Posts Tagged ‘ Promises ’
“No weapon formed against you will succeed, and you will refute any accusation raised against you in court. This is the heritage of the Lord’s servants, and their vindication is from me.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
Isaiah 54:17, CSB
God is with us by His Spirit, and He reminds us of the grace and forgiveness we have received, reminding us of His Word and promises.
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.”
Jeremiah 23:5, ESV
We find joy in Christ, the promised wise King from David who saves us from sin and reigns forever in righteousness.
There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.
Isaiah 11:1, ESV
We find joy in Christ, the one who was promised to King David and to bring us into relationship with God, our Creator and Savior.
For he remembered his holy promise
Psalm 105:42-43, CSB
to Abraham his servant.
He brought his people out with rejoicing,
his chosen ones with shouts of joy.
God showed His faithfulness and goodness by keeping His promise to redeem Abraham’s descendants. We can rejoice like Israel that God has remembered His promise and saved us through Christ and empowered us to rejoice and share this good news in this world.
Until the time his prediction came true,
Psalm 105:19, CSB
the word of the Lord tested him.
God is faithful, and He showed that through giving Joseph having and interpreting dreams and then being faithful to save Israel, and ultimately it was shown in His covenant to bless the world. Jesus and His Church are also tested, but Jesus has shown He is the fulfilled promise and faithful witness of God.
So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
Hebrews 6:17-18
God has called us to go beyond the basic teachings of the gospel, to grow in the knowledge of who God is. There is no one beyond God, and He promised by His own eternal, immutable self that He would save us (done in Christ) and would come back for us (at Christ’s return), and no one can take us from His hand.
For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
Hebrews 6:16, ESV
God has called us beyond the basic teachings of the gospel, and this includes knowing that God is the greatest of all. No one and nothing is beyond Him, and He has sworn by Himself that He will fulfill His promises in grace and truth. We would do well to learn as much as we can about those promises.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:23, ESV
All that goes wrong in this world, all of the people who are unfaithful and betray us, we know, because of prophecy and Christ’s resurrection, that God is faithful and will never leave us. With the promised seal of the Holy Spirit in us, we can hope for the future as we love out our faith today.
Send thine hand from above; Rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psalm 144:7, KJV
We gather as the Church to remind each other of God’s grace and faithfulness in the midst of a society that rages and wars against God.
Bow your heavens, O Lord, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!
Psalm 144:5, ESV
We come together to remind each other of God’s promises and covenants, especially that God came to us to redeem us from sin.
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