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Seven thousand promises from God in the bible.

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When I drive I like to listen to KWAE , good teaching and teachers. Anyways, I’m sure I’ve heard it before but I can’t remember and can’t remember who was teaching but was talking about promises of God and he noted their where 7000 promises in the bible.

I have a great biblical resources library from BibleSoft, download here, PC Study Bible , so I looked up promises and came up here to start.

Names of God’s Promises

Mark A. Tabb

MOODY PRESS

INTRODUCTION:
The Wake-Up Call

I’m going along in the flow of life, enjoying the ride. My daughters are healthy, my marriage is strong, my job secure. Minor troubles occasionally arise, but they hit everyone. No major tragedies have come my way for a very long time. I read my Bible, I pray, and I go to church. I try to put my faith into action as best I can. There are struggles, but nothing I cannot deal with. God has been good to me. Life is sweet.
Perhaps too sweet.

Without realizing it, I find I am operating on autopilot in my walk with God. I’ve become so accustomed to His blessings that I rarely stop and ponder the wonder of all that He has done for me. Call it ingratitude. Call it negligence. God calls it sin.
I don’t know how it happens. Standing on top of the mountain of God’s promises, I rarely give a thought to that which makes life worth living, to that which makes this existence life. Don’t get me wrong. I think about God. I call out to Him. I try to follow Him by faith. But I find it is all too easy to forget that without His faithfulness to His Word I am nothing. And so are you.

The pages that follow take us on a journey through the mountaintops of Scripture. Through them we will explore the names of God’s promises. The following promises assure us that Someone is thinking about us. They remind us that God loves and cares for us. Indeed, He loves to open the windows of heaven and pour out His very best on you and me. Yet the promises that follow are not about us. We need to remember that little detail. It is easy to forget.
There are times as I contemplate all that God has promised to do for me that my mind runs to the mistaken conclusion that I am the center of this party. I start to act as though God does all that He does for me and you because He has to. Consider the evidence: He wants us to be happy; He wants us to experience love and joy and peace; He wants to bless our lives. It sounds crazy, I know, but deep down in the inner recesses of my mind the thought comes to me that the mighty Lord of the universe exists for my good pleasure.

But the Bible tells us that we exist for Him. He does not exist for us. Everything He does, He does in such a way that His name will be magnified throughout all creation. Heaven’s bands play for God alone. The choirs of angels sing His praise, not ours. As all of the invisible universe ponders the grace He has shown to the human race, it erupts in praise for Him. Not us.

I know this is sort of a somber introduction for a subject as uplifting as the promises of God. Believe me, my original intent was to start off on a high note and soar. But a funny thing happened as I began to list the names of the promises God makes in His Word. I found myself face-to-face with my utter dependence on the Lord. Apart from Him I really am nothing. Everything that I am, everything that I have, everything that I hope for, I owe it all to His kindness. All that makes life worth living flows forth from God and His promises. Even life itself, the continued existence of the universe, depends on Him. A humbling thought. Totally, completely, humbling.

As my mind pondered these things I immediately did the only logical thing a human being can do in such a situation: I dropped my head and began to praise God. And then it hit me. I suddenly realized that most Christians rarely stop and think about the promises of God. Instead, we walk through life oblivious to our dependence on them. When disaster strikes or the doctor breaks bad news to us or our job is downsized out of existence, then we run to the concordance and search for a word of encouragement. God’s promises become our lifeline, lifting us to safety. We cry out for His mercy, His grace, His deliverance, His faithfulness to His Word.

After a while life goes back to normal and the promises that pulled us through are pushed back out of sight, out of mind.

Maybe I’m the only guilty party. Maybe I’m the only one who could be so thoughtless, so ungrateful. But I don’t think so. The pages that follow are meant to be a wake-up call to all of us. Yes, we will explore the promises that bring us comfort and hope in times of trouble. But I long for these pages to do more than stimulate your mind or stir your emotions. I pray that they will focus our attention on the incomprehensible grace of our Lord. These names of promises that roll off our tongues with the greatest of ease—names like salvation, life, peace, joy, hope, protection, comfort, and love—make life worth living.

Come with me. Let’s explore these names together. Many of the concepts are like old friends, truths we have grown up with and grown accustomed to. It is time for us to become reacquainted. It is time for us to rediscover their wonder as though we were viewing them for the very first time. It is time for us to remember how much we owe to the love of God.

