has given us all we need for life and godliness, and we have been given the holy Scriptures which provide clear teaching on how to walk in spirit and truth and why we should abide in Christ and He in us.We have the indwelling Holy Spirit to lead us in the way we should go, Who has promised to lead and guide in all things... and we have Christ's assurance that His grace is sufficient for every eventuality we may face – for when we are weak in our own abilities, we have His precious promise that His strength will enable us to stand fast in the evil day.The instructions earlier in the epistle of James, cover a wide range of topics that enable the believer to live a life that is honouring to the Lord.

• What a wonderful promise was given to that prideful and rebellious nation: that the Lord would not abandon His people, despite their repeated grievous sins against Himself.
• The reason God stayed true to His promise to make Israel His own possession, was that to break it would dishonour His holy name.
• That precious promise made to Israel is equally effective today, and that same glorious truth of God's faithfulness to His people can similarly be applied to the New Testament Church of today.
• The many precious promises, spiritual gifts, and eternal glories that God has prepared in heaven for those that love Him can never be broken, for to do so would discredit His righteous name and contradict His eternal character.
• Let us never forget that though we may prove faithless yet He will remain faithful to His many precious promises.

• This promise of rest that Jesus offers is a rest that He freely gives to all who will come to Him for salvation.

• He also expeditiously reminded us that there are many precious promises that God has given to His people that will come to pass in the end times.

• This is the promise of God to all who trust in Christ for salvation both during the Church Age and during the Great Tribulation.

• But who is the one who says, It is done... I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.? Who promises to give the living water of life to everyone who thirsts?

• The Lord will chasten them for a brief time, BUT He will never go back on His promises to Israel.
• And how we rejoice that His promises to the Church are equally true and altogether righteous - for they are all yes and amen through Christ Jesus our Lord.

• To them was given the Law, the Temple service, and His precious promises.

• But amidst the string of Malachi's prophetic judgements was a promise that God would send His messenger to prepare the way of the Lord, and that He would suddenly come to His Temple.

• What a precious promise for all God's children.

• No matter what life's circumstances throw at us and however difficult our problems may be, we have His great assurance and promise that He will be with us throughout life's journey, that He is coming soon, and that He is anticipating His return as eagerly as we look forward to His soon arrival.

• He will restore Israel's hope in God's promises and reignite faith in their Messiah.

• Haggai challenged God's people to re-examine their priorities and practice, and to re-establish God back into the centre of their lives and to trust Him to faithfully to keep His promises.
• But God's promise of restoration and renewal stands as fast today as it did when Haggai prophesied of a great shaking, and the writer to the Hebrews warns us that everything that can be shaken will be shaken, such that only the things of God will remain unshaken and unshakable.

• However, it continues with a reminder of God's never-failing faithfulness to His people and uses Abraham to illustrate this truth for we read: When God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself.
• The God of glory made a number of promises to His servant, Abraham.
• The first was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, when the Lord gave him a seven-fold promise: Go forth from your country, and from your relatives.
• Promises were made when Abraham set out from Haran by faith to go to the Promised Land, and again, by the oaks of Mamre, when the birth of Isaac was reaffirmed.
• But it was not until Abraham obeyed God's command: Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you, that God swore this oath to keep His promise.
• It was at this critical time in Abraham's life, that God gave His greatest promise to His obedient servant: And when He made this promise, since He could swear by no one greater, God swore by Himself.
• And the promise God made relates to Person, Work, Ministry, and Office of CHRIST JESUS our Lord and His sacrificial death on the Cross and glorious Resurrection; a promise that is pertinent to ALL who believe on Him.
• This staggering promise that has reverberated down the corridors of history, was confirmed with an oath.
• God's promise to Abraham includes ALL who believe in the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting.

• And we have all been given that same wonderful promise.

• The truth of the good news of the Lord Jesus Christ and the many precious promises that surround the beauty of His Person can only be described as the sweetest and most beautiful truths known to mankind.

• The promises made to Eve and Abraham about their Seed, the covenant God made with His people Israel through Moses, the promise that a Man would sit on the throne of David eternally, and the numerous prophecies that foretold of the coming Messiah, were all to be accomplished.

• Faith in God's promises fuels our courage, while courage is the result of trusting God's Word.

• It was to Israel that the Messiah was sent, and it was to Israel that the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the temple service, and the promises belonged.

• Abraham had many sons and daughters, but it was through Isaac (the son of promise) that Jesus, (the promised SEED) would be born - for Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob's sons became Israel, the great nation under God through whom the promised SEED was to be born.
• I will bless those who bless you, Abram was told and the one who curses you I will curse. And down through the centuries, this promise to Abram - the pagan from Ur who trusted God and became Abraham, the father of many nations, has been carried out.

• God, in His grace, not only removes the sin-barrier that estranges man from his Creator God, but He desires His people to rest in His love and to know His own precious peace deep within our hearts so that we may enjoy sweet fellowship with Him.The Lord has blessed us with every spiritual blessing, and all His promises to us are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Jesus Christ our Lord.

• And 2000 years ago, God fulfilled his promise to raise up a Horn of salvation for us in the house of David, His servant.

• He was to execute God's many promises of a kingdom on earth and to fulfil the many prophecies that spoke of peace and prosperity for God's chosen nation.
• All the promises of God were given to Israel and were to be completed through Israel.

• Indeed, the day would come when God's chosen people, Israel, who continuously broke their covenant promises to the Lord, would be scattered by the cruel assault of the Assyrians, in the valley of Jezreel.
• Despite its shocking storyline and display of human misery, the grace Hosea showed to his adulterous wife serves as a tiny reminder of the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of God's love towards us and His never-failing faithfulness towards His people; for the day is coming when every promise to Israel, the Church, and all who have trusted Christ as Saviour, will be completed, and Jesus will reign on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords.

• And so these men and women could proclaim with certainty that God's promises to His people stand fast forever and ever.

• God loves to bless His people and has given many precious promises of protection and peace over all who are His, and yet He felt it necessary to command Aaron, and his spiritual descendants, to petition Him for blessings on behalf of His people, which make us realise that prayers for God's blessing on others must be very important to the Lord.
• Each promise is a blessing, and each pronounced blessing is a gracious gift from the Lord.
• It is through the unity of the Trinity that we are presented with the many precious promises of our salvation, our sanctification, our glorification, and an eternal heritage that is kept for us in heaven. It is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, together as One Who illuminates our hearts and leads us in the way of righteousness and peace.

• When we promise to do something for someone or if we pledge to fulfil some deed, too often we fall short of our commitment or fail to complete the promised pledge.
• But the promises of God are altogether true for those in Christ, and God guarantees that His vows to us are all 'yes' and 'amen' just as they were to His servants in bygone days.
• God made certain unconditional promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and He also made a conditional covenant with His chosen nation, Israel.
• Despite his many flaws and shortcomings, David was a man after God's own heart because he believed God's Word and trusted His promises.
• God revealed to Nathan an amazing, unconditional promise that He purposed in His heart to give to His servant, David.
• Part of His promise to David, was that God would also appoint a place for His people Israel to live: I will plant them in their land, so that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again - nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly.
• Although Israel and Judah became captives of Assyria and Babylon, and were later scattered to the four corners of the world, God's promise to David still stands.

• It is encouraging to read through the privileges and promises that are ours in Christ Jesus in the first three chapters of Ephesians, and know God is able to do abundantly above all we ask or think.

• The precious promises and many assurances of His never-failing presence would not fail for His Word is true, but they were to exhibit FAITH in His Word.

• We may not know the time that the God the Father will send God the Son to rescue the Body of Christ (the Church) from the wrath that is to come, but we have His promise that we are not appointed to wrath, but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• They were warned, however, that should they be disobedient to Him and break their promise, they would face God's chastening hand and would suffer the consequences of their foolish rebellion - which would result in curses and death.
• They were saved by God's grace, but sadly disbelieved His promises and did not maintain fellowship with Him.

• They failed to trust His promises, and they refused to obey His Word.
• Israel's idolatry worsened as the centuries passed and they spurned their gracious God and despised His precious promises.

• He does not make any promises that will be broken, and the super-abundance of His generosity covers all things.
• But as much as we rejoice that all good things come from God and delight to quote this verse as an encouragement to one another and as a testimony to God's gracious provision, it is important to read this verse in its correct context and discover why Paul gave this great promise of abundant supply to his readers.

• In his heart and mind, David is convinced that he has walked righteously before the Lord and is claiming God's promise to come to his defence when opposed by evil.
• Like David, we too have God's same promise that He will also fight for us when we are surrounded by ungodly accusers.
• Let us remember that God's loving faithfulness and sovereign power is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and let us seek to depend on Him and trust His promises, no matter what we have to face in this life.
• Let us trust in His unfailing promises, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks, knowing that through the difficulties we face, our faith in Him will be increased and strengthened, and His holy name will be honoured.

• He was born through Isaac, his son of promise and Israel, God's chosen people.

• God's promise to protect the little nation of Israel and fulfil His promises to Abraham and David, will never fail.

• Simeon had been given a promise from God that he would not die until he had seen the One for whom all Israel was waiting; the Seed of the woman, the Messiah of Israel, the Servant of God, the Saviour of the whole world.

• He trusted God to keep His promises.
• He maintains his conviction that God's Word is sure and has the assurance that God's promise of things to come would assuredly take place, when he cries out: Behold, God IS my Helper.
• However, it is not easy to be encompassed about by difficulties and dangers and still to stand firm on the promises of God.
• Let us set our heart to trust in the Lord no matter what problems arise and stand firm on His promises.

• We are also exhorted to rejoice with exceeding great joy, for the position, privileges, and promises that are ours in Christ, but Paul is equally keen that we never forget the depths of depravity and sin from which we have been rescued.
• We discover our position, individually and corporately, and rejoice to hear of the multiplied privileges and precious promises from God, which are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• The letter to the Church at Thyatira followed a similar pattern to most of the other churches, commendation of any good work, followed by the condemnation of any ungodly customs they had embraced, before exhorting the whole church towards improving their ways with a promise of reward for those that have ears to hear Christ's urgent call, and listen to all that the Spirit is saying to the churches. 
• A promise was given to the faithful little remnant in Thyatira, who listened to His voice, obeyed His instruction, and held on to what they had: To the one who overcomes, I will give His power over the nations.
• That promise is still open today to all the faithful of God who hold on to what we have, until Christ's returns for His Church, when He comes in the clouds and takes us to be with Himself, forever.

• But he also needed to place his trust in the Lord's promises and not in his own merit and abilities.

• Israel had failed to heed the past prophetic warnings of earlier prophets, and Joel's appeal for repentance and his warning of coming destruction, is one more demonstration of the nation's continued rebellion against the God of their forefathers, and their refusal to heed His Word and obey the covenant promises they made at Mount Sinai.

• He was a man who feared his God and held fast to His precious promises.

• The promises of the Lord are 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesu,- and the Words of the Lord will never ever fail.

• It is in consideration of all that Peter has told us of the divine power and promises of God, together with shocking events that are soon to take place on earth, that believers are exhorted: Therefore, beloved brethren, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace - spotless and blameless.

• Evil unbelief stopped them from living a triumphant life in a land of promise, where every enemy would be routed by the power of God.

• We are instructed to submit to God, with a promise that when we resist the devil, he will flee from us.
• He encourages us to love mercy and presents us in this verse with a beautiful, conditional promise: Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

• Secondly, we have been given the indwelling Holy Spirit of promise in our heart, as a pledge and guarantee of God's everlasting faithfulness to His promises.
• We read in John's epistle that having believed in Christ for salvation, we were sealed in Him by the Holy Spirit of promise and that seal of God can never be broken, for the Word of God is true and stands fast forever.
• But God not only sealed us, but gave us an actual pledge to validate His unbreakable Word: He sent the Holy Spirit of promise into our hearts as a stamp of His identification with us, to ratify (or to endorse) His seal of ownership on our lives.
• God gave the Spirit of promise into our heart as a down payment or as an insurance policy to underscore the indestructible substance of His Word.
• Eye has not seen and ear has not heard the wonders that God has prepared for His purchased possession who have not only been sealed by Him, but also have the indwelling Holy Spirit of promise in their heart as a pledge and guarantee.

• Truly blessed are His people Israel and His Body, which is the Church, for He loved the world so much that He sent His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but become inheritors of His coming kingdom and be given life everlasting – and ALL His promises, both to Israel and to the Church are 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Through His ONE act of obedience, He justifies all who believe, clothes us in His righteousness, returns us into sweet fellowship with Himself, removes us from the kingdom of Satan and places us into the kingdom of His dear Son, makes us His children, provides access into the throne-room of God, promises us an eternal inheritance, and bestows on us the privilege of reigning with Him not only in this life but in the Millennial Kingdom and the ages to come.

• Give and it will be given to you, is a promise from Jesus which holds true today, and the giving of a tithe is a freewill choice for all believers.

• Amidst the pronounced judgement and the proclaimed sentence, we discover a profound promise.

• And while the whole of Scripture is God's Word which can never be broken, this final book of the Bible is special, for it not only promises its readers a blessing in chapter 1, but in this final section it also gives some serious warnings: I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.
• While the promise of blessing in chapter 1 is a wonderful encouragement to believers, the warnings in this final chapter of Revelation should be chilling to anyone, both believers and unbelievers who tampers with God's Word or distort its meaning.

• Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God and He appeared on earth as the fulfilment of God's gracious promise to a lost world of fallen sinners.

• The glorious hope we have in Him is for bond and free, male and female, old and young, rich and poor.There is no one excluded from this glorious promise which already is 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ, according to His riches in mercy... and it encompasses plenteous redemption and abundance of life in the eternal ages to come.
• It is God, Himself, that has promised to fill us to the brim with a great abundance of spiritual blessings – for the joy of the Lord is our strength, the peace of God is our shield and buckler, and the fellowship of the saints is our precious portion, as our hope overflows in and through Him.All His promises, whether past, present, or future, are secured in His unchanging character and unchangeable Word, for He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• Not only do we have an assurance of the eternal, heavenly glory that is to come – but His promises include this present age, which means that our entire life is secure in His keeping.We are safe in the arms of Jesus and nothing can separate us from our glorious God of Hope – neither the various trials of this present life nor the bitter circumstance we all have to face.

• It was on the day of Pentecost that Christ's amazing promise was fulfilled: John baptised with water, Jesus told them, but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit, not many days from now.
• It was only ten days later, that Christ's promise was fulfilled.
• His faithful followers, who obeyed His instruction to wait in Jerusalem for the Promise of the Father were gloriously baptised by the Spirit of God into the Body of Christ, which is the Church.
• The promise that they would be baptised by the Holy Spirit had first been mentioned by John the Baptist.

• Because the desire of their hearts was not towards the Lord and His honour, they walked away from their covenant promise to Him and never came to an understanding of Who He was and What He was doing.

• Although fallen, fleshly, sinful bodies could never enter the heavenly realm, it was through His glorious Resurrection that BY FAITH, we became identified with His clean, pure, immortal, imperishable, resurrected body with the certain promise that we too would receive a pure, immortal, imperishable, resurrected body, like unto His glorious body - a body of flesh and bone which would be animated by the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

• How important to trust the faithfulness of our Heavenly Father Whose promises toward His nation of Israel will one day be finally and forever fulfilled and His promises toward His Church will never fail, for are all 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

• They walked away from the land of promise and were unable to live and worship as the Law commanded.

• To the one who overcomes, and keeps My deeds until the end, I will give authority over the nations, was the precious promise that the Lord Jesus gave to that faithful little flock, in the church at Thyatira.

• But a wonderful promise is added to this truth: And I will raise him up on the last day.

• It was not part of an unbreakable pledge or promise, but was to be birthed from a heart of thanksgiving.
• Despite the inevitable price that had to be paid, Abraham assured his two young servants that he and Isaac would go alone to offer the burnt offering to the Lord and both would return after worshipping God, for Abraham trusted the Lord to fulfil the promise He made so many years before: I will make of you a great nation and through Isaac your offspring will be born.

• However, God remembered the promise He made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; that He would give them the land of Canaan and make them into a great nation through whom all the families of the earth would be blessed.
• It was made clear to Joshua that the unconditional promises given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the conditional covenant Israel made with the Lord, would continue, unbroken, through the generations.
• Having wandered in the wilderness for forty years and seen an entire generation buried in the desert, God was about to forward His promise through Joshua.
• This was designed to strengthen their faith in God, Who would fulfil His promise by bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey and giving them victory over their enemies.

• God chose His people, Israel, for a specific purpose, and although they broke their promises following their miraculous escape from Egypt, the Lord will not go back on any of the promises He made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or David.
• Both the unconditional promises concerning the land with an eternal kingdom whose Builder and Maker is God, and the one conditional covenant God made with His people through Moses, will be fulfilled, for God is immutable; He cannot and will not change His holy character.
• God's unchangeable promise to chasten His people for their disobedience, had to take place for God to maintain His holy character and fulfil His immutable Word.
• Following God's promise of punishment and pain for disobedience, came His promises of restoration, renewal, and reward: For behold, in those days and at that time, we read in Joel, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them on behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and they have divided up My land.

