GOD Promises

Every God promise - every good gift and every perfect gift we have received and will received is from God above.

• What is a promise?

• What are GOD Promises?

• How does GOD promise?

• What should I know about GOD Promises?

• What is the first GOD promise?

• What is the last GOD promise?

• Where are the promises of GOD?

• Who is able to give GOD promises?

• Which GOD promises will NOT be fulfilled?

• Can you list ALL the promises of GOD?

• Who receives the promises of GOD?

• What does GOD promise ALL people?

• What does GOD promise believers?

• What does GOD promise unbelievers?

• Which GOD promises will I receive?

• Why does GOD give us a choice?

• How can I receive Believer's promises?

• When do Believers inherit GOD Promises?

• Why does GOD Promise believers suffering?

• How long will GOD keep His promises?

• What can I do for GOD?

• Can you define believer and unbeliever?

Promise is defined in the dictionary as a pledge to do, bring about, or provide; the declaration that one will do what is specified.

Most everyone has promised someone something in their lifetime.  Many promises are given and many promises are broken every day.  When promises are kept and proven true, one is able to place more and more trust in that person.  When promises are broken, one is hurt and brokenhearted and it is very hard to trust that person again. 

A lifetime of broken promises hardens one's heart and makes it difficult to trust anyone. 

Promises do not seem to mean much these days.  In the generation of our parents, promises meant a great deal more. Business deals were made with a handshake and not broken.  Today there are teams of lawyers and contracts for the simplest of agreement.

The promises given in this world cannot be compared to the promises of God, because all the promises of God are true, cannot be broken, and all of God's promises will be fulfilled.

People will disappoint you, this is a fact of life.  People will break their promises given to you, but you do not have to give up on trusting everyone.  You can trust God, as He promises never to forsake you and He promises never to leave you.

 And God promises that if you place your trust in Him that He will bless you with more than you could ever imagine.

The promises of God can be trusted because they are from the God who made you and loves you more than you will know in this lifetime (1 John 4:10).

The promises given by God are God Promises. 

Following are three important facts about God Promises: 1) God gives us exceeding great and precious promises; 2) The promises of God cannot be broken; and 3) All of God's promises will be fulfilled.

God Promises are Exceeding great and precious promises

There are many words that define the promises of God.  In 2 Peter the Scriptures beautifully describe the promises of God as exceeding great and precious promises.

Scriptures tell us that the children of God according to God's divine power are given all things that pertain to life and godliness and that these promises of God are exceeding great and precious promises.

Unlike the broken promises given to us by the world, the promises of God are exceeding great and precious promises.

Exceeding great because there is not any promise in this world greater than the promise of eternal life, offered to all people by the grace of God. 

Precious promises because there is no other promise that has been made more precious than God laying down His life in order to give us eternal life with Him (1 John 3:16).

This selfless love, God giving Himself for the salvation of the world, separates Christianity from all other faiths in this world.  The promise of eternal life is the most precious promise and the exceedingly greatest promise anyone could ever hope to be given.

The exceeding great and precious promises of God are offered to everyone - whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.   The choice to accept the promises of God are up to you.  God sets life and death before every person, we must choose for ourselves, and God asks us to choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19).

God Promises Cannot Be Broken

The promises of God cannot be broken. 

The written promises of God are located in His Word, in the Holy Bible, in the Scriptures.  John 10:35 states that the Scripture cannot be broken.

Many people only know broken promises, they have never known anyone who kept their word, kept their promise.  People change their mind and their word, but God doesn't.  God does not change.  God is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). He is the same God eternally.  God is eternal and His promises are eternal.

God promises that His promises cannot be broken.  Only in God's Word can you find every promise fulfilled.  No other writings have been proven true.

God is able to keep all of His promises because He is God and He is faithful that promised (Hebrews 10:23).  God is faithful to all His promises.

ALL God Promises will be Fulfilled

God will fulfill ALL of His promises (Matthew 5:18).    This is something that no one else can promise you.  God is faithful.  God is faithful and He will fulfill all of His promises.

Because God is God, He is able to fulfill all of His promises.   The promises of God never expire.  If God made a promise, if God wrote His promise in His Scripture, then He promises that He will fulfill that promises.  No matter what happens in the future, nothing can prevent God from being God, nothing can prevent God from fulfilling His promises.

The Word of God, the Holy Scriptures are eternal because God is eternal.  The Word of God will live on for all of eternity.  Although many people have tried, the Word of God is testament to who God is and can never be destroyed.  The Word of God is the living Word of God.   Long after this planet, this world, is gone the living Word of God will still exist.

It is important that we realize what exceeding great and precious promises that God gifts to us.  It is important that we know that the Scripture cannot be broken, ever.   It is important that we understand that all God promises will be fulfilled.

God Promises are Faithful

Because He is faithful that promised (Hebrews 10:23), the promises of God are faithful.

The promises of God can be trusted and they are proven faithful because God is faithful (1 Corinthians 1:9).  The promises of God can be trusted, they are faithful because of their source, the one who makes the promise is God.

A promise is only as good as the one who makes the promise. 

God is the source of His promises, He is God and He is the guarantor of His promises.  God cannot lie (Titus 1:2), He cannot fail you, He can be trusted to faithfully fulfill all of His promises. 

Perfectly consistently good

How can we know which gifts are from God above?  The scriptures tell us that every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.  The promises of God do not change, because God does not change, He is the same yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8).  There is no variableness with God, there is no shadow of turning.

Pure, peaceable, gentle, merciful wisdom

The wisdom of God is first pure, then peaceable.  We can rely on the promises of God by purity, because God is pure.  We can rely on the promises of God to be peaceable, gently, easy to be entreated.   We can rely on the promises of God to be full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

The promises of God will never betray His word.  The promises of God are from God above, and will be full of the character of God, will emit the virtues of God, will stand in tune with all of God's righteousness, will echo, resound the attributes of God above.

God is faithful to all His promises

God is faithful to do all that He promises.  God has fulfilled and will always fulfill every promise He ever made.

God does not promise that some of His Word will be fulfilled, but God promises every jot and tittle will be fulfilled.  Every Word of God will be fulfilled.

God promises to fulfill ALL His promises.

What good is a promise if it is never fulfilled?  God is the only one who can and will always fulfill all that He promises, past, present and future. 

Every past promise of God was fulfilled, every present promise of God is being fulfilled, and every future promise of God will be fulfilled.

People fail, we cannot deliver on all our promises that we make.  Too many people spend a lifetime of holding onto broken promises.  We must release the past hurts from people, leave in the past what is in the past, and reach out and hold onto the promises of God that will never fail us.

God is faithful and cannot lie (Titus 1:2).  When God gives any promise, you can be assured it will be fulfilled.  God has never failed to deliver on His promises and He never will.

We must have unwavering faith that God is faithful and we must trust in Him to fulfill all He promises us.

God Promises affect you

What does all this mean to you?  This means that if every promise of God, ever made, ever spoken by God, ever written down in the Scriptures have never been broken and cannot be broken, then every promise in the Scriptures is true.  And if every promise cannot be broken, if every promises of God will be fulfilled, all the promises of God will happen, then you need to know what they are, you need to find out what the God promises are by reading the Word of God.

