Promises are the seed bed for miracles to occur. It is the language of God that guides our thinking and response. He loves promises, inheritance, favor and fullness. He gives his Word so that the outcome may be guaranteed. This will free us up to enjoy the process of how we get there! Promises are the agenda of God to teach us fullness. There can be no experience of fullness without primary purpose, conformity to Jesus, being fulfilled. The ultimate goal of God is to make us in His image-Genesis 1: 26-27. All our purposes are subservient to this one unchangeable desire in his heart.
Promises are designed to enable us to receive under pressure. They are the engine room that keeps us moving forward regardless of oppositional forces. They empower us to abide in his nature. They remove worry and anxiety as a possibility for living and enable us to live in his gracious, good news. We focus on His promises, the voice of the world, flesh and devil becomes a whisper we no longer hear.
Promises will develop our trust in the faith. A promise is the key to focus that enables us to become fixed on what God is doing rather than what the problem is saying. Every situation has a voice that communicates something to us from the world around us. Your promise is the voice from heaven, which if we focus on it, will drown out every other voice, every other sound. Proclamation is the loudest vocal sound, because at its very center is the exuberance of joy. When we have a promise, we gain huge confidence in speaking it aloud joyfully in our circumstances. We rejoice and give thanks! The sound of exuberant praises gives us enthusiasm and energy in the Spirit.
It is important that we are not slow to learn the lesson of faith with patience. Is the only way to continually inherit in all the levels of life in Christ-Hebrew 6: 12. Faith can only go to its required height when it is combined with patience. We live in a result driven world and instant gratification. Sadly, this has permeated the body of Christ. The world system and the Kingdom of heaven are from different dimensions and dominions. Some situations can be changed immediately with a word of authority. Others change gradually through patient endurance. Both are required to enable us to become Christ like.
It is the combination of faith and patience that provides us with an irresistible guarantee that will release provision at the required time. When we wait on the Lord, the world cannot push us around with its timetable. Impatience is always our undoing. We allow ourselves to be pressured by people and events. Patience is not just a place we live in when tribulation occurs. It is the habitation of God in which we live, move and have our being.
Impatience gives the enemy power to prevail in our circumstances. We can be easily beaten from within if we lack the stamina to endure. Living from heaven to earth does not allow for frustration. It does not exist in heaven; therefore, it cannot have life inside of us! We can experience frustration which does not exist in heaven and lose what heaven enjoys, which is patience.
Patience is calm endurance; an uncomplaining nature; diligent application, enduring stamina. God does not grow weary. We live in Him learning to persist in his nature above the circumstances of life. We do not merely preserve in our circumstances. That is the consequence of faithfulness. Our primary purpose is to become like Jesus in all our circumstances. In this regard, learning to persist in the fruit of the Spirit is the important key in our development.
We can endure in the affliction, ordeal, trouble, hardships, pain or adversity because they all develop proven character like unto the Lord Jesus Christ-Romans 5: 1-4. The trial is the key to growth. Patience is the key to faith.
You have need of patience so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised Hebrews 10: 36-39. Do not shrink back from primary purpose.
Study the opposite of patients, and then study patients itself. One provides power that works for us, the other power against it. What promises do you have already in your possession? They are are necessary focus in current circumstances. What is the voice speaking out in your situation?