I have known the power of Bible promises for a long
time. Since I was a young child I began
memorizing Scripture. Actually my first
learning was through a TV show for kids and a program for churches known as Bible Bowl. I even won an award for being the “most
Christian boy” at Bible Bowl camp when I was 7 or 8 years old (I became a
Christian several years later).
Bible promises continued through my high school years and
college years. As Julie and I were
moving toward marriage, God gave us Scripture to live by. Through some hard times and even great times
in ministry God has given us verses that took us places we couldn’t go on our
own.
That leads me to some verses that God gave me this
weekend. This is powerful truth that
spoke into the situation of that moment and the days to come. It is from Isaiah 55. Read the chapter below:
“Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink—even if you have no
money! Come, take your choice of wine or
milk— it’s all free!
2 Why spend your money on
food that does not give you strength?
Why pay for food that does you no good?
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food.
3 “Come to me with your
ears wide open. Listen, and you will
find life. I will make an everlasting
covenant with you. I will give you all
the unfailing love I promised to David.
4 See how I used him to
display my power among the peoples. I
made him a leader among the nations.
5 You also will command
nations you do not know, and peoples unknown to you will come running to obey,
because I, the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, have made you glorious.”
6 Seek the Lord while you
can find him. Call on him now while he
is near.
7 Let the wicked change
their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have
mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for
he will forgive generously.
8 “My thoughts are nothing
like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And
my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
9 For just as the heavens
are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts
higher than your thoughts.
10 “The rain and snow come
down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed
for the farmer and bread for the hungry.
11 It is the same with my
word. I send it out, and it always
produces fruit. It will accomplish all I
want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.
12 You will live in joy and
peace. The mountains and hills will
burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands!
13 Where once there were
thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where
nettles grew, myrtles will sprout up.
These events will bring great honor to the Lord’s name; they will be an
everlasting sign of his power and love.”
You can find the Bible promises in these verses. I don’t have to point them out to you if you
are tuned into what God is saying.
You may ask how to find Bible promises, and I will give you
my thought. No magic here. Just the idea that I come to the Bible
with. It is not opening to the Bible to
some random place and letting your finger drop to some random verse. I believe that God speaks through His word no
matter how you read it.
Just read the Bible. I
encourage you to read it methodically, and as you read God will share His
goodness and His wisdom with you. How
did I find Isaiah 55? It was part of my
daily Bible reading last Saturday.
But the story doesn’t stop there. When I was on a retreat last weekend, I lost
the place where I was reading in Isaiah and began at another spot. That meant I had to come back to those
chapters when I got back home. That
means that I was supposed to read Isaiah 55 several days earlier, but God
wanted me to read this chapter on a particular day. It was what He had for me.
That’s awesome. That’s
God. He has Bible promises for you
too! Find them as you read.
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