Bible Promises


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God's Promises given to His children, providing them with the ability to walk faithfully and victoriously. "Having therefore these Promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Corinthians 7:1). "God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill." "No promise is of private interpretation: it belongs not to one saint but to all believers. If, my brother, thou canst in faith lie down upon a promise and take thy rest thereon, it is thine... Come, weary one, use thy LORD's words as thy pillows. Lie down in peace. Dream only of Him." "Since God is unchangeable, He will continue to be mindful of us in the future as He has been in the past; and His mindfulness is tantamount to blessing us. But we have here not only the conclusion of reason but the declaration of inspiration; we have it on the Holy Ghost's authority -- 'He will bless us.' This means great things and unsearchable. The very indistinctness of the promise indicates its infinite reach. He will bless us after His own divine manner, and that forever and ever, Therefore, let us each say, 'Bless the LORD, O my soul!'" "The writer of these pages knows what it is to hang on the bare arm of God, and he bears his willing witness that no trust is so well warranted by facts, or so sure to be rewarded by results, as trust in the invisible but ever-living God." -above xcerpts from "Faith's Checkbook" ---New Window SEE TODAY'S ENTRY ---New Window by C. H. Spurgeon

"The promises were made to be used--they were made to be used by God's children, by all who will believe them and appropriate them. They were not made to lay concealed in a gilt-edged Bible, but to be read, understood, and used. The fact is, the Bible is like a book of checks put into the hands of the needy, and we are to use them when we want anything: thus God has given promises to every class and description of persons; and these promises were given not to be hoarded up, but to be used--we are to draw liberally and freely upon the divine bounty for all the blessings that we need... If Christians will but understand and get the impression deeply imbedded in their own minds, that these promises are regarded by God as their inheritance, given them to be used by them under all the circumstances in which they find themselves placed, they would often much better understand the meaning of the apostle, when he says, 'whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises.'"

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The following Scripture listings describe the type of Promises
offered by the LORD Jesus to His people.
They are a small taste of the unlimited "manna"
the LORD supplies to meet our every need.
"Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering;
(for He is Faithful that promised)"
(Hebrews 10:23).