• The Lord had entered into a conditional covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai, but the people broke their promises and Micah appears as a prosecuting attorney who presents the evidence of Israel's broken covenant and shocking apostasy.
• Despite the punishment for their sin, Micah records that Israel is also given a promise of blessing.

• Heaven was hushed, and time stood still as the only begotten Son of God, as the perfect Son of Man, paid the price for the sin of the world.Gracious forgiveness had been extended to whosoever would trust in His saving sacrifice, and a precious promise of paradise had been given to a lost sinner.
• His forgiveness was extended to us and a heavenly home is now our own precious promise of paradise.

• They forgot His promise to protect them from their enemies, send rains in its season, provide plenteous crops, cover the trees with fruit, and grant peace in the land - IF they kept His sabbaths - IF they reverenced His Sanctuary. Because of their neglect they reaped scarcity, drought, and hunger.
• Many of God's promises to us are unconditional, but we should remember that there are certain promises that have a condition - IF! 

• God has given us the indwelling Holy Spirit as a pledge and guarantee that His promises are sure.

• Christ had come with the promise of salvation and the gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit of God for all who would believe on His name.

• We have a blessed hope in Christ and a promise of eternal reward and our eyes should be fixed on Jesus.
• We have many precious promises that are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ, and He has promised to come back to take us to be with Himself forever, and James exhorts each one of us: Be patient until the coming of the Lord.

• When this dear man of God reflected on the depths to which his nation had sunk, due to their rebellious apostasy against the Lord and the spiritual bankruptcy that had ensued, he confessed his sin and the transgressions of the nation and pleaded with the Lord to forgive their sins and fulfil the promises He made to their forefather Abraham and his seed, forever.
• It was following his repentant prayer and urgent request for God to fulfil His promises to Israel and to do mighty things within the nation, that God took Nehemiah and used him in a wonderful way to oversee the rebuilding of the walls of the holy city of Jerusalem.
• He reminded God of His promises that had been given to Israel and of the everlasting faithfulness of the Lord towards His people.

• It was told to the people of Israel by Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon (who is remembered as the judge who laid out a fleece before God as a reassurance from God that His promise of Israel's victory over the Midianites and His pledge to be with them, was true).

• There is no one that can harm us and nothing that can separate the born-again child of God from the eternal promises that are ours in Christ Jesus our Saviour: 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 can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• There may be times when we fail to abide in Christ and wander far from the Lord... but even when we are faithless He remains faithful, for He cannot deny His promises to us - He cannot deny His Word.

• He would become the Lord of our 'new-life-in-Christ' that promises eternal life and life more abundantly.

• Christ had already offered a powerful prayer of pardon for His murderers, and a precious promise of assurance to the repentant, dying thief.

• But immediately, his simple faith was rewarded with a promise of paradise in the company of the Redeemer Himself.Though salvation is conditional on the repentant sinner turning to Christ, this beautiful passage gives assurance that it is never too late to look to the Lord Jesus and live.

• It was to remind them of their promises to God.

• May we never allow the joy of our great salvation, our identification with Christ, and the astonishing privileges, position, and promises we possess through faith in Him, to become commonplace in life.

• His renewed love and blessing for His people and the reaffirmation of His vows and promises to His holy, covenant nation is beautifully exemplified through the restoration of Hosea's own marriage.
• God has not finished with Israel and both the Abrahamic covenant and God's promises to David will not fail.

• And so, just prior to his fast approaching death on the top of Mount Nebo, Moses urgently reminded God's covenant people of the important promises they had made to the Lord, nearly 40 years earlier.

• And the promise that Israel received through Joel was: Afterward, I will pour out My spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.
• The physical deliverance and spiritual renewal for Israel that is found in the little book of Joel, and the wonderful promises that God made to His people, will come into full effect at the end of the Tribulation; that future time of Jacob's trouble.

• He warns that arrogant mockers, immersed in their own lustful leanings and godless philosophies, will be the eloquent voice of fearless yet foolish men and women who blaspheme the God Who made them, disregard the rule of law, scorn the promise of Christ's return, ignore His impending judgement, and advocate lawlessness, lack of restraint, and blatant criminality.

• May we never forget the many precious promises that are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ - and may we never forget all that God has done for us and honour Him through our humble obedience.

• The children of Israel had the Law, the prophets, the promises of God, and the certainty of a coming Messiah Who would save them from their sin.
• They had run into the arms of God's enemies and sought sustenance from them, instead of standing on the Rock of their salvation, trusting in His bottomless provision, drinking from the still pools that freely flowed from His never-failing promises, or hiding in the secure shelter of His love - which is under the shadow of His protective wings.
• And we, who have been saved by grace through faith in this Church dispensation, have received equally precious and unfailing promises - which are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Saviour.

• It announces the wonders of the millennial rule of Christ on earth, the promise of a new and better covenant.
• The precious promises that will one day be poured out on the righteous make it very clear that God has not finished with His chosen people.
• The description of Israel and her place in the coming Millennial Kingdom of Christ, as promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, together with the promise of the eternal ages to come, will be realised in their lives and is spelled out in graphic detail in this passage.

• They were the one nation with whom God made a covenant, and He gave them many precious promises of protection, provision, preservation, and prominence among the Gentile nations.
• While this promise was given to Moses and Israel, He has given us equally precious promises which are ours through Christ Jesus, our Lord.
• May we rejoice in His many precious promises to us, which are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ, and may we truly value the intimate and privileged relationship we can enjoy with our God and Father in heaven.

• We received justification when we were born again and we have the promise of resurrection, rapture, and a glorified body in the days to come... and we have God's assurance that we have salvation from the wrath to come.

• The covenant was conditional and contained promises of blessings for faithfulness and a devotion to God, but gave warning of cursing for lack of faithfulness, neglect of God, and unbelief in His Word.
• And as with other prophetic books, we discover that the promises God made to Israel through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David will never fail, giving hope that despite their widespread apostasy, there is a remnant of Israel that will one day receive all that God has promised for He is the Lord Who changes not and Whose promises stand fast for ever and ever.
• He is a patient God Who is long-suffering and of great goodness; an immutable God Who is unchanging and unchangeable; a God Who will never go back on His Word, either the earthly promises which He gave to nation of Israel or the many precious promises which by grace through faith in Christ, He has given to the Church, which is His Body.

• While many regard this proverb as a precious promise, others consider it a severe warning, but all would be wise to recognise the godly principle on which this word of wisdom is founded.
• So does this verse exclude those children from God's promise of forgiveness?

• But God had made a promise to their forefather Abraham: Know this for certain; your offspring will be foreigners in a land that does not belong to them.
• God was true to His promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel, and they were rescued from slavery, redeemed by the blood of the lamb on that first Passover night.

• The promise that the Lord made to David is wonderful, and will be fulfilled at Christ's return to earth to set up His kingdom - but the many precious promises that He has given to you and to me are no less wonderful.

• Daniel realised that the time was fast approaching when God's promise to the children of Israel recorded in Jeremiah, to free them from their 70-year captivity in Babylon and to return them to their homeland in Israel, was fast approaching.

• There were times when Abraham was faithful in his walk of faith and other times when he was disobedient, but God's promise to this man was unconditional.
• And so the day came when God again spoke to His servant and told him to lift up his eyes and look to the north, the south, the east, and the west, and God promised to give all of that land to Abraham's descendants through Issac, the son of promise who had yet to be born.
• What an incredible promise: All the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever.
• Abraham is called 'the father of faith' and God's promises were given to him.
• And Isaac, Israel, and all Abraham's earthly descendants who would place their trust in God would inherit the promises given to Abraham.
• While believing Israel are Abraham's physical descendants who will inherit all the earthly promises given to their forefathers, the Church are Abraham's spiritual descendants; for we are IN Christ, born of the Spirit of God, and we have also been given many precious promises, including a heavenly inheritance.
• God's promises to us are not just for our physical needs, but also for our spiritual needs.
• He promises to be with us, to guide us, to comfort us, and to provide for us.
• Let us take heart from this passage and trust that God will be faithful to His promises.

• There are many precious promises that become ours, the moment we trust in Christ as the sacrifice for our sin.
• Christians are declared righteous by faith in Christ and once we are saved, there is nothing that can remove us from our redeemed status - nothing that can cancel God's glorious promises to us.

• What an encouraging promise Moses gave to Joshua and all Israel.
• And this is a promise from the Lord, which is equally true for Christians in today's Church dispensation, as it was for the nation of Israel during the dispensation of Law.
• Promises of blessing for obedience and warnings of curses for disobedience had nothing to do with salvation, but had everything to do with victory and future rewards - or suffering defeat and the loss of rewards. Like Israel, we have been promised rewards or loss.
• In this verse, at the end of his life, Moses was reiterating the promise that the LORD gave to His people - that He is the One Who would be with them and go before them.
• Israel failed to keep their covenant promises throughout their entire history, but the promise the Lord gave to Israel is as true today as it was when His people prepared to cross the Jordan into the promised land.
• His promise is still true today, and although they will one day face the curse of the Great Tribulation, God will finish the work He started in His people, Israel, that first Passover Day.
• We also have innumerable promises that God will lead us and prepare the way that we take.

• Paul is not naming and claiming economic prosperity, a powerful position, or a good job, but an inner spiritual vigour that steadies and secures the believer in the truth of God's Word and secures and strengthens an unshakable trust in His precepts and promises.

• Prior to His death, the Lord Jesus had explained a little about this promise.
• And so for ten days, the followers of Christ had been waiting in anticipation to be baptised with the Holy Spirit as Christ had said, and we discover that 120 obeyed the Word of the Lord, as they prayerfully waited in Jerusalem for the promise from the Father when they would be: Baptised with the Holy Spirit, as Christ had earlier explained.
• These 120 obedient disciples were in the right place at the right time, and so they were the ones who would receive the promise from the Father on that day.

• The promise of God is that everyone that is justified will unquestionably be glorified, when the Lord Jesus comes in the clouds to receive His Body and Bride unto Himself and take all believers home to His Father's mansions in heaven.

• He tells us, Ask (and keep on asking) and it will be given to you; seek (and keep searching with the promise that) you will find; knock, (and keep on knocking) and the door will be opened to you.

• And according to His promise, we are to look for a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
• They reject God's gracious gift of salvation through faith in Christ, and they pour scorn on the Christian's hope in Christ’s return and the coming judgement of God on His fallen creation: What happened to the Messiah's promise to return?

• Throughout the Scriptures, we discover that faith in the Word of God and trusting Him to fulfil His promises, is dear to the heart of the Lord.

• This passage delved into great detail about the Church age, the dispensation of the grace of God, and the precious mystery that had been hidden for ages and generations but had now been revealed to him: that Gentiles should be brought into God's family and be made fellow heirs with Christ; that Jew and Gentile alike might become part of the same Body and be made partakers of God's promise in Christ through believing the glorious gospel of God.

• Each one is identified as a person of faith who endured the problems they faced by means of their faith. They conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were tortured, mocked, scourged, chained, and imprisoned. 
• The promise was to come at God's appointed time and His appointed way.
• The promise to which they looked, was the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah of God.
• His faithfulness lasts from one generation to another and His promises are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord, both for this cloud of faithful witnesses and for every member of the Body of Christ, the Church. 
• Just as we were dependent on them to bring forth the Saviour, so they are dependent on the Church for the fulfilment of their promises. 

• The Lord Jesus used the feeding of the 5000, in John chapter 6, to teach the powerful truth about God's plan of salvation for mankind, to clarify His heavenly origin and Messianic claim, to correct some flawed beliefs that had developed in Israel, and to announce some very precious promises for all who would believe in Him.

• This is the promise of God to those who believe - and His Word stands fast forever and ever.

• When we trust His Word and hold fast to His precious promises, God in His grace is prepared to replace our personal despair and deep discouragements with a bright hope of glory and an inner joy that surpasses understanding.

• They were not to depart from Jerusalem or return to Galilee, but were to wait in the holy city for the promise from the Father, because Jesus told them that they were to be baptised with the Holy Spirit in a few days.

• God’s Word is true and His promises are sure, so let us go into the presence of God with a sincere heart that is fully trusting Him.

• Just as Church-age believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise at the time of our salvation and are God's 'purchased possession' who are to do His will, so also this group of Jewish Tribulation believers are to be sealed in order to be used by Him during this time of trouble. 
• Today, Christians are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise and proclaim the gospel of the grace of God to every creature: For we are saved by grace through faith in Christ. In the Tribulation, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists will preach the gospel of the kingdom throughout the world, proclaiming the imminent arrival of the King of kings - and a multitude without number will be saved.

• Indeed, we discover in the verses that follow, a promise that warms the heart of all who trust in the Lord and have been saved by grace through faith.
• God's promise to Paul and to ALL His children is, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness..
• and this is a promise that is as relevant today as it was on that day when Paul first heard these gracious words.
• What a glorious promise of God to each one of us.
• What a joy to know that this promise is 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• The bloody sacrifice that Abel offered to the Lord to cover his own sins when he killed the firstling of his flock, was acceptable to God, for Able was a man of faith who trusted God’s promise of a coming Saviour... by sacrificing a lamb on an altar as a covering for his sin.But the sacrifice of Christ is infinitely superior to that of Abel, for Jesus offered His own blood which paid the price for the sin of the whole world, including your sins and mine.

• Other 'non-experiential' work includes the baptism of the Spirit when we are placed once and forever into the Body of Christ and His sealing work where we are confirmed as God's children and indwelt by the Spirit, which is a down-payment of God's promise of redemption.

• Daniel knew the Scriptures and trusted God's promises, and so he started to pray that the will of God would be fulfilled as prophesied in the Word of God.
• And so Daniel humbled himself, fasted, confessed his sin and the sin of his nation, and Daniel prayed into the promises of God.
• Not only did Daniel's prayer include confession of sin and rest securely on the promises, precepts, and prophecies of God, but it also was founded on a profound understanding and total acceptance of the perfect character and holy attributes of God.

• The shed blood of Christ as the redemptive price for the forgiveness of sin and His glorious Resurrection from the dead with its promise of eternal life and our blessed hope in Christ's soon return, is our glorious hope and our sufficient strength, for it is the power of GOD and the wisdom of GOD.

• What a precious promise that our guarantee is the Holy Spirit.

• He is still the eternal Creator of heaven and earth Whose promises stand fast for ever and ever.

• We are to know His Word, obey His commands, trust His promises, and remember all He has taught us over the years, so we will not be deceived with doubt or moved by circumstances.

• He started a good work in each of our lives when we trusted Him as Saviour and He has returned to heaven to prepare a place for us with a promise to award us a heavenly prize – an eternal inheritance that is being kept for us in heaven.

• But how easy it is when we are beset by difficulties and dangers to forget the precious promises that are ours in Christ Jesus, yet how important it is to appropriate ALL that is ours in Him.

• Comfort escorts those crushed by suffering and sorrow, as the promises of God's messianic kingdom begin to be proclaimed.
• Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh, and Sennacherib, are reminders to Israel of their rebelliousness toward God, and serve as reminders to nurture humility of heart, as the graciousness of God is beautifully revealed through His promise of redemption, causing His people to offer praise and thanksgiving for the mighty miracles He has performed towards them.

• It is a catalogue of men and women, named and unnamed, that stand as witnesses to lives that honoured the Lord – men like Abraham who looked for a city whose Builder and Maker is God; women like Sarah who considered God was faithful to keep His promise.

• God told them that He would drive out all the pagan nations before them, if they would trust His promise and obey His instructions, but Israel persisted in their sinful disobedience.

• She informed them of the kingdom's defence strategies, planned their escape, and believed their promise to protect herself and her family if she agreed to their terms and did not expose their plans to the authorities; thus putting her heart faith in tangible action. 
• And THEN she tied the scarlet cord in the window, to remind her that God's promised salvation was true, and He never disappoints for His promises are 'YES' and 'AMEN'.
• But God knows that the testing of our faith produces endurance, and patient endurance in God's promises brings its treasured rewards.

• There are those that would argue that this Scripture, which calls every man to bear his own burden, conflicts with an earlier verse that exhorts us to bear one another's burdens, and that it contradicts Peter's admonishment to cast all your burdens on Him, for He cares for you, or the Psalmist's promise that if we cast our cares on the Lord, He will sustain us, because He will never let the righteous fall, nor allow us to be shaken.
• But each promise of God and every Word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord is true and honest - and instead of contradiction, contrast, and confusion, we see complementary Scriptures that harmonise beautifully with one another - and which draw us closer to the God of grace Who loves His children with an everlasting love.

• He confirms that His ministry is according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, by faith... before addressing Timothy as, my dearly beloved son.

• And it was as the nation once again rejoiced with joy in remembrance of God's promise that He is the Rock of their salvation from Whom flows the water of life, that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy One of Israel about Whom they were singing, stood up and cried with a loud voice: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
• It was amidst all the celebration, as they looked back on God's faithfulness and forward to the future fulfilment of His Promise, that Jesus delivered this pleading invitation to the nation of Israel to come and drink of the Living Water.