The promises of God will affect your life today and your life in the future, you need to know what promises are made by God concerning you.

The meaning and purpose of life for everyone is located in the Word of God.   Isn't it time that you found out what exceeding great and precious promises God has waiting for you?

The Scriptures tell us that God loved us before we were born (Ephesians 1:4).  God made promises before we were created and before He created the heavens and the earth. 

The first promise of God is unknown because God is eternal and we have not known God that long.  But God did give us His Word, His revelation of Himself to us in written form in the Holy Bible, the Word of God.  From the Word of God we can see the first written God promise.

In the beginning God

The first written promise of God is found in His Word, the Holy Bible.  The first verse of the Word of God in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 1:1, contains the first written promise of God to mankind, which is in the beginning God.   

God promises that in the beginning He was.  From the very beginning God existed.  God was in the beginning.  Nothing was before God, nothing existed before God.  God is the God of all things.

In the beginning God - this is the first promise of God.  God promises us that He was in the beginning and that He alone created the heaven and the earth.

There is great comfort knowing that God has always been God, that He always existed, that was God in the beginning of all things, that He has always been God and will always be God.  

The Scriptures go further and state that God is the beginning (Revelation 22:13).  God not only was in the beginning, but God is the beginning.  

God was first, before all things there was God.  God existed before all things.  No one or nothing existed before God.  In the beginning God.  God is the great I AM.  Almighty God was before all things, before anything was created there was God.  God is the Creator of all things.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 

To be given the promises of God we must trust and believe in God and that He is all He says that He is, that He is able to do all that He says He will do, he that cometh to God must believe that He is (Hebrews 11:6). 

Every person that comes to God must believe that He is God and that He is all who He says that He is in His Word.  This fact - believing God is the one true God - separates believers from unbelievers.

Believing in God, trusting in God, is believing that God is God according to His word.  Believing in God is believing that the Word of God is truth as it is God's words.  The Word of God is not separate from the God of the Word.  God is eternal and His Word is eternal.  To accept the promises of God one must accept that God is who He says He is and must accept His word, the Word of God as His truth.

What was the first promise of God?  The first promise of God is that He is God, that He has always been God and that He will always be God.  In the beginning God and in the end God.  God is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end, the first and last (Revelation 22:13), and God is all we ever really need.

I do not believe that there is any last promise or end to the promises of God.  When we see God face to face and start spending eternity with Him, I believe that the promises of God will continue throughout eternity.  That said, now we will look at the last written promise of God in the Scriptures.

As the first written promise of God is found in His Holy Word - in the beginning God, so is the last written promise of God found in His Holy Word.

Surely I come quickly

The last written promise of God is "Surely I come quickly" located in Revelation 22:20.  God promises to come back for His own and He says that He is coming very soon.  Are you ready?

This promise in Revelation 22:20 is built upon another God promise located in John 14, where Jesus comforts us by explaining that He is leaving this earth for a short while, but promises to come again, and to take believers to be with Him forevermore (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

After Jesus came to earth from Glory (John 3:13), after Jesus was manifest in the flesh like mankind (1 Timothy 3:16; Hebrews 2:16), after He lived and worked on this earth like man (Hebrews 2:17), after Jesus suffered being tempted with sin (Hebrews 2:18), after He preached to the brokenhearted (Luke 4:18-19), after He healed the sick, after Jesus raised the dead, after Jesus made the blind to see and the lame to walk, after Jesus cured people of all sorts of infirmities and diseases, after Jesus performed more miracles than could be contained in all the books of the world (John 21:25), after Jesus was persecuted, after Jesus was beaten and crucified on His cross for the sin of all mankind, after Jesus loved us and washed us from our sins by His own blood (Revelation 1:5), after Jesus' body died and was buried in a tomb, after He arose from His grave to life everlasting, before He ascended to Glory, God promises to come again.

Remember every word of God will be fulfilled (Matthew 5:18).

All the promises of God will be fulfilled and Jesus is surely coming quickly.  Are you ready?

The written promises of God are located in the Word of God, the Holy Bible, the Scriptures, but the actual promises of God are kept with God. 

The promises of God are with God. 

The promises of God are with God and given to us by God, and are discerned through knowledge of God through Jesus by the Holy Ghost located in His Holy Word, the Holy Bible. 

The promises are part of God and cannot be taken from God.  No one or nothing can cancel or change the promises of God.

The promises of God are kept with Him, in His safe keeping.   No one but God has control of His promises. 

The promises of God are eternally kept with God.  The promises of God are never removed from God.

The promises of God are eternal.

God is eternal and His promises are eternal.  No one can break the promises of God because they are His promises alone.

All scripture is given to us by God through the Holy Spirit.  The word of God is God's revelation of Himself to humankind (2 Timothy 3:16).  From the beginning to the end, the word of God is overflowing, filled with the promises of God.

All the promises that God gives us through His word have already been fulfilled or will be fulfilled in the near future. 

God promises to fulfill every word written in His Holy Word (Matthew 5:18).  God promises that His Holy Scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:35).

The Holy Bible is not just a good book, as it is the words of the Most High God, Almighty Jehovah, the Lord God of all creation, the testimony of the Righteous Saviour, the one true God and Eternal Life.

Our God of love and hope gives us promises for every season of our life, through every circumstance, from the beginning of our live on through to our death and every time in between.

ALL the promises of God are in Jesus Christ

All the promises of God in Jesus Christ are yea and in Him Amen and all are to the glory of God by us.  God, Jesus, and us.

All the promises of God are in the Son of God, Jesus Christ. 

All the promises of God in Christ Jesus are yes, and in Christ Jesus Amen.

All the promises of God in Christ Jesus are to the glory of God.

Father God, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are One God (1 John 5:7).  The promises of God are in God, are in Jesus are in the Holy Spirit - Yes and Amen - ALL the promises of God - ALL in God, unto the glory of God by us. 

To the glory of God by us - We are the object of ALL the promises of God.  God is not required to give us anything of His, but He loves us so much that He gives us everything. 

The promises of God come from God Himself.  Only God is able to give God promises.

The promises of God are given to us by God Himself, none other.  No other person but God can give the promises of God because they all belong to Him alone. 

Salvation is given to all mankind by God, none else, because the salvation of God belongs to none other than God.   We are saved by God alone; nothing else and no one else can save you but God.

Teachers, preachers, people, you and I, we can share the gospel of Christ and lead someone to salvation, but the operation of salvation is performed by God Himself, none other.   You or any other person cannot save anyone.  We are not and will never be given the power to save people from sin and death.  We cannot give someone God's salvation because the salvation of God is not ours to give.  God gives His salvation freely to anyone who comes to Him by faith.  Salvation belongs to God alone.  No one but God owns salvation, no one but God can give salvation.  No one can save themselves, by any means, because the salvation of God belongs to God alone.

The promises of God are with God, given to us by God, and are discerned through knowledge of God through Jesus by the Holy Ghost received at conversion.

The promises are part of God and cannot be removed or taken from God.  God is eternal and His promises are eternal.  No one can break the promises of God because they are His promises alone.