Pollyanna, Rejoicing, and the Promises ---New Window 6-12-05 by Tom Stewart	Pollyanna is a book by Eleanor Porter, a movie by Walt Disney, and a label for those whose optimism overreaches the boundaries of the reality seen by others.You can see why 100-year-old Abraham-- with 90-year-old Sarah-- could have been labelled a Pollyanna for believing God's promise of a son, as well as becoming the Father of a Great Nation. "20 He staggered not at the Promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in Faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform" (Romans 4:20-21). Dare we be called a Pollyanna for our rejoicing optimism in the Promises of God?
How I Know God Answers Prayer (1921) The Personal Testimony of One Lifetime ---New Window 6-5-04 by Rosalind Goforth (Mrs. Jonathan Goforth) Went to China in 1888	"It seems fitting that this little book of personal testimonies to answered prayer should have a brief introductory word as to how they came to be written. The question has been asked by some who read many of these testimonies as they appeared in the pages of The Sunday School Times: 'How could you write such personal and sacred incidents in your life?' I could not have written them but for a very clear, God-given leading." ---New Window
Promises for Building Up Your Most Holy Faith ---New Window 2004 by Katie Stewart (1950-2004)	Reproduced Faithfully From the Notes of Katie Stewart. "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your Most Holy Faith, praying in the Holy Ghost" (Jude 20).
Precious Bible Promises Also, known as Clarke's Scripture Promises. ---New Window 11-20-03 Compiled by Samuel Clarke, D.D. (1675-1729). and An Historical Perspective of Precious Bible Promises by Tom Stewart	Compiled by Samuel Clarke more than 274 years ago, Precious Bible Promises is more than a sampling of the vows of a Loving God to fulfil the certainties of His Everlasting Word to a trusting soul, but it is a reference from which to begin to mine the unfathomable treasures of Christ-- in the times of calm before the promised storms. "For all the Promises of God in Him are Yea, and in Him Amen, unto the Glory of God by us" (2Corinthians 1:20). ---New Window
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Exceeding Great and Precious Promises Or, How God Has Ingeniously Designed His Promises to Sanctify His People ---New Window 3-7-98 by Tom Stewart	Our day-to-day needs have been ordained by God to cause us the necessity of discovering some new aspect of the character of the LORD Jesus that we may lay hold of by means of the Exceeding Great and Precious Promises. "But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). ---New Window
According to Your Faith Or, The Fundamental Rule of Conduct for the Kingdom of God ---New Window 11-18-99 by Tom Stewart	"According to your faith be it unto you" (Matthew 9:29). Like a Divine Cycle, faith in the Promises teach us to trust in God, because "all the Promises of God in [Christ Jesus] are yea, and in Him Amen, unto the glory of God by us" (2Corinthians 1:20). Building Christian Confidence is not a humanistic confidence in self, but it is the confidence that God, "that cannot lie" (Titus 1:2), will do as He said. "God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?" (Numbers 23:19). The Apostle John wrote in his First Epistle that his purpose in writing, like a Divine Cycle, was to those who had already believed on the LORD Jesus, that they may further understand Him, that they would be encouraged to further trust Him. "These things have I written unto you that believe on the Name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have Eternal Life, and that ye may believe on the Name of the Son of God" (1John 5:13)... Faith is inescapably tied to the Promises. "That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the Promises" (Hebrews 6:12). The LORD will take us at whatever level of Spiritual development that we possess, and He will give further revelations of Himself, His Word, and His character. "He that hath My Commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love Him, and will manifest Myself to Him" (John 14:21). ---New Window
Intercession Promises: Casting The Net Or, Help in Becoming Fishers of Men ---New Window 5-1-99 by Katie Stewart	"And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men" (Mark 1:17). His Promises are the Threads in His Net. Since faith is the only thing that we can do to please God, for "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), and since our King Jesus honours His Word above all of His wonderful Name, "for Thou hast magnified Thy WORD above all Thy Name" (Psalm 138:2), then there is no more pleasing thing we can do for Him than to believe in the Absolute Strength of His Promise. And the Absolute Strength of His Promise equals the Absolute Strength that our Net will have as we cast His WORD over the souls of men and He draws them in to Himself. This Omnipotent Net will never break. He will not lose that which is His. If the Promise is Sure, then the Net is Strong, and your confidence Secure. "And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us" (1John 5:14). Thus equipped with an Eternally Strong Net, we now ask, "How do we cast this Wonderfully Strong Net?" The souls of men are the reward of His increase. For if Jesus Christ is the Net with which we use to catch men, then they will be truly and eternally caught! Also included: A Vision Of The Lost by William Booth (1829 - 1912), Founder of the Salvation Army "On one of my recent journeys, as I gazed from the coach window, I was led into a train of thought concerning the condition of the multitudes around me. They were living carelessly in the most open and shameless rebellion against God, without a thought for their eternal welfare. As I looked out of the window, I seemed to see them all... millions of people all around me given up to their drink and their pleasure, their dancing and their music, their business and their anxieties, their politics and their troubles. Ignorant- willfully ignorant in many cases- and in other instances knowing all about the truth and not caring at all. But all of them, the whole mass of them, sweeping on and up in their blasphemies and devilries to the Throne of God. While my mind was thus engaged, I had a vision." ---New Window
Intercession Collection "Helps to Intercession" by Andrew Murray, "The Power of Persevering Prayer" by Andrew Murray, "Intercession Promises: Casting the Net" by Katie Stewart, "A Vision of the Lost" by William Booth, and "Exceeding Great and Precious Promises" by Tom Stewart "Every One That Is Born Of The Spirit" by Katie Stewart ---New Window
What is the Prayer of Faith? ---New Window 3-12-2000 by Katie Stewart	"And the Prayer of Faith shall save the sick, and the LORD shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him" (James 5:15). "Not every prayer from the lips of a sincere Christian gets an affirmative nod from Above. Many times prayer does not yield the desired results we yearn for. 'Hope deferred maketh the heart sick' (Proverbs 13:12). Hope precedes all prayer, but only when the answer comes do we recognize the difference that Faith makes in praying. 'But when the desire cometh, it is a Tree of Life' (13:12). Picture lightning. When God's will makes contact with our hope, Faith is established and grace races down the lightning rod of experience. Faith is the way you use God's grace. It's our part to exercise the Faith God authors, but its God's part to finish it." ---New Window
All the Promises in Christ Jesus are Yea ---New Window 12-2-2001 by Katie Stewart	"Humanly speaking, we affirm something is true, or is not true, saying that this or that may happen, or may not happen. 'Do I [the Apostle Paul] purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay [yes, yes, and no, no]?' (2Corinthians 1:17). But Spiritually speaking, that is, applying the Principles and Promises of God's Word to any given situation led of the Spirit to address, we must adamantly affirm, 'Yes! Only God states Absolute Truth. This WILL happen!' 'As God is True, our Word toward you was not yea and nay' (1:18). Why? Because Jesus,Who is our 'Yea' and our 'Amen', secures ONLY 'Yea [Yes]' and 'Amen [Verily, Truly]' answers to our faith. '19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, Who was preached among you by us, even by me [Paul] and Silvanus and Timotheus, was NOT yea and nay [yes and no], but in Him was YEA. 20 For ALL the Promises of God in Him are Yea [Yes], and in Him Amen [Verily, Truly], unto the Glory of God by us' (1:19-20). It is this very fact that allows the LORD the liberty to offer freely His Blank Check Promises-- with strings attached, most certainly-- but none the less LIMITLESS." ---New Window
In God We Trust Or, The Freedom of Believing in Someone Who Has Never Failed ---New Window 2-3-2002 by Katie Stewart	"Faith in God Almighty is simple in concept and practice because the LORD is Absolute in every sense. He is easy to believe! And it is for this reason, that rejection of Him is the greatest crime of all. "For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:48). And this quality of being Absolute, if received in faith, is not only the Greatest Blessing Of All, but also the easiest to obtain. "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)." ---New Window
Every One That Is Born of the Spirit ---New Window 12-5-99 by Katie Stewart	The obedient children of Abba, through intercession, "bloweth where [He] listeth" (John 3:8), have great liberty to go wherever His desires take us. ---New Window
The Victory List ---New Window compiled by Robert Gunn	Rich! The WORD of God spread out as a Feast! Study the LORD's ample provision as our Overcomer. Thank you, Rob! ---New Window or Abbreviated with References Only ---New Window
Emergency Phone Numbers from the Scripture ---New Window by Anonymous	Or, Finding Help in Times of Need "Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne Of Grace, that we may obtain Mercy, and find Grace to help in time of need" (Hebrews 4:16). ---New Window