• But they also knew that their future hope of their glorious inheritance had already been secured for them in heaven and rested on the promises of God's unchanging Word.

• When evil and distressing situations happen to thwart our personal plans, we have a number of choices: We can wallow in the slough of despond, murmur against God for our misfortune, and bemoan our sorry state as we become embittered with our lot OR, by faith we can rest in the promises of God, knowing that no matter what happens in this life, God WILL bring good out of evil.

• They were to tell the pagan nations of God's promise of salvation.
• While circumcision was given through Abraham as a sign in their flesh of God's covenant promise, the Sabbath day was also to stand as a witness of the covenant He gave through Moses - from one generation to the next.
• is Christ's promise to all: Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls - for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.Israel’s Sabbath rest, just like their Law, their Tabernacle, their Priesthood, and their sacrifices, was to be a sign that pointed to Jesus.

• Taking the baby Jesus in his arms, Simeon rejoiced in his heart, blessed the Lord, and was moved to utter a magnificent psalm of praise, extolling God for His faithfulness in keeping His promise to Israel.
• God's promise that this old man would not die until he had seen the Lord's Christ, was answered according to His Word: For my eyes have seen Your salvation.

• It was John the Baptist who first prophesied this momentous event when he explained that the Lord Jesus Himself would one day baptise His people with the Holy Spirit of promise.
• Christ enlarged on this precious promise only moments before He was taken up into the clouds: You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.

• He received a precious promise from God that the earth would never again be destroyed by a flood.

• However,  in chapter 22 we read that the Lord tested Abraham when He asked him to offer up Isaac, his beloved son of promise, as a burnt offering to the Lord.
• But as Abraham stretched out his hand for the knife, God called from heaven and graciously prevented him from killing his son, and reiterated His incredible promises to this faithful servant. 
• It was after Abraham's display of faith in God, by offering his son on the altar, that the Lord restated His promise and said, 'By Myself, I have sworn,' says the LORD, 'because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, with blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.' And the Lord concluded His promise by telling His servant, in your Seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.
• In chapter 3 of his epistle to the Galatians, Paul explains the deeper meaning of this wonderful promise that would find its perfect fulfilment in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his Seed.
• Hebrews 11:1 clearly tells us: Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and Abraham, who is often called 'the father of faith', is a wonderful example of a man who trusted God's Word, even though most of the promises he hoped for would not be fulfilled until many centuries after his death.
• Abraham's faith rested on the Lord Who made certain promises to him.
• Abraham believed God and acted on all that God had said, and those promises can be found in a few chapters in Genesis.
• We Christians have the full and final revelation of God in the completed Scriptures, which gives us many, many more precious promises.
• These promises come from the mouth of the same holy God and are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Saviour.
• Should we not believe God's Word and trust in the promises of God completely, for without faith it is impossible to please Him?

• If the Bible foretold of the first coming of Christ with such astonishing accuracy, should we not anticipate with certainty the soon return of the Lord Jesus to complete His promises to His people, Israel, at the end of the coming prophesied 'time of Jacob's trouble'?

• We who were separated from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise... having no hope and without God in the world, have been brought near and are beloved of the Father.

• The supplicatory prayer of this oppressed servant of God quickly turned into a declaration of God's precious promises which remain as relevant to God's servants in the 21st century, as they were when David was being hotly pursued by Saul, and his enemies were constantly attacking him: When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You,  he announced, with great boldness, I will trust in God Whose word I praise.
• David did not simply plead for God's protection, but in faith, he claimed God's precious promises as his own.
• David's statement of faith in God was a demonstration of faith in action as he claimed God's promises to Israel in his particular situation.
• He was prepared to make a statement of fact, because God's Word is true and the promises of God applied to him, personally.
• The privileges and promises of God are already ours, in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in heavenly places so that IN HIM, we too have been raised up with Christ and seated with Him in the heavenly places.
• GOD FORBID that David's beautiful demonstration of trust in God when he declared the Lord's faithfulness in fulfilling all His precious promises by proclaiming the biblical truths, be used to support the unbiblical and heretical 'Word of Faith' teachings!

• Paul understood that the practice of prayer would result in spiritual growth and maturity in the faith, because of the power of God and His precious promises.

• It is at the very end of the most glorious chapter on 'faith' that the writer explains to his readers why his long list of men and women of faith did not receive the promises God made them: God has provided something better for us, so that apart from us, they would not be made perfect.
• However wonderful the promises He gave to Israel, God planned to give us (and them) something even better.
• The promises of the New Covenant; victory over sin and death, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and all the privileges that come with our great salvation, were cut at Calvary - the promises were secured at the Cross.
• The Cross secured God's earthly land and kingdom promises, which will be brought to fruition at the right time, and the Cross won the spiritual battle which the Church has been engaged in for 2000 years, which will be ultimately fulfilled at Christ's return. 
• By His goodness and grace, God purposed to use the Church as the instrument to secure better promises for Israel (heavenly, as well as earthly promises) just as He used Israel as His instrument to bring the glorious gospel of redemption through their Jewish Messiah to the Gentiles.

• How important to stand on the many precious promises of God, and remember that He is the Rock on which to build; the Anchor that holds us steady; the Fortress in Whom we find protection, and the Saviour of our soul.

• No doubt these early childhood days with his mother, enabled Moses to be taught about his Jewish ancestry and to learn about the purpose and promises of God, before being educated in every aspect of Egyptian culture in preparation for his life's work.

• We need to grab a promise and hold on to that promise, knowing that we have a wonderful and faithful God Who has promised to be with us in all the twists and turns of life.
• His Word is true and trustworthy; His Word is perfect and pure, and His promises to us endure from one generation to another.
• Let us trust in His love, rest in His promises, and believe the truth of God's Word which tells us that He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds, and He is able because He went to the Cross on our account, and shed His blood to become our substitute.

• No doubt, Peter remembered the commission he was given on that day: Feed My sheep, and we find him diligently obeying this command by reiterating the wonderful works of God to his readers and reminding them of the divine power, heavenly privileges, and precious promises we have in Christ.
• He reiterated the many precious and magnificent promises that are ours in Christ, which enable us to understand the very mind of Christ and become partakers in His holy, heavenly nature.
• Peter knew that he must never stop bringing to their remembrance the joy that is ours in our great salvation and he diligently and repeatedly reminded his listeners of the many precious promises that are ours by faith.

• What a wonderful promise the people of Israel received as they set out on the next step of their journey.

• You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words and promises which the LORD your God has spoken concerning you has failed, he said.
• Joshua reminded the children of Israel that all the promises that God had made to them had been fulfilled, ALL have been fulfilled for you, he said,not one of them has failed!
• He keeps ALL His promises.
• He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and we too can confidently trust Him to keep all the promises he has made to the Church as well - all of which are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• You know with all your heart and inner being, that not even one of all the faithful promises the Lord your God made to you has been left unfulfilled.
• He has kept all His promises - not one promise is unfulfilled!
• How foolish that we do not always take Him at His Word... and trust Him to keep His promises.

• We are called to be doers of the Word and not hearers only, and we are to trust in its precepts and promises and not to despise or hold lightly the living word of truth.
• But the Word of the Lord also contains some severe warnings for both nations and individuals as well as many lovely promises and none of us are free from the difficulties and dangers of life, nor are we exempt from the corrective hand of our God and His rod of discipline in our life and on our world, as Jeremiah also discovered.

• Just as the women of Ramah were surrounded by promises of hope from the Lord, so too the women of Bethlehem were surrounded by the Hope of all Nations, Jesus Christ – the incarnate Word, Whom the wicked king Herod sought to destroy.
• We will all have times of weeping and bitter mourning – but we have a hope in Christ and a promise that JOY will come in the morning.

• Paul anticipates all the counter-arguments of his fellow Jews and starts to address, and answer, every one of the rhetorical challenges that Jewish people are likely to make such as... 'Is there not any advantage in being a Jew?' - 'Is there any profit in the covenant of circumcision?' - 'Does unbelief make God's promises ineffective?' and 'If our unrighteousness magnifies the righteousness of God, should we not try to sin more, to make God appear more righteous?'
• However, Paul structures his argument to show that even though Israel was given incredible privileges, including circumcision as a special sign between them, and even though they were given the Scriptures, the promise of the Messiah, and the promise of an earthly kingdom which is filled with peace and prosperity, they had all turned away from the Lord and together they had become useless.

• The promise of Christ's return still stands today and the solemn instruction to Listen to Him, and to keep on listening to His voice and reading His Word remains as important as ever, for the days is at hand when Christ will indeed return to set up His Millennial rule on earth and reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.

• Before we were born again into the family of God, we were without Christ, without a heavenly citizenship, without a covenant relationship, without God's promises, without access to the throne of grace, and without hope in the world.
• We who had no promises have been flooded with the many precious promises of God which are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ.

• We who have trusted in Christ as Saviour, are to remember the many precious promises He has made towards us, and we are also to the recall countless times that God has defended and comforted His people Israel in their distress, knowing that His grace is the same toward His people, the Church, as it was in ancient past.

• Despite the promises and privileges they enjoyed as the chosen people, both individually and nationally, they refused to recognise their offence and repent of their sin.

• In Chapter 33, there are several encouraging promises given to God's people, concerning the restoration of all Israel, including the reuniting of the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
• The promises given to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, are repeated and renewed in this exciting passage and bear witness that 'replacement theology' is a fallacious doctrine, and the teaching that the Christian Church has replaced Israel is a figment of man's arrogant imagination, that is spawned from the creative fancy of theologians who fail to: Rightly divide the Word of truth.

• And God's promise through Isaiah has encouraged the hearts of countless generations of believers: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusts in Thee.
• Christ gave His disciples His own precious promise of peace.

• He readily confessed to the Lord, desired to do what is right, held fast to the truth of God's Word, and trusted the Lord to keep His promises.

• And despite his prophecies of doom and destruction, Zephaniah concludes his inspired writings with a promise of the restoration of Gentile nations, the reinstatement of Israel as His chosen inheritance, the redemption of His people, Israel, and the return of their Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as God of gods, King of kings, and Lord of the eternal ruler of heaven and earth.

• John gives the instruction to abide in Christ and rest our soul in Him so that when the Lord Jesus appears in the clouds to take us to be with Himself, we may have trusting confidence in His many precious promises and not shrink away from Him in shame, at His return.

• It is Jesus upon Whom our hope is founded, and God's precious promises are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Do we really trust God to keep His promises to us?
• When we are faced with a 'worry' let us simply claim His promises of provision, His support, and sufficiency, for all His promises are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• This required the Lord to send holy men of God to call the nation back to Himself so that they would fulfil their covenanted promise to take the gospel to all nations.

• In chapter 9 Paul recounts Israel's past history, and focuses on the sovereignty of God and His unchangeable promises to Israel, their divine election, and God's changeless plan, particularly in connection with Israel.
• Chapter 10 has its sights on the place of Israel in the present, during this Church dispensation. For some reason certain people consider that because of her apostasy God has terminated His promises to Israel, but that is not so.

• The Lord hears the cries of all His children and is not slow to respond to our pleading call, and He is not slack in fulfilling the many precious promises that He has made towards us.

• To them was given the Priesthood, Temple worship, the feasts of the Lord, and the promise of a Messiah Who would come through the patriarchs; Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.
• By skilfully laying down the origin of Israel and their role in God's plan of redemption, Paul is emphasising the importance of God's sovereign choice by selecting Isaac as the child of promise rather than Ishmael, and His choice of Jacob over his brother Esau.
• God demonstrated His sovereign choice through Abraham, when He determined that the child of promise would come through Sarah (his wife) and not Hagar (his concubine).
• And Jacob was chosen to be the child of promise before birth.

• And despite the fact that Israel and Judah had far exceeded the boundaries of the conditional covenant they made with God through Moses where they solemnly promised: All that God has said we will do, they quickly abandoned their pious promises, causing God to have to expose their guilt and pronounce judgement on His disobedient servants.

• The truths that are intertwined within this beautiful Psalm, are precious promises that every one of God's blood-bought children are able to claim as their own.

• But for the one that has trusted Christ for the forgiveness of their sins and who has been covered in His own righteousness, the promises are overwhelmingly wonderful - for He will glorify the Lord Jesus in a way that the world cannot understand and He will take the things that the Father has entrusted to Christ - and disclose them to us!

• The people were told: Consider your ways, and Haggai explained that their meagre harvest and poor economy was the result of neglecting their covenant promises to God.

• He found the Lord was a God Who kept His promises, and Whose loving-kindness and great goodness never failed: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want... David wrote, as he meditated on Scripture, day and night.  He makes me to lie down in green pastures.
• Our great Shepherd of the sheep will not lose one of us, however much we stray from Him, for we are protected in the powerful palm of His pierced hand and we are covered by the caring love of our heavenly Father: I will never leave you nor forsake you, is His ever-present promise to each one of His little flock: Cast ALL your cares on ME, He urges, for He cares for YOU.
• If I were to plan my own path I would fail and fall, but my restoration and protection depends on Him, for He restores my soul and He guides me in the path of righteousness for His name's sake, and His promise to me is equally valid for you as well.
• Like many wonderful promises throughout Scripture, these beautiful words which have comforted countless millions of believers, assure us that restoration, guidance, protection, and peace is His promise of love to us all, for HE restores our soul and HE leads all His children in the way of goodness and peace.

• We all love to think of the apostle Peter as the blustery young fisherman whose energy and enthusiasm often caused him to make rash promises which, all too often, brought him crashing down into the traumatic reality of his own inability, sinfulness, and pride.
• We have been clothed in the righteousness of Christ and there are numerous other eternal privileges and promises that have been given to us as a free gift of God's grace - by faith in Him.

• Abraham, who had already received God's promises by faith, was also ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac.

• Although not every child of God will be called upon to endure all types of hardships, Paul points out certain godly qualities that will be developed when we endure life's difficult circumstances with patient endurance and a heart that trusts God's precious promises.

• God was showing His people that in Him; in CHRIST the promised Messiah, God is able to turn bitterness into joy, to turn obstacles into opportunities, and to change problems into precious promises, that are 'yes' and 'amen' in Him.

• Even when the Lord permits the crushing weight of evil to bear down on His children, we have His eternal promise that all things - even those times when sickness and death assail us, ALL things work together for the eternal good of those that are called and fitting into His eternal plan.

• Only they had been given the precious promises of God, for only Israel had holy men of God who were inspired by Him to write the holy Scriptures.

• Some of the things that God's has given us which enable His divine power to be manifested in our lives are His great and precious promises; the magnificent promises of God that are recorded in the Scriptures, for it is through them that we: Become partakers of the divine nature, because we are one with Christ.
• It is by trusting His Word, by believing that His great and precious promises are true, and by acting on that knowledge by faith, that we may partake of His divine power.
• Praise Him that He has granted us great and precious promises so that through believing His Word we may become partakers of His divine power, as we abide in Him and He in us.

• We rejoice to know that God's plans and purposes can never be thwarted and that His promises to Abraham, Isaac, Israel, and David will certainly be fulfilled.

• How essential that our faith is anchored to the wisdom, the power, the promises, and the faithfulness of God - Who deserves our undying honour and grateful thanks.

• The Lord is faithful and true to the precepts and promises that He has made to those that trust in His holy name.
• The Word of God stands fast forever, and His promises endure from one generation to the next.

• The Word of the Lord is sure and every prophetic pronouncement in the Scriptures has or will reach its ultimate fulfilment in Christ, for God's Word is sure, His faithfulness is everlasting, His truth endures from one generation to the next, and His promises are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Joshua's greatest test of all would be to sustain his trust in the Word of God, obey His commands, and believe the Lord's precious promises.
• Joshua was to inform the Israelites that neither man nor army would be able to stand against them: I will not fail you, nor forsake you, was the reassuring promise of God.
• Joshua had to realise that Israel's success in conquering the land did not depend on his own fighting skills or leadership abilities, but on God's precious promise to sustain them in the battle and to guide his servant in the way he should go.
• Throughout the Old Testament, we discover that the just shall live by faith, faith in the Word of God and faith in His precious promises - for the battle is not ours but belongs to the Lord.
• Day by day, we are all faced with the fight to maintain our trust in God's Word and the quest to believe that His precious promises are 'YES' and 'AMEN' in Christ.

• To use this verse in support of the various false claims against Israel or faulty concepts of Christ's promised earthly kingdom, is to distort the Word of God, to discredit the character of God, to render God's promises as illegitimate, and to deny the whole counsel of God.
• But we have an assurance that His promises are sure, His Word is true, and that the Father has fixed them by His own authority and will fulfil them in His time and His way.

• Well, Peter is encouraging us to give all diligence to the truth of God's unbreakable promises regarding our salvation.
• Peter wants us to base our understanding of our salvation on the never-changing truth of God's Word, for when we have absolute assurance in our heart and mind that our calling and election is secure in Christ and anchored to the precious promises in the Word of God, then we are much more secure in every aspect of our lives.
• Peter is not suggesting that we can lose our eternal salvation, but that we stand secure in God's eternal promises connected with our salvation.