All scripture is given to us by God through the Holy Spirit.  The word of God is God's revelation of Himself to humankind (2 Timothy 3:16).  From the beginning to the end, the word of God is overflowing, filled with the promises of God.

All the promises that God gives us through His word will ALL be fulfilled.  God promises to fulfill every word He has written in His Holy Word (Matthew 5:18).  God promises that His Holy Scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:35).

The Holy Bible is not just a good book, as it is the words of the Most High God, Almighty Jehovah, the Lord God of all creation, the testimony of the Righteous Saviour, the one true living God and Eternal Life.

Our God of love and hope gives us promises for every season of our life, through every circumstance, from the beginning of our live on through to our death and every time in between.

Do not be deceived.  No one on this earth can give you the salvation of God.  No amount of money can purchase the salvation of God.  No works on your part can obtain the salvation of God.  The salvation of God is the promise and gift of God, given freely by God Himself to all people who come to Him in faith that He alone is the God of salvation, that He alone can and will save them from sin and death.   We are all saved the exact same way, which is by the grace of God.  By the grace of God ye are saved (Ephesians 2:5).  The salvation of God is the promise of eternal life with God, given from God and given to whosoever comes to God in faith and believes He is the God of salvation.

Many deceivers are out in this world.  The Scriptures call them sheep in wolves clothing.  These fakers are out to destroy the hope of people.  These liars change the word of God, twist and pervert the Holy Word of God to promote themselves above God.  These liars have but one goal, to keep you from receiving the salvation of God.  These deceivers work for a different father, the father of lies, who is satan.  Be aware.  Be armed with the truth, know the truth, know the true Word of God.

All the promises of God will be fulfilled. 

God promises to fulfill every word written in His Holy Word. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled (Matthew 5:18)

God promises that His Holy Scriptures cannot be broken (John 10:35). 

All God promises will be fulfilled. There is NOT one promise from God that will NOT be fulfilled.

Special Note:  This is a proven fact.  There has never been a promise given from God that has not been fulfilled, or that will not be fulfilled in the future.  No one else can state that ALL their promises have been fulfilled.  With this fact alone, you would think that more people would be concerned about the promises of God.  Not one God promise has ever been broken and all the promises of God will be fulfilled.  You would think that everyone would be reading the Word of God to find out what promises are made about them, as God has made promises to every person in this world.

It would be impossible for anyone to list all the promises of God because God Promises are infinite - beyond number and without end.

We can list some of the promises of God:  love, peace, joy, comfort, faith, salvation, eternity spent with God, and eternity spent without God.

Please Note:  The God Promises that you personally receive are dependent upon your relationship with God.

God Promises Love

God is love and God promises His love to all people (1 John 4:8; 4:16).

God Promises Peace

God promises everlasting peace to all who come to Him.

God Promises Joy

If we abide in God, we will receive the blessings of God, we will produce good fruit, the fruit of the Spirit; with God is fulness of joy.  

God Promises Comfort

God promises comfort.   God promises that He will NOT leave you comfortless. 

What an awesome promise it is that God will never leave us comfortless!  Our lives take many different directions, some good and some not so good.  But no matter where we go in this life, God promises that He will come to us and comfort us, anywhere and everywhere we are, because God is ever present with all people who choose to place their faith and trust in Him.

God Promises Faith

God has given every person the measure of faith.  God left no one out of this promise, because the Scriptures tell us the we are all given the measure of faith, faith to use to believe in God to salvation.

God Promises Salvation

God promises salvation to all people who choose to come to Him.  Salvation is a choice every person must make for themselves.  God says in His Word that He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  Everlasting life, eternal life, is eternal salvation gifted to all people who come to Him for salvation.  Look unto Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else (Isaiah 45:22).

If we use our God-given faith to trust God and come to God in faith that He alone will save us, then God promises that we will be saved.

God Promises Eternity with God

God is the eternal God.  None but God is eternal - without beginning and without end.  

As human beings we are not eternal because God created us, we all have a beginning.  God promises that if we place our faith and trust in Him that He will give us eternal life and that everlasting life will be spent with Him.

Eternity with God is offered from God to all people who choose to place their life in His hands, to all who choose to have faith in God to salvation.

God Promises Eternity without God

From our creation, God grants every person free will to choose God or reject God.  God forces His will on no one.

God sets before every person life and death, blessing and cursing and God lets everyone choose their own path (Deuteronomy 30:19).  God desires that we choose Him, that we choose life, but He forces no one to choose Him.

God promises all people will have an eternity - either with Him or without Him - based on our choice in this life. 

We either have faith in God to salvation or we don't.  We either have faith that God alone can save us from sin and death or we don't.   We either follow God's truth as written in His word, or we don't.    To be with God or to be without God is our choice.  

If we choose to reject God and His Word, then we reject His gift of salvation.   God promises all people who reject His truth of salvation are condemned already, because they do not believe in the name of Jesus for salvation.

All people who reject the salvation of God through faith in Jesus, all people who do not believe in Jesus for their salvation will NOT see life, will not spend eternity with God, but have the wrath of God abiding in them.

Too many people believe that in the end of all things, at the end of this world age, at their end, that it really will not matter what they chose in this life, that in the end the God of love will allow all people to enter into His Paradise, but this is NOT what is written in the Word of God. 

The Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, Jehovah God Almighty says that no one enters into His presence without faith in Jesus Christ for their salvation.

All people who remain in their unbelief will be cut off from God and His Kingdom, all the unbelieving will not enter into His rest, all the unbelieving will be eternally separated from God, and all the unbelieving will spend eternity without God.

More promises of God

The written promises of God can be found inside the pages of the Word of God.  The Word of God contains the written promises of God that God desired us to see.   God is more than is written in the Word of God.  God is God and He is not limited to His written promises.  Not all the promises of God are contained in the Word of God, because God is not bound, not limited to remain in His written word.  God is greater than all things.  There is more of God than is written in His Word.  God is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent.

Even the Scriptures tell us that the world could not contain all of God (John 21:25), all the wonders of God.  The promises, the glory, the miracles, the mystery, the love, the holiness, the wonder of God is beyond our full understanding.

It is impossible to know all there is to know about God, because He is God.  We are given a glimpse of God, because we are not capable of knowing all of God in our present human form. 

No one knows all that there is to know about God, because no one is God but God.  Even the most learned biblical scholars do not know all about God, because He is past our understanding, He is God, He is above full comprehension.  We are not God and will never be God, we will soon be in His Kingdom, in His presence for all eternity if we have elected to do so, but even then we will have limited knowledge because God will always be God and we will always be His children.

God promises to reveal more of Himself to us when we see Him face to face in Glory (1 Corinthians 13:12), because only then will we be able to handle that knowledge, in our new form.  God knows what is best for us and He knows what our small finite minds can hold, and cannot hold. 

The written promises of God are found all throughout the pages of the Holy Word of God, from the first verse to the last verse and all verses in between.  The promises of God are eternally endless, because God Himself is eternal.

This Bible study will look into some of God's promises, as it would be impossible to list all of the promises of God.

This Bible study will discuss the life and death promises of God. 

This Bible study will discuss promises given to all people, promises given to only believers, and promises given to only unbelievers.