GEORGE MUELLER
Pleading With God and Argument in Prayer ---New Window 4-7-2001 by A. T. Pierson (1837-1911) Taken from Pierson's classic biography of George Mueller, "George Müller of Bristol," chapter 10: "The Word of God and Prayer"	Pleading with God, presenting your argument or case before Him, is best described by A. T. Pierson ---New Window, concerning God's prayer warrior, George Mueller ---New Window "This man who had determined to risk everything upon God's word of promise, turned from doubtful devices and questionable methods of relief to pleading with God. And it may be well to mark his manner of pleading. He used argument in prayer... This method of holy argument-- ordering our cause before God, as an advocate would plead before a judge-- is not only almost a lost art, but to many it actually seems almost puerile. And yet it is abundantly taught and exemplified in Scripture. Abraham in his plea for Sodom is the first great example of it. Moses excelled in this art,in many crises interceding in behalf of the people with consummate skill, marshalling arguments as a general-in-chief marshals battalions. Elijah on Carmel is a striking example of power in this special pleading. What a zeal and jealousy for God! It is probable that if we had fuller records we should find that all pleaders with God, like Noah, Job, Samuel, David, Daniel, Jeremiah, Paul, and James, have used the same method." ---New Window
Excerpts From "George Mueller of Bristol" ---New Window 5-6-2001 by A. T. Pierson (1837-1911) compiled by Katie Stewart including George Mueller with GOD Alone Or, A Man of Prayer and Like Passions "O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His Name together" (Psalm 34:3). by Katie Stewart	"GEORGE MUELLER was a man, who, during his 92 years of life, even though himself a poor man in material substance, knew how to have power with God to get answers to his prayers. And with that ability he set forth a praying example for all time, and for all the world to hear of, and testify to, the very fact that GOD TRULY ANSWERS PRAYER! With this holy demonstration, he built 5 large orphan houses, housed over 10,000 orphans, a third of whom came to love the LORD, received almost 7 1/2 million dollars, over 50,000 specific answers to prayer spread over several branches of his ministry, including the support of hundreds of missionaries, Christian publishing and distribution, and supporting educational and religious schools for all ages. Also, when most men slow down in their 'twilight' years, Mr. Mueller-- between the ages of seventy to eighty-seven-- began 17 years of missionary tours travelling over 200,000 miles, in 42 countries, spreading the Gospel to 3 million people. In his life he preached well over 10 thousand sermons and read the Bible over 200 times-- on his knees. And this very humble man accomplished this all-- by placing his TRUST IN GOD ALONE." --Katie Stewart "George Mueller... was permitted henceforth to know as never before, and as few others have ever learned, how truly God may be approached as 'Thou that hearest prayer.' God can keep His trusting children not only from falling but from stumbling; for, during all those after-years that spanned the lifetime of two generations, there was no drawing back. Those precious promises, which in faith and hope were 'laid hold' of in 1830, were 'held fast' until the end. (Heb. vi. 18, x. 23.) And the divine faithfulness proved a safe anchorage-- ground in the most prolonged and violent tempests. The anchor of hope, sure and steadfast, and entering into that within the veil, was never dragged from its secure hold on God. In fifty thousand cases, Mr. Mueller calculated that he could trace distinct answers to definite prayers; and in multitudes of instances in which God's care was not definitely traced, it was day by day like an encompassing but invisible presence or atmosphere of life and strength." --from "George Mueller of Bristol" by A. T. Pierson, chapter 5: "The Pulpit and the Pastorate" ---New Window
PLEASE NOTE in our "Voice of Philadelphia" section George Mueller of Bristol ---New Window And His Witness To A Prayer-Hearing God by A. T. Pierson ---New Window The originally "authorized memoir" Published in 1899 OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and reformatting by Katie Stewart "SNARES OF SATAN AS TO PRAYER. It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were of no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer; whilst the truth is, in order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer is to continue praying; for the less we read the word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray." --from "George Mueller of Bristol" by A. T. Pierson, Appendix N: "The Wise Sayings of George Mueller"