• We are to rest securely on the hope of Christ promise to return for His own.

• God had supernaturally rescued the nation of Israel from centuries of slavery and made some glorious promises and pledges to His people, and yet they refused to believe His Word, they rebelled against His authority, and they twisted the truth through their murmurings and lies.

• And when we do hold fast to the precious promises of God and remain anchored to the truth of His holy Word, we will not be tossed about like a frothy wave in a sea of doubt, but will be anchored to the truth of His sufficient grace.
• Let us praise God for His goodness and grace and seek to stand firm in Christ and hold fast to the promises of God, for our eternal benefit and to His greater glory.

• There is no division in the Church, for we are all fellow members of His Body, fellow-partakers of the unconditional promise made to Christ through Abraham, and fellow-inheritors with the same birthright that is given by grace through faith to all the redeemed in Christ.
• Before the Cross, the only way for a Gentile to be included in the unconditional promises made to Abraham was to become a Proselyte Jew.
• But because of the Cross of Christ and the sacrifice of Himself on behalf of all people, God in His grace chose to make the Gentiles: Co-heirs, members of the same Body, and partners of the promise in Christ Jesus. It was through the Cross that the wall of separation was broken down and it was through the gospel message that we preach Christ crucified.
• But this verse outlines a core truth that is contained in the message of the Cross: Which is that Gentiles are co-heirs, members of the same Body, and partners of the promise made to Christ Jesus our Lord, through the glorious gospel of grace.

• In consideration of all the many privileges, eternal promises, and gracious position that have been bestowed on ALL who have trusted in Christ, the only possible response for Paul's staggering question is resounding praise and everlasting thanks.

• Paul spends a considerable chunk of his second letter to the Corinthians discussing the principles and promises that are connected with true, biblical giving, and he identifies cheerful giving as an obedient, generous heart and a beautiful Christian grace that bring blessings to others, benefit to ourselves, and glory to our Father in heaven.

• As they waited in Jerusalem for the promise of the Spirit, the 11 apostles were continually united in prayer along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and Christ's brothers.

• The moment that we were born from above, we were given a myriad of precious promises that were imputed to us on His behalf.
• And praise God that even if we falter in our faith or fail in our witness, He remains faithful to the promises He has made to His blood-bought children, for He cannot deny Himself.

• How easy it is to forget the glorious liberty we have in our God and the many precious promises, which are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus, as we look at the difficulties that surround us instead of trusting His Word in all things.
• Oh, what peace we often forfeit and needless pain we bear when we leave God out of the equation and try to address the issues of life by ourselves instead of depending entirely on the promises of God.
• But rather, let us stand still, rest in His promises, abide in His love, and trust His Word.

• Instead of trusting the Word of the Lord by faith, Zacharias preferred to live by sight or receive a sign to prove God's promise was true.

• Israel's sin had to be punished, and the time of Jacob's Trouble had to take place, if prophetic Scriptures and God's promises were to be fulfilled.

• Not only did Paul warn Timothy that in the latter times, deceitful spirits, demonic teachings, and apostasy would infect the Church, but some Christians would foolishly pay attention to worldly wisdom and become entrapped in temporal pursuits which, though not sinful in and of themselves, offered little advantage: Bodily discipline is of little profit, while godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
• We should recognise that godlikeness is a noble pursuit that holds promises for this present life as well as the one that is to come.

• The unconditional covenant promise that was made to Abraham was the same promise that was made to Christ.
• Jesus Christ was the Seed to Whom this Abrahamic promise was made: Now to Abraham and his Seed (the Lord Jesus Christ) were the promises made.
• The promise to Abraham, that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him, was to come about through his unique Seed, Christ Jesus our Lord, for it is through His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection that all the peoples on earth would be blessed, both Jew and Gentile.
• It is only by means of the death, burial, and Resurrection of Christ that this very specific, Abrahamic promise (that all families of the earth will be blessed) could come to pass.
• Other glorious, unconditional promises were also made to this great patriarch of Israel, for God also promised to bless His people Israel: In multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
• Jesus Christ is the Seed to Whom this particular, staggering Abrahamic promise of world-wide blessing was made, for only the eternal Son of God and perfect Son of Man (Who is the single Seed of Abraham) is able to save His people Israel from their sins, to die for the sin of the whole Gentile world, and to unlock that precious promise that God made to His forefather: That all the families of the earth will be blessed.
• It was to Abraham that this staggering promise was made.

• Do we seek the Lord Himself in preference to the multiplied blessings and precious promises that are ours, by grace through faith in Christ?

• The fool has said in his heart that there is no God, and the scoffer has mocked the promise of His return, but the day is coming when the Lord Jesus Christ will return as King of kings and Lord of lords.

• Christ is therefore the 'Firstfruits from the Dead' and we who have trusted Him for the forgiveness of sins have received His free gift of eternal life-in Christ, and the promise of our resurrection to life.

• Having laid out the most comprehensive presentation of the gospel of Jesus Christ under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Paul finally reaches his joyful conclusion with the most astonishing promise and wonderful truth that is given to all who believe - that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord - nothing visible or invisible, nothing in the physical realm or the spiritual sphere, nothing in the heavens above, the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth, can separate us from God's gracious and everlasting love.
• Nothing created by God and nothing imagined by man has the power to remove His blood-bought children from God's inexpressible love and His eternally secure promises, which are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Even when we turn from our Lord, leave our first love, or are unfaithful towards Him - HE remains faithful to His promises, for God cannot deny Himself.

• It makes it clear that while Israel's covenant-breaking unfaithfulness will be punished, the Lord will surely fulfil the promises He made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.
• The promise of peace and prosperity is given to His chosen people, and verse 13 paints a most compassionate portrait of God giving comfort to His people in the same way that a mother would console and comfort her son - not only her nursing baby but also her dearly beloved grown-up son.

• We have been delivered from the wrath to come, are no longer under condemnation, have been given every spiritual blessing, and are a partaker of His promise in Christ by faith in the gospel.

• It must have been a great comfort to Moses to hear the Lord guarantee, My presence will go with you and I will give you rest. And this wonderful promise from God is as relevant today as it was in those distant days, when Moses first heard those beautiful words of encouragement.

• Yes, the Lord is indeed the good and faithful Shepherd of His people Who willingly gave His life for the sheep, and we discover Micah praying into these precious promises on behalf of the nation of Israel.
• Although he is grieved about Israel's ongoing apostasy and bemoans that they have wandered far from the safety of His protection, Micah nevertheless pleads with the Lord that He will never abandon them nor cast them adrift, taking God at His word to keep His promises to a thousand generations.

• Nevertheless, there is a message of hope and a promise of restoration in Jeremiah's challenging message to Judah.

• His kindness towards us can indeed be described as good measure–pressed down, shaken together, and running over, for by grace we have been saved and by grace we have received many precious promises which are ours by faith in Christ.

• They were entrusted with writing the Scriptures and were given the Jewish Law, the Aaronic priesthood, the precious promises of God, and the privilege of being the nation through whom the Messiah would be born. They were afforded many astonishing advantages, but they broke their covenant and disobeyed the Word of God.
• His promises will never fail, for His Word cannot be broken, and Zechariah prophesied of the glorious salvation of a remnant of Israel and the future peace and prosperity they will enjoy in the City of God, when Jesus is King of Israel and Governor over the whole earth. Nevertheless, because of their sin, the Lord was angry with those that disobeyed Him.
• Just as Israel were promised wonderful blessings from the Lord if they obeyed His voice, they were also warned of the terrible curses that would overtake them if they did not fulfil their promise: All that the Lord has said, we will do, was Israel's unanimous proclamation.

• Prayer is warmed by worship, petitions are perfected by praise, promises are claimed through a grateful heart, and intercessions are offered in the solemn acknowledgement that we have an audience with the King of kings and Lord of lords.

• As those present saw Christ Jesus hanging on that Roman cross for six long hours, they unknowingly witnessed some of the most precious promises of God being spoken and fulfilled, and they heard seven profound utterances from his lips, the consequences of which will continue to reverberate throughout the eternal ages to come. 
• He was supposed to fulfil the promise to Israel's forefathers, to Abraham and his descendants forever.

• Now we have the promise of eternal life, a citizenship in heaven, and an inheritance that is reserved for us in heavenly places.

• The apostle Peter endorsed the importance Paul placed on prayer, by reminding us: The Lord is not slow to fulfil His promise, as some count slowness; for He is forbearing with all people, and it is not his will that any should perish.

• To Israel were given the precious promises of God; all of which were to have their fulfilment in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son and Heir of all things.
• We see Isaac, the only son of promise, as a type of the Lord Jesus, the beloved Son Who was given as the sacrificial offering for the sin of the world and was willing to become a burnt offering; a sweet-smelling savour to the Lord.

• He wrote of the restoration of God's people to the land of Israel, the beautiful promise that He would write His laws on their hearts, and that one day, they would know the Lord directly, in and through the person and work of Jesus Christ, the beloved Son of God.
• Jeremiah knew that despite the coming time of trouble for Israel, God will one day fulfil His promises to His people.
• We are to follow Jeremiah's example and hold fast to that which is good, looking to Jesus as we stand on the promises of God. 

• John proclaims the importance of the revelation of Jesus Christ within this book and makes proclamations about coming judgement, future rewards, God's offer of salvation, and the promise of forthcoming blessings for all who will COME.

• We are to not to place our trust in the uncertainty of this world's fleeting affluence, but in God's eternal promises to us.

• This is a better priesthood with a better covenant, a better sanctuary, a better sacrifice, and better promises.

• The Lord Jesus said, If you love Me you will keep My commandments, and one of the tests of a real love of God is willing obedience to His Word, a genuine trust in what He says, a readiness to believe His precious promises, and a desire to obey His commandments.

• She remembered the former times and returned to the Lord, her God, in the land of promise.

• And as the book of Isaiah draws to a close, God also comforts His people with renewed promises of deliverance from their enemies, restoration to their land, and the arrival of God's chosen Servant Who will be sent to save His people from their sins: The Lord will continually guide you, is their wonderful promise: The  Lord will satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones.

• This passage is dealing with the time when God's promises to Abraham and David will finally be fulfilled.

• Moses reminded the Lord of His many precious promises to bring them out of Egypt, guide them through the wilderness, and bring them into the Promised Land.
• The Word of the Lord is sure and stands fast for ever and ever, and Moses reminded the Lord of His promises to be with them and appealed on the basis God's grace.

• For believers, faith is the assurance that things hoped for will happen and the conviction that things that can't be seen (and the promises of God), will be fulfilled.
• His Word is true and His promises stand fast forever.

• Despite God's faithfulness to them in bringing them out of Egyptian slavery and the promises He gave them, ten of the spies were filled with fear and said that it was far beyond their ability to defeat the terrible enemies in Canaan.
• It is easy to criticise those fearful spies who trusted their eyes instead of God's promises, and leaned on their own understanding instead of the promises of the Lord, but how often have we fallen into the same trap and looked at the problems and difficulties we face instead of taking God's Word to heart?

• With songs of thanksgiving and jubilant praise, they will thank God for His faithfulness to His erring people, for their deliverance from the hands of the Gentiles, and their return to the land of promise.
• He was given precious promises, and trusted that the Lord would bring them to fruition in the distant future, long after he himself was dead and buried.
• David believed the unconditional promise he received from the Lord; that Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel, would come from his line, through the tribe of Judah, and establish a kingdom that would endure forever.
• But God will never renounce the plans and purposes He has for His people, and in Psalm 138, David rejoices that a day is coming when God's promises to His people will finally be fulfilled.
• David gave us a wonderful example of a man who lived by faith, trusted God Word, and confidently expected God to fulfil all His precious promises, in His time and in His way.
• But God's Word is living and active; His truth is powerful and potent, His promises are steadfast and sure, and the God of our salvation will certainly fulfil His Word, for He cannot deny His name or contradict His eternal character.

• Before the Cross, the world in general and Israel in particular, were looking forward to the day when God would fulfil His promises to His chosen nation and send His appointed Messiah-King to save God's people and set up His Millennial Kingdom.

• And they were anticipating Christ's promise that the apostles were to rule over the twelve tribes of Israel.
• They were yet to discover that the Church age was to run its course and that the Body of Christ was to be become God's messengers to the world for a season instead of Israel, before God would finally fulfil His promise to the nation of Israel.

• It contains superior promises of grace, an inner change of the heart, unlimited blessings, sins forgiven, and an eternal hope laid up in heaven for all who would trust in the Lord Jesus Christ: our Prophet, Priest, and King.

• In His prayers, Nehemiah pleaded for God's mercy on his nation, his city, and the people of Israel, reminding the Lord of His never-failing faithfulness, and precious promises to His people: You are a God Who preserves His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments.
• God's ear was attentive towards his servant because he was a faithful prayer warrior who was consistent in his intercessions, prayed continually with all prayer and supplication, and trusted God to fulfil His promises to His people.

• And although we have nothing to offer in return, and although we can do nothing for Him except to sit at His feet and wait, our Lord Jesus has bestowed on us many precious promises.
• In His absence He has encouraged us to abide in Him, to rest in His love, to wait for the fulfilment of His promises to us, and to watch for His any day return.
• Like Ruth, we trusted God's Word and like Ruth, we are to continue to trust His promises until they are fulfilled.

• They had to come to terms with the truth that Christ fulfilled the promise of God, given to Abraham, and that due to faith in Christ's death, burial, and Resurrection, they were now ministers of a new and better covenant.
• God, in His grace, has given us two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for Him to lie - the promise and the oath.
• This promise was fulfilled some 2000 years later, when the promised Seed, the Lord Jesus Christ, was born into the human race to become the sacrifice for sin. He was sent by the Father to be the Jewish Messiah and the Saviour of mankind.
• The blessed promise of Jesus, our Messiah was written for us in the Word of God - God's unchanging, unbreakable, authoritative, honourable oath to His people.
• God's Word and the promises it contains are guaranteed to be true, and all who seek to place Church-age believers back under the Law would do well to study the book of Hebrews and take God at His Word - for God has sworn by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for Him to lie.
• May we rest upon all His precious promises given to us in the unchanging, authoritative, honourable Word of God.

• God had brought them out of Egypt and was ready to give them great victory in the Promised Land, but disobedience caused their entrance into the land of promise to be delayed for forty years.
• The warning of this cautionary tale is that we do not to lose faith in the precious promises of God, for He has promised that His grace is sufficient in every difficult circumstance of life, and no matter what 'giants' we may encounter as we journey through life, we have His assurance of a victorious life with spiritual blessings - and rest for our soul.

• After the Lord Jesus corrects them, He does not leave them comfortless and goes on to promise, to the one who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.

• The wonderful promise of their coming Messiah and the exciting prospect of His Millennial rule, is a particularly joyful section in Micah's prophetic message.
• Although he prophesies of God's wrath and judgement against Israel and Judah for their idolatry and laments the sorry state of the nation's spiritual condition, Micah also promises restoration for the faithful remnant of Israel in the end times.

• When brought to the brink of despair, David admitted that his confidence could only be in God, for His promises of protection will never fail.
• When we are looking to Jesus, and when the eyes of our heart are firmly fixed upon Him, we have a confidence in the promises of His Word, for His Word is true and His promises stand fast for ever and ever.

• May we realise that the only way to honour the Lord Who bought us, is to be obedient to His Word and trust His promises.

• As believers, we have a promise from God that we will one day receive an incorruptible body; a new dwelling place, a body like Christ's resurrected body, a body of flesh and bone.

• Let us never forget that we are the people of God who have been purchased with the precious blood of Christ - and that the many precious promises of God towards us, his sons and heirs, are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus.

• But amid the destruction of the corrupt capital city of the arrogant Assyrian Empire, there are precious promises of hope and comfort, and assurance of respite and restoration for the remnant of God's people who receive a promise: The LORD is good.

• We have a God-given promise that no matter what happens during our waking consciousness or our sleeping moments we are kept safe in His hands through time, and will live together with Him in the eternal ages to come, for we are in Christ and Christ is in God and He has promised that nothing and no-one can pluck us from His hands.

• Down through the generations, there has always been a faithful remnant of people who believe God, who trust in His promises, and who know that their Redeemer lives.

• And this incident with Melchizedek would be a reminder to Abraham of his call, by God, to go to Canaan, a land of promise which God would show him.

• Joshua was given this promise after Moses, the servant of the Lord, had died.
• Joshua was to saturate himself in the Word of God, to meditate on the promises of God, to trust in the truth of God's Word, and follow the demands of God that had been given to Israel - in the knowledge that God was with Him and the Lord was his strength.
• We too are to immerse ourselves in the Word of God, to meditate on the promises of God, to trust in the truth of God's Word, to follow the demands of God that have been given to the Church - in the knowledge that Christ is with us and His strength is made perfect in our weakness.
• The promise that the all-powerful God is our only strength and stay is no less true today than it was in the days of Joshua.
• And we too are to know the truth of God's Word and to meditate on the promises of God, to trust in the truth of God's Word, and to follow the instructions that have been laid out in Scripture.

