DECEMBER 29

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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Genesis 28:15

“Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”

Heb 6:14

“saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.”

Mt 5:18

“For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.”

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.”

Numbers 23:19

“God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?”

Joshua 21:45

“Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.”

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This month we will read choices from Charles Spurgeon’s (known affectionately as the “prince of preachers”)  devotional, “Beside Still Waters.”   It’s no secret that this world system is getting more evil by the day.  We have to stand strong in the Lord and look to Him more than ever to get through, and to be guided through, what is in the future……..known and allowed  by Him alone…..as well as whatever personal things we are experiencing in our lives.

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PASTOR SPURGEON:

The God with whom you and I have to deal is a God who may do as He wills.  He is an absolute sovereign, but He never can do anything unless it is right.

He has promised to speak with reverence and with bonds and pledges in the person of Jesus Christ, saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you.”  (Hebrews 6:14).

There is a covenant entered into on our behalf between the Lord Jesus and the Father.  This covenant assuredly and certainly, brings unnumbered blessings because God cannot lie.  He has given two unalterable pledges so that we may have strong comfort and will never doubt His faithfulness.  Beloved, the God of the promises has appointed your future and your inheritance, so you shall stand in it at the end of the days.  The God of the promises has appeared to you in Jesus Christ, and He has sworn an oath;  therefore, you may rest in  the blood of Jesus, which makes the covenant sure.

He has promised never to leave His people.  He told Jacob, “I will not leave you” in Genesis 28:15, and He says the same to you.  He will never forget to give what He has promised.  “I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you,”  What blessed words!!!  This divine statement is so rich, so full of the best, that to talk about it is gilding gold or adding whiteness to the lily’s beauty.

Remember this promise, and let the Holy Spirit apply it.  The God who does not change has made all the promises in Christ Jesus to the glory of God.  Every one of His promises made to believers will stand fast and firm.

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