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"Let all those that put their trust in Thee
REJOICE"
(Psalm 5:11).

"Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of Promise the immutability of His Counsel, confirmed it by an Oath: that... we might have a Strong Consolation... to lay hold upon the Hope set before us: which Hope we have as an Anchor Of The Soul, both sure and stedfast"
(Hebrews 6:17-19).

BIBLE PROMISES Fulness in the LORD ---New Window
Patience & Endurance in the LORD ---New Window	Bodily Health in the LORD ---New Window
Sanctification in the LORD ---New Window	Our Children in the LORD ---New Window
Temperance in the LORD ---New Window	Forgiveness in the LORD ---New Window
Deliverance in the LORD ---New Window	Confidence in the LORD ---New Window
Martyrdom in the LORD ---New Window	Salvation in the LORD ---New Window
Provision in the LORD ---New Window	Judgment in the LORD ---New Window
Guidance in the LORD ---New Window	Approval in the LORD ---New Window
Comfort in the LORD ---New Window	Abiding in the LORD ---New Window
Wisdom in the LORD ---New Window	Healing in the LORD ---New Window
Victory in the LORD ---New Window	Favour in the LORD ---New Window
Safety in the LORD ---New Window	Power in the LORD ---New Window
Mercy in the LORD ---New Window	Peace in the LORD ---New Window
Unity in the LORD ---New Window	Hope in the LORD ---New Window
Love in the LORD ---New Window	Help in the LORD ---New Window
Joy in the LORD ---New Window	HIS Coming ---New Window
Miracles in the LORD ---New Window
Bible Promises compiled by Katie Stewart "The LORD redeemeth the soul of His servants: and none of them that TRUST in Him shall be desolate" (Psalm 34:22).

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1839-1862 Lectures Index ---New Window Sermons and Lectures by Charles G. Finney, president of Oberlin College

1839 "The Promises" ---New Window

I. I shall preface what I have to say upon this subject
with several preliminary remarks, with regard to the promises of the Scripture.
II. Show the design of the promises.
III. Show that they are adequate to that for which they are designed.
IV. Show why they are not fulfilled in us."
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Six Excerpts from
"Faith's Checkbook"
A Daily Devotional by Charles H. Spurgeon
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"Jesus saith that His sheep shall go in and out and find pasture; go forth, then, and feed in the rich meadows of boundless love."
-- C. H. Spurgeon

"Behold, the LORD GOD will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him: behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him. He shall feed His flock like a Shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young" (Isaiah 40:10-11).