The first group of promises we will explore flow out of the gift of God’s Son. The second group are promises God makes to us about His character and actions toward us. The third set of promises set our lives apart from the rest of the world. Finally, we will spend some time with the promises that help us face the harshness of reality.

PART 1

PROMISES THAT FLOW FROM GOD’S GIFT OF HIS SON

The Name of Promise

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” (Matt 1:20-21)

The Bible is more than a book. It is God’s Word, His message to all mankind. The words of
Scripture communicate theological truth. They tell us who God is and what He is like. But the Bible
does not stop there. God’s message to the crowning point of His creation is a message of promise.
Beginning with God’s first recorded conversation with human beings, to His parting words at the
close of the book of Revelation the theme of promise intertwines every story, every prophecy, every
line of poetry, every word.

This does not mean that every line of Scripture contains a distinctive promise that we can write
down and claim as our own. No, it means much more. The message of promise is the beginning and
end of everything that is included in the Bible. It undergirds every word, sometimes openly,
sometimes subtly, but it is always there. God’s promises are the common thread that unites the Old
and New Testaments, the core that makes sixty-six books into one.

All of the promises of God can be summarized in just one word, one name—the name that is
above every name. Every promise is somehow connected to this name, for the One who bears it
came both to fulfill them all and to offer them to all of mankind. Without Him none of the other
promises means anything. To reject Him is to reject every promise in the Book. But to those who
receive Him, He gives the unique privilege of becoming a child of God, a child of promise.

The One who embodies all of the promises of God bears many names. Scripture calls Him
Immanuel, the Word, Son of Man, Son of God, Lion of Judah, Bread of Life, and many more. We
know Him best by one name. The name of promise. The name Jesus.

When God instructed Mary and Joseph through His angel to name their Son Jesus, He gave a
name not at all unique or uncommon. Many Jewish boys in the first century were named Jesus, or,
more familiar to us, Joshua. It was a name of honor, a name enriched by the man who led the
children of Israel’s conquest of Canaan. The name is a form of the Hebrew word that means
salvation.

When the Lord placed this name upon His Son, He proclaimed to all the world that the
Savior had arrived. The child born in a barn in Bethlehem was and is the one hope of all mankind.
This Joshua—Jesus—was the One who would “save His people from their sins.”

This was Jesus’ mission. Listen to the way Jesus Himself described it in the third chapter of the
book of John: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever
believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to
condemn the world, but to save the world through him” (verses 16-17).

Jesus came to save the world.

As the average American’s level of biblical knowledge drops to lower and lower levels, we forget
what this means. Without Jesus, the citizens of planet Earth exist in a hopeless state of separation
from God. A terminal condition called sin infects all of us. Sin is more than an occasional slip of
profanity or little white lies. It is a way of life where we refuse to submit to the Lord’s rule over our
lives and assert our own authority. All of us are infected. We may try to deny it or to hide it, but sin
has this unfortunate habit of bubbling to the surface through acts we would rather not admit to. The
fact that we like sin makes our condition even more hopeless.

Before long our sin catches up with us through death. Our lives go on for a short span of time and
then they end. All that we accomplished is forgotten, our memory fades with the passing of time.
We go to the grave empty-handed. But death is not the end. It is a permanent condition where
creatures designed for fellowship with God are eternally separated from Him. To make matters
worse, there is absolutely nothing any of us can do to change this fate. We cannot save ourselves.

What we could not do, God did by sending His Son. Jesus, the eternal Word, took on human
flesh and became one of us. Every day He found Himself bombarded by temptation, but He never
gave in. But simply coming to earth in human flesh and refraining from sin wasn’t enough to save
mankind from the fate that hangs over our heads. He had to do something about the sentence of
death. And He did, by dying in our place. Three days later He walked out of the tomb, having
defeated sin and death.

Now God makes this promise to everyone who is willing to listen. Anyone, regardless of the
color of their skin, regardless of their national origin, regardless of their social class and standing,
regardless of anything they have ever done in the past, anyone who believes in Jesus Christ will be
saved (Acts 16:31). The Lord promises to take all of our sin and cancel it. Through Jesus He vows to
plant a new heart within us, a heart that longs to know God and to please Him (Jer 31:33-34).

All that follows in the pages of this book rests upon this promise. Only those who accept God’s
offer of salvation through Christ can lay claim to the promises found in His Word. God isn’t narrow-
minded. He doesn’t play favorites. But the only place His promises can be found is in His Son.
Those who search for them in some other place will discover nothing but disappointment. Everyone
who comes humbly to Christ will find in Him everything they could possibly desire.

