ACCEPTING GOD’S PROMISES

2 Samuel 7:28-29 NLT For you are God, O Sovereign Lord. Your words are truth, and you have promised these good things to your servant. 29 And now, may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you have spoken, and when you grant a blessing to your servant, O Sovereign Lord, it is an eternal blessing!”

Have you ever had someone tell you something but it seemed too good to be true and you found it hard to believe? A bit like being told you’ve inherited a vast estate! Well, God’s promises to us are just like that but they’re true!😊

In Chapter 7 we find Nathan the prophet went to David with a message from God saying He would build him a dynasty, a place for God’s people of their very own, that there would always be one of his descendants on the throne. For a former shepherd boy that must have sounded astounding but he accepted it by faith and what was the result? Jesus Himself is of the line of David and He is the King of Kings!

No wonder David was a man after God’s own heart because he believed the promise and came into agreement with it all, thanking God for it. He had the promise, and we also have thousands of promises in scripture, but David showed us the principle of agreeing with the promise and accepting it, in order for it to show up.😊

We can know all the promises but they’ll still do us no good unless we believe them and say, “Yes Lord, I receive it!” In verse 29 David was saying in effect, ‘Let it be so, bring on the promised blessings because they are forever Lord.’

Next time we read or hear a promise of God let’s be like David and come into agreement with it, embrace it, believe it, and say, “All the promises are yes and amen in Jesus so the promise God has just given me in His word for healing, provision, protection, or whatever, is a promised blessing for me, it’s true, I accept it. It will be so. Thank You Lord.” Amen.

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MUCH MORE

2 Samuel 12:8 NKJV I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!

Once upon a time someone wanted more - they wanted to fly, and as a result we can now fly all over the world! Some are content with what they have, while others make things happen by self will, or by sheer hard work, or maybe by manipulation (like David). But God has a different way!😊 

We may think we shouldn’t ask for more, but there is a lesson to be learned from King David after he took Bathsheba and had her husband killed in battle. God rebuked David for what he did and remonstrated with him. He told him if he’d wanted more he only had to ask, and God would have given him much more! What a gracious God we serve. 

Jesus Himself told us to ask, seek and knock. He went on and told us to give and it would be given to us, good measure, pressed down and flowing over, which is God’s way and sounds like much more.😊

Do we spend hours trying to work out how to make things happen, working long hours, when God is telling us to ask Him for our heart’s desire? He will show us how to achieve it His way and not our way. Proverbs 10:22 NKJV says The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it. In other words, He makes it possible without the angst!

God didn’t say He would give him a little bit more, or just enough to get by. No, He said, “I would have given you so much more!” God wants us to ask, so let’s stop and think for a minute. Are we thinking we shouldn’t ask at all, are we asking big enough, or are we trying to do things by our own efforts?

Instead, let’s ask our loving Heavenly Father, and allow Him to give us so much more than we thought possible, more than we’re asking for, and His way of doing it, in His own time and for His glory.😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

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