1. Rest on a Promise
"The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it"
(Genesis 28:13).

"No promise is of private interpretation: it belongs not to one saint but to all believers. If, my brother, thou canst in faith lie down upon a promise and take thy rest thereon, it is thine. Where Jacob 'lighted' and tarried and rested, there he took possession. Stretching his weary length upon the ground, with the stones of that place for his pillows, he little fancied that he was thus entering into ownership of the land; yet so it was. He saw in his dream that wondrous ladder which for all true believers unites earth and heaven, and surely where the foot of the ladder stood he must have a right to the soil, for other wise he could not reach the divine stairway. All the promises of God are 'Yea' and 'Amen' in Christ Jesus, and as He is ours, every promise is ours if we will but lie down upon it in restful faith.

Come, weary one, use thy LORD's words as thy pillows. Lie down in peace. Dream only of Him. Jesus is thy ladder of light. See the angels coming and going upon Him between thy soul and thy God, and be sure that the promise is thine own God-given portion and that it will not be robbery for thee to take it to thyself, as spoken specially to thee."


2. Remind God of His Promise
"And Thou saidst, I will surely do thee good"
(Genesis 32:12).

"This is the sure way of prevailing with the LORD in prayer. We may humbly remind Him of what He has said. Our faithful God will never run back from His Word, nor will He leave it unfulfilled; yet He loves to be enquired of by His people and put in mind of His promise. This is refreshing to their memories, reviving to their faith, and renewing to their hope. God's Word is given, not for His sake, but for ours. His purposes are settled, and He needs nothing to bind Him to His design of doing His people good; but He gives the promise for our strengthening and comfort. Hence He wishes us to plead it and say to Him, 'Thou saidst.'

'I will surely do thee good' is just the essence of all the LORD's gracious sayings. Lay a special stress on the word surely. He will do us good, real good, lasting good, only good, every good. He will make us good, and this is to do us good in the very highest degree. He will treat us as He does his saints while we are here, and that is good. He will soon take us to be with Jesus and all His chosen, and that is supremely good. With this promise in our hearts we need not fear angry Esau nor anyone else. If the LORD will do us good, who can do us hurt?"


3. He Freely Gives
"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).

"If this is not a promise in form, it is in fact. Indeed, it is more than one promise, it is a conglomerate of promises. It is a mass of rubies, and emeralds, and diamonds, with a nugget of gold for their setting. It is a question which can never be answered so as to cause us any anxiety of heart. What can the LORD deny us after giving us Jesus? If we need all things in heaven and earth, He will grant them to us: for if there had been a limit anywhere, He would have kept back His own Son."


4. Hear So as to Be Heard
"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).

"Note well that we must hear Jesus speak if we expect Him to hear us speak. If we have no ear for Christ, He will have no ear for us. In proportion as we hear we shall be heard.

Moreover, what is heard must remain, must live in us, and must abide in our character as a force and a power. We must receive the truths which Jesus taught, the precepts which He issued, and the movements of His Spirit within us; or we shall have no power at the Mercy Seat.

Suppose our LORD's words to be received and to abide in us, what a boundless field of privilege is opened up to us! We are to have our will in prayer, because we have already surrendered our will to the LORD's command. Thus are Elijahs trained to handle the keys of heaven and lock or loose the clouds. One such man is worth a thousand common Christians. Do we humbly desire to be intercessors for the church and the world, and like Luther to be able to have what we will of the LORD? Then we must bow our ear to the voice of the Well-beloved, treasure up His words, and carefully obey them. He has need to 'hearken diligently' who would pray effectually."


5. Heavenly Wealth
"No good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly"
(Psalm 84:11).

"Many pleasing things the LORD may withhold but 'no good thing.' He is the best judge of what is good for us. Some things are assuredly good, and these we may have for the asking through Jesus Christ our LORD.

Holiness is a good thing, and this He will work in us freely. Victory over evil tendencies, strong tempers, and evil habits He will gladly grant, and we ought not to remain without it.

Full assurance He will bestow, and near communion with Himself, and access into all truth, and boldness with prevalence at the mercy seat. If we have not these, it is from want of faith to receive and not from any unwillingness of God to give. A calm, a heavenly frame, great patience, and fervent love--all these will He give to holy diligence.

But note well that we must 'walk uprightly.' There must be no cross purposes and crooked dealings; no hypocrisy nor deceit. If we walk foully God cannot give us favors, for that would be a premium upon sin. The way of uprightness is the way of heavenly wealth-wealth so large as to include every good thing.

