But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). When you come to God, you must in faith believe His promise in order to receive from Him; for without faith it is impossible to please Him. Believe and keep on believing. The promise of salvation, the promise of the baptism in the Holy Spirit are promises to believe the rest of your life. Only sin will cause you to lose salvation and the baptism in the Holy Spirit. All God’s blessings must be believed without doubting. God has given you much in each of His promises; weigh them, measure them, analyze them and you will find they have no lack.

Abraham Staggered Not

Abraham, called the Father of the Faithful, being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform (Romans 4:19-21). When the Lord asked Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah, Abraham obeyed to the point of stretching forth his hand with a knife to slay his son. But before the knife slashed down, an angel called to him, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me (Genesis 22:12).

Abraham’s faith in God was so strong he knew that if he killed his son, God would resurrect him because God had promised him a nation through that seed. By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son. Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure (Hebrews 11:17-19). Abraham knew God cannot lie; He will do what He promises to do.

Abrahams’ faith is the kind of faith we must use on every promise, treating them the way we would treat God Himself. All God’s love, all His faith, all His yearning for us go into every promise. He doesn’t put a little bit of Himself into one promise and another bit of Himself in a different promise. The whole Godhead and all Heaven are in every promise, backing up each one.

Noah Held On for One Hundred Twenty Years

A promise has given life again and again, stayed the hand of death. A promise preserved the lives of the Noah family with all needs supplied, a promise that was held and embraced for one hundred twenty years before fulfillment. They didn’t have a lot of promises, just one promise of escape from a coming terrible flood.

Some people overlook one promise in their search for many promises. When you can’t believe God for one promise, you can’t do much with many promises. Claim one promise to cover whatever need you have. You have many promises to choose from: God gave a promise for any need you have for the whole person, soul, mind and body. A promise saved Noah and his family, and a promise has preserved multitudes of lives that would have been snuffed out before their time had they not claimed a promise.

Saved from Destruction by One Promise

A promise rescued Lot and his two daughters from Sodom just before fiery judgment fell; that promise saw them safely to a mount of refuge. One promise brought them out.

A promise prepared a special place in Egypt where Joseph could preserve the lives of his family during seven years of famine. A promise will make you a special place again and again if you accept it, God’s great promise.

A promise brought forth a nation out of a nation. Israel was delivered from Egypt’s bondage by great miracle power. Many years earlier, God had promised Abraham He would bring them out. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance (Genesis 15:13,14). That promise separated the waters, made a highway through the Red Sea. God said He would deliver, and He delivered.

God keeps His promises. They don’t weaken as time passes; they don’t age but stay just as strong as when God first spoke them. Every promise in the Bible has as much life in it today as it had the day God made it. When God speaks a promise, all His life goes into it. We don’t have to worry whether His promise will work today. Of course it will. All God’s promises work today.

Stand Still and See the Salvation of the Lord

Moses held to God’s great promise of leading His people to the land of Canaan. God didn’t tell him the details of that deliverance ahead of time. When Moses and the Hebrews reached the Red Sea with Pharaoh’s army right behind, they could see no way to cross. What were they going to do? They had no weapons to battle that powerful army closing in on them. But a promise was given: Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace (Exodus 14:13,14). Stand still, and it will happen. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. Stand still, and God will take care of you. Stand still, and it will be your salvation of deliverance. Stand still, just stand trusting the promise of the Lord.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore (Ephesians 6:13,14). God promised us that we could stand if we put on the whole armor of God. If you are not able to stand, you don’t have on the whole armor of God. Some people, in and out with God, have that instability because they have not put on the whole armor of God and kept it on. When you keep on the whole armor of God, His promise has life in it: you stand. It’s wonderful to be able to stand, to know that God spoke the promise.

A promise: Every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live (Numbers 21:8). The Israelites had failed God and the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died (Numbers 21:6). The Lord told Moses to make a serpent of brass and put it on a tree. All who looked on it would live. That serpent hanging on a tree was a type of Calvary, Christ cursed on a tree for us. For a look the Israelites received life, and for a look to Calvary we receive life.

A Promise Brought Food in Time of Famine

A promise shut up the heavens and stopped the rain for three-and-a-half-years. Then a promise opened the heavens and the rains came. A man of God, Elijah, was the one God used with that promise.