• We read that Melchizedek gave him a blessing and a promise, with the words: Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
• He was not to be afraid, no matter what circumstances arose, and later he had blessed confirmation of the promise of a SEED from God.

• Paul calls us repeatedly to rejoice in the Lord, and does not grow tired of encouraging us to rejoice and to keep on rejoicing in Him, for he knows that there is a thief that will rob us of the peace of God, the joy of our salvation, and the eternal hope we have in our heavenly promises.

• This is the most astonishing promise which is given to ALL who have been saved by grace through faith in Christ. The spirit and souls of Christians who are already with the Lord will be united with their new, eternal, resurrected bodies, which will be freed from the ravages of death.

• Abram was confronted with a choice: would he remain God's faithful servant, continue to believe His precious promises, and trust Him to be his Shield and great Provider OR would he be tempted with the glittering prizes that had been successfully retrieved from the defeated attackers?
• This blessing from this priest of the Most High God must have reminded Abram of the promises God made to him many years before.
• As His blood-bought children we also enjoy the same precious promises of God, which are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• And as we trust in the promises of God and depend on Him alone through all the eventualities of life, we may bear much fruit to the praise and glory of our Heavenly Father.
• The one that deeply desires to live as Christ commanded, will make every effort, in the power of the Spirit, to respond in faith to God's many precious promises by believing His Word, standing on His promises, and acting upon them.

• When he accompanied Abraham from Ur of the Chaldees, he probably hoped that he would reap the benefits of Abraham's promise from God.

• The final promise in this verse is success in all he does: For in whatever he does, he will prosper.

• And in the midst of this short, edifying section, we read of Israel's future deliverance and God's promise to make a New Covenant with His chosen people.
• In this passage, Jeremiah delivers a very precious promise to God's faithful remnant: But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.
• This precious passage promises of Israel's eventual deliverance and a glorious future.

• Abraham trusted God to fulfil ALL the precious promises He made to him and to all mankind.
• He believed God's promise to Noah and the everlasting covenant He made with every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.
• He remembered the promise that his own offspring would become as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore and the stars that are in the heavens.
• Abraham demonstrated a belief that the promises of God have an eternal perspective as, like us, he looks forward to the New Jerusalem, to the new heaven and the new earth, and the eternal ages to come when the kingdom has been restored to the Father and the Man Christ Jesus, rules and reigns in righteousness and peace.

• And so he reminded his fellow believers that God's divine power has granted us everything that pertains to life and godliness, and that in Christ we have many precious and magnificent promises which have made us partakers of His divine nature and freed us from the corruption and lusts of the world system.

• It casts the shadow of doubt on His precious promises of provision, which discredits His holy character.

• They had His Word, His Law, and His promises.
• Do you who preach about God's covenant law to others and His promise of salvation, fulfil all the righteous requirements that God expects of you?

• He knew that a good minister of the Word would keep this as a priority in his life and ministry, but he also gave stark warning of an infestation of false teachers and doctrines of demons, energised by Satan and designed to lead many people astray from God's promise of salvation.

• After having reminded us of God's divine nature, His supernatural power, His enduring promises to His people, and the incredible resource we have in His written Word, the aging apostle gives a comprehensive outline of the rebellious nature of these false teachers and their animalistic, deceitful, mercenary, and sinful ways, even denying the Lord Who bought them with His own precious blood.

• Salvation assures us of eternal life and a heavenly inheritance, for all God's promises are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ, but we do not reach 'sinless perfection' as some like to preach.

• It was because of their sincere faith in the gospel, their future hope in God's promises, the abundance of fruit being produced in their lives, and the deep love they had for one another, that Paul did not cease to pray for them and to ask that they might be filled with the knowledge of God's will, in all spiritual wisdom, knowledge, and understanding.

• However, this beautiful promise is immediately followed by the shocking response of God's rebellion nation, for we read: He said to them, 'Here is rest.
• But despite their great privileges and precious promises they would not harken to the Word of their God, listen to the warnings of Isaiah, nor change their ways when admonished by other prophets of God.

• And it is not what we do that keeps us in the power of God, but the promises of the Lord Himself, Who pledged that, nothing can pluck us out of His hands and nothing can remove us from the hands of His Father.
• The Thessalonians needed to stand on the many precious promises of God, which are 'Yes' and 'Amen', in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Despite the covenant that God made with His people and in spite of the many precious promises He gave them, they seemed intent on defying their Lord and turning their back on the grace He continuously showered on them.

• The good news of the glorious gospel of grace should give every believer a joy and assurance in our eternal security in Christ, and the many precious promises that God Himself has proclaimed are 'yes' and 'amen' in Him.

• Paul wanted to remind these saints in Thessalonica that God is both righteous and His promises never fail.

• Such is the great promise of our eternal Saviour, to all who believe on His name - to Whom be all honour and glory and praise forever and ever.

• Once faith in the truth of who we are in Christ starts to kick in, we can claim God's promises, for He is a faithful God Whose promises are yes and amen in Christ.
• For when we rest in the promises of God, fear is replaced by faith.

• However, we will certainly participate as kings and priests in the remarkable Day of the Lord, during the glorious reign of Christ, for He has promised and His promises never fail.

• Anxious thoughts and futile strivings, in their various guises and disguises, is a sin that reflects unbelief in God's gracious promises of provision.

• But by the age of 99, this old man had yet to see the son of promise born to his old, barren wife, Sarah. 

• He believed in the integrity of God's character and had faith that God would fulfil all His promises to Israel.

• Are ALL God's promises true?

• God is faithful, and He is true to His Word, and He will fulfil all the promises He made to the children of Israel, AND He will also keep His Word to the Church - which is the Body of Christ.

• But as soon as he refocused his heart on the Lord and remembered the many precious promises of God, which are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ, he was able to pray effectively with thanksgiving, praise, and confidence.
• When like David we are encompassed by our enemies, ill in body, distressed in mind, and spiritually sapped, we should remember that the many precious promises of God to all His children, are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ.

• He suddenly came to understand that the precious promises of God towards His people are everlasting, but the wicked will be swept away by terrors, for the wages of sin is eternal condemnation and separation from God.
• Asaph wisely began to reflect on the many precious promises that were his, by faith.
• Nevertheless, we have received many precious promises that far outweigh the trivial trinkets this world offers, for He is with us and will never leave us nor forsake us.
• Praise God that today, and into the eternal ages to come, our feet stand securely on His sufficient strength, His right-hand takes hold of our right hand as He holds us through every eventuality of life: Fear not... I the Lord thy Lord will hold they right hand, was the promise given through Isaiah and Jesus confirmed that nothing can pluck us out of His hand and no one can snatch us from His Father's hand.

• How often we also seek after a 'tap of flowing water' a bank-balance that never ran dry, a life of ease and plenty, or an insurance policy that covers all eventualities, instead of looking to Jesus and simply trusting in His promise to supply ALL our needs, according to His riches in glory.

• The fullness of God is a truth that is embedded in so many of our Father's precious promises.

• Abraham knew that God's promised Seed, Who was to crush the serpent's head and release humanity from slavery to sin, was to come through Isaac, his own precious child of promise.
• No doubt the servant was very aware that God's promise to bless Abraham'was intricately tied up with Isaac and his future bride.

• It must be a broken and a contrite heart that has an unshakable, confident assurance of our faith which is anchored to the faithful promises of an unchanging God.
• We are to seize hold the many precious promises that relate to our salvation by grace through faith in Christ, and we do this by appropriating His cleansing flood in our own indifferent or bloodied hearts.

• He is rejoicing in the wonderful promises that are founded on the blood of Christ – the gospel that removes all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ from the condemnation of the Law, for the free gift of God is eternal life to all who believe on Christ.

• One of the annual feast days they were to celebrate was the Feast of Trumpets which not only reminded them of their deliverance from Egyptian bondage, but of His promise to provide bountifully for their daily needs and satisfy them with good things.
• All God wanted from His people was that they continued to heed His Word, trust His promises, obey His commands, and walk worthy of the privilege they enjoyed as His covenant nation.

• He also related the glorious truth that we were sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit of promise Who has been given to us as a pledge and guarantee of our eternal inheritance.

• God has outlined His plans and purposes to humanity and communicated them to us through His Word, and God expects an intelligent response to the promises He has given us.

• When would He come to fulfil this promise to set up His kingdom: What would be the sign of His return? And Jesus started to describe all the things that would take place in those seven years about which Daniel prophesied; the time which would lead up to His glorious kingdom rule. 

• The imputed righteousness of Christ is received only by faith; by believing the Word of God, by trusting the Lord to carry out His promises, and by obeying His Word.
• Faith is believing God's promises to be true.
• Like Abraham, we were saved by faith, called out of the world, credited with God’s righteousness, promised an inheritance, and are travelling along the path of life towards the goal of our calling. We are now to live our life by faith – listening to His voice, trusting His Word, obeying His instructions, believing His promises to be unquestionably true.

• But as faith stands firm on the promises of God, so fear is dispelled.

• Our God and Saviour is the same yesterday, today, and forever, for His promises are altogether sure, His mercies are new every morning, and His grace is sufficient for all our mountainous problems and every taunting terror.

• Other scriptures inform us that this coming Prophet Who would speak only the Word of the Lord, would arise from the Seed of Abraham, through Isaac, his sons of promise, and Israel - God's chosen people.

• Having carefully constructed his watertight argument that all Gentiles, both evil and moral, are sinners and under God's righteous condemnation, Paul turns His attention to Israel; God's chosen people; the sanctified nation who received the Law, the prophets, and the promises of God.
• They too had to understand that Jewish rites, rituals, merit, position, and promises were not automatic exemptions from God's condemnation of sin, and the need to for guilty sinners to be punished.

• David's words so often reflect the joy we also have in the Lord and bring to our remembrance the many precious promises that are ours in Christ.

• But it also declares many gracious promises of restoration and renewal for the tiny body of Israelite believers who faithfully maintain their trust in God's Word and hold fast to their hope in Him.

• Though circumcision was initially a physical mark that sealed the covenant promise between God and His people, it also became a spiritual requirement for all who would truly separate their hearts from yearning after the world, for in the Mosaic law the Israelites were also told to circumcise their hearts to demonstrate with their lives that they were in covenant union with God, by obeying His voice and renounce the evils of the world.

• He became their servant as an advocate of truth so He could confirm to His people, Israel, that the promises of God given to their fathers, are trustworthy and true.
• The Lord made some very specific promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David.
• The promises given to these fathers were not dependent on any terms or conditions.
• They were unconditional promises, and Jesus set aside His heavenly glory and became a Man so the promises of God to Israel's forefathers would not fail.
• Jesus had to come to the lost sheep of the house of Israel first, because the promises of God had to be fulfilled through Israel.
• Had Christ gone to the Gentiles before He went to the Jews, the promises made to Israel's forefathers would have been broken.
• Salvation had to come through the Jews because the Author of salvation had to be born into the Jewish race, to fulfil the promises made to the fathers. Through Him, all the families of the earth would be blessed.
• But had Jesus not come to the people of Israel first, then the Lord God could be accused of breaking His promises to the forefathers, and so we read: Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, to confirm the promises given to the fathers.

• Israel did not carry out their covenant promise to the Lord when the Law was first given through Moses.

• And by God's grace, this mystery is now part of the inspired written Word of God which tells us that Gentiles are to be fellow-members, equal-heirs, and co-equal partakers of all the promises of Christ.
• Believing Gentiles were to be awarded equality of position, privileges, and promises in Christ through the gospel of grace.
• The epistles of Paul are unique in that he goes into far greater depth and details of this beautiful and magnificent truth: that Gentile believers are fellow-heirs with believing Jews and that we are joint-heirs with Christ and equal participants of the position, privileges, and promises of God through Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

• However, as the account progresses we find God using everyday happenings to fulfil His covenant promises to Israel, in order to forward His sovereign plan of salvation.
• God is still in control of the unfolding plan of history and His sovereign purposes will one day be fulfilled, for His Word cannot fail and His promises are 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus.

• Despite breaking God's covenant, disobeying His Law, and murmuring against Him, the Lord graciously reinstated His promises to a new generation of Israelites.
• Moses reminded them of their historical past, of God's promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the nation of Israel - and He brought to their remembrance the long-suffering faithfulness of their good and gracious God - despite their own rebellion and apostasy.
• Go near, they pleaded with Moses, Go near and hear all that the Lord our God has said to us, was the response in this new generation of believers to Moses. And then speak to us all that the Lord our God has said to you, they pleaded, and we will hear it and we will do it. This was the renewed promise that this second generation of Israelites made to the Lord.
• But the promise that God made to Israel so many years ago, had to be postponed and has yet to be fully and finally fulfilled.

• People in the Old Testament who believed God's promise in connection with the coming Messiah, were saved by grace through faith.

• God kept His promises to the patriarchs and to the nation of Israel, not because of their goodness nor for their glory.
• God is good, gracious, long-suffering, and kind, and will faithfully fulfil all His promises to both Israel and the Church not for our glory, but for HIS glory.
• Just as God fulfilled the promises He made to David and Solomon, so we can be confident that He will accomplish all He has purposed in our lives, for: He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

• To them alone was given the glory, the covenants, the Mosaic law, the temple service, and the promises.
• They boasted about the distinctive sign of circumcision, given to Abraham as a sign of the covenant promise God made with their great patriarch and his Seed, to all generations. 

• But as we look to Jesus and willingly submit to the ongoing child-training and chastening work of the Holy Spirit within, we will experience an inexplicable, inner peace that passes understanding, for this is the promise of God to all whose mind is resting in Christ.

• Paul tells us early in Ephesians that whoever believes in Christ as Saviour, is sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise when we first believe.

• It is nothing to do with our own worthiness or virtue that we are furnished with such heavenly privileges but is entirely founded on His unswerving fidelity and His never-ending faithfulness towards the children of men, for His grace and His mercies are new every morning and His promises never fail, for they are YES and AMEN in Christ.
• May we abide in Him and never step away from His protective covering, for His promises are sure and His mercies are new every morning; great is His faithfulness.

• Moses had led this disparate and disobedient group of people since the age of 80, when God used him to challenge Pharoah: Let My people go. Israel was God's 'firstborn, adoptive son' who had been enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, but God is faithful and His promises never fail.
• Moses reminded this new generation of the covenant promises their parents had made with the Lord many years before.
• They had broken their promises, failed to honour God's name, and were justly chastened for their failure.

• He pleaded his inexperience and inferiority to execute such a calling and demonstrated his lack of faith in the angel's promise by destroying the false god in his father's household in the dead of night!
• And His promise to Gideon and to ALL who are willing to be used by God is: Surely I will be with you - do not fear.
• For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms; performed acts of righteousness; obtained promises; shut the mouths of lions; quenched the power of fire; escaped the edge of the sword; from weakness were made strong; became mighty in war; put foreign armies to flight.

• He waited patiently, together with the dying thief. Today, You will be with me in paradise, was the precious promise Christ made to this repentant sinner who hung on a cross alongside our Saviour. 

• How important it was that the Lord Jesus ascended into heaven at the end of His earthly ministry, for only then could He send the indwelling Holy Spirit as the seal of all God's promises to those who believe on Him.

• And this Holy Seed, Who would be the incarnate God, was to be born into the human race through Isaac, the son of promise.
• Despite many years of waiting and in spite of Abraham's foolish attempts to help God carry out His promise (by producing Ishmael, the child of the flesh through Sarah's servant, Hagar), Isaac, the true and only child of promise, was eventually born when Abraham was very old and Sarah was beyond child-bearing age.
• It was through Isaac, this son of promise, that the supernatural Seed was to be born.
• The son of promise had been born through Sarah, as God had said, and God had even cemented His covenant with Abraham through the sign of circumcision.
• The wonderful child of promise had been born, and great wealth been bestowed on him.
• Abraham probably thought that God was going to carry out His promise to its full and final completion, and they would all live happily ever after.
• For the great patriarch Abraham, this was his greatest test of faith, for God commanded him to offer up Isaac, his dearly beloved son of promise, as a burnt offering to the Lord - the very son through whom the Messiah of Promise was to be born.
• Abraham believed God when he left the pagan city of Ur, but his faith was tested and deepened when he was commanded by God to set out for Mount Moriah to offer his one and only beloved son of promise as a love-offering to the Lord.
• Through it all, Abraham found that God was faithful to His Word, and He is no less faithful to fulfil the promises He has made to you and to me.

