Is God running late? (2)

05 Nov Is God running late? (2)

We sometimes become discouraged because the Lord didn’t keep a promise the way you expected.
🎯The problem is not God’s faithfulness to His Word but our understanding of Scripture or our impatience

🎯God does not live in our hasty microwave world with us.

🎯He does things in His time and He is to the micro-second punctual

🎯We are wrong when we feel that all promises in the Bible apply to us.

🎯Some of them are limited to a certain situation, person, or time.

💥For instance, when God told Abraham and Sarah they would have a son this was His commitment specifically to them, not to anyone else.

🎯Also it is important to realize some promises are conditional.

🎯Even if He has asked His prophets to deliver a promise we could block it with our sinful ways or disobedience.

🎯A Bible verse says, “Delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart”.

🎯This isn’t an open-ended guarantee that God will give you whatever you want.

🎯There’s a qualification: delighting in the Lord and desiring what He wants.

🎯Even though some of God’s promises have restrictions, there are many in the New Testament that apply to all believers:

💥God promises to work all things together for the good of His children; to be with us forever and to give us an eternal inheritance in heaven.

– Dr Charles Stanley