God gave Elijah the promise of food in time of famine. Hide by the brook Cherith, the Lord said, and it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook (I Kings 17:4,6). Some wouldn’t like birds bringing their dinner. Where did they get the food? Maybe from wicked King Ahab’s kitchen. We don’t really know; we just know the ravens fed Elijah. Since they were directed by the Spirit of God, they probably brought only the best. Elijah wasn’t lonely by the brook. He was with the Lord, away from strife. The Lord was making Himself real.

A promise filled a widow’s meal barrel. A promise did it. For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah (I Kings 17:14-16).

At one time Elijah had been so discouraged he wanted to die. He thought everyone had fallen into the hands of the devil but him. Then a promise came that let him know it was not true at all; a promise from God changed his life. God told him, Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him (I Kings 19:18). That promise led Elijah to the mount of God, on to do great things for the Lord. That promise took him to the place he anointed another wonderful servant of God, Elisha, to carry on his work.

A promise took Elijah to Heaven alive, God’s promise. We too have a promise that we can be raptured. Believing that promise makes us strong. God’s promises are real, flowing with the life of Heaven.

A Double Portion of the Spirit

God’s promise gave Elisha a double portion of the Spirit. Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of the spirit be upon me (II Kings 2:9). A promise can give us a double portion whenever we need and really want it.

A promise separated the waters of Jordan for Elisha after he received Elijah’s double portion. Elisha took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over (II Kings 2:14). He knew God’s promise was true, and he was there to see it in action. He probably shouted all the way across.

A Promise Stronger Than Death

A promise gave a Shunammite woman her son raised from the dead. And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and flesh of the child waxed warm. Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes (II Kings 4:32-35).

Elisha, in Gilgal with the sons of the prophets, told his servant to prepare a great pot of pottage for them to eat. One man, as he gathered wild herbs for the pottage, found a vine of gourds. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot (II Kings 4:40,41). A promise was in that meal.

The meal in type and shadow represents the Word of God that takes the poison out of man’s wrong belief. The meal went in—the promise—and there was no longer death in the pot. Everyone come and eat!

The Bride of Christ will cry, No death in this pot of rejoicing, this Pentecostal pot filled with the goodness of God! This promise has nothing to do with fanaticism—this promise of the Holy Ghost baptism from On High with the nine gifts of the Spirit, the nine supernatural fruits of the Spirit. Come on, people, no fanaticism, no poison in the pot! The Word took it out! Come on and enjoy! The Word will take out modernism as well as fanaticism. The Word kills everything unlike the Lord and brings about everything like Him.

Dig a Ditch

A promise defeated an entire army. The Israelites were in sore straits, surrounded by very unfriendly Moabites. A promise came: Make this valley full of ditches. For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts. And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood: And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil. And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in their country (II Kings 3:16-18; 22-24). All the Hebrews had to do was dig ditches. Would you have accepted that promise?

God tells some people to do a certain task, but they don’t think His instructions will work. If the Lord tells you to dig a ditch, He has a reason. When He tells you to do something, obey right away no matter what He said. Go into action and then expect God to go into action. When you do all God tells you to do, you can expect Him to do the rest.

The Oil Flowed

A promise paid a widow woman’s debts and prevented her sons from being sold into slavery. What do you have? the man of God asked her. And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few (II Kings 4:2,3). A promise filled every one of those empty vessels from that one pot of oil. She was able to sell the oil, pay her debt with enough left over for her and her sons to live on. A promise did it.

God’s supply today is full of the oil of God’s goodness, God’s mercy. God’s supply pours out from every promise just like it did from the widow’s pot of oil. It’s thrilling to think about!

A Siege Was Lifted

A promise ended a famine in Elisha’s day. Conditions were so bad in the besieged city of Samaria that people were eating their own children. One woman said, Give thy son, that we may eat him to-day, and we will eat my son to-morrow (II Kings 6:28). The king was about to have Elisha killed, but Elisha knew a promise: Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To-morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria (II Kings 7:1). The siege was lifted that very night when the Syrians thought they heard chariots, horses and the sound of a great host coming against them. They ran, leaving food, drink, silver, gold and other possessions behind them. A promise did it. God said there would be food on tomorrow, and it came in abundance.

A Leper Healed

A promise healed Naaman the leper, a man who didn’t know anything about God’s promises. Elisha told him, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean (II Kings 5:10). That promise of God healed him. Do the simple things, the instructions that come with each promise. Every promise has at least one instruction with it. The Lord does the big things; we do the little ones. We do the foolish; He does the wise.