• We can stand on His precious promises which provide all we need according to His riches in mercy, choose to walk in spirit and truth, and maintain unhindered access to the throne of God: Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

• The specific promises God gave to Adam, Abel, Enoch, and Noah before the flood, depended of faith; and by faith these men found grace in the eyes of the Lord and their faith was reckoned to them as righteousness.
• The promises that God gave to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and so many of the heroes of faith in Old Testament Scriptures still stand, and find their fulfilment in Christ.
• And the promises that God has given to the Church, which is the Body of Christ, following His death, burial, and Resurrection, similarly rest on faith; faith in the only begotten Son of God.
• And the specific promises that God has given to the Church through New Testament apostles and prophets, apply to all who believe on the sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection of the only begotten Son of God.
• The Law is not contrary to God's Word, nor did it set aside His promises to Adam, Abraham, Israel, or the Church.
• The Law is not contrary to the promises of God but demonstrates man's need of a Saviour.

• While so much of our holy God is unknowable and His ways are past finding out, we discover that the intimate counsel of God is made known to those that reverence Him, and that He will reveal to us the deeper meaning of His covenant promises.
• To THEM, the promise is given that God will give understanding of His covenant promises.

• He promised to purify their heart and cleanse their inner soul through the spilt blood of a sinless Mediator: I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you,  was God's promise to His people, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.
• This wonderful promise to humanity was to come through the nation of Israel.
• The promise of the New Covenant was to be fulfilled in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ, such that all who trust in Him as their perfect, sinless, Kinsman Redeemer, Jew and Gentile alike, are beneficiaries of this gracious promise which includes a renewed heart and an enlightened mind with godly understanding and right judgements, and this would come through the power of God's own Holy Spirit.
• This wonderful promise to the nation of Israel was cut at Calvary, and the wonderful promise to give His people a new heart and put a new spirit within is fulfilled in the life of ALL who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour of their soul and the Mediator for their sins, Jew and Gentile alike.
• The total fulfilment of this staggering prophecy and wonderful promise will be fully ratified and finally completed when the regathered, repentant, and regenerated nation of Israel will unite their national voice to call on Christ for salvation at the end of the Tribulation period.

• When God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees, He gave him a promise.

• Both the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern state of Israel received multiple warnings to repent of their sins, turn back to God, and fulfil their covenant promise.

• The book of Hebrews explains that the privileges we receive through the new and better Covenant which was cut on Mount Zion - at Calvary, are so much superior to those given to Israel - at Mount Sinai, for they promise heavenly benefits for all the redeemed.

• Peter reminds us of the many precious promises that are ours in Christ, which free us from slavery to sin as we remain in Him and He in us.

• Although a believer can often see Old Testament types, metaphors, promises, and prophecies being fulfilled in the Bible and opened to their understanding, as we grow in the Christian faith, the mysteries of which Paul spoke so often and upon which the New Testament is anchored, are nowhere to be found in the pages of Old Testament Scripture. 
• The mistakes made by Israel in the wilderness and their slide into rebellion, unbelief, and disobedience during those 40 years of wandering, present some of the most serious warnings to the Body of Christ, for despite being saved by grace through faith when they made their exodus from Egypt, Israel lived in defeat for the rest of their lives, and failed to access God's precious promises of rest.

• The book of Genesis contains many blessings and promises, as well as some curses and punishment.
• In the previous few chapters, we see Jacob giving out some significant blessings and promises, as well as delivering some hard penalties for ungodly behaviour.

• Paul needed to teach this terrible truth that we are all under sin and that the Scriptures themselves, have declared us to be sinners so that he could link it with a tremendous truth the Scriptures have shut up everyone under sin so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
• The Scriptures were given to expose our need of a Saviour but those same Scriptures present the good news of the gospel: that God's promise of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.

• He had placed his faith and hope in Christ's sufficient strength to support him through this troublous life and in faith and hope he looked forward to that wonderful day when Christ would fulfil His promise to return to take us to be with Himself, when He will be revealed in all His glory.

• God has concealed precious promises and truths in the Bible that are only uncovered by searching the Scriptures, meditating on the Word, and following the leading of the Holy Spirit.

• David remained confident in the Lord's never-failing faithfulness and promises to protect him in days ahead.
• We are God's children and have His assurance that we are secure in His hand, for we have received the forgiveness of sin and His promise of life eternal.

• It is a steadfast confidence that His word is true and His promises are sure.

• It was not long before the bitter lament of David turned into a hymn of praise when he remembered the many precious promises of the Lord, for he knew that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us in the days to come.

• He was to trust an unconditional promise received from God, that he would be made into a great nation.
• It was because of this action that we read elsewhere: Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. It did not take long to travel from Haran to the Promised Land and when he arrived in Canaan, we discover God graciously expanding His original promise.
• Not only did God promise to give Abraham a land-inheritance, make him into a great nation, and bless all the families of the earth through him, but also that his vast estate was to be a permanent one.

• We are to remember what we used to be before our salvation so that we are in a position to contrast it with His gracious gift of salvation and the precious promises that are eternally ours, in Christ.
• Israel was to remember the goodness of the Lord and how He brought them out of slavery in Egypt into the land of promise, and we are to remember Israel's foolish folly and to call to mind their adulterous unbelief and apostasy so that we do not engage in similar waywardness.
• Paul instructed the Corinthians to remember that the person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, while the person who sows generously will also reap generously, and here in his epistle to the Ephesians, Paul prompts all believers to remember that before our salvation we were: Separated from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
• THEY were the people who received God's promises and prophecies and THEY were the ones through Whom the Messiah would be born.
• We are to REMEMBER that we were once strangers to the covenants of promise, but now through Christ, we are the recipients of all God's promises, which are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Nevertheless, God had made a promise to them and to their descendants forever... and God will never break His promise to His people - even though they prove faithless.
• The promises He made to that first generation of Israel will be fulfilled in God's time and in His way, for He has spoken... and will He not fulfil all the words that He has spoken to His people?
• And the promises He has made to the Church are equally firm and true, for His Word stands fast forever and ever.
• Both God's Word to His people Israel and His promises to His people the Church stand fast forever.
• God cannot break His promises, for His Word endures into eternity.
• May we treasure the goodness of the Lord and His great compassion towards us, knowing that He will not fail us, forsake us, or destroy us - for He will not forget what He swore to Israel, and He will not fail to carry out His promises to the Church.

• He rehearsed the story of redemption, reminding them of God's promise to send a Saviour.

• And it is the Holy Spirit Who also caused the writer to the Hebrews to reiterate that same, precious promise to Israel and to build upon its truth when he wrote: And the Holy Spirit also testifies, 'This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days.
• God is not only faithful to keep the wonderful promise that He made to unfaithful Israel through the prophet Jeremiah, but he adds in the letter to the Hebrews: I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more, for where there is the remission of sins, there is no longer any offering to be made for those sins: IT IS FINISHED!
• We who have been saved by grace through faith are not only participators in this very precious promise from God, but during this Church dispensation, we have been equipped to be ministers of the New and better Covenant.

• The primary area that is treated with this fiery contempt is connected with the soon return of Christ to judge a God-rejecting sinful world, and the cry that is on the lips of the vast majority of scoffers is: Where is the promise of His coming?

• People can renege on their promises and can even forego a financial down-payment to wriggle out of a commitment or covenant.
• It is the indwelling Holy Spirit that has been given by the Father, to every newborn believer at the point of their salvation, and He has given the Holy Spirit of promise as a guarantee, a down-payment, a pledge that confidently assures us that our heavenly inheritance stands fast forever.

• The precious promise of God's all-embracing sufficiency, is equally relevant today as it was in those dim and distant days, when God called a pagan Gentile out of Ur of the Chaldees, to leave his land, his wealth, and his relatives, and go to the land God promised to show him.

• It was a reminder to God of the many precious promises He had made to His people Israel, and the king humbly prayed that God would be faithful to carry out and complete the good work that He had begun with the people of Israel so that the name of the Lord might be glorified.
• He believed that God is always true to His Word, and he trusted the Lord to faithfully keep His promises to the children of Israel.

• His promises are sure and everlasting.

• To believe His word and act in faith on His promises is the thing that pleases God.
• The one that worries about this and that demonstrates doubt over the many precious promises the Lord has given to each and every one of us in His Word of truth.

• This verse promises retribution for the oppressors of God's people and rest for His saints, when Christ returns for His Church.

• Physical circumcision had been given to Abraham and his descendants as a sign of God's promise to them.

• And in Hebrews, we are similarly admonished to endure suffering as a discipline, because God is dealing with us as sons, mature sons, adult sons, blessed inheritors of His heavenly promises.

• When we find ourselves in difficulties and dangers, let us call to mind the precious promises that are ours in Christ, knowing that nothing can happen to us that God will not permit for our greater good and that His grace is always sufficient to rescue us from every situation in which He has placed us; for our eternal benefit and for His greater glory.

• Secondly, as born-again Christians we must continue to believe in the truth of His Word, to trust in His many precious promises, and to have faith that He hears and answers prayer.

• God's promises to Israel are equally as unbreakable as the promises He made to the Church, which are all 'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Abraham believed God's promise and was justified in God's sight in Genesis 15, but many years later when he offered Isaac in Genesis 22, he demonstrated to us that he was justified by producing a work of faith.

• Paul was commissioned to explain the beautiful mystery that God in His wisdom had determined before the world, but which he had received by direct revelation from God for us: Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the Body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

• May we meditate on the Word of God, trust His Word of truth, believe on His precious promises and look to Jesus day by day in the power of the Holy Spirit of truth so that we may grow in grace to His praise and glory.

• His enemies may still seek his life, but David knew in Whom he believed and was convinced that the Lord was able to keep him, deliver him, protect him, and fulfil the promises He had made to His servant.
• Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, for You have been my stronghold and a refuge in the day of my distress.Remembering His past mercies is indeed a wonderful way to remove all the enemies of doubt and fear that trouble our minds and linger in our hearts, and recalling His many precious promises, help to strengthen our faith in God.

• Job was able to say with authority: I know in Whom I have believed; I know that my Redeemer lives; I know that all the plans and promises of God will one day be fully realised.
• In the end, Job came forth as gold and was able to say with authority, I know in Whom I have believed: I know that my Redeemer lives, and that one day He is going to fulfil all the plans and promises made to those that love and trust Him.

• As sons of God, we become spiritual heirs of the promise and have been baptised into Christ and clothed in His righteousness.
• All who belong to Christ are Abraham's spiritual descendants and heirs according to the promise.
• In the same way, the one who is not enslaved to keeping the Law, but justified by grace through faith in Christ, is the one who has reached the age of maturity and has received the promise - Christ Jesus our Lord Who gives us victory in this life and great reward in heaven.
• And may we walk in the freedom that is ours by placing our faith in Christ, becoming an heir to His precious promise.

• There are those that declare that God has finished with Israel and that the Church has taken over the promises that the Lord gave to Israel, but that is a false gospel that contradicts Scriptures and is an abomination in the sight of the Lord.

• The Corinthian Christians had become sceptical of this teaching, causing Paul to detail the whole counsel of God in this area, together with the good news of the gospel of grace which promises eternal life to all who believe on the Person and Work of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting.
• Those who believe, have a most glorious assurance and thrilling confidence that every promise of God will be fulfilled, including the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.

• However, rumours of giants, fear of the enemies, a lack of trust in God's promise to deliver the land into their hands, and a very short memory, caused a whole generation of redeemed Israelites to die in the desert.
• Our task is to stand on His promises and exhibit faith - even when we don't understand what He is going to do.

• Whichever gate a Christian chooses to enter, God is faithful to His eternal promises to all who are saved by grace through faith in Him, and none will ever lose their eternal salvation.

• Though heirs of the promises and the riches of God's grace, they were still, as it were, under bondage; under the Law.

• Its function is to prepare God's chosen people to embrace their Messiah, crown Him King, call on His name for salvation, preach the gospel of the Kingdom throughout the earth, unite the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and to fulfil God's precious promises to His chosen nation.

• Although the Lord had to punish His people's infidelity, He remains true to His promises and remains faithful towards His people.

• Spiritual growth takes place when we exercise faith in the precious promises of God, but often it takes time for God is working in each of us with an eternal perspective.
• May all of God's children make every effort to respond to His promises and to supplement our faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and to the development of moral excellence may we add knowledge, and may our knowledge enlarge into self-control, and our self-control blossom into patient endurance.

• He takes up permanent residence within the body of each believer as a down-payment of God's rich and eternal promises.

• His promises to Israel stand sure and His promises to the Church are equally firm, for every promise and covenant that has been given to humanity as a whole, to the nation of Israel in particular, and to us who are His Body, the Church, is 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• We are exhorted in Scripture to KNOW that the LORD is God, to KNOW that He is the true and living God, to KNOW He is faithful, and to KNOW that He keeps His covenant promises for ever and ever.

• They did not cease to be His people, through Whom God would fulfil many of His promises, but they had to be punished for their sin and chastened for their trespasses.
• May we learn the lesson that Israel failed to learn; that God is good and faithful to keep His promises to us, and demands that we are holy for He is holy.

• Jesus is indeed One with the Father and as such, His Word is true and His promises are sure.

• This grace of God promises that all who turn from their wicked, prideful ways to Christ for Salvation will be declared righteous.
• Could He renege on His precious promises?
• God's promises are steadfast and sure and His truth endures from one generation to another.
• But while it is still 'today' let us hold fast to the many precious promises of God - which are yes and amen in Christ and trust Him to fulfil all that He has promised on our account.

• Christ's slow ascension into heaven, where He was enveloped by the Shekinah glory of God as He returned to the Father, would call to mind His recent promise that He must go away but would return, to take them to be with Himself in glory.

• It encourages us to trust Him to fulfil His promises, and it develops an unshakable faith in His Word, while discouraging the human propensity towards self-sufficiency and selfish pride.

• Paul discovered that by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, God's promises are sure, His Word is true, His grace is sufficient, and all things work together for good to those that love the Lord their God with all their heart and are fitting into His plans and purposes.

• It is because he has faith in God and trusts in the unchangeable and unchanging character of his faithful God that the questioning heart of a distressed David is able to remain securely anchored to the precious promises of God.

• May we saturate ourselves in the promises of God, and be careful to fulfil all the principles and precepts that we are required to uphold in our Christian life.

• As believers, we have been given many precious promises - not only those that relate to our justification but also promises in connection with our sanctification.
• At salvation, we were transferred from the kingdom of Satan in the kingdom of God, but as born-again children of God, we also have many promises connected with our ongoing, lifelong sanctification.
• They spurn God's promise that His grace is sufficient.

• Christians are covered in His righteousness and as members of His Body, we have access to every spiritual blessing because we are in Christ - and one of those promises is God's promised REST.

• It was after his arrival in Canaan that Abram learned the importance of calling on the name of the Lord, through prayers and intercessions, but Abram continued to wait for God's promise of a son to be established and fulfilled.
• Many years had passed since Abram foolishly tried to fulfil God's promise of a son by taking Hagar to be a surrogate mother, who gave birth to Ishmael.
• But the son of promise was not to be born of fleshly lust but according to God's purpose.
• And through the child of promise, Isaac, would come the Promised Seed: the Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom all the families of the earth would be blessed.

• God's promise to bless His people was conditional upon Israel keeping their part of the agreement.
• We already enjoy the benefits of the New Covenant, but a day is coming when the promise, given to Israel, will be fully ratified.
• God's promise to Israel still stands, and a time is coming when all Israel will be saved (at the end of the coming 7-year Tribulation Period).

• May we remember to keep in mind the many pitfalls we will face in our Christian life and maintain our faith in His promises to sustain and keep us.

• As a result, David received a promise from God that he enjoyed for the rest of his life: I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

• The wisdom of a believer and the weapons of a Christian's warfare, are rooted and grounded in Christ alone, and become increasingly effective as we stand on the promises of God, heed His instructions, and abide in our position in Christ, for He is our wisdom, and in Him we gain the victory.

• As believers who have escaped the corruption that is in the world by faith in Christ, we have been given exceedingly great and precious promises, through which we may be partakers of Christ's divine nature.

• For the Word and wisdom, the promises and the precepts of our God are altogether upright and are perfect in righteous, and all His work is carried out in faithfulness, grace and truth. 

• We have a promise that He will keep us blameless in the day of Christ Jesus.
• This is a promise of God, which is given to all who have trusted Christ by grace through faith in His finished work at Calvary.
• This is a promise from God, which does not depend on what we do for Him, but on what Christ has done for us.
• Paul taught that like all born-again believers, they would also be kept by the power of God, because He is faithful to keep His promises to His people, even when we are faithless towards Him.
• This tremendous promise rests solely on Christ's perfect sacrifice, for we are accepted by God, in the Beloved.

• And so Jesus made a sombre pronouncement to unbelieving Israel: You shall not see Me again until that day when you will say, 'Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord.'  But couched in His severe warning, is the most beautiful promise to God's chosen people - they WILL see Him again.

• Many of the blessings and promises on which we stand, had yet to be written and Stephen died without reading that His grace is sufficient and that His strength is made perfect in our weakness.

• And though as Christians we are living through a season of wickedness, misery, and injustice, where the most evil acts of the enemy are being perpetrated against believers, we should never forget that the Lord is not slow about His promise to us as some count slowness, but is patient toward us, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

• And so they had a choice EITHER to believe God's promise of protection and to trust their future into His hand, OR to follow the path of unbelief and try to work out their own problems independently of Him.
• But when Christ is seated in His rightful position on the throne of our heart, we have God's never-failing promise that He will lead us along the right path and guide us through every problem we may have to face.

