June 6 – 13, 2025
GOD’S PROMISES
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change His mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?”
God has given us His very great and precious promises (2 Peter 1:4). The Bible contains 33,000 promises of God. Twenty-four times in the Bible it says God promised with an oath. God does not lie, so He doesn’t need to make an oath, but He wants us to know that He is serious (Hebrews 6:16-17). The Bible is an historical recordof the reliability of God’s promises. Psalm 119:140 says, “Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.”
God’s promises come by our faith and His grace (Romans 4:16). We can’t earn or deserve them. They are ours by the grace of God. The promises of God don’t depend on our abilities, but God’s. Jesus said in Matthew 19:26, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Abraham was 100 and Sarah 90 when Isaac was born. They themselves had zero ability to bear children. The key was Abraham’s confidence that “God had power to do what He had promised” (Romans 4:21). If you can focus on God’s unlimited power, then you can count on God’s power to fulfill God’s promises on your behalf.
God hasn’t given any reason for us to believe that His promises will stop! Psalm 145:13 states, “Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made.”
“And this is what He promised us—eternal life” (1 John 2:25). God is waiting to fulfill one great last promise—and that’s when He gets to welcome us home, once and for all, in heaven. He’s promised to come back for us. He’s gone to prepare a place for us where we will live eternally with Him.
Receive God’s promises to you! He is faithful, dependable and absolutely trustworthy!
This is an excerpt from a 90-day devotional written by Emil and Karen. To order the full devotional, click on the TO ORDER DEVOTIONAL page.