The eternal promises of God are dependent upon your personal relationship with God.

This is a very important point, because the promises of God affect every living creature. 

No one is exempt from receiving the promises of God.   No one living or dead is left out from the promises of God.  The fact is that it doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, you will still receive the promises of God.

Exactly which God promises you will receive is dependent upon your personal relationship with God.

All people receive the promises of God

Every person in this world receives promises from God.  God left no one out, from His promises.  No one is excluded from God's promises.  All people receive the promises of God.

The promises of God are placed all throughout His Word.  They are too many to list in this website.  There are promises from God for every situation in our lives.

Some of God's promises are conditional to our spiritual state, meaning there are different sets of promises from God that are based on our relationship with Him.  For simplicity, these promises have been categorized into three different groups of people:  (1) All people (all believers and all unbelievers), (2) all believers and (3) all unbelievers.

God has different promises for all types of people:

1.  God promises for all people - This set of promises God gives to everyone - all people of this world, the believing and unbelieving.

2.  God promises for believers only - This set of promises God gives to the believing, His own children, the righteous, the saved.

3.  God promises for unbelievers only - This set of promises God gives to those who reject God, the unbelieving, people that are not His children, the lost.

There are two types of people in the eyes of God, those with faith and those without faith in Him to salvation, those with, those who have elected to receive His salvation and those who have rejected His gift of salvation, the saved and the lost, those that are His own and those that are not.

Through salvation we can become the children of God, His own, through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.  There is no other way to receive the salvation of God but by faith in Jesus to salvation.  Believing in God for salvation is the requirement for receiving the salvation of God.

The unbelieving are all people who reject God for their salvation, all people who do NOT believe in Jesus Christ for salvation are not the children of God, and will not inherit the Kingdom of God, are not saved from sin and death, have not received eternal life, will never see God face to face.

In conclusion:  All people receive God promises; but, which promises we receive from God is based on our choice and our relationship with God.

Life or death is our choice, to live with God or live without God is our choice, God says "choose life".

All people receive God Promises.  No person alive or dead is exempt from receive the promises of God.

Listed here are some of the promises of God for ALL people.

God Promises Love

God promises His love to all the people of the world.

God loved us first, before we loved Him.

God's love is available for anyone and everyone.  To receive the love of God all we must do is accept His love.  God's love is available for anyone who chooses to accept it.

God loves the human race so much, that He sent His only begotten Son to earth, to live and die for all the sins of all the people of this world.  Before we loved God, He loved us enough to save us from eternal damnation.

Christ came to earth and died for our sins, while we were still sinners, before we loved God, to give us eternal hope, eternal life through His death and resurrection.

God does not force anyone to accept Him, it is our choice.  Everyone has a choice, to either accept God's love or to reject God's love.

God Promises Faith

God promises ALL people the measure of faith. 

The measure of faith that God gifts every person is the amount of faith needed to answer His call to come to Him.  We are all saved the exact same way, we are saved by the grace of God through faith in God (Ephesians 2:8). 

By faith we are saved (Galatians 3:26), and we are all given this faith by God, we are all given the measure of faith to believe in God from God Himself.  How wonderful is our God!   The exact amount of faith required to believe in God is given to every human being by God. 

God gives every person the measure of faith.  God left no one out of this promise, because the Scriptures tell us the we are all given the measure of faith, faith to use to believe in God to salvation.

God Promises Forgiveness

God promises forgiveness to ALL people who come to Him.

It does not matter what you have done in your past, or what you are doing right now - God promises to forgive you. 

No one is exempt from the forgiveness of God, no matter what they have done, no matter how bad they think they have been.

The Holy Scriptures are full of wretched people who have been forgiven by God.  Liars, persecutors of the righteous, blasphemers, evil doers, adulterers, murderers, thieves, law breakers, fornicators, all types of people have come to God, and all types of people have been forgiven by God.

The bad and evil things you think are unforgiveable are in fact forgivable by God.  No thing, no act, no life is beyond the mercy and grace of God to forgive. 

Do not be deceived.  There is nothing more that the devil would like you to believe, than you are such a horrible person that God could never forgive you.   But this is just one of the many lies that satan tells people over and over, every day.

God Promises Free Will

All people are given a choice - all people are given free will to choose God or reject God.

God Promises every person free will to choose Him or reject Him.  God Promises every person free will to accept His free gift of Salvation or reject it.  God Promises every person free will to choose for themselves who they will follow and serve in this life.

God offers every person a choice and God desires that we choose Him, that we choose life, His eternal life, through faith in Christ Jesus to salvation.

God Promises Tribulation

Believing and unbelieving - ALL people - are promised tribulation.

God promises ALL people in the world shall have tribulation.  The fact of life is that every one faces problems in their life.  No person in this world is exempt from problems.  Life is problematic. 

We all face tribulation, trouble, problems.  Don't blame God, because He is not the cause of your trouble.  God is the solution to all trouble.

The good news is that no matter what trouble we face, God gives us a way out.

God Promises a way out

God promises everyone a way out of trouble, or as He says "a way to escape". 

I love this Scripture.  This verse is so comforting, that no matter what I get myself into, no matter what comes along my path, that nothing is too big for God to take care of.

We will never know how many soldiers of the Lord have held onto this Scripture when persecuted, starved, enslaved, tortured, beaten, for the gospel and glory of God.

God promises that we will never be given to suffer anything that is above what we are able to bear; and with every temptation God makes a way to escape.  

Every Christian better write this Scripture on the fleshly tables of their heart, because we never know what the future holds.  We live in a very volatile world.  It will get worse before we see better.

God walked on this earth.  Jesus faced every temptation and won our victory.  Though faith in Jesus to salvation we can bear it, we can escape any trouble, and we can claim victory in Jesus.

God Promises Eternal life

God promises eternal life to everyone who comes to Him and believes in Him.

Eternal life is freedom from sin and death.  Eternal life was promised by God before the world began (Titus 1:2; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 5:11).

The gift of God is salvation, which is eternal life, freely given by God to anyone who by faith believes in His Son, Jesus Christ for their eternal salvation.  God offers His give of salvation to all people.  Salvation frees anyone from sin and death. 

Whosoever, everyone, anyone can receive the gift of God by faith. 

God promises that everyone that asketh receiveth, he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. All people who seek God will find God, He hides from no one, His door is always open, God is always available and ready to welcome all who come to Him by faith.

Everyone means everyone, no exclusions.  You do not need to be a particular race, ethnicity, nationality, all you must be is human.  You have no works or money that is acceptable to God in exchange for His eternal life, His salvation.   The salvation of God is free to all people who come to Him by faith that He is able to save them.

Anyone who calls on the name of Jesus will be saved (Romans 10:9-13).

Salvation is promised by God to anyone and everyone who believes Jesus died for their sins, and who believes that God can and will save them from sin and death. 

Eternal life is available to all people, but all people do not choose to receive God's gift.  God promises to give anyone Eternal Life who ask to receive through faith in Jesus.  You must have faith that God can and will give you eternal life to receive His eternal life.

God Promises Kingdom Inheritance

God promises inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven through faith in Him to salvation. 