• But the psalmist was so confident that God's promises are secure, that his writings continued as if the Lord, Himself was speaking: When I select an appointed time, God said, I will judge the world with equity.

• Instead of trusting God to fulfil His promise, he tried to help Him through fleshly means.
• However, God's promises never fail and Abraham's dearly beloved son Isaac, was finally born as guaranteed by the Lord, when Sarah was about 90 years old and Abraham was 100!
• It was ONLY through this 'son-of-promise' that God had pledged to bless the entire world.
• Abraham had to believe to the uttermost that the promises the Lord had made through his son Isaac would certainly come to pass.

• But the walk of faith is a life that is lived trusting God in the midst of difficulties, holding fast to His precious promises, and knowing that God's Word stands fast for ever and ever. 

• Because we are saved, we have received spiritual gifts and been given precious promises in the Word of God which have become ours in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• And remember, God's Word can never be broken, for all His promises are YES and AMEN in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• The men of Israel were also to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ if their sins were to be forgiven and if they were to receive the indwelling Holy Spirit of God, which was the promise of the new and better covenant.

• The promise that God the Holy Spirit will be IN you was given to the disciples just before Christ finished His work of redemption on Calvary's Cross.
• At Pentecost that promise was fulfilled, and from that day to this, all who trust on Jesus Christ as Saviour have God, the Holy Spirit with us and all around us, above us, beneath us, before us, and after us.

• But they proved unfaithful to their covenant promise.
• It is by trusting the promises of God that we are cleansed and made clean - and so Christ teaches His disciples, you are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you.

• The Father's gracious promises towards His children and the surpassing greatness of His mighty power towards all who believe in Him, is the confident hope that we have in Christ Jesus our Lord, which was accomplished when God raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand on heaven's glorious throne.

• For we have His promises in the Word of His saving work of grace in our lives, and we have the permanent indwelling Spirit of Christ Who is a sure witness in our heart that we truly are the children of God. 

• If His amazing love for us is the glorious truth of our reconciliation to God, how can we fail to believe that He will not keep His many precious promises which are YES and AMEN in Christ.

• As events unfurl in the wider world and in our own personal lives, it is easy to forget this precious promise and adopt a spirit of fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and depression.
• Paul reminds us of Abraham who with respect to the promise of God, did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was also able to perform. 
• Our Father's promise to us stands as firm as His promise to Abraham.

• The faithfulness of the Lord towards the children of Israel has never failed in their long and troubled history. 'To KNOW the Name of God', in Old Testament times equated to believing God's Word and trusting His promises.
• Despite Israel's prideful rebellion and lusting after other gods, the Lord is faithful to His promises - and those who know His name will never be forsaken because they put their trust in Him.  And despite crying-out in venomous hatred: We will not have this man to rule over us, the day is coming when God in His grace will raise-up Israel to be the head and not the tail of the nations.
• Never let us doubt the promises of God's faithfulness to all who are His children, by grace through faith in Christ.
• Just as His promises to Israel will all be fulfilled one day, so His precious promises to the Church are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus, our Lord, Who loved the Church so much that He gave Himself up for love of her, and He has promised never to leave us nor forsake us.

• How tragic that Abraham's son of promise declined so greatly in character and conduct.
• Equally tragic is to witness Rebekkah, following in the footsteps of Sarah, by attempting to carry out God's promise through worldly wisdom rather than godly faith.

• What a thrill to realise that once we are saved, we have the promise of the permanently indwelling Holy Spirit abiding in us... and He will never be taken from us.

• The length, breadth, depth, and height, of this continual rejoicing in the Lord, should resound to the farthest extremity of His promises and plans, His governance and character.

• Peace is what people have yearned for down through the ages, and in this passage of scripture the nation of Israel has just been given a glorious promise from God of His perfect peace - if only their minds are stayed on Him.

• It would break the unconditional promise He made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel.

• We are to come to a personal assurance that God's Word is true and His promises never fail.

• And His precious promise reaches down the centuries, touching each of His children, to the very end of the age.
• Jesus promises to be with us to the end of the world.

• As with all his oracles, Malachi counterbalanced his chastening words with promises of restoration, and in this verse he tells them about when their Messiah comes: Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.
• As a result, God's promise that the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD, was put on hold.

• His promise to ALL His people is: I will be with you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand – and I will teach you the path that you should choose.

• But Micah's mournful message is tinged with hope as he announces God's promise of restoration: for out of Bethlehem in the land of Judah was to come a governor in Israel.
• We who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation have already been transferred from the old creation in Adam into the new creation in Christ, and have a blessed hope and the promise of a heavenly home.

• Abraham is often referred to as the father of faith, because the Lord used His trust in God's promises as the foundational example of a man who is credited with the righteousness of Christ, by grace through faith.
• But Abraham is one of many men and women of faith who believed God's promises and took Him at His Word.

• Isaac was the supernaturally born 'child of promise' who was the son of Abraham and his freeborn wife, Sarah... in fulfilment of God's covenant promise with Abraham and his Seed (the Lord Jesus Christ).
• God promised that through Isaac, the Messiah would be born - the promised 'Seed' through Whom the promises God made to Abraham would finally be fulfilled.
• Paul symbolically compared Isaac, the supernaturally born child of promise, with Christians who are also supernaturally born of the Spirit. Isaac was used as a symbolic representation of Christians who are heirs of promise by the will of God, through faith in Christ.
• Ishmael was born in fulfilment of human choice and not the result of God's promise to Abraham.
• And although he was blessed in many ways,  Ishmael was not the heir of promise.
• Paul wanted to show that being a descendent of Abraham does not automatically make you an heir or a child of promise.
• You only become an heir of God and child of promise by faith.
• Those that are children of the flesh and enslaved by the Law, are not children of promise. The bondwoman and her son were cast out, which foreshadowed the replacement of the Old Covenant with the New Covenant - where the law of sin and death is replaced with the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
• It beautifully demonstrates the freedom Christians have in Christ, because we are free-born children of God, and like Isaac, have become children of promise.

• Paul reminds them that Abraham was an uncircumcised Gentile when God called him out of the Ur of the Chaldees, and Abraham believed God and was credited with righteousness, due to his faith in God's promise.

• Although he had many other children by his second wife, Keturah, and all were well provided for materially, Abraham made sure they were all sent far away from the land that God had promised to His Seed, through Isaac, his unique son of promise.
• Isaac had to believe God's promise for himself.
• In this passage we see God also testing Isaac's wife, to see if she will believe His promises and trust His Word.

• And he reminds us of the exceedingly great and precious promises that have been bestowed upon us in great abundance, for through them we have the opportunity to be partakers of His divine nature.
• Peter no doubt realised that his time on earth would soon be over, and doubtless recalled the problems in Israel's own sad history, when they forgot the goodness of God and all the privileges and promises the Lord had bestowed on them, as a nation.
• Peter left a letter that should remind all believers to rehearse the truth of the glorious gospel of grace over again in the ears of fellow-believers, and especially those that are young in the faith or who have not yet proved the promises of God as a reality in their own lives by faith.

• Thirdly, Paul explained that because we are members of the Body of Christ and belong to Him, we are in Christ... we are positioned in Him and enjoy spiritual union with Him - and as such we are all considered to be the spiritual descendants of Abraham and heirs of the promise: And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to the promise. But what is the promise to which is Paul referring... and Who is the Seed that He mentions in this verse?
• Well, Paul previously explained that Christ is the one, single SEED of Abraham through Whom the promises of God are to be fulfilled: Now the promises, Paul writes, were spoken to Abraham and to his SEED.
• We are Abrahams's seed or heirs because we are in Christ - to Whom the promise was made.
• Because we are identified with Christ, we are also identified with the promises made to HIM.
• They are the ones who will one day inherit the promises that were made directly to believing Israel, regarding their future physical inheritance of the Promised Land.
• There is now neither Jew nor Gentile in the Christian Church, because we are all ONE in Christ and are privileged to be His spiritual heirs: For if we belong to Christ, then we are Abraham's descendants - Abraham's seed and heirs, according to the promise, by faith in Christ.

• The nation's position, promises, and privileges are anchored to the unchangeable plans and purposes of God: I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, was the sovereign statement of God to Moses on mount Sinai regarding Israel, and Paul points out that God's Word is not to be questioned nor dismissed by those that don't understand the ways of the Lord.
• None of us merit being clothed in Christ's own righteousness, and not one of us deserves the heavenly position, precious promises, spiritual privileges and eternal life that is ours through faith in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Let us give Him the thanks, honour, praise and glory due to His name, knowing that our position, privileges, promises, and salvation are ours by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ on the Cross.

• HOWEVER, God in His grace reminded Moses of an eternal truth - a promise to all His children: I certainly will be with you.

• It was a benediction that had its roots in the unconditional promise the Lord gave to Abraham, through whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, and is reflected in the blessing that Jacob himself passed on to his own sons and their offspring, many years later.

• We need faith in the Word of God to sustain us, and we need to believe all God's promises to His children, for we are to live our entire life by faith in Him.
• We must know and trust that His Word is sure, that His promises are true, and His truth stands fast forever and ever.
• We are to be astute, and recognise that anything that may cause our hearts to fail, can be prevented when we cast all our cares upon Him by faith, knowing that all His promises are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Surely goodness and mercy, which by God's grace has followed the despised nation of Israel down through centuries of time, will finally settle them in their land of promise... and they will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

• Though mockers deride the Word of truth and scoffers scorn at the promise of Christ's return, a day is fast approaching when the righteous judgment of God will be revealed to everyone, and God will render to every man according to his works.

• He has made known His Word of promise to us and our confidence is in Him, for He is our covenant keeping God Whose Word is to be trusted and Whose character is faithful and true of all that He has spoken.

• He granted her petition, and she kept her promise and gave her precious little son back to the LORD, joyfully proclaiming, For as long as he lives he is dedicated to the LORD.

• They showed patient endurance and faith in God's promises, despite the unrelenting persecution and tribulation they were currently undergoing - particularly at the hand of their Roman oppressors.

• Moment by moment, he reflected on the Word of truth, contemplating the glories of God, praising the Lord for His many precious promises, and trusting God to deliver him from his enemies and from those that would seek to destroy him.

• The Lord promised that the Seed of the woman would crush the serpent's head, and nothing can change this promise.
• God promised David an eternal throne and everlasting kingdom, and nothing can change this promise, for what is impossible with man is possible with God.
• And this truth is equally true for you as it is for me - nothing is impossible with respect to any of God's promises, and the lovely Lord Jesus is the fulfilment of all that God’s has promised, for all things are in Him and of Him and by Him and for Him.
• God is the power behind every one of His promises, and God is the truth behind all of His Word.
• No promise from God will ever fail to reach its fulfilment, for every directive that proceeds from the mind of the Almighty must arrive at its ultimate completion, for NOTHING is impossible with respect to any of God's promises.
• It is unbelief that questions the Word of God and doubt that casts a shadow over the veracity of God's promises, for they are all yes and amen in Christ.
• Let us believe that nothing is impossible with respect to each and every one of God's precious promises to us, and demonstrate the same, trusting faith that was expressed by Mary - that nothing is impossible to God, even when we don't understand.

• He comforts the sorrowing, heals the broken-hearted, gives His all-sufficient grace to help the needy, and fulfils all His precious promises.

• Isaac also knew about the prophecy given to his father, Abraham, that God's promised Seed would be born through one of his own children, and God's revelation to Rebekah identified Jacob as the heir, chosen by the Lord, through whom the promise would come.

• They were encouraged to change their ways with a wonderful promise: He who overcomes will thus be clothed in a white garment; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
• Even when a Christian lives in carnality, God will never go back on His promises, for He cannot deny His name, nor can He break His Word.

• We live in an evil and Christ-rejecting world, but when the enemy comes in like a flood: when our soul cleaves to the dust of the ground and when our heart is faint and weary, let us call to mind the many precious promises in the Word of God which are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• When faith stands firm on the promises of God, fear flees far away, just as Scripture teaches: RESIST the enemy, is the instruction from James, the apostle: Submit to God.

• When Abraham trusted God's promise and obeyed His instructions... that was when his faith was counted as righteousness by God - as Paul records.

• Martha believed that God was faithful to fulfil His promise of a future bodily resurrection, and so Jesus was enabled to reveal more of His character and limitless resources to her as being available today.
• Christ was able to refocus Martha's faith from a faithful God Who will one day fulfil His future promises to incarnate God Who is always present in the everyday circumstances of our lives.
• He is not only the God of tomorrow's promises, but the One Who is with us through all the changing scenes of life.

• The epistles of Peter are filled with confidence building facts, placing an emphasis on our security in God's power, detailing the many precious promises we have in Christ, and outlining our permanent possessions in Him.

• They were to be a light to the Gentiles and received many material privileges and promises including a land flowing with milk and honey.
• They erroneously thought that because they were given the Law, the Temple, the Priesthood, and the Promise, they would escape God's punishment and be exempt from His wrath.

• But he ends by reminding us that God is in control and that the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will never fail.

• And if the Lord has been faithful to His people in the past, we can be assured that He will continue to be faithful to His promises in the future.

• How vital that we who have received the full revelation of God through the written Scriptures, do not drift away from the truth of the glorious gospel of grace that Jesus came to accomplish on the behalf of all who would believe on His name, in fulfilment of God's promises to His people, Israel.

• The faithfulness of God streams throughout the pages of Scripture, as seen in His many acts of mercy, His multitudinous promises of grace, His wonderful words of warning, and His amazing gift of salvation.
• And He expands this promise of grace even further, for the Lord pledged to strengthen and establish His children in the truth of His Word.

• When difficulties arise in our lives and we are beset on every side with hardships and trials, we need to adopt the attitude of David in His many psalms of praise and thanksgiving – who reflected on God's past goodness, rejoiced in His future promises, and blessed the Lord for all the benefits that He bestows on us day by day: For the Lord is compassion and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in loving-kindness. 

• The man who trusts in the Lord is simply believing Him in all things; believing His Word, trusting His promises, and not allowing himself to be shaken by circumstance, sight, emotions, or feelings.
• It is seeing with the unclouded eye-of-faith, all God promises as a certain reality, and accepting as actuality the truth of His Word.

• He did not tell Him what to do or how to do it, but laid-out his petition before His feet in expectation that God would hear and answer His prayer and fulfil His many precious promises.

• All that are in Christ can also enter into His rest by faith, by simply resting on His Word – by simply standing on the promises of God.
• Once we are saved, we are always saved, but we can choose to live each day in a state of resting in Him and His precious promises (which are steadfast and sure, unchanging and true), or we can choose to live in a state of restlessness, agitation, and exertion, by trying to do things in our own strength in our own way.
• While we are still living in this world in our bodies, our rest is in Him – we rest in His Word and we rest in His promises.

• Paul had been explaining to the Galatians that following the death and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus, the status of believers changed from that of an underage child with a promise of a future inheritance to a mature son who has received his inheritance from his father; and the Holy Spirit has been sent into our heart as the confirmation of this glorious truth.
• Before the Cross, believers were looking forward with expectation to a promise that was yet to come.

• The day is coming when those that institute abominable practices, scorn His precious promises, violate His righteous commands, mock His holy Word, and reject His free gift of grace in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, will be finally judged.

• Not only were they given the Law and the prophets, but Israelites are God's adopted son and heirs of His kingdom promises.
• Some consider Jesus is referring to the Church, the Body of Christ, and many even make the unbiblical claim that God has finished with Israel and has transferred all their promises to Christians.

• Worry is a sin and demonstrates unbelief in God to keep His promises and His power to save.
• May we take to heart the simple truth of this simple command from Christ and live by faith in His promises and not by flawed human reasoning.

• Jacob had been taught that God's promise to Abraham would be carried out through him, and yet Jacob spent much of his life scheming to fulfil God's Word through his own cunning and skill.
• However, Jacob believed that his prosperity resulted from his own cleverness and skill, but he needed to learn that the LORD was his Provider, in accordance with God's mighty promise.

• But like Abraham and other men of faith... those that trusted God's Word and believed His promises were credited with righteousness - as they looked forward to the coming Messiah Who would redeem them from Satan, sin, death, and hell.

• But let us rather reverence the Lord our God in thought, word, and deed, and let our lives be a witness in the sight of the children of men of the abundant goodness of God, as we take refuge in the promises in His Word.

• And although He promises to bless those who trust Him, He does not promise that evil will never befall them, however, in this age or in the ages to come, He will turn evil to good for those that love Him because He works in our lives from an eternal perspective.

• God told Solomon that He would honour the unconditional promises He made to both David and Abraham as well as the conditional covenant which was made through Moses, but if the nation failed to honour their covenant promises to God, (made through Moses and re-established at Solomon's Feast of Dedication) then the nation of Israel would forfeit their peace, be uprooted from their land, and their Temple would be cast out of God's sight.
• But to take this verse in its correct context and seek to apply it to any nation, other than Israel is to distort the Scripture and claim a promise from God that is not for the Body of Christ.
• We should not presume to claim either the conditional nor the unconditional promises that God Himself gave exclusively to His covenant people, Israel.