If you have never received God’s gift of salvation that He promises in His Son, you can right now
by faith. Rom 10:9 makes this promise to you, “If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and
believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” To make this promise
your own you simply need to call on the name of the Lord in prayer “for everyone who calls on the
name of the Lord will be saved” (Rom 10:13). Tell Him you are tired of going your own direction,
you are sick of your sin. Ask Him to forgive you and He will. Invite Him to come into your life and
take control of it. His promise is real. Anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Even
you, even now. God guarantees it.

Life

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (John 10:10)

It doesn’t feel much like living—”getting by,” that’s a more accurate description. Or surviving. Or
existing. It is not what we expected. We have every- thing we need: food, clothing, shelter,
transportation, all the essentials of life. But somehow the essentials seem inadequate. They are not
working. We crave something more.

Voices shout at us from every direction, trying to tell us what that something more may be.
Advertisers bombard us with everything from weight-loss plans to decadently delicious chocolate,
all promising to add a little zing to life. And life does look exciting in those thirty-second splashes.

Maybe we should ignore the product and copy the lifestyles of those daring young men and women
with their carbonated beverages. Thrills and chills may be the something more we are looking for. A
little bungee jumping or skydiving or at the very least, a ride on one of Kings Island’s latest roller
coasters, would shake the cobwebs out of the mind and get life on track. Maybe we just need to
have a little more fun or more stuff or more calories or more caffeine; maybe that is all we need for
existence to feel like life.

Or maybe we are confused.

We long for life but settle for existence. Deep down inside we think we know what we are looking
for. Life should be an adventure, or at least an enjoyable experience, we tell ourselves. But it is not.

We long for life, but settle for the daily grind. We long for adventure but settle for punching a clock
at a job we despise. We long for romance but settle for living alongside someone who shares our
last name. We long for so much but settle for so little.

In the midst of this tension between the life we long for and the existence we endure, we hear
Jesus say, “I have come that [you] may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10).

Jesus’ words sound like the very thing we are looking for, if we only understood what He was
talking about. We know He promises to give us a life so full that an eternity is required to squeeze
in everything He has planned for us.

Most of us assume this eternal life will be noticeably different than anything we experienced before. It should have more joy and less heartache, more purpose and
less emptiness, more pizzazz and less ho-hum. If God plans it, then surely it will be interesting.

John 10:10 isn’t the only place God promises to give us life to the full. From Genesis to
Revelation this promise turns up in the Bible time after time after time. God promised Abraham the
joy of fatherhood, yet he spent twenty-five years waiting for a son. God promised Moses the
adventure of being the long-awaited deliverer of the children of Israel, an adventure that turned into
forty years of wandering around in the Sinai wilderness dragging a reluctant people toward the
Promised Land. God promised Jeremiah the privilege of being His voice to the kings and leaders of
Judah, yet no one ever listened to even one of his sermons. God repeated His promise of abundant
life through His Son—the Son who later died upon the cross.

Funny thing, every time God promises to give us life He forgets to mention thrills and
excitement.

Listen to Jesus’ own definition of the life He came to give us: “Now this is eternal life:
that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3).
Notice, Jesus didn’t say life comes through knowing about God. Rather, eternal life means knowing
God in an intimate, personal relationship.

Maybe this is why so few ever find the life they are looking for. It is found in a place where few
of us ever think to look. God has always defined life in this way. The first man and woman were
created to know God. They died spiritually when they were driven out of His presence, even
though their bodies continued to function. Our search for life takes us many places and causes us to
sample many things, but the hunger that keeps us from ever being satisfied with anything is the
hunger for God Himself.

Once we come to know Him—once we find the promise of life—our lives will be markedly
different. Listen to Paul’s words in his letter to the church in Colossae:

Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things
above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. . . . For you died,
and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. . . . Put to death, therefore,
whatever belongs to your earthly nature. (Col 3:1,3,5)

Something is missing from life. Nothing this world has to offer can satisfy the longing that God
has planted deep inside us. But once we discover the joy of God’s promise of life, we will begin
throwing off those things that characterized our lives before. Their appeal will be gone. Life in Christ
sets our hearts and minds on the things above, the things of God, the things that are real and
enduring.

Here is the promise of life that goes beyond existence, life that fulfills the purpose God had for
you and me when He breathed into the nostrils of the first man. Life that is worth living means
knowing God. Until we come to know Him, all we are doing is marking time on planet Earth. We
have not yet begun to live.

To be continued. God Bless you and America!