TDE JANUARY 2017 EDITION

THE DAILY ENCOURAGER
THE DAILY ENCOURAGER
January 13
Today's Scripture
"God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does
not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he
ever promised and not carried it through?"
(Numbers 23:19)
HE IS A PROMISE KEEPER
Peter in the bible made a promise to the Lord that he couldn't keep. How
often have I done the same thing? I personally have done it enough to
know that I am the promise breaker in my relationship with GOD but
HE THE PROMISE KEEPER!
Almost every verse in Psalm 37 contains a promise. There are a lot of
promises in the Bible. But do you know what is more amazing than the
number of promises which God has made? Even more amazing the sheer
volume of God’s promises is that He always keeps His promises.
God is the greatest promise keeper that ever was. He too lives by that
rule about not making a promise He can’t keep. God never promises
something He can’t follow through on. He always does what He says. He
always fulfills what He promises.
As a child of God, you’ve prayed and prayed and prayed; but it seemed like
God never heard, or that God was ignoring you, or that God was telling
you “no.” Maybe you’ve stopped praying. Maybe you’ve stopped believing.
Maybe you’ve stopped hoping. Let me say with Angel Gabriel, “God
has heard your prayer.” He will answer, because He is not a man that
He should lie or not honour His promise. And even if you have stopped
praying, even if you have stopped believing, we read in 2 Timothy 2:13
that even when we are faithless, He remains faithful. God has something
better in mind for you than you can ask or imagine, and He is simply
waiting for His timing to make it happen. It may be tomorrow, it may be
next week, it may be 10 years from now. You may even have to wait until
you get to heaven.
God always keeps His promises. He kept His promises to Israel. He kept
his promises to Zacharias. And He will keep His promises to YOU. In
causing Elizabeth to become pregnant in her old age, we read the book of
“Luke 1:25” that God took away her reproach. God removed her shame of
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