Fifteen Years Added to Hezekiah

A promise gave King Hezekiah fifteen more years after he had been told by the man of God he was going to die. Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed: I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore (II Kings 20:3). Then a promise came: Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria (verses 5,6). Hezekiah was promised fifteen more years of life. Some, after receiving such a wonderful promise, would have gone on to plan their funeral. But we don’t read that Hezekiah spoke again about dying.

In this final hour you will either believe God or you will not believe. The Bride of Christ will believe Him. If you expect to be a member of the bridal company, you will find plenty of faith to believe God and plenty of love for Him to work with.

Daniel Used a Promise

Think of the promises the Lord gave Daniel concerning prophecies of world kingdoms. Much has already been fulfilled in kingdoms that have risen and fallen. Now we are down to the closing out of the Church Age; soon it all will be fulfilled. Daniel was thrown into the den of lions, but he had a promise. What would you have asked for in the lions’ den? Would you have asked for more protection than Daniel received? Would you have thought the Lord was letting you down? As long as you have a promise from God, you are not let down. If you think you are, it’s because you are not using His promise. You have a promise. Use it. Daniel used a promise and he was able to say: O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths (Daniel 6:21,22).

A Promise Was Inside the Furnace

A promise quenched the violence of fire for three Hebrew boys. Had some been in the same position, they would have expected death, accusing God of not caring. But the three men, bound, thrown into the fiery furnace, stood up. The ropes had burned off them and they, unharmed, were walking in the midst of the fire with the fourth man, Jesus, face to face with the Son of God, the promised one, the promised seed. King Nebuchadnezzar said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God (Daniel 3:25). What if the three Hebrew boys hadn’t gone in? The promise was in the furnace. They had to be inside the furnace for the promise to be fulfilled.

Some of you don’t want to go into the furnace. You stand outside pitying yourself, wondering why God doesn’t care. The promise isn’t outside; it’s in the furnace. If you want it fulfilled, you must go inside—no need to try to back away. Say, Praise God, here we go again! The furnace door is open; I feel the heat of the battle. It’s a fiery trial, but the promise goes with it.

A Promise Burned in David’s Heart

The Philistines sent giant Goliath to challenge the armies of Israel. No one stepped forth to meet that challenge until young David came, the promise of God burning in his heart. King Saul thought David was too young and inexperienced to fight the giant, but David was confident of God’s delivering power. He told Saul: Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine (I Samuel 17:36,37). David stopped by the brook and got five stones, J-E-S-U-S. He had the Jesus promise.

Joshua Was Promised Jericho

Joshua had a promise. And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour (Joshua 6:2). The Israelites were instructed to march around the walls of Jericho six days in obedience to God’s Spirit, making no noise. On the seventh day they were to circle the city seven times and then when the priests made a long blast with the rams’ horns, the people were to give a great shout and take the city. When they shouted the promise was fulfilled. The walls fell down flat.

All of God’s promises are true, covering your every need from Earth to Glory, covering every mile you have to travel, every moment you have left. When you reach the end of Earth’s journey, you will not have used up all God’s promises; many you will have not even touched on.

A Promised Savior

A promise brought life for us all. Isaiah heard about it and reported: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). Isaiah died many years before that birth, but he knew it would happen.

Job had the promise of a Savior: For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth (Job 19:25). Job didn’t live to see the fulfillment of that promise, but he knew it would happen. He accepted the promise. John the Baptist stood against rulers, kings, for he had the promise: He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire (Matthew 3:11).

We have the promise of grace for our salvation; not by works are we saved but by grace. Some people have tried to use their own promises to be saved, to make their own way; but it has never worked. You must be saved through the promise of God, through the blood of Jesus Christ. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). There is no other name we are promised that can save us, only Jesus Christ.

I received salvation through a promise, one promise. I didn’t use all the promises in the Bible—I didn’t know all of them. I just used one: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9). My parents had taught me that promise. That’s the only promise I thought about using when I went to the altar. One promise did it all. One promise made me completely new. One promise prepared me to meet the world head on. One promise gave me holy boldness, made me ready to tell the world about the saving power of the Lord.

A promise: Whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16). A promise: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17). Remember when you received salvation? Wasn’t it the greatest day of your life? You found the new and living way, made new all over.