God not only wants to give us His salvation so that we can enter His Kingdom and live with Him for all eternity, but God wants to give us His Kingdom.

Through salvation, which is the gift of God, we are adopted into the family of God, we become the heirs of God through faith forever.

By faith in Jesus Christ we become the children of God, and receive the inheritance of eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven (Luke 20:36).

The inheritance of the things of God are offered to anyone by the grace of God, through their faith in Jesus Christ (Titus 3:7). 

Anyone who believes in God by Christ Jesus (1 Peter 1:21), will inherit the crown of life (James 1:12), eternal life (John 3:15), the salvation of their souls (1Peter 1:2-9).

Eternal life, the gift of God, salvation is conditional, we are NOT born with the salvation of God, we must ask for the salvation of God, we must choose salvation, we must believe in His Son to receive His salvation.

Eternal life is given to anyone who believes on the name of the Son of God, Jesus Christ for their salvation.  The reason God wrote and gave us His Holy Word was so that we might believe on His Son, Jesus Christ, and receive His gift of eternal life, to be forever with Him in His Glorious Kingdom of Heaven.

When we trust God by believing in Jesus for our salvation, when we ask Jesus to please come into our lives and become our Saviour and our Lord, we are given an understanding straight from God Himself, assurance that we may know Him Jesus that is true, and that we are in Him Jesus that is true, we believe in Jesus Christ, and we know without any shadow of doubt that Jesus is the true God and eternal life (1 John 5:20).

Please Note:  The promises you receive from God is based on your relationship with God.  Either you have chosen to believe in God for salvation, or you have not.  The choice of eternal life or eternal death is in your hands, you alone make the choice to come to God, you alone make the choice to have faith in God to salvation.  You must choose, no one can choose for you.

God promises you take nothing with you

You can't take it with you.   God promises all people that we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

The things of this world are temporal, not eternal.  The things of this world that you think you own are nothing to be compared to the eternal treasures of the Kingdom of God.  Everything you think you own on this earth is nothing, will rust, will decay, will be sold, will be lost, will be destroyed, and will not be taken with you when you go.

Life is but a vapor (James 4:14), here one minute and gone the next.  We are not to place our trust and hope into material, earthly things that are temporary.

This is why God wants us to place our hope and trust in Him, in the things of God that hold permanence, that are eternal.

God promises believers things beyond our imaginations, wonderful, abundant things in this life and in the life to come.

God promises believers so many wonderful things eternal life, eternal comfort, eternal joy, eternal peace, and eternal love.

God Promises Believers His Love

There is no greater love than the love of God.  God is love and God gives His precious love to His children now and for all eternity. 

Nothing is able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God Promises Believers Eternal Life

God promises eternal life to all people who believe in Him.

God promises that we will abide forever, live forever, live for eternity if we do His will, if we obtain salvation through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.

God Promises Believers Return

God promises to return for His faithful children.

God Promises Believers will be Raised Up at the last day

Every person who places their faith and trust in God to save them from sin and death will be raised up by God at the last day.  Believers have a future with God and God promises to raise us all up to be with Him forever.

God Promises Believers Life With Him Forever

God promises His faithful children will be with Him forever.  Believers are not just promised eternal life, but eternal life with God.  Believers will ever be with the Lord. 

God desires to be with us personally.  The relationship you have on this earth with God will be the beginning of your relationship with the Lord when we see Him face to face in Heaven.

God Promises Believers the Crown of Life

God promises those who love Him the crown of life.  God promises the faithful in Christ Jesus who love Him will receive the crown of life.

There is only one who is worthy of a crown in Glory, Jesus Christ our Lord.  I do believe we will all cast our crowns as His feet, the Lamb who was slain and gave His life for us, so that we could spend eternity in the Paradise of God's Heavenly Glory.

God Promises NOT to Fail or Forsake Believers

How many times have people failed you? How many times have people promised to be there for you, but have abandoned you? 

Man will fail you, but God will never fail you, forsake you  or abandon you.

You are NEVER ALONE WHEN YOU HAVE GOD.

God Promises Believers Refuge

Our eternal God is our refuge.

When no one else understands or seems to care, God does.  Believers have a refuge, a place to run, in times of trouble, in times of pain, in times of loneliness. 

God is my refuge.  I can run to Him, and He will comfort me and heal me.  God is always there for me and always cares for me.

God Promises Believers Help

God is our helper.  We all need help in this life.  God is our helper in any situation with any difficulty, God can and will help me.

God Promises to Shield Believers

God is the believer's help and shield.  A buckler is a shield.   God is our buckler and shield.  God protects us from harm.  God shields us all throughout our lives.  Some times we know when He has shielded us, but many times we do not.  God never sleeps, God is never far away from us.  God is always watching and protecting His own.

God Promises Believers Comfort

God promises believers comfort.  God gives His children comfort.  Some people may give us a hug or listen to us, but God goes deeper, because God can comfort our soul, God comforts our hearts.  The comfort of God goes deep into our soul, into our spirit, into our heart, giving us the ultimate comfort.

God Promises Believers Long Life

God promises believers eternal life in the world to come and long life on this earth.

God Promises Believers Goodness and Mercy

Believers receive eternal life with God after we pass from this earth, but God also gives us blessings on this earth, while we are living here on this earth.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life this is a promise from God to all believers who place their faith and trust in Him for their salvation and their life, their life here and in the life to come.

Our home, our dwelling place is with the LORD, here and in the world to come.  When we stay focused on our true house, our permanent habitat, our eternal home, we will receive the blessings of the Lord today, in this world and in the world to come.

God Promises Believers His Blessings

God promises His children blessings.

God desires to bless His children.  God plans to bless us all the days of our lives.  The blessings of God are not limited to God, but are limited to us.  We alone limit the blessings of God in our lives.

God promises believers ALL spiritual blessings.  Believers have unlimited blessings in Christ Jesus. 

All believers are blessed by God.  The blessings of God manifest in your life depend on your obedience to God.  The more you trust God and place your faith in His hands and do what He says to do with your life, the more blessings will be manifest in your life.  We serve a living God and we serve a active, doing God.  God expects every believer to do His word.  We activate our faith, we switch on the flow of blessings from God when we do what He says in His Word.  Faith without works is dead (James 2:26).  Believers, the children of God, the household of God, are all believers who hear the word of God and do it (Luke 2:5).

By placing our complete trust in God we are assured that we will receive all the blessing God has for us in this life.

God Promises His Hand upon Believers

God’s hand is upon them that seek him.

God knows personally every one of His own.  We are all the children of God through faith in Jesus (Galatians 3:26).  God personally watches out for us, He keeps us safe and from harm, the very hand of God is on every believer.

God Promises Believers Happiness

Happiness is promised to all believers.   Happy is that people whose God is the LORD! 

If you are a believer and you are not happy, do not blame God.  God gifts all believers happiness, if you are not happy, it is your doing.   We must accept the blessings and gifts of God.  We must do the work of salvation to reap the blessings of salvation (Philippians 2:12).

God Promises Believers Joy

God promises everlasting joy to believers.  The joy given to us through faith in Christ Jesus, God promises that NO MAN can take it away, as long as we abide in Him.

