RESTING IN THE PROMISE OF GOD

Question: I want everyone to pause and think about all God has promised us individually and as a family. Is there anything you've heard that has yet to come to pass? Or any that your Faith is shaking on and you are just not sure the universe is disposed favorably towards you as regards this promise?

Sumi: Yes

Boluwatife: Yes

Omotola: Yes, there are pending promises.

Tobi Wilson: Yes

Tosin Agbaje: Yes

Nkiru: Its doing like this and is doing like that.

Question: Do you think these promises will still come to pass?

Sumi: Yes, I believe they will.

Bola: By his grace, it will.

Mojola: I honestly doubt most times.

Tosin Agbaje: Yes, I strongly believe. Except the promises aren’t from God, except I didn’t hear correctly or it was just my wish sha…I too stubborn 🤣🤣🤣

Creativity: From range of 0 to 10. My faith level for those promises is 6. Cos I feel there no time... but when I pray, I tend to see ways and possibilities...thank God for praying in spirit sha.

Rita: I sometimes feel maybe if they don’t, it’s best, God knows best at the end of the day yea.

Molola: At this point, I don’t have a choice but to believe.

Lola: My faith goes from 100 to zero and zero to 100 sometimes. Currently, it's on zero. Not because He has not done it before, but most of the times I am believing him for seems unrealistic from a human perspective.

Precious: Sometimes I lose faith and I begin to use the phrase “if this will happen...” when I talk about these promises, just in case it doesn't happen as God said it will.

Emmanuel: God made the promise so He's faith to keep it.... Though it may tarry but we stay on here till I receive every of it.

When it comes to the promises of God, I'm one of the most stubborn persons ever. I run with instructions even when I don't understand them. I think those that have worked closely with me have seen this play out a number of times

There are times even as I'm running with the word, I don't know how or when it will happen. I am sha moving sha 😭 Then in my head sometimes, I'm moving really fast because if I stop for a moment to think on it, omo, I may just be discouraged and stop

So I carry the word. I carry His promises, on days it makes sense and on days it does not and just move

How shall these things be?

I'm not sure there is any believer that has not asked this before. That has not sat down with promises and just wonder.

For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. 2 Corinthians 1:20 NIV

No matter how many promises God has made. They are all YES!!!

All of them. Not some.

I need us to note the progression.

No matter how many promises God has made, everything is Yes in Christ. Christ is our access code to all of these promises. So through this access code, "the Amen" will now be spoken by us.

Amen simply means So be it. Our duty is actually very simple.

To stand on the So be it. To keep proclaiming that it will happen exactly as it has been said.

“Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.” Joshua 21:45 BSB

Question: Now I need us to pause and ask ourselves. Why did God keep all the promises He made to Isreal?

Mojisola: Because they’re his people. He chose them & they’re his favs even though they have coconut head.

Bukky: He made a covenant with Abraham.

Emmanuel: Cos of His love for them the covenant he had with Abraham.

Precious: Because his promises were mostly covenants he made with Abraham.

Jane: Because he is a God of His word.

Tosin Agbaje: And EVERY of his promises MUST come to pass!

Creativity: Because He is God and not men that he should lie or repent.

Sumi: I believe he kept all his promises because God will always stay true to his nature. It is not in his nature to say something and not do it.

Anointing: He is not a Man that He should lie nor Repent.

Omolara: For his name's sake. He values His words

Omololu: Cus He His God and He fulfills all His words and because none of His words falls to the ground without being fulfilled

 

“For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Deuteronomy 7:6-8 NKJV

God made it clear here to the Israelites that it wasn't because of their desirability Or even their righteousness or uprightness that He was doing this for them.

First,

God keeps His promise to us because He loves us. We are the beloved of God and this doesn't change regardless of anything we do. Because we were loved even before we existed

At the bedrock of every promise of God is love for you. And what this means is that, God will only change His mind about His promises when He stops loving you.

"Will it happen?

Maybe it will not"

Only admissible when God stops loving you.

An example of this is Christ Jesus

Christ was first a promise of God to man 

And He fulfilled this

But the bedrock of this promise is love 

For God so loved the world...John 3:16

So for every time you see a promise of God,  look at it from the lens of His love

If you try to view it from elsewhere, your faith will shake and fail

I have prayed so much

I fasted so much

So God promised me xyz...

On the days you are not fasting, the enemy will remind you.

Secondly,

God will keep His promises because He has integrity. God is bound by oath always. He doesn't lie. I made promises here earlier tonight before we started the teaching.

Why did you believe that I will buy you ewa agoyin or any of the things promised? 

Because you know me as one with integrity. 

Because you do not think I will lie.

Because I am human, I can lie.

But somehow you still trust that i am not lying.

How much more God?

Thirdly,

Another reason God keeps His promises is that He is able to. God has the capacity to keep His promises. In fact, He makes promises based on His capacity.