Daily Benefits

The promise: Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits (Psalm 68:19). Why should we grumble and complain? If we accept that promise we will be blessed daily. That promise was in effect before Calvary; think how much more God can do for us after Calvary!

A promise: The Lord will help me. Behold, God is mine helper (Psalm 54:4). God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1). That’s a promise. For he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5). All His help and strength are available all the time, and yet many overlook His marvelous promise.

We have the promise of God’s love for us: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son (John 3:16).

God promises us peace: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee (Isaiah 26:3). Yet many are depressed and oppressed, weighed down with anything but peace. Why? They don’t use the promise of peace. You have a promise of perfect peace if you will keep your mind stayed on the Lord. Turn from persecutors and put your mind on Jesus. Turn problems that you can’t handle over to the Lord. Let God use His rod of the Holy Word on them.

The prophets lived by promise as they wrote the promises of God. Had they not lived by promise they would not have been used by God to give us His will; but they believed it all, accepted it all.

A Promise of a Homeland

Ezekiel was promised that Israel would be brought back to their own land after they had been scattered among all nations. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel (Ezekiel 37:12). They would be like a dead people, but God would put life in them. The Spirit of the Lord set Ezekiel down in a valley full of bones. When the Lord asked Ezekiel if those bones could live again, Ezekiel answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest (Ezekiel 37:3). He believed whatever God told him was true; he believed God for anything He said. That is the way we must live, believing God in perfect trust. Prophesy, the Lord told Ezekiel. In other words, say what I say, not what you think. O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD (verse 4). The bones came together and took on flesh. In a vision, Ezekiel saw a dead nation come to life; and in our day Ezekiel’s vision burst in to reality with the coming together of the Jews to form the nation of Israel in 1948. After 2,500 years, the Lord kept that promise. Today Israel is once again a great nation.

John the Baptist Preached the Promise

John the Baptist didn’t have to be taught about God’s provisions. He came with the promise of all needs supplied. From his mother’s womb, he had the Holy Ghost, the perfect faith, perfect love that comes when all of self is on the altar. Willing to live or die for the Lord, John had a message: He must increase, but I must decrease (John 3:30). John sought none of the honor or glory for himself but all for Christ. Wherever he saw sin he named it as such. John preached Christ. He had the priceless promise. Because John had never put his trust in the things of this world, he didn’t have to break away from them. He had victory over life and victory over death. When it came time for him to die he only wanted to make sure Jesus was the Christ. Go ask Him, John told his followers. He knew the answer in his heart, but he wanted to hear Jesus say it one more time. Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them (Matthew 11:4,5). That was enough to reassure John. He was ready to die.

We see all the promises of God; none are weak. All are with power; all work; all have life. I want to preach the Gospel with all the excitement, all the holiness, all the devotion, with everything that was in John the Baptist when he preached the first appearance of Jesus.

Jesus Will Return

The Bride is proclaiming the second appearance of Jesus; her voice must be lifted in power just like John’s was. His one voice in the wilderness is now joined by every member of the bridal company, many voices coming together in one great voice that will be heard throughout the whole Earth. As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God (Luke 3:4-6).

Make your crooked paths straight, the King is coming! King Jesus is coming! We will be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (I Corinthians 15:52). For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (I Thessalonians 4:16,17). We will not all sleep—not all die—but some will be changed, caught away to be with the Lord forever.

A promise: I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (I Thessalonians 5:23). What a promise!

A promise: I will come again, and receive you unto myself (John 14:3). Jesus will come again; depend on it. Not only will He come the second time, but John the Revelator had the promise of Christ’s third appearance when the Lord will return to fight the Battle of Armageddon.

This is the greatest hour for people to be on Earth since man and woman were driven from the Garden. We have it all, the Son of God, the baptism in the Holy Spirit, the signs and wonders, the miracles and healings, and we have the promise of the soon return of Jesus. God is opening up the windows of Heaven and pouring out blessings daily on the Bride of Christ in this her final hour. Walking in His glory, in His love, strength, goodness and in His mercy, she is decked with the promises of God; they’re her jewelry, more valuable than all the wealth in the whole world.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you (John 14:27). Jesus gives us a promise of peace.

Power to Trample Devils Underfoot

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall be any means hurt you (Luke 10:19). We have a promise to trample devils underfoot, a promise that if we submit ourselves to God, we will be able to resist the devil, and he will flee (James 4:7).