The joy of the world is not genuine and is not everlasting.  The everlasting joy of God is received only by God, through faith in God (John 17:13; Romans 5:11).

The essence of God is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance (Galatians 5:22-23).

God desires us to have joy (Acts 2:28).

God Promises Believers His Divine Nature

Partakers of the divine nature is promised by God to all His followers.  This promise is another definition of the grace of God, as we do not deserve such a blessing, such a promise.

Please prayerfully read the following Scripture (2 Peter 1:4-11).  Allow this truth, this promise of God to absorb completely into your heart.

As believers of the Most High God, we are not kept outside of the Holy of Holies, but we are allowed to touch the presence of God.  As believers we are adopted into the family of God and given access to personally fellowship with our precious King. 

God gives all believers unlimited access to Himself.   God allows us, grants us permission, gifts us the privilege and right to be partakers of the divine nature, His divine nature.   This is truly an ultimate, incredible and precious gift.

God opens up Himself to us and allows all believers to be partakers of the divine nature.  God allows us to take part in His divine nature.  By faith and though obedience to God and His word, by putting on His righteousness, by putting on Christ we can become partakers of the divine nature.

By allowing believers to be partakers of the divine nature, God allows us closeness with Him, God allows us to personalize our relationship with Him.  God desires interaction with each of us.  God desires to be active in our lives.   God desires to interact with us in everything that we do, every day.  God desires to help us, comfort us, live with us, actively sharing our love, our lives.

We should thank God every day for His great and precious promises.  We should thank God every day for allowing us to be partakers of the divine nature.

Prayer thanking GOD for His great and precious promises:

God Promises Believers Knowledge

God promises believers understanding and knowledge of Himself.  Over and over Scripture describes as unbelievers being without.  We people choose to reject the cross of Jesus, they reject the ability to understand the things of God. 

Believers are given knowledge from God Himself to understand the mysteries of the Scriptures and the deep things of God.

Unbelievers will never understand the deep things of God because they are without God.

When believers turn from their sin and turn to God, when we step out in faith and let go of sin and take hold of Christ Jesus, the veil of sin is taken away and we can see clearly who God is and why and how He is God.

God promises everyone knowledge and understanding of His ways when our heart turns to Christ.  The lost, the unbelieving cannot understand the full truth of God because their minds are blinded by sin.  Through salvation, Christ removes the veil, the blind covering over our heart, so that we can see the full truth of God in Christ Jesus.

When it, my heart, shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away, by God, and I will be shown the truth of God, in all His glory and wonder.

The wisdom to understand the things of God are given by God to all His children.  We become the children of God through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ to salvation (Galatians 3:26).

God Promises to Hear Believers

God promises to hear the prayers of His children.  God not only promises to hear the believer's cry, but to deliver them out of ALL their troubles.

God Promises Believers Deliverance

God promises to hear our cry and deliver us out of ALL troubles.  We serve a God of action.  God will not just idly sit by and just hear our cries, but God promises to deliver us out of ALL our troubles.

If you are a believer, God promises to deliver you out of ALL your troubles.  Believers must place their faith and trust in God that He can and will deliver on all of His promises and deliver them out of ALL their troubles.

We must remember that God sees the beginning from the end and our timetable is not His.  God answers all the prayers of His children.   Sometimes we must be patient and wait on God.  God alone has perfect timing to all our needs.  God knows what is best for us and He knows when it is the perfect time to deliver us out of ALL of our troubles.  Many times we must pray for patience to wait on the Lord.

God Promises Believers Perfect Peace

God promises not just peace, but perfect peace.

God Promises Believers Safety

God keeps us safe.

God Promises Believers No Fear

Believers have been set free of fear.  Believers have God, we trust in God and we will not fear anything.  Nothing in this world can truly harm a believer, because we have placed our trust in Almighty God.

God Promises Believers Strength

God Promises to Keep Believers

Believers are in the hands of God for safe keeping.  God keeps the soul of every believer.  God preserves the souls of every believer who trusts Him.

God Promises Believers shall not slide

God Promises Believers the Desires of their heart

God promises to give believers the desires of their heart.

God Promises Believers Prosperity

If you are unsure if you are a believer or unbeliever, based on the word of God, see What is the difference between a believer and an unbeliever? located on this page.

God has promises for all people and God has specific promises for believers and specific promises for unbelievers.  These promises are found in His Scriptures.

God promises all unbelievers that they will die in their sin

The opposite of eternal life is eternal death.  Eternal death is separation from God for eternity.  No one on this earth knows what separation from God is like because we have always had God in our existence. 

God is life, God is love, God is our joy, God is peace, God is mercy, God is comfort, God is hope, so separation from God is an eternity without any life, without any love, without any joy, without any peace, without any mercy, without any comfort, and without any hope.  A total loveless, empty existence and hopeless death, for eternity!!  I cannot comprehend why anyone would pursue such a horrible eternity.  The mere thought of an eternity without God is a unimaginable horror.

Unbelievers choose separation from God here on earth and will receive separation from God in eternity, IF they do not change and choose salvation.

Hell is called the second death, because we die once here on earth and if we are unbelieving will face a second death in eternity, or eternal death.

There is NO HOPE for salvation after the unbeliever dies.  The decision for salvation must be made while we are alive. 

There is no salvation available from God after we die.  I realize that many religions preach this differently, that you are able to pray for the lost after they die and they may receive salvation, or that you can buy people out of hell, or purchase salvation for the dead, but these are false, fables of men, because they are not biblical.

The God of Light says that when the unbelieving die, so does his expectation, the hope of the unbelieving dies when they die.

The word of God states that "to perish" is to die without Him, receive eternal death, which is separation from God for eternity. 

No one wants to perish, no one seeks to perish, to perish is to die without God.

To perish is described in the word of God as everlasting destruction, everlasting punishment, eternal damnation, everlasting fire, hell (Matthew 18:8, 25:41,46; 2 Thessalonians 1:9).

Eternal death is hard to even imagine, with our small, limited minds.  Human beings are governed by time, but God has no time.  God created time for mankind, God does not need time.  God is not bound by time or any limitations.  Heaven and eternity are beyond time. 

As with everything that concerns us, God explains time in His Holy Word.  God says that one day in eternity is like a thousand days to us here on earth, AND a thousand days is like one day.  Time is infinite in eternity, never ending.  Time as we know it is irrelevant in eternity, meaningless, and will not be used.

God says in His word that our life, our existence, is but a vapor, nothing, shorter than a second in the whole reality of eternity (James 4:14).  What is our 90 years on this earth compared to tens thousand times ten thousands years of infinite time in eternity?

Our lifetime here on this earth is nothing compared to our real life when we reach our eternal home.

Unbelievers choose to be without God.  Unbelievers forsake God, turn their backs on God, don't need God in their lives.  Unbelievers abandon God.  Unbelievers forget God.  Unbelievers choose to be ungodly.  Unbelievers choose to be unrighteous.  God promises the ungodly will die.

God Promises Unbelievers will Perish

The wicked shall perish.

Remember God has a different definition of unbelievers than the world does.  God states that you are either for Him or for the world.  God states that the world, the sinfulness, wickedness, evil of the world is His enemy.

