2022 Breakthrough Fast: Day 3
Learn to Plead the Promises of God
“Not one of all the Lord’s good promises has failed”
Joshua 21:45
Joshua 21:45
When my mentor, Armin Gesswein, was a young man he was introduced to Uncle Am, a man of prayer with a strong reputation in his town. Uncle Am would spend hours alone with God in prayer. When Armin met him, Uncle Am exhorted him, “Young man, learn to plead the promises of God.”
During this 21 day breakthrough fast, God wants you to learn to plead the promises of God. For us as Christ-followers not only should we claim the promises of God, we can learn that even the commands of God are promises. When Christ was tempted by satan to turn stone into bread He declared, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). The command of God that put a limit on Jesus also became a promise of God that He would provide.
It will change our Bible reading to begin seeing the entire Bible as God’s love letter to us as His followers. The promises are given because He loves us. The commands are also given because He loves us.
Be courageous!
Fred Hartley, III
During this 21 day breakthrough fast, God wants you to learn to plead the promises of God. For us as Christ-followers not only should we claim the promises of God, we can learn that even the commands of God are promises. When Christ was tempted by satan to turn stone into bread He declared, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). The command of God that put a limit on Jesus also became a promise of God that He would provide.
It will change our Bible reading to begin seeing the entire Bible as God’s love letter to us as His followers. The promises are given because He loves us. The commands are also given because He loves us.
Be courageous!
Fred Hartley, III
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