Don’t run from the devil. Through the blood of Jesus you can trample him underfoot. Some people, saved for years, have spent most of that time running from the devil. It’s time to turn on him, claim the promise and trample him. You have the power from On High to do it.

Jesus gave us a promise of power: But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you (Acts 1:8). Take your place in the promises of God. Don’t look at people; look at the promises. Don’t look at yourself; look at the promises. It’s all in the promises. You had to accept the promise of salvation, or you never would have been saved. You will not use all the power promised if you do not accept the promises concerning this power. Jesus stands at the door daily knocking: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me (Revelation 3:20). The Lord wants to come in and have a banquet with each child of God. The Lord doesn’t stand only at the sinners’ door; He’s at my door and yours every day ready to serve us well, ready to give us everything we need. His promises are exciting!

Ask What Ye Will

A promise: If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7). How many times have you used that promise? How many times have you staked your life on it? Jesus stands at the door; if we abide in Him and He in us, we can ask what we will and it will be done. That’s the power of prayer. The Bride will learn much about prayer, how it works; and she will get more answers to prayer than she ever thought possible.

We should be able to stake our lives on the promises of God. His promises are either strong as He is, direct from Him with all His power in them, or they are worthless. If the promises of God are worthless, we need to know it and throw them out as junk. But if they, on the other hand, are true, we need to treasure them more than any of Earth’s wealth.

Cling to the promises of God. A promise of God will take you from Earth to Heaven. Without that promise, you won’t reach Heaven. There is no way to get to Heaven without the promise.

A promise made us sons and daughters of God. A promise gave the born-again everlasting life. If you don’t have a promise, you don’t have everlasting life. If you do, you will live with the Lord forever. In Heaven all things will be furnished, no sickness, no dying. What a promise of everlasting life!

All Needs Supplied

Jesus taught the disciples to not worry: Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you (Luke 12:29-31). Jesus reminded the disciples that since God fed the birds, clothed the flowers, He would certainly take care of them.

A promise gives security. The reason some are not secure is because they won’t use the promise. If they would just use one promise: My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19), they would have that security. My God will do it! He will supply all! Many, instead of reaching for God’s promise, will reach for an armful of empty air, depending on man’s fickle opinions. When you have your trust in God, reaching out to Him, you will find security, peace, love. Trusting in God is trusting His promises. Every time you reach to God, you touch a promise. Every promise in the Bible is yours.

A promise of sufficiency: Our sufficiency is of God (II Corinthians 3:5). If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it (John 14:14). Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:24). If you become weak, plagued by doubt and fear, it’s because you are not using a promise. Fear cannot destroy any promise of God, but fear can destroy you if you don’t use a promise. When the devil finds you empty handed, without a promise, you are in trouble. Always keep a promise working with all the life of God in your innermost being.

Jesus said to Paul, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness (II Corinthians 12:9). His grace is sufficient—that’s a promise, the voice of the Lord speaking through His Word. You can do all things through Christ. Until you decide that, you will not do all things.

More Than Conquerors

We are more than conquerors through him that loved us (Romans 8:37). If you think you cannot overcome through Christ, you are not claiming a promise but a problem. Through Jesus Christ you can conquer, no matter how cruel the opposition, how many devils come against you. Look to the Lord; look to the promise. Reach to the promise and for the promise.

What does it mean to be more than a conqueror? It means you have power through the Lord to overcome all devils coming against you and still have power left over. That’s a promise.

God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3). He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things (Romans 8:32)? He freely gives us all things according to His divine power. There is no lack when you use a promise. Stop wishing you could use the promises of God; decide you will use a promise.

He Satisfies the Longing Soul

A promise: He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness (Psalm 107:9). People, lonely, dissatisfied, are not reaching out for a promise but to a person or people. It’s the Lord who satisfieth the longing soul.

A promise: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6). You don’t have to let spiritual famine rage on the inside. You think you are not blessed of the Lord, but He can’t bless you unless you hold to His promise. Why choose not to use a promise when God has so many to select from? Just one promise will do it.

A promise: They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more (Revelation 7:16). A promise: The LORD shall guide thee continually (Isaiah 58:11). If you don’t know which way to turn, you’re trying to find your way without a promise. The right paths aren’t clear without a promise. If you would just take a promise, just one, the LORD shall guide thee continually; He will do it. He will do it. The Lord is the one to guide you at all times.