The believer separates Himself from the sin and lust of this world, because God is separate from the world.  No one can have it both ways, no one can live in sin every day and have a relationship with God.  God says that we can't be on both sides of the fence at the same time, we must choose a side, God or the world. 

Unbelievers are the wicked in the eyes of God, because they have chosen the cares of this world over His everlasting love.

God Promises Liars shall perish

God is truth (John 17:17).  God cannot lie (Titus 1:2).  God has no greater joy than to see His children abiding in truth (3 John 1:4).

Living in truth, abiding in truth is not optional with God.  Truth comes from God and deceit comes from satan.

The word of God states that satan is the father of all lies and people that lie are the devil's children.

Do not lie is 9th in God's original 10 commandments, given to Moses. False witness is lies. 

Unbelievers refuse to believe the truth of God

Unbelievers choose to refuse God.  Every person has the same choice to come to God or to reject God.  Unbelievers choose to reject God, unbelievers refuse to believe the truth of God.

We are not born unbelieving, we are all born with free will.  When we reach the age of accountability, when we all hear the voice of God calling us to Him, then we use our free will to either choose to believe God or we choose to refuse God's call to Him.  When we choose to reject God, then we become unbelieving.  The moment we hear God's voice, calling us to Him, we exercise our free will and we all make a choice, this choice that we all make determines our eternity.

One either believes in God by faith to salvation, or one rejects the truth of God choosing a path different than the way of Christ.  Through faith in God to salvation one receives the knowledge of the truth of God, without salvation one remains in unbelief, the unbelieving cannot receive the knowledge of the truth of God, because they choose to reject it.

Unbelievers have not come to the knowledge of the truth of God.  The truth of God is found in His Son, Jesus Christ (John 14:6).  The knowledge of the truth is salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.  The truth of God sets us free from sin and death (John 8:32).

God does not want any human being to perish, die without receiving His salvation.  The desire of God, the will of God, is for all people everywhere to come the knowledge of the truth and be saved (1 Timothy 2:4).

Obeying the truth of God, coming to the knowledge of the truth, is realizing that God is all He says that He is in His word.  Coming to the knowledge of the truth of God is to receive His salvation, we must believe His Son, Jesus Christ, shed His blood for our sins on His cross, died and rose from His grave to new life and lives forever more.  When we believe in Jesus, we too can receive the salvation of God and eternal life from Jesus Christ.   Jesus Christ is the truth of God.  Believers hear the truth and believe the truth.  Everyone that hears the voice of Jesus is of the truth of God (John 18:37).

The unbelievers reject the truth of God, and choose to believe a lie.  God is against all who hold the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1:18).  The unbelieving believe their own lies or lies of other men, over the truth in the word of God (Romans 1:15).   The unbelieving trade the truth of God for a lie, believing bad is good and good is bad.

Only One God holds the truth.   Only One God can save you from sin and death.  Only One God loves you enough to lay down His own life so you could be saved.  Only One God can give you eternal life.

God Promises that Corruption shall inherit Corruption

Eternal life in the Kingdom of God is inherited by believers of Christ Jesus, who chose to put on the incorruption of Christ, which is to accept the free gift of God, His eternal salvation.

Believers of God, the saved in Christ Jesus, inherit the promises of God pertaining to life.

We are all saved the same way, by the grace of God through faith in God, faith that He is God, and faith that He can and will save us from sin and death.

Believers will inherit the promise of eternal life through faith in Christ Jesus.  Diligence to the full assurance of hope and enduring unto the end through faith and patience, insures our inheritance.

The promise of eternal life is received by everyone the same exact way, by grace through faith.  By the grace of God through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, we receive the promise of God of everlasting life.

Nothing pertaining to eternal life is received of God except by faith, believing that God is all who He says He is, with unwavering faith and trust in Him and in all His Holy written word.

By grace through faith we receive the promise of eternal life from God, nothing less and nothing more, this is the perfect law of God.

We receive the promises of God the Father through Christ Jesus, the Son of God.  We are given all things of God through Christ Jesus.  God the Father decided before the earth was formed, that humanity would receive all things pertaining to life from Him, through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, and this is still God's perfect plan.  The will of God never changes (James 1:17; Hebrews 13:8), it is constant and will remain constant throughout eternity.

All the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, we receive the promises of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

By salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus, we receive the promises of God pertaining to eternal life.  Salvation is the gift of God, given by God to all who choose to believe in His Son to salvation. 

Through faith our eyes are open and our ears hear the word of God, and we can see the truth of God, that eternal life is in His Son.  This knowledge, truth of God is not seen by the lost (2 Timothy 3).

The will of God is that all people everywhere obtain salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.  God doesn't want mankind, who He lovingly created, to perish, to die, to live for eternity separated from Him; no, God created us to live with Him, to be with Him, to love Him and be loved by Him.  We were created for God's pleasure, so that He could give us all that He has, all His love and all His care.

By seeking God we receive the promises of God.

By remaining separated from sin, being separated from sin and the evil world we receive the promises of God, because God is separate from sin, so are His children.  As the children of the Most High God, we are attached to Jesus, not attached to sin.

We are to be separated unto God, not sin.  We are to walk in righteousness, not in sin.  We are to be led and guided by God, not by lust and sin.  Remaining separated from the sin of this world is a daily battle that we must take on every day.  We are to daily take up our cross and follow Christ (Luke 9:23), denying sin and following the righteousness of God.

Through the salvation of God we are justified and sanctified, we are made holy through faith in Jesus and put on His righteous.  By perfecting holiness in the fear of God, we receive the promises of God.

By enduring in faith and saying no to temptation and sin, we receive the promises of God.  Living by faith is overcoming, because we are living from faith to faith (Romans 1:17), and not sin to sin. 

Overcoming, living by faith, enduring in faith is NOT living in sin.  Enduring in faith, living by faith is living in righteousness to the will of God.  We are either overcome by God, or we are overcome by satan.  The word of God reads that we are servants of who we obey, either we obey and serve God, or we obey and serve satan, but we can't do both.

God never said in His Holy word that if we live for ourselves, if we live in sin, if we practice unrighteousness, if we willfully sin all the days of our lives that we will inherit His promises; NO God says "he that overcometh will inherit all things".  

Heaven is promised to those who overcome, through faith in Christ.  We must purge sin from our lives, we must reject unrighteousness and sin in our lives to inherit the promises of God.  DO NOT BE DECEIVED by satan.  God says that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), all who practice sin will inherit death, which is separation from God for eternity.  God promises that we will reap what we sow, either life through righteousness, or death through sin.  The wages of sin is death, not eternal life with God.

We know through the word of God that we cannot hold onto sin and hold onto God, we must let go of one in order to hold onto the other.  God says no one is undecided, no one can comprise, we are either for God or against God (Luke 11:23), we either stand with God through faith in righteousness, or we stand with satan through the flesh in sin. 

Jesus said, "He that is not with me is against me...". Luke 11:23.  Anyone against Christ Jesus, the enemy of God, will not spend eternity with God.

