Faith in God’s Promises

Read Genesis 21:1-8

“Is anything too hard to the Lord” that was the Lord’s response to Sarah when she laughed at his promise that she give birth to a son.

She was operating by sight, looking at what she knew of herself, that she was old, barren, and past the age of child-bearing. But here you see her now celebrating the impossible, that which is only possible with the Lord.

All of us must hold this part of the promise in our minds, its fulfillment, when we receive that which we have been promised. You see because faith is what makes the unseen seen, it takes that which is not yet real, and makes it real.

We are not to become concerned with what surrounds us, but we must keep our eyes on what God has promised will come to pass. We must imagine ourselves on the other side of this struggle, as someone we never thought we could be, we must imagine ourselves in heaven free from every taint of sin and death forever.

Faith is what enables us to see as certain that which has not yet come to pass. Sarah doubted and worried whether the promise could truly come to pass, but yet all she needed to do was to focus all her effort on seeing the face of that son that she had been promised.

Every promise given to us by God, is as certain as the ground that we stand upon at this very moment. But our assurance is not in seeing it, but in the God who has promised it.

As a Christian you cannot survive without the promises of God. You need to know what he is doing for you and in you, without a shadow of a doubt. It will oftentimes be the only thing that can keep you going during the hardest days, weeks and months of your life.

As people we are naturally limited. We need to eat, and sleep, we are by nature dependent upon things. There are so many things that are out of our control, and especially when you read in the Bible about the enormity of some of the problems we must face, we need someone with greater power and might than ourselves.

That is why we need the promises of God and we need to have faith in those promises. For it is through God and his promises that we can have hope about tomorrow, about the uncertain things of the future that fill us with worry.

Turn to the promises of God and remember them, because you desperately need them. They will be your life raft, when everything else in life collapses.

Prayer:

“Father, we thank you for your promises. Your promises are as sure as the rising of the sun, because it is you who made the promise. Increase our faith and destroy that unbelief which continues to abide within us. Engrave your promise upon our hearts and minds that we would never forget them especially when we need them most. In Jesus name, Amen.”