• How could it be that the One Who had made such wonderful promises and performed such mighty miracles was now rejected?

• God's promise to restore Israel as His chosen people through Hosea's prophecy still stands, but it will happen at God's time and in God's way.

• That Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, is a prayer Paul prayed for each of us and a promise that we can claim.
• And as we personally claim that promise, Paul's prayer will be answered.

• Their earnest prayers stood fast on the precious promises of God and demonstrated a collective confidence in Him to act on their behalf.

• This was so that Jesus could fulfil His promise and prophecies to unite the divided kingdoms of Judah and Israel into one glorious kingdom and to save that little nation from their sins.

• As children of the most high God, we should never fear the fierce storms of life, for we have His promise to be with us - for He is the great I AM.
• By grace through faith in Christ's redeeming work, we have been made His children, and as such, we have many precious promises from our heavenly Father which are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Let us always look to Jesus and reflect on all He is and all He has promised... for His Word is true and His promises are sure.

• Our position IN God is the most secure place, for nothing can touch us or separate us from His love, His promises, and our blessed Hope. 

• We are warned neither to fret nor to become anxious about anything that life may throw at us, but rather we are strongly exhorted to depend entirely upon the Lord for everything, for His Word is true and His promises are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus.

• The precious promises for those that heed this call, is that God will be a Father to them and they will be His dearly beloved sons and daughters.
• Paul instructed the Corinthians by telling them: Therefore dear friends, since we have such promises, we should wash ourselves clean from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, making our sanctification complete in the fear of God.
• Can any human mind begin to fathom the enormity of such tremendous promises given to a sinful and rebellious race of fallen creatures who are estranged from their Creator, Who is eternally perfect and unchangingly holy?
• God has given to all who are saved, by grace through faith in Christ, many precious promises that are all yes and amen in Him, and He has exalted His Word of truth above His holy name: Therefore dear friends, since we have such promises, we should wash ourselves clean from every impurity of the flesh and spirit, making our sanctification complete in the fear of God.

• Our faith in Christ rests on the Word of God for we trust the promises He has given, which are  'Yes' and 'Amen' in Christ.

• From the fall of man in Genesis... to God's promise of restoration in Malachi, we see the unfolding story of God's wonderful redemptive plan in Old Testament Scriptures.
• From the Seed of the woman with its promise of salvation... to God's own little 'book of remembrance,' and His pledge to judge the world in righteousness, the focus of our attention throughout the Old Testament Scripture is always centred on Christ, the hope of Israel Who will save His people from their sins - by faith.
• In that wonderful day, the promise of restoration for the nation of Israel will have arrived, and the unfolding story of God's wonderful redemptive plan will be consummated in Christ's millennial kingdom, when the earth will be filled with the glory of God.

• And these same words have become a precious promise that all God's children cling to in this world of problems and pain.
• The more we take the Word of the Lord to heart and trust in the many precious promises that are ours in Christ, the more we are enabled to appropriate these words of comfort in our everyday life.

• John encourages the little flock of God to abide in Christ and hold fast to the precious promises of God, but he also delivers a sombre warning against false teachers, legalists, apostates, and heretics.

• Yes, Jesus is the only Door through Whom we must pass if we are to secure all the precious promises of God, which are 'YES' and 'AMEN' in Him.
• Praise God that Jesus is the Door through Whom we will pass from death to life, by faith... and that anyone who enters through Him will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture, not only in this age but in the ages to come - for Jesus is the One Who protects us from the evil schemes of the devil, guards us from the dangers of this fallen world system, secures salvation for all who believe, sustains our spiritual health, promises us a place in Christ's heavenly kingdom, and is keeping, for us, an eternal inheritance in the eternal ages to come. 

• Paul's main purpose was to give God his sincere thanks and praise for His comfort, His help, and His many precious promises.
• It was Christ Jesus, his Saviour, Who had fulfilled His many promises, and provided Paul with His sufficient strength that was at the heart of his message to these believers.
• He stressed that God's promises are altogether true and His Word stands fast forever.
• Paul wanted these believers to believe God's Word in their hearts and experience in their lives the Lord's never-failing riches of His grace, and so he wrote: For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are YES! For ALL God's promises are certain and sure in Jesus,... and so through Him we can say 'Amen,' to the glory of God.
• The boundless love of God is such that His promises never fail in Christ, and we can rejoice with exceeding great joy, and say Amen, to the glory of God.
• No matter how many promises the Lord has made, we have an assurance that not one will ever fail.
• It is for this reason we also utter AMEN when we consider the many precious promises that have been carried out in Christ, on our behalf.
• May we never forget that Christ's sacrifice on the Cross stamped the authority of God on His promises to us, for all the promises of God in Christ are YES and AMEN - to the glory of God, forever and ever.

• Jesus came to earth to save His people from their sin, in fulfilment of God's promise to the fathers.

• We also need to stand on His faithful promises and be comforted that He is the righteous Judge of all.

• Today, the age of grace still opens its arms of salvation to whosoever will, with the promise from our Federal Head: If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.

• As the disciples of Christ waited for the promise from the Father, they were all together, with one mind.
• And so, in obedience to His command, this little band of disciples were waiting in Jerusalem for the promise of the Father.
• Let us stand firm on the promises of God, and wait in earnest expectation for the imminent return of the Lord Jesus for his Church - and let us foster that true heart-focus on Christ, which should permeate the lives of all believers until it is, not I that live, but Christ that lives in me.

• Jesus was sent to be the perfect Lamb, slain before the foundation of the earth - through Whose sacrificial blood their scarlet sins could be wiped away, by faith, and become as white as snow: Though your sins are red like crimson, they will be like wool, is God's promise to His people Israel - and His promises are 'YES' and 'AMEN' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• The purpose of Israel's Law was to point them to Christ and it was fulfilled in Him, for faith in the promises of God and His as Messiah was to be the criteria for righteousness.

• We who have the light of the glorious gospel of Christ in our hearts and the hope of the precious promise of heaven in our sights, should never be careless or apathetic as we wait for our blessed hope - that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ, will be revealed.

• He is the Consolation of Israel Who remains faithful and true to all God's promises for they are all 'yes' and 'amen' in Him.

• We who have been saved from the PENALTY of sin by grace through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, have the continuing promise that we shall go on being saved from the POWER of sin in our lives.
• Israel was not willing to depend upon the Lord their God as their singular and exclusive Sustainer, Provider, and Defender, but instead turned away from Him to the empty promises of the deceptive world system.

• But if hope in our established heavenly home and all the promises of God that accompany this scriptural truth were void, we would indeed be of all people most to be pitied, for instead of our cherished hope of salvation, we would be condemned to the bitterest disappointment imaginable.

• God's promise to David that a Man would sit upon his throne forever, is realised in the Person of Christ through His sacrificial work on the Cross and His glorious Resurrection from the dead.
• Indeed, the Father's promise to the Son continues: Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

• And so, despite knowing that a time of terrible tribulation was fast approaching the people of God, Habakkuk was able to trust the Lord to keep His promises.

• This passage in Lamentations gives great reassurance to the nation of Israel that God will one day fulfil the promises He made to their forefathers.

• He reminded them of God's precious promises given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

• Conversely, faith is often tested in those long and painful seasons of life, when patient endurance is called upon as we trustingly wait for the Lord to act, submissively waiting on the Lord's promises to be fulfilled in prayer, and praise, and thanksgiving.
• We need to confidently wait for the Lord to act on our behalf, knowing that His promises are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus, and we need to faithfully wait on the Lord with psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, making music to the Lord in our hearts with thanksgiving and praise.

• God has always had a remnant of believers who trust His Word, believe His promises, and give glory to His name, even when the experiences of the life and the ungodly behaviours of others seem to indicate the reverse.
• In the same way, we should never forget that no matter what trials and tribulations we face in this Church Age, let us be part of today's little flock who trusts God's Word, believes His promises, gives glory to His name, and lifts up our voices in joyful praise and worship: Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.

• We then arrive at the pinnacle of God's promises to us: Those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed into the image of His Son so that the Lord Jesus would be the firstborn among many brothers.

• May we be faithful to our calling and render our service willingly and faithfully to Him, for we have an ever-faithful God Who is faithful to keep us and to fulfil all His promises, and He is worthy of all our worship and praise. 

• Paul wanted to encourage Timothy and assure him that God is faithful to keep His promises, that the Lord would rescue him from every evil deed and every corrupt happening, and that God would bring him safely to his heavenly kingdom, for in Christ is all the power and all the glory forever and ever, amen.
• Although we live in a sin-sick world that is at enmity with God and at war with His anointed Son... and although we see the most shocking corruption saturating the highest offices of government, God is faithful to fulfil His many precious promises to those that are His.
• And although we are witnessing a satanically-inspired hatred for the things of God, an utter contempt and disdain for the glorious gospel of Christ, and a Church that is deceiving and being deceived in so many ways... we need not be afraid, for Christ has won the victory on our behalf and we have this promise, the Lord will rescue me from every evil deed.

• We have been granted many precious and magnificent promises through faith in Him.

• Jeremiah the prophet, who was witness to the dispersion of the Jews into Babylon and who wept over the destruction of the holy city, was given a great and precious promise for the nation of Israel: the promise of a new and better covenant, an unconditional covenant where God declared, I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.
• And all God's promises are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Such a life, Paul reminds us, is underpinned and sustained by the hope of eternal life which is God's trustworthy promise to all who have faith in Him.
• As Paul, the bond-servant of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, started to rejoice for the faith of Titus and those chosen by God and who know the truth, live godly lives, and trust in Him for their eternal salvation, he started to expand his thoughts about the Lord's amazing promise of salvation, which was made before the world began.

• And despite the ugly, lukewarm attitude of this apostatising church, Christ made the most amazing promises to those who would deny themselves, stand fast in the faith, take up their cross, and follow Him: He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

• The promises of God pepper the pages of Scripture like crystal droplets of sparkling rain, sprinkling life into a dry and dusty desert and scattering hope into the hearts of all God's people.
• The promises of God tumble and glimmer through the Word of God like a myriad of twinkling stars, peeping through the glowering skies of doubt and sorrow; refreshing the soul, giving hope to the faint-hearted, and providing encouragement to the weary.
• Though the context of this verse is Israel's Babylonian captivity and their eventual restoration and redemption, this precious verse states an eternal principle and timeless promise that the Lord is ever near to all who seek Him, and those that search for Him aright are certain of finding Him.
• This is a verse that promises all those who seek the Lord in spirit and in truth will be sure to find Him, for the Lord has promised: You shall seek Me, and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart.
• And they were given a very special and encouraging promise: You will seek Me and you will find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.  God would not be lost to His people forever, but they must set their heart to search diligently for the Lord; to search for Him with ALL their heart, ALL their soul, ALL their mind, and ALL their strength.
• The promise given to Israel by Jeremiah was that those who earnestly sought the Lord would find Him.
• Those that sincerely search for the Lord will gain the abundant Life He promises: a life that only comes through faith in Christ.

• It was Israel to whom this promise was first made, at a time when the nation was rebelling against her God and had wantonly lusted after the false gods of the pagan nations, causing God to liken her to an openly adulterous wife who was flaunting her unfaithfulness in the face of her long-suffering husband.
• But as throughout all the generations of Israel's long history, from her conception to this present time, the Lord's promise to be as refreshing dew from heaven to Israel, remains constant and true, as does His pledge to return her to her rightful position as His chosen inheritance.
• And the refreshing dew from heaven that is so beautifully promised to revive Israel is equally God's promise to the Church, for we have already been showered with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms, in Christ.

• God promised to rescue Jeremiah from every danger and distress, and that same promise of protection is our inheritance too: For greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.
• Jeremiah lived in the midst of a world at war, and we too live in a world that is equally dysfunctional, angry, and evil, but may we never forget that we have the eternal promise of our God and Saviour to deliver us.
• He has promised to deliver us from the snare of the fowler, the noisome pestilence, the terror of night, and the arrow that fly by day: Do not be afraid of them, is God's promise to each one of us, For I am with you to deliver you, declares the LORD.

• Faith in God, trusting the Word of God, believing the truth of His promises, for without faith, it is impossible to please God.
• He held fast to God's promises.

• They treated the promises of God with disdain and paid little heed to His Word.

• Whatever mind-set develops in the heart of a believer, whether carnal or spiritual, his position in Christ and his eternal life remains secure forever, for it rests upon the faithfulness of God to keep His promises, not upon the unfaithfulness of God's blood-bought children towards their Heavenly Father.

• Let us call to mind the unchangeable Word of God and the many precious promises that are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ.

• The Psalmist's joyful proclamation was not referring to himself, for he would die and be buried along with all the children of men, but it points to the irrepressible joy of the coming Messiah Whose heart rejoiced in God, Whose tongue delighted in His Father, and Whose flesh rested in the promises of the Almighty God, to raise Him to life on the third day.

• Many Christians erroneously see Christ's Sermon on the Mount as a salvation passage for unbelievers rather than a kingdom promise for those that are saved by grace through faith.

• It is a divine promise that is revealed elsewhere in Scripture.
• It is a conditional promise that contains an element of human obligation.

• The life-giving Spirit has taken up residency in our bodies, and while our bodies on earth are still perishing, we have the promise of being changed: For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

• He describes how we are delivered from the flesh through the power of the indwelling Spirit, through which we become children of God, joint-heirs with Christ, and inheritors of God's precious promises.
• And he knew that God's unconditional promises to David would one day come to be a reality and that His people would one day cry out for salvation: Hosannah to the Son of David.

• But the same Tree of Life has reappeared in this final chapter of God's Word, with a promise from the Lord Jesus that He is returning soon to finish the good work He started at Calvary - and to establish in His kingdom of peace and prosperity.

• Indeed, we are to test the teachings of those that in any way, contradict the Word of God, and we are to be ready to answer anyone who questions our blessed hope in Christ, and the promise of our bodily resurrection.

• But in His strength, we must stand firm on the solid truth of Scripture, trusting without wavering on the inerrant Word of God, rejecting the enemy's ploys that cause us to doubt God's precious promises, while rejecting anything contrary to the glorious truth of the gospel of grace.

• We need to know and appropriate all the precious promises that are ours in Christ, for when we delight ourselves in the Lord and offer Him our sacrifice of praise, we reignite our trust in Him - and as our faith increases so fear and depression will be forced to flee away.

• Although the reach of redemption was to encompass the whole earth (for the grace of God is without measure and beyond our understanding), it was the little nation of Israel through whom the Seed was to be secretly transported so that He could fulfil God's promises and prophecies to unite the divided kingdom of Judah and Israel into one glorious kingdom, and to save that nation from their sins.

• The Lord purposed to fulfil His promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, but the nation's persistent refusal to repent, ignited God's burning anger against them, so national judgement became the inevitable consequence.
• Despite the knowledge that God's wrath and terrible judgement would precede His promised kingdom, their salvation was assured and their freedom and liberty remained God's never-failing promise to His people.

• This is because it predicts persecution and false prophets, encourages fruitful-bearing and godly works, details righteous living through prayer and other godly commitments, and speaks of service and a promise of rewards for faithfulness which covers this entire period.

• He reveals to us the mystery of Christ that was hidden from previous generations, that there is neither Jew nor Gentile in the Body of Christ, and Gentiles are fellow-heirs - members of the same spiritual Body and partners of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
• After cataloging the privileges and promises that are ours in the first three chapters, Paul starts to detail the practical responsibilities and daily practices God desires from all who have received His gift of salvation.

• This is the fifth commandment that was given by Moses to the people of Israel and is the first command that comes with a promise.
• The promise of a long life that accompanies the honouring of one's parents, may not only refer to longevity of life in this age, but may also refer to the promises that God gave to Abraham, Isaac, David, and the nation of Israel.
• The Bible teaches that the land that was promised by God to the nation of Israel, will one day be fulfilled - when Christ returns to rule and reign as King of kings - and it is possible that His promise to prolong the days of those that honour their parents may be referring to this future time of peace and prosperity.

• If we deny Him, He also will deny us and if we are faithless to Him - He remains faithful to keep His promises to us, for He cannot deny Himself.

• He believed God would give him the son of promise, make him into a great nation, and that through his Seed, all the families of the earth would be blessed.

• Eleazar had replaced his father, Aaron, as high priest, the Levites had been given their priestly duties, and in Deuteronomy chapter 10, we discover a new, energetic generation of Israelites ready and willing to commit their lives to God and renew their covenant promises to the Lord which their parents made 40 years earlier.
• Total commitment to our Heavenly Lord, a deep reverence for His holy name, a heart-desire to walk in His ways, and a total trust in His promises is vital if we are to stand firm against the spiritual wickedness in high places that seeks to destroy our witness and render us ineffective in the spiritual battles in which we are all engaged.