A. You trust in God's promises because you trust Him:MAT 8:5. And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, MAT 8:6. And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. MAT 8:7. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. MAT 8:8. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. MAT 8:9. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. MAT 8:10. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. LUK 5:4. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. LUK 5:5. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. 2TIM 1:12. For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. HEB 10:23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) HEB 11:11. Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. 2CH 6:14. And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts: 2CH 6:15. Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. B. You trust He is able to fulfil His promises:ROM 4:20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; ROM 4:21. And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. ROM 4:22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. ROM 4:23. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; ROM 4:24. But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 2COR 1:20. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. EPH 3:20. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, C. God is able to do anything:JER 32:27. Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? JER 32:17. Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee: MAT 19:26. But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. LUK 1:37. For with God nothing shall be impossible. ROM 4:17. (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. D. You trust Him because He has not failed in the past:1KI 8:56. Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. 2CH 6:15. Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day. E. You know He will not go back on His Word:NUM 23:19. 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? PSA 119:49. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. HEB 6:18. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: |
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