God Keeps His Promises
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“But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently” (Romans 8:24-27, NIV).
Have you ever noticed that God’s promises have a wait in them?
God’s promise to Abraham was, “All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth that cannot be counted.” (Genesis 13:15) When God made that promise, Abraham had no land and no children.
Abraham waited at least 25 years to have Isaac, his only child. All the years of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob the Canaanites occupied the land. Abraham had to buy a little plot of land to be able to bury his wife Sarah. Isaac negotiated with the inhabitants about wells. Jacob, still not owning the land, took his family to Egypt where they suffered slavery for 400 years.(Acts 7:1-8) Not until Joshua led the Israelites into the promised land did Canaan become their land (perhaps 1000 years after the promise had been given!)
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Has God given you a promise? Perhaps it’s a Bible verse that you have highlighted and dated. I have verses like that. “But that was thirty years ago,” I sometimes grumble to the LORD. “Nothing has happened yet.”
Why does God give us the promise so far in advance? God’s promise gives hope for the future and stability for the present. It helps us focus on God. The waiting is necessary to grow faith.
God is not bound by our time frame. Neither will we be once we get to heaven. When you’re living in eternity what does 1 year mean? 10 years? 100 years? It’s like being in an ocean and scooping up a handful of water. You can’t measure an ocean like that. Neither can we measure eternity.
What was Abraham’s response? “Abraham believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6).
Like Abraham, let us hold fast to God’s promises. No matter how long it takes, one thing is certain: God keeps His promises.
Dear God, sometimes I get so impatient. Help me to rest in your promises knowing that you never go back on your word.
Questions: Has God given you a promise that you are still waiting for? How are you doing?
About the Author Helen Grace Lescheid
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and Linda, I like to pray for you that your son and you will be at peace and receive from His hand everything that is necessary for your life and that all your needs will be met and more. I pray specifically that your son will find a job that he likes and most of all that his heart will long for the Lord. Amen
Hi Linda, I am so encouraged by your sharing here about your prayers for your son. As a parent I can relate about wanting the best for your child and praying like that. But God has spoken that to me too, about giving to Him. It is that trust thing again, hey? Way to go for letting go. I have a scripture that might encourage you , it is Jeremiah 29:11… it is about God’s plans of hope for you and for your son. Keep praying because this last year my son could not find a job no matter what he tried and this year he tried again and found one with the first try. Now he has a job with a fast food restaurant but I am so happy he has a job. God is good is He not? Just rest in that and in His time it will come like you said. God bless you
Times are hard for all of us. My youngest son was involved in a dead end job and did not have the courage to end it and look for something, ANYTHING, better than the work situation he had. I prayed like a MANIAC- no really I did! and do you know what? I think God appreciates prayer, but not when it’s done in a hysterical way, which is the way I did it. I wanted Him to aknowledge me and my problem. I prayed and prayed and got myself almost sick in the process. One night, after praying to point of exhauston, I looked up and said, “that’s it God, I can’t pray any more, I cant get my self so worked up, I give it all to you Lord. It’s totally in your hands- what will be will be”. no sooner had I said those words- the phone rang- and the phone call that I had been waiting for, came. It was my son saying that he had left his job, and joy of all joys, was considering going to college (something that he always wanted to do). Now I am looking to God to help my son get a job. I will pray, but I wll pray knowing that God has and will keep his promise and that it will all come in God’s time.
Trisha I know some of the Bible people waited many more years than people do now because they lived longer back then too. I don’t believe you have that much longer to wait and you will meet your soulmate, maybe a widow, and God will put him in your path at just the right time and you never know when. I knew someone who got married who happened to bump into to someone going around a block corner just walking. Be aware of billboards too because that is one way the Holy Spirit led me from Miss. to Florida. Like signs that said ‘the time is right’ or ‘A change is coming’ and lots of other things so keep your eyes open and spirit don’t miss the message! It could be on a bumper sticker, you never know. God used many ways to show me to move to Florida from Mississippi. I could feel it in my spirit too that it was from God. God spoke thru a donkey and he can speak to us from a rock. Where there is life there is hope. I am older than you and will be 68 in November. I haven’t given up yet so don’t you. Keep the faith.
To Marilyn, Oh yes…i know all about those stories in the Bible…i sure hope i’m not in the catagory like Abrahm who was 75 when God told him to leave his land yet not know to where he was going! i mean, i know i’m in fabulous shape right now, yet to have to wait till 75… what’s really left but helping each other on and off the toilet bowl!? :D Anyway, thanks for your encouragement…it’s always nice to have other’s hope along with your own.
Dear Trisha,
Forgot to tell you one thing. When God puts this man in your path ask God to please reveal to you in your spirit that is the one for you and God will also put it in his spirit and he will know as well. Keep the faith! Marilyn Chandler
Dear Trisha,
Don’t ever give up on God sending you someone and your soulmate. He is out there and in God’s timing. Alot of people in the Bible waited many, many, many years for God’s promises to come to pass. God’s promises that He will not cause us no harm, but wants to prosper us, give us hope and a future. You might meet your soulmate anyday. God says He will give us the desires of our hearts and sometimes God makes us wait so keep asking Him to bring you a soulmate soon and put him in your path and you won’t have to do one thing. He will be where you are. Yes, I will pray for you and I am still trusting God too. Sometimes God says yes, no or wait awhile and years to God are different than to us. There are many Christian widows at our age and ask God to send you a Godly man that will love you like Christ loves the church and maybe he will come to your church one day. Let go and let God! Blessings to you. Marilyn Chandler
To kanj, i like your little “diddy” and gee, i sure hope me NOT having some one special in my life isn’t God’s “period” :-)
Well, Marilyn, i’ll tell ya…i would give anything to have God show me, tell me, put it in my spirit, spell it out on a billboard, whisper in my ear, ANYWAY HE WANTED to show me the special one HE has for me. i’m almost 60 and i’m STILL waiting. Keep it in prayer will you? i hope it all works out for you. There’s nothing like having the helpmate that God has for us, this is for sure! ~Hug
God told me in my spirit and also by two Christians whom to me was a confirmation and it is coming to pass because this man calls me all the time and finally wants to meet me soon. We have a great connection and there is complete peace there.