Now, back to my own promise.

I made a promise to you guys.

And while I'd have really loved to keep the promise, I currently do not have the capacity to.

So I will come back here and apologize; Sorry guys, I can't afford to buy ewa agoyin for 3 people and the plenty other things I mentioned.

Not because I don't love you guys.

Not because I don't have integrity.

But simply because I do not have the capacity to.

I'm owing one person ewa agoyin though (because I have the capacity for this). And this is how the promise of man is.

Sometimes when someone promises you something and they don't fulfill it, it is not because they don't love you or would not love to. It is sometimes because they just do not have the capacity.

Even humans are able to jump through points 1 and 2, but you see this point 3, most humans can't. The only person that has the capacity and ability to give all things and anything is God.

Why? All things belong to Him.

Question: Now, I want to ask us another question. Do you think if I had the capacity to, I'd have fulfilled my promise? Let's answer honestly.

Mojisola: Absolutely

Samson: I think so

Sumi: Yes you would have

Cynthia: Yes, you would have. The reason is that there are times you make promises within your capacity and you fulfill them.

If you know me well, you will know that I will even increase the giveaway promise. I will add to it, should I have the capacity.

Now, how much more God?

If Remi can fulfill promises within her capacity because of cos I am not a wicked person. How much more God?

So tonight, I need you to go back to your note. Look at every promise God has made. Then ask yourself: Does God have the capacity to fulfill this? Will He have to beg another person or need help from someone else to fulfill it?

If your answer is that God has the capacity, it means we've checked every box for God to fulfil that promise.

His love is everlasting

His integrity will never be up for question

He owns all things so He can give everything He promises

Now that we've checked these boxes, we can conclude that God's promises for us stand

Question: Which moves us to the "we" part. Resting in the promise of God. Please can someone quickly check up on what it means to Rest?

Creativity: freedom from activity or labor.

Mojisola: 

a: freedom from activity or labor.

b: a state of motionlessness or inactivity.

c: the repose of death.

d: a place for resting or lodging.

e: peace of mind or spirit.

Olamide: cease work or movement in order to relax, sleep, or recover strength.

Omolola: In a state of inactivity or repose, either physical or mental.

 

To rest also means to depend on. To place hope, trust or confidence in something or someone. To go to bed knowing that the one who gave the promise is able to do it

How do we rest in His Promise?

1. Know the promise

You cannot hope to receive a promise that you first do not know.

What has God promised you? Start with what is written in scripture.

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV

Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!” Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent. Genesis 18:10 NLT

But the Lord says, “Can a woman forget her baby? Can she forget the child who came from her body? Even if she can forget her children, I cannot forget you. I drew a picture of you on my hand. You are always before my eyes. Isaiah 49:15-16 ERV

God cannot forget me

He has me tattooed on his hands 

I am always before His eyes

“Family of Jacob, listen to me! You who are left from the family of Israel, listen! I have carried you since you left your mother’s womb. I carried you when you were born, and I will still be carrying you when you are old. Your hair will turn gray, and I will still carry you. I made you, and I will carry you to safety. Isaiah 46:3-4 ERV

This was our scripture at the vigil on Friday and I love it so much. I am carried by God, till my old age

“Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.”” Luke 1:45 NKJV

The name of the Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for protection. Proverbs 18:10 ERV

“But the Lord is with me as a mighty, awesome One. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and will not prevail. They will be greatly ashamed, for they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten.” Jeremiah 20:11 NKJV

Jacob, the Lord created you. Israel, he made you, and now he says, “Don’t be afraid. I saved you. I named you. You are mine. When you have troubles, I am with you. When you cross rivers, you will not be hurt. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not hurt you. That’s because I, the Lord, am your God. I, the Holy One of Israel, am your Savior. I gave Egypt to pay for you. I gave Ethiopia and Seba to make you mine. You are precious to me, and I have given you a special place of honor. I love you. That’s why I am willing to trade others, to give up whole nations, to save your life. Isaiah 43:1-4 ERV

And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you. Galatians 3:29 NLT

God's promise to Abraham belongs to me.

Do you know how much God loved Abraham. 

How highly God rated him?

We have been brought into this same lineage and now have access to every blessing.

 

Assignment number 2

Go back home and write out all the promises of God 

Write it out with your name on it.

Fix your name where necessary

Copy it in a doc or write it in a book.

For the ones that you know speaks to you in this season, get a stick note (it's just #400 thereabout) and paste it around you.

Wake up every morning to it. Declare it as you go about your day

"Oh my God has supplied all my needs not even according to how I ask but according to his riches in glory"

Come back home and take it again till it becomes your reality.

Please, if you've ever suffered unanswered prayers, I am begging you, don't miss these assignments

Don't postpone them and not do them. You are about to see something open up for you.