The Pregnancy of Promises

UV 765/10,000 The Pregnancy of Promises “ I Am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done that what I have promised you.” Genesis 28 v 15 This is a wonderful promise of the Lord that He would fulfil whatever He has promised us. The fact that He is both the impersonal “ I AM WHO I AM” and the personal “ I AM WHO IS WITH YOU” is enough assurance that the promises we have received from the Lord will be fulfilled to the last word. Immanuel or “ God is with us” – that is more than enough reason for us to rejoice. We are like the kid who is carried around by the mother kangaroo in its pouch. The amazing leaping power, the nourishing milk, the comfortable pouch and deadly “karate kicking” skills of the adult kangaroo gives the kid kangaroo its sense of security and well being. But, for us the presence of the Lord is the pouch in which we are ensconced, surrounded and protected. God does not need to prove to us that He exists or that He is alive and kicking. We need to prove that we are alive and kicking like a kid kangaroo. His Word is our weapon, our nourishment, our shield, our dynamo, our transport, our guarantee, our engine, our wings, our guarantee and insurance, our lamp and light. When we hold on to His words, “ I AM” is with us. The assurance that the Lord is in us and with us is the greatest promise we can receive. As He is with us, we are blessed and will be a blessing to others around us. As He is with us and He is the Lord of hosts or the armies of Heaven, we will never be outnumbered or overwhelmed. No man can stand against us all the days of our lives. Every good thing that He has promised us will be fulfilled. He will do that which He has promised. Those who take counsel or conspire against us will not prevail but fall together. When He is with us, His Kingdom is within us. His infinite power and unlimited grace is available to us. His deep wisdom and dependable guidance is available to us. His amazing love surrounds us and fills us. But, He does not stop with all this. He watches over us day and night without slumber or rest. He watches over us wherever we go. We can have an absolute sense of security. He promised Jacob that He would bring him back to this land. This is the reason that Israel was re-formed as a nation again against all odds in 1948 after the Jewish diaspora had been dispersed across all continents for centuries. Every day when we leave our homes, there is no guarantee that any of us would return to our homes, or our land. But the Lord promises that He would bring us back to our land. Eventually, He will bring us back to the Father’s house in peace as Jacob asked of the Lord. The third wonderful assurance the Lord guarantees in this uni-verse is that He would never leave us till He has fulfilled the Word that He has spoken into our lives. The time lag between the day we hear a promise of God or believe and claim a promise verse is the gestation period He uses to form that which He has spoken to us. We need to carry the promise as it grows in us much as a pregnant woman rejoices over the growing child inside her uterus. We should not abort it by our lack of faith and our failure to feed that faith with love and hope of its fulfilment. When we believe and claim a promise or receive a rhema promise, it is like the moment of conception. Similarly, when a person receives the promise of eternal life, it is the moment of spiritual conception. Thereafter, it has to be nourished with the Word that is the equivalent of pure spiritual milk. It has to be sustained by prayer which is the equivalent of spiritual respiration. It has to be strengthened with praise and thanksgiving. Some of the promises of God are fulfilled even before or while we are praying and some over longer periods of waiting in faith. Either way it is better to trust in the promises of God rather than the mere premises of man. When the promise of God is fulfilled, our faith further grows in leaps and bounds and we have a testimony of His faithfulness to share with others. No force on earth or in heaven can stop the promise of God when the time for its fulfilment or realization has come. In contrast, the mere assumption or premise of man make an ass of you and me as indicated in the word, “ assume”. Prateep V Philip