What a promise to plead in prayer! Let us get to our knees."


6. Care of Our Feet
"He will keep the feet of His saints"
(1 Samuel 2:9).

"The way is slippery and our feet are feeble, but the LORD will keep our feet. If we give ourselves up by obedient faith to be His holy ones, He will Himself be our guardian. Not only will He charge His angels to keep us, but He Himself will preserve our goings.

With such a promise as this, let us run without weariness and walk without fear. He who keeps our feet will do it effectually."

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Vision of Litter
by Bryan Hupperts
January 15,1997
I woke up this morning dreaming of a room with litter covering the floor. As I looked, I understood that the "trash" actually had great worth but had been discarded like burger wrappers. While pondering this, I asked the Lord what I was seeing.

He said, "These are the promises I have made my people that they would not rise up and possess. They have fallen to the floor".

There were two types of litter. One was for individuals and the other for congregations and movements.

I asked what caused this and the reply I felt was
1) unbelief, 2) the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches had choked out the fruitful word- this is often really disobedience in people who private agendas, 3) worldly comfort that had lost sight of the reality of eternity- remember our lives are vapors, here one moment and gone the next.

I sensed that 1997 was pivotal on two levels. For many individuals the promises of God are going to go unfulfilled because they will not reprioritize their lives in the light of God's invitations to be co-laborers with Him. If they will repent and value the promises made, they will rise and possess them.

For many congregations and movements, if they will not value the prophetic words given, the promises made to them will not fall to the ground permanently- they will be given to others will rise up and possess the promises and they will be bypassed. God longs to be married to His bride... He is not married to any movement.

Meditate in the first few chapters of JOSHUA for further understanding.
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A Series of Articles in our "Fellowship" section. ---New Window "And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like Thee, in Heaven above, or on Earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with Thy servants that walk before Thee with all their heart" (1Kings 8:23). God keeps His Word, and expects the same of us. From the beginning of man's history, the Creator has progressively made Himself known through His Word and works. "Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?" (Jeremiah 23:23). Though man often complains that life has no instruction manual, the Faithful God has always made Himself known to man. "1 God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 hath in these Last Days spoken unto us by His Son, Whom He hath appointed Heir of all things, by Whom also He made the worlds" (Hebrews 1:1-2). The very fact that the Son of God, Who is the "Word of Life" (1John 1:1), came into this world as human flesh, demonstrates the importance that God places upon making His Word known. "19 For it pleased the Father that in Him [Jesus] should all fulness dwell... 2:3 In Whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge... 9 For in Him [Jesus] dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily" (Colossians 1:19; 2:3, 9). Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple, which Ussher's Chronology places at 1004 BC, indicates the understanding that Israel's godly king possessed of the character of God, about 3,000 years after man's creation. "There is no God like Thee, in Heaven above, or on Earth beneath, Who keepest covenant [i.e., performs His agreement or contract] and mercy with Thy servants that walk before Thee with all their heart" (1Kings 8:23). Whatever else that could be said of the Living God, Solomon knew that Jehovah keeps His Word, which binds Him to the Saints with an ironclad covenant. "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God, the Faithful God, which keepeth covenant [Hebrew, berith] and mercy with them that love Him and keep His Commandments to a thousand generations" (Deuteronomy 7:9). Of course, all that remains, is for man to be correspondingly faithful at keeping his word to God. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). "He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked" (1John 2:6).

"Fluctuations in income and apparent prosperity
did not take George Mueller by surprise.
He expected them, for
if there were no crises and critical emergencies
how could there be critical deliverances?
His trust was in God,
not in donors or human friends or worldly circumstances:
and because he trusted in the Living God who says of Himself,

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Audio-Bible Add On For the Online Bible

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"The fabled Scourby reading now comes in a brand new exciting format:
An Audio Add-on CD-ROM for the Online Bible version 8.11 or greater.

This is the ENTIRE narration of the King James Version of the Bible by Alexander Scourby.
You get all 72 hours of audio, indexed on a verse level, as well as continuous play.

Pop up the menu with a right mouse click and listen to the verse in the Scripture window or listen to any passage starting where you are... Yes with this CD you can listen to the entire Bible without flipping a record or tape. It works in conjunction with your Online Bible version 8.11 or greater. It only works in computers, it will not work in your stereo equipment."

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