Becoming Conference 2024 Session 1 – Ps Tamara
FAITHFUL
There are 7,487 promises from God to us in the Bible.
Here are a few:
God promises He does not change. He is the same yesterday, today & forever. ~ Malachi 3:6 NIV 1984
He promises to be with us, strengthen us, help us and uphold us. ~ Isaiah 41:10 NIV 1984
He promises to never leave us. ~ Deuteronomy 31:8 NIV 1984
He promises to instruct us, teach us, and counsel us. ~ Psalm 32:8 NIV 1984
He promises to give us the desires of our heart. ~ Psalm 37:4 NIV 1984
He promises to renew our strength. ~Isaiah 40:30 – 31 NIV 1984
He promises to fight for us. ~ Exodus 14:14 NIV 1984
He promises His unfailing love will never be shaken. ~ Isaiah 54:10 NIV 1984
He promises to bind up the brokenhearted, sets captives free & release prisoners from darkness. ~ Isaiah 61: 1 NIV 1984
He promises to comfort us. ~ Psalm 23:4 NIV 1984
He promises to give us wisdom. ~ James 1:5 NIV 1984
He promises to answer our prayers. ~ Mark 11:24 NIV 1984
He promises to meet all our needs. ~ Philippians 4:19 NIV 1984
He promises to work all things for our good. ~ Romans 8:28 NIV 1984
He promises to have good plans for our future, to prosper us, and to be found when we seek Him. ~ Jeremiah 29:11-13 NIV 1984
“Magical”, adjective that means “beautiful or delightful in such a way as to seem removed from everyday life.” Are we looking for our lives to be “removed from everyday life”?
Every day can be defined as extraordinary when we take time to “smell the roses”, or look for God’s faithfulness.
Jeremiah remembers the affliction the Israelites have suffered. Recounting it causes his soul to be downcast. But then in v21 he says, “Yet this I call to mind- Jeremiah shifted his focus from all the bad he’d seen & experienced to the faithfulness of God. ~ Lamentations 3:19 NIV 1984
Throughout the Bible the people kept records of God’s faithfulness, his promises & when he fulfilled those promises. ~ Joshua 4:7b NIV 1984
You don’t have to journal like I do. The modality isn’t as important as remembering God’s faithfulness and making sure you pass it to your children.
God is faithful on extraordinarily good days and He is faithful on extraordinarily bad days when we feel our circumstances are too hard to bear.
Psalm 77:1-14 (NIV 1984)
Pastor Bill Johnson “Don’t define a season by a problem.”
Define every season with God’s faithfulness.
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. – Romans 10:9-10 (NIV 1984)