God's Promises

God's Promises

God Keeps His Promise

God is faithful and keeps His promises. Throughout the Bible, we see countless examples of God's faithfulness to His people and His steadfast commitment to fulfilling His word. Here are some key aspects of God's faithfulness and promise-keeping:

  1. Unchanging Nature: The Bible describes God as unchanging and immutable (Malachi 3:6, Hebrews 13:8). This means that His character and promises remain constant and reliable, regardless of changing circumstances or human failings.
     
  2. Covenant Relationship: God often makes promises within the context of covenant relationships with His people. These covenants serve as binding agreements in which God pledges His faithfulness and invites His people into a reciprocal relationship of obedience and trust.
     
  3. Historical Examples: Throughout the Old Testament, we see numerous examples of God fulfilling His promises to individuals, families, and nations. From the covenant with Abraham to the Exodus from Egypt to the establishment of the Davidic kingdom, God consistently demonstrates His faithfulness to His word.
     
  4. Fulfillment in Christ: The ultimate expression of God's faithfulness is found in Jesus Christ, who fulfills God's promises of salvation, redemption, and reconciliation for all humanity. In Christ, God's promises find their ultimate fulfillment, offering hope and assurance to all who believe.
     
  5. Personal Experience: Many believers can attest to experiencing God's faithfulness and promise-keeping in their own lives. Whether through answered prayers, divine interventions, or unexpected blessings, God continually demonstrates His faithfulness to those who trust in Him.
     
  6. Eternal Perspective: While God's timing and methods may not always align with our expectations, we can trust that He is faithful to His promises in His perfect timing and according to His sovereign will. His faithfulness extends beyond this life into eternity, where every promise will be ultimately fulfilled.

In summary, God is faithful and true to His word, and He keeps His promises without fail. As believers, we can take comfort and find confidence in His faithfulness, knowing that He is trustworthy and dependable in all things.

The Bible is replete with verses affirming God's faithfulness in keeping His promises. Here are a few:

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:20 (NIV): "For no matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ. And so through him the 'Amen' is spoken by us to the glory of God."
     
  2. Numbers 23:19 (NIV): "God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?"
     
  3. Psalm 145:13 (NIV): "Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does."
     
  4. Hebrews 10:23 (NIV): "Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."
     
  5. Joshua 21:45 (NIV): "Not one of all the Lordfs good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled."
     
  6. 1 Kings 8:56 (NIV): "Praise be to the Lord, who has given rest to his people Israel just as he promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant Moses."
     
  7. Romans 4:21 (NIV): "Being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised."

These verses affirm the unchanging nature of God's character and His faithfulness in fulfilling the promises He has made to His people throughout history. They serve as a source of encouragement and assurance for believers, reminding us that we can trust in God's word and rely on His faithfulness in every circumstance.

2 Corinthians 1:20
 For all the promises of God find their Yes in Him. That is why it is through Him that we utter our Amen to God for His glory.
 All God's promises are yes and so be it, or yes and truth. In Him they are always yes, and in Him they are always truthful.
Not one promise of God is no to the one who will believe and meet the conditions.
[Amen] This word means truly or truth. John 1:51.
[unto the glory of God by us] The promises of God were confirmed by us to His own glory. God backed us up in our preaching.

Isaiah 14:24
 The Lord of hosts has sworn: as I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand  |  Yahweh Elohim Tsebaoth - Lord God of Host   Note

Deuteronomy 4:7
 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as Yahweh our God is to us, whenever we call upon Him?

Romans 15:8-9
8 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

9 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name

Hebrews 10:23
 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful

Psalm 105:42
 For He remembered His holy promise, and Abraham, His servant

Psalm 116:10
 I believed, even when I spoke: I am greatly afflicted

Jeremiah 1:12
 Then Yahweh said to me, you have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it

Revelation 3:14
 And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation.

 Isaiah 55:10-11
10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
Psalm 89:34
 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from My lips
 

Ezekiel 24:14
 I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare;
I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God
 

2 Peter 1:4
 by which He has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature,
having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire
 

2 Peter 3:9
 The Lord/Yahweh is not slow to fulfill His promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance

Luke 21:33
 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away

1 Kings 8:20
Now the Lord has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel,
as the Lord promised, and I have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

1 Kings 8:23
and said, gO Lord, God of Israel/Yahweh Elohim, there is no God like You, in heaven above or on earth beneath,
keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart

1 Kings 8:24
You have kept Your promise to my father David, Your servant.
With Your mouth You promised it.
With Your hand You carried it out as it is today.

1 Kings 8:56
Blessed be the Lord/Yahweh who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised.
Not one word has failed of all His good promise, which He spoke by Moses His servant.

1 Kings 8:57
"May YHVH our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us,

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