A new promise?

Over the past year I have been challenged by several people to really rely on God. I thought I already trusted God but maybe I only trust Him sometimes. Yesterday, my Bible study lesson challenged me to find a promise in the Bible that I hadn't really claimed and claim it. I thought and thought and scanned through several books of the Bible. Finally, I prayed and asked God to show me a promise before class on Thursday. (Yes, I know, I probably should have started with prayer!) Anyway I got up today looking for a "new-to-me" promise from God.

Pastor's message this morning was on Abraham. One of his points was "following Christ sometimes presents challenges that seem humanly impossible." He pointed out Abraham's faith and trust in God even in the face of obstacles like being told he would have a child in his old age or to offer that son as a sacrifice. But Abraham wasn't perfect, there were times he forgot God's power, like when he said Sarai was his sister instead of wife because he feared for his life. I think I am a little like Abraham in that I trust God when I know I can't handle it but maybe not when I think I can handle a situation. Asa is another person in the Bible who trusted God in an impossible situation but trusted himself in an easy one and was punished by God for his decision.

So the promise that God brought to my mind was I Thessalonians 5:24. It comes at the end of a list of instructions - seemingly insurmountable obstacles (pray without ceasing, rejoice evermore, etc.) that Paul gives us and then says - "Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it." (KJV) A few months ago, Pastor had a sermon on Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." (KJV) His point was you can do anything God wants you to, because God makes it possible. He is faithful. So in church tonight I was thinking this would be my promise to share in class and then. . . . .

We had a missionary speaker who in her presentation reminded us of Jeremiah 33:3 - ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ (NKJV) So here is my promise - Call unto God and ask Him to show you His faithfulness. He is ALWAYS faithful.