I heard someone say this the other day on a broadcast. It kinda stuck with me. It reads:
Learn never to put a question mark
where God has put a period!
Trisha, you stepped forward on the same thought I had. But then I remembered this little diddy and decided not to feed the curiosity after all.
Marilyn, God’s speed.
To Marilyn, HOW did God promise you the “right” man 38 yrs ago?
God promised me the right man or husband for me almost 38 years ago and soon will be 68 in November. God said I had never been in a car with him, but knew of him. Well, ten years ago I met a man at my customer service job over the telephone and we hit it right off and just clicked. We live in different states. We have been emailing and talking on telephone now for ten years. He has become the best man friend I have ever had and can communicate good and never lost for words. This man is 71 and be 72 in Feb. He is the kindest, sweetest man, and lots of other good things about him and I think highly of him. God even told me this man had grey hair and mustach and he does. He said our heights even fit each other and they do. Well, I am ready to meet him and pray to God everyday that if this man is the one for me would he please lay it on his heart to really care about me and realize I am the one for him. I just almost know he is God’s promise from many years ago. God moved me from Miss. to Floria all by myself and told me to get rid of horses, dogs, house, etc. and to go into an unknown territory with a known God even though I had to quit a job of 19 years knowing I didn’t have one down in FL. So I upped and moved in 1998 and went to work for customer service in a bank and met him on the phone there for he was a customer. Will you please pray about this. Do you think he could be God’s promise???
Hi,
The Lord revealed/confirmed something to me a couple of years ago about something i went to Him about in prayer. Now i didn’t expect God to answer so quickly, I just prayed and let it alone…God answered that same night. AFter He answered, I was overwhelmed with peace and left it alone. Well recently, there was an obstruction to what God has revealed and i have been discouraged on and off again, and my faith is being tested. I know I receieved a revelation from God and I will not let go of what He said. Before this ordeal, I was going to God about my faith, and wanting to learn how to trust God for everything and not just some things. This is truly a lesson in that because I can do nothing about this situation. It is totally in God’s hands. Because I know God, I know it will come to pass and there is a testimony in the end.
Dan, you ask a very legit question. One where i don’t think anyone has the answer to. When you have faith you just keep believing even when you don’t know the where or the why for. When he told Abraham to leave his country it had to have been a scary thing but because he believed God, he went with the not knowing. All i know is… what God says in his Word that He “has a plan for each of us, one to help and not to harm us”. You are not alone in your frustration to your question. God is in the eternal NOW so time doesn’t mean the same to HIM as it does for us humans. i’m sure there are tons of testimonies to what God HAS done in a person’s life…i know there is for me even though i still wait as patiently as i can for ONE particular prayer i’ve waitied for my WHOLE life and still haven’t seen it come to fruition…perhpas it never will. i STILL Praise and Worship HIM just for who HE is NOT for what HE can DO for me. Hope this helps.
You been waiting 30 years on God to fulfill a promise and another has been waiting 38 years. God is trying to build faith, how long does it take to build faith? Do you think it will take someone that love God 30 years to build their faith. In what? I want to read posts where God has done it. Not waiting 30 years and making excuses God is trying to build faith?
Great Stuff! Thanks. p.s., I had my own personal light bulb that came on when I read this.
Thank you Helen for this devotional. God gave me life, I didn’t know it. God gave me reason. I didn’t follow it. God has given me His grace, His mercy and He adopted me un-conditionally, with all my sins, every one of them and now I live for it (His Word).
How am I doing? I feel not enough.
thank you for this wonderful devontinal
Thankyou Helen for this devotion, I needed to be reminded and I am encouraged to know that I am not the only one that is waiting for God to fulfill his promise to me. Last summer God revealed to me a promise that He will give me back my health again and heal my wounds.Jeremiah 30:17 I am suffering from a prescription drug for almost 3 years since I came off it in 2007. But God is good ALL the time. PTL
I can truly say that God keeps his promises! I have been married to my wonderful husband for almost eight years and have struggled with infertility for many of them. My husband and I even started to look into adoption because it was so important for us to have a child to love. Well I am about 7weeks pregnant! Couldn’t have been more of a suprise and my heart is SO full of joy I can’t contain it! Praise God!
Dear Helen, i walked away from 2 marriages due to youthful impatience and ignorance. When God didn’t move fast enough for me, i did! i wrote my only son off for the same reason and we didn’t speak for years. While recovering from cancer surgery on Mother’s Day 1995 (i marked it in my Bible), God gave me the following promise…Jer 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.”
My son was baptized at 12 yrs old and wore Jesus t-shirts to school! He is now 38. God hasn’t fulfilled HIs promise yet yet i will hold on to it for as long as i live.
Thank you for reminding me about Hope and God’s timeing. Bless You ~trisha
Helen, your devotion this morning was an encouragement to me. Before reading this devotional, I was praying for my husband’s salvation…been praying for that for many years and it is hard not to try to “help” God even though I know only the Holy Spirit can draw him to salvation and open his eyes to spiritual truth. Your words about why God gives us a promise so far in advance really resonated with me giving strength and encouragement for the journey. Thank you for serving Him with your writing.