As I stood and worshipped at a men’s conference last weekend, I was deeply convicted as we sang the words to a song:

“Faithful You are

Faithful forever You will be

Faithful You are

All Your promises are yes and amen

All Your promises are yes and amen…”

I couldn’t help but be overwhelmed with gratitude and adoration for the Living God.

In reflection, I think that one of the reasons that I was so convicted was that so often I am rooted in a mindset …

A mindset that lacks faith.

I am sometimes guilty of doubting His promises.

Perhaps many of us are.

God made a promise in Genesis 49.

Genesis 49 10 “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh comes,

The Jews (Judah) were assured, by God, that they held the keys to capital punishment (the scepter).  But in 6 AD, a Roman Procurator named Caponius removed the legal power of the Sanhedrin.  In their eyes, the scepter had been removed, and the word of God had been broken. They were DEVASTATED. They covered their heads with ashes and their bodies with sackcloth, and they marched around the city. The word of God, the Torah, had been BROKEN. It had FAILED!   (Reference:  Chuck Missler and Koinonia House https://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/187/)

Keep in mind that this was 6 AD.

And indeed the scepter had been removed.

What slipped the minds of the Sanhedrin was that perhaps God’s word had not been broken.

And indeed it had not.  In Nazareth, the young son of a carpenter was growing into a man.  The scepter had departed because Shiloh had come!

God doesn’t break promises.

Not in His word.  And not in our lives.

His promises are not conditional, they aren’t bendable, and they aren’t revoked.

His promises are, in fact, one of the only things that we have that lasts forever.

As we go into this week let’s remember this very truth.

The world can crumble, but the Word can not.

Man can betray and let us down, but God can not.

The enemy can work against each step that we take, but Jesus died so that he would never gain a foothold on our lives.

God’s word will not return void.

Isaiah 55 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:  It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

My wife used to listen to an incredible teacher named Beth Moore.  I couldn’t help but pull up a chair and listen when she spoke.  One awesome thing that she would open up her talks with was this:

God is who He says He is.

God can do what He says He can do.

I am who God says I am.

I can do all things through Christ.

God’s Word is alive and active in me.

We have work to do.

Not to join the world as it burns, and fights, and politicizes, and hates, and fears.

But to show it something different.

When Jesus shows up in Nazareth and religious leaders miss it because they are marching around a city in utter despair, then we can miss it too.

And indeed we do miss it.  But not today.  Hit the reset button.  Fill up your faith.  Believe.  Follow.

“Faithful You are

Faithful forever You will be

Faithful You are

All Your promises are yes and amen

All Your promises are yes and amen…”

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J