March – 3 Promises from Scripture

It’s been two years of ministry and what keeps me going regardless of the circumstances are the promises of the Lord. This month I would like to share 3 of the promises in Gods word that keeps me committed to the youth of Romania regardless of the many obstacles my family and I face.

Long ago, the Lord set me free from the chains of sin that I had bound myself in. I rely on this promise from Isaiah 58:6 daily to understand this isn’t a fight i’m in by myself but one that my Lord is deeply committed to with me.

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”

Amen! God has done much to help me address many of the sinful and hurtful habits and behaviors that kept me from experiencing victory in my life. I’ve relied on this promise to help me grow into the truth that I am a child of God. I am so grateful that my Lords work has set me free from the power of Sin.

A second promise comes from Psalm 103:2-5;

“Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”

I didn’t know of the work Jesus was doing in Romania when I was doing my own thing in Sin. He was working in the lives of these children through different people and circumstances regardless of the great suffering and negligence they experienced. His work in families started back in the Garden of Eden and He will continue to work within families long after I pass away. But I’ve been redeemed in order to participate in what Jesus started doing at the beginning of the Romania Orphan Crises. This word from God’s spirit reveals to me that I’ve been given a new heart to work with love and compassion in the lives of these youth.

I have to be honest and say that relationships are the most challenging areas in my life that the Lord is redeeming. I was led to believe by my own heart that I lacked the ability to love because of my hearts wicked desires and appetites. Many of my struggles with God have stemmed from the closest relationships I’ve had and the damage this lie has done in my life. My third scriptural promise comes from John 14:18-21.

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

A love relationship is the primary means of reflecting the work of the Holy Spirit. A love relationship with my savior is what brought me to the truth of what I am capable of. I can love because I’ve been shown much love. The work of mentorship and discipleship is one of revealing the errors in my belief of God and coming to the truth of Gods words and deeds to base my decisions on. God reveals i’m not on my own if I rely on His promises, in His Holy Word. I’ll know how be a good and faithful child of God once I strive to know Him for who He is. Then I can teach from experience and truth others.

I pray this post encourages you to find the promises of God from what He says. Encourage our community to rely on the promises of God to define reality as our ancient and not so ancient brothers and sisters did.

Please respond to this post by commenting your personal promise scriptures. Lets live out our lives in love to one another.