The Word Endureth Forever

You can trust all promises in the Bible, for all scripture came from God. All scripture is holy like God Himself. Here’s your promise: No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost (II Peter 1:20,21). The Holy Bible came from the Lord. All the Word of God is pure.

A promise of Jesus: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away (Matthew 24:35). The word of the Lord endureth for ever (I Peter 1:25). We are born again through the Word; we live through the Word; we overcome through the Word. The Word is our sword, our help at all times. The Word shines light upon every path we travel.

Joint-Heirs with Jesus

A promise gives us an inheritance in Heaven: We are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:16,17). Joint-heirs with Jesus Christ—what a promise! One promise tells you that you are rich, an heir to eternity in Heaven. A promise reserves each one of God’s children a mansion in Heaven; God promised nothing less. You can’t take anything out of this world with you, but you can bank in Heaven’s bank while you are here, sending your deposit on ahead.

Some think people are foolish to give in to the work of God: but that money collects much in interest, huge dividends, for it is stored in Heaven’s bank. Your account is in Heaven. A promise: Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal (Matthew 6:20).

God knows willing hands that are operated by willing hearts. When one promise is claimed, another promise is reached for. The day will come when you reach out for the last promise to be fulfilled, and the fulfillment comes in your stepping onto Glory’s shore. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him (I Corinthians 2:9). That’s a promise.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature (II Peter 1:4). We who are born again have the divine nature of Jesus Christ living inside us. That’s the reason we live free from sin. Jesus, very man as well as very God, did not sin.

The Lord Is Our Teacher

A promise: I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye (Psalm 32:8). No need to think you are without instruction and teaching; the Lord has promised to be your teacher. Depend on God. Reach out for that promise of instruction; it belongs to you. It was given to Adam. He had all the knowledge he needed—even the animals were named by him. Where did he get such knowledge? From the same source you can get your knowledge: from God.

A Promise of Strength

A promise: He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (Isaiah 40:29,31). If you are weak, God will give you strength, power.

A promise: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you (I Peter 5:7). Bring all your cares to Him, all your burdens. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness (Isaiah 41:10).

Claim a Promise

A promise has been known to save a drunkard and make him a good family man.

A promise has been known to rescue a drug addict, deliver him, set him completely free and give him eternal life.

A promise has healed millions of broken hearts and brought shattered homes together, Mom and Dad reunited and living with their children, loving them with a new kind of love, God’s love. A promise has destroyed hate, envy, confusion and strife. A promise has taken many a mind leeched, demented and made it sober, delivered, clear as the moon and sun.

A promise has given love where there was none, replaced sadness with joy, peace and great happiness.

A promise has cooled the fever of a dying one, stayed the hand of death and given life, life, life.

A promise has caused a little crippled one to walk when the doctors had given up all hope of that one walking again.

A promise has healed people of all manner of sickness and disease.

A promise has destroyed tormenting fear that was draining the life out of a person.

A promise has put bread on many tables when Mom and Dad didn’t know where it was going to come from.

A promise has given love to the unloved.

A promise has given strength to the weak.

A promise has given sight to the blind, made paths for many feet that did not know their way.

A promise has filled many meal barrels and kept them filled until the crisis was over. It multiplied the loaves and fishes and fed the multitudes, a promise.

A promise has brought sunshine at midnight, rain to the parched earth and made it fertile—a promise.

Jesus Promised

We are healed by a promise. In the same sentence the Psalmist wrote that the Lord is the one who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases (Psalm 103:3). He healeth all your diseases, but some won’t claim a promise for all of it. They think they are doing great if they claim a promise for one thing at a time. By the time they get one thing healed, something else may have taken over.

Jesus said, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (John 5:14). Be thou made whole—a promise.

Through the Holy Spirit we can work with Jesus today. The Holy Spirit makes Jesus a great reality to you, greater to you than He was to the disciples before the Resurrection when He wasn’t real to them all the time. It took Pentecost to make Jesus completely real to them. But Jesus is all living reality to the Bride in her final hour.

You can be healed with a promise: With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). You only need one promise for healing, not a whole roomful of them.

