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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