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Hoping in the Promises

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Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope. Psalm 119:49 

at the dockGod, You are the only one who has the power to bring Your promises to pass. If I make a promise, I have the best intentions of keeping it, but I can't control everything. When I tell my son I'll pick him up after school, I'm assuming the car will start, that everyone will be healthy, that no other circumstance will intervene.

There is nothing beyond Your control, and therefore nothing can prevent You from keeping Your promises. There are no circumstances You fail to foresee. There is no individual that hinders You. You make promises with perfect knowledge.

When promises made to me have failed or been broken repeatedly, I give up hope.

Your sure word CAUSES hope.

I depend on that.

 

 

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Study TIp: Promises, Promises

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Standing on the RockOne of the greatest joys in Bible study is discovering the promises that Almighty God has made to us as His children. The promises aren't hard to spot – watch for God's "I will" statements.

For example, yesterday morning, I read in Hebrews where the writer quoted Jeremiah. God says, "I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more." In context, this happens when God institutes the New Covenant with Israel, (and with us, too) the one that rests on the work of Jesus Christ. Go back and read that last part again. "…their sins… I will remember no more." God promises He will not remember our sins, will not bring them up again, will not use them against us ever again. They are gone. We are free. He promises. Wow!

The Gospels are full of promises in Jesus' own words– "I will come again and receive you to Myself."
"Whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven."
"Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."

And the list goes on and on.

As you read and study, watch for the promises God makes to you, and savor each one. Of course, not every promise has the explicit "I will" form, but catching those will help get you in the habit of spotting them. You may even want to devote a section in your notebook, or a blank page in your Bible, for keeping track of them.

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