In my early twenties when I was so very ill, God gave me a promise; He told me He would heal me. But because I had suffered untold pain for such a long period of time, I lost sight of that promise. God didn’t tell me He was going to wait until I went to the edge of the grave, that my flesh would melt away until I looked like a skeleton. He said, I will heal you. At the very last, that one promise was fulfilled; God healed me. But I would have had light through the valley of sickness had I held onto that promise all the way. Every promise has all the light of Heaven in it. You will never be in the night if you use a promise. Every promise will show you the way; every promise will show you where to place your next footstep.

A centurion was given a promise: Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour (Matthew 8:13).

A promise, and a man who had not walked for thirty-eight years was healed when Jesus said, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk (John 5:8).

A promise, and a leper was suddenly cleansed: And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed (Mark 1:40-42).

A promise, and a man blind from birth suddenly had sight: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing (John 9:7).

A promise, and Lazarus was raised from the dead: Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again (John 11:23).

A promise brought the daughter of Jairus back to life: Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole (Luke 8:50).

A promise to Simon Peter, and he walked the water: Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus (Matthew 14:28,29). A promise, and a miracle took place.

A promise, and a healing took place.

A promise brings patience, loving kindness, tender care. A promise will bring one out of a lukewarm condition.

A promise will destroy doubt.

A promise will give confidence, God’s confidence.

A promise will heal.

A Window-Open Blessing Promise

A promise will bring window-open blessings, deliver out of financial difficulty, a promise: Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it (Malachi 3:10).

A promise will take care of all problems on the job, all problems in marriage.

A Promise Sets Captives Free

A promise will help you stand when forsaken by human hands. A promise: Eternity is yours to live in the greatness of God forever. A promise brings the benefits of all the grace of God to you; everything that God has is incorporated in a promise. We have become partakers of it.

A promise has God’s faithfulness in it for you. A promise: Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20). A promise: They that wait upon the LORD shall…mount up with wings as eagles (Isaiah 40:31). Come out of that valley on wings of His love, on wings of His faith and greatness, come out, come out! Thank God!

A promise sets the captives free. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (II Timothy 1:7). A promise has the cure for all depression and oppression. Those weights do not come through any promise of God. Never has God promised such a thing. Live by promise, no other way.

When you let the devil bind you with depression, oppression, when you let him cause fear to seize your heart, you are not living by promise but beneath your privilege. Any time you fail to claim a promise of God, you’re living beneath your privilege as a child of God. When you come into the Kingdom, all God’s promises are yours, your new birthright.

A promise will make a way of escape: God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it (I Corinthians 10:13).

A promise: With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). That covers every case, all circumstances.

A Promise to Meet Loved Ones in Heaven

A loved one is dying, one you love better than life; you don’t want to give that precious one up. But a promise tells you that it is appointed unto men once to die (Hebrews 9:27). Only through the Rapture can anyone escape death. One way or another we all will have to leave this earth sooner or later. A promise tells us that precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints (Psalm 116:15). A promise tells us the Lord will preserve the personality we love, that one we have to give up for a season. A promise tells us when Jesus comes, He will bring our loved ones with Him: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds (I Thessalonians 4:17). When we look through the eyes of that promise, we know it’s not our loved one we are placing in the grave; we know that one we love has moved out of the house of clay and into the presence of the Lord. During the funeral here on Earth, that one is touring the beautiful city of God. We know this because we have a promise. We know the Lord has welcomed our loved one into Glory, that loved one will be taken care of and will never shed another tear. We have a promise.

One day there will be no more tears for the children of God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away (Revelation 21:4). The Lord will dry His tears; He won’t cry anymore over humanity. The happiest of times will be when God wipes away all His tears and the tears of Jesus. No more tears for the Godhead.

Thus Saith the Lord

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I have given you my promises—live in them. Let them work for you. They are your possession. They belong to you. I gave them to you. They have my deliverance in them for you. They have my health in them for you. They have my knowledge in them for you. They have my wisdom in them for you. They have my hope; they have my understanding. They have my plain paths for you. They have my still waters for you.

Trust in my promises, and you will dine with me daily and I will dine with you. Trust in my promises, and you will walk the waters. Trust in my promises, and you will climb the highest mountains. Trust in my promises, and depression and oppression and despair will not be your companion. Trust me and know that I love you with an everlasting, unending love.

Walk with me. Live in my love. I have promised you that you can abide in my love and that you can abide in my faith and that you can be with me and I will be with you all the time. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Trust in my promises and be strong in the might of my Spirit. Trust in my promises and do all of my will in this, your final hour, saith the Lord.