Enduring until the end, means saying no to temptation and sin, all the days of our lives.  Enduring until the end is holding onto faith in Jesus and letting go of sin in our lives.  As long as we hold onto sin in our lives, we cannot hold onto salvation.  We must let go of sin, in order to take hold of salvation, because God says that there is no other way (1 Corinthians 10:21).

By remaining faithful we receive the promises of God

By placing all our faith and trust in God we receive the promises of God

By living righteously we receive the promises of God

By repenting of sin we receive the promises of God

By submitting ourselves completely to God, surrendering all of ourselves to Christ Jesus we receive the promises of God.

Self-righteousness is determining what is righteous for yourself, apart from what God says.  Self-righteousness is making up your own rules for salvation, God's will, who is saved and who is not, what is right and what is wrong.   Self-righteousness is believing and trusting in self, instead of believing and trusting in God.  Self-righteousness is replacing your truth for God's truth, replacing your ways for God's ways, replacing your opinion of living your life for God's plan for your life, replacing your views for God's views.

The only way we can receive the salvation of God is by rejecting our self-righteousness, everything about self and replacing it with Christ, denying self and replacing self with Christ.  We must through away our attachment to self, in order to attach to Christ.

By denying self, putting God first before ourselves, we receive the promises of God.  Denying self is a requirement by God to receive His promises.  We either deny self, or we deny God, we either place God first in our lives, or we place ourselves first, we either do what we want, or we do what God wants us to do.  No one can live for self, live in selfishness, live a self centered life and serve God.

Faith in God produces obedience and good works.  Works get no one into heaven, but good works are the product of faith in God.  Obedience to God and His Word is the product of loving God.  Believers obey God because we love God, not to receive anything from Him.  Believers do good works not to receive the gift of salvation, but because we already have.  Believers obey God because we can not do otherwise, believers cannot not obey God.

Abiding in Christ turns on obedience to God and His word.  Salvation turns on obedience to God because Christ is abiding inside of believers and we do as Christ does living in us, living out through us. 

Your faith is showing.  Who you believe, what you believe in, who you trust, shows out through your actions, what you say and what you do in this life.  The salvation of God is shown out through the lives of believer's of Christ Jesus.  The just shall live by faith, from faith to faith, every day (Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38).

Believers, followers of Jesus, through faith and patience inherit the promises of eternal life.  God promises that after we have done the will of God - accepting Jesus as our Lord and Saviour - we receive the promise of eternal life.

Diligence to the full assurance of hope and enduring unto the end through faith and patience.

The faithful of God inherit the promises of God pertaining to life.  Eternal life is inherited by all believers of Christ Jesus.

Believers receive the promise of eternal life at salvation, which is by the grace of God through faith in God. 

Believers start eternal life the moment our spirit leaves our earthly body at death (2 Corinthians 5:8), or when we are caught up (1 Thessalonians 4:17) whichever comes first. 

Everlasting life, eternal life in the presence of God happens when we see Jesus face to face (1 Corinthians 13:12; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Revelation 22:4), when we receive the salvation of our souls at the end of our faith (1 Peter 1:9).  At the end of our faith we receive our prize, King Jesus, and we will forever be with the Lord.

Our actual eternal life commences the moment we die (or at the rapture of the church whichever happens first).  Why? Because eternal life is never ending life.  We cannot have eternal life on this earth for two reasons: 1) because we are in our earthly bodies, which must be changed to live eternally (1 Corinthians 15:53); and 2) this earth as we know it will be destroyed and replaced by a new earth (Revelation 21:1).

God promises believers a heavenly body (1 Corinthians 15:49-53).  The body we have now on this earth, flesh and blood, is not equipped to last throughout eternity.  Our earthly body starts decaying the moment we are born, because it is earthly flesh and blood, and exposed to toxins and disease.  Our earthly, natural bodies need to be changed to become eternal, heavenly bodies.  This change will happen one day soon.  Our earthly bodies will be changed in the twinkling of an eye, to be fashioned like Jesus' heavenly body, able to endure for all of eternity.

When do believers receive eternal life?  Believers receive eternal life at conversion, when they acknowledge Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior, when they by faith in Jesus accept the salvation of God, when they believe God alone saves them from sin and death, when they believe that God is all who He says that He is in His word.  All believers in God will endure until the end and will receive the end of their faith, the salvation of their souls, eternal life with God for all eternity.

One is either in faith or without faith, a believer or unbeliever.  An unbeliever chooses not to believe in God for their salvation.  Without faith in God to salvation you are an unbeliever.  Dead faith is unbelief.

Anyone without faith in God is an unbeliever.  Any believer who chooses not have faith in God is an unbeliever.  Any believer who casts off their faith is an unbeliever (1 Timothy 5:12).  Any believer who forsakes God is an unbeliever (Isaiah 1:28), has left the faith.  Any believer who abandons their faith is an unbeliever.  Any believer who departs from the faith (1 Timothy 4:1) is an unbeliever.  Any believer who has left their first love (Revelation 2:4) is an unbeliever.

All unbelievers do not have eternal life (Revelation 21:8).  Any one without Christ is without eternal life (1 John 5:11; John 3:36; 6:47).  Do not think for a moment that you can live for sin, live any way you choose, live apart from Christ all your life, and when you die expect to live with God, as the Word of God reads it simply doesn't work that way.

Eternal life is given to all who by faith in God choose to receive the salvation of God and by faith remain attached to Jesus, the just shall live by faith all their life.  Eternal life is given to all who by faith in God choose to abide in Christ, who hold onto their faith in God, who endure until the end, who overcome, who remain in the faith until the end of their life. 

When you die - you will either be holding on to your faith in Christ Jesus or holding on to something else, what you are holding onto at your death determines your eternity, whether you will spend eternity with God or without God.

The relationship you have personally with Christ Jesus at your death, determines your eternity.

When you die, if Jesus is your personal Lord and Savior, you will spend eternity with Him in the Kingdom of Heaven.

When you die, if Jesus is NOT your personal Lord and Savior, you will NOT spend eternity with Him in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Eternal life is received at the end of your faith, at your death, when your spirit leaves your earthly body for eternity.  Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls (1 Peter 2:9).

Christianity is a lifestyle, the Christian life, the believer's life is a journey through this life toward eternal life with God. Faith in God, salvation, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.  Salvation is our life purpose of faith in God, our life journey of faith to God.  The purpose of salvation is to end with God.  We end with God by continuing our faith in God to salvation, to the end, to when we see God.

Believers never stop continuing in their faith in God to salvation.

Salvation is present and future tense, at the end of your faith you receive the salvation of your soul, this is why any past relationship with God will NOT guarantee a future relationship with God.  

Faith in God is alive, faith in God is an active personal relationship with God today, tomorrow, forever.

Why does God promise that the children of God will suffer for following His Son, Jesus Christ?

The word of God is very clear and tells us repeatedly that all who are the called the children of God, every person that follows the ways of Christ, all those people who believe in the gospel of Christ, who believe in the word of God, all people who are saved will suffer.

Why are we, as believers, told we are to suffer?

The word of God reads we shall suffer persecution, because Christ Himself suffered.

We will suffer because Jesus suffered.

We suffer with Christ that we also may be glorified together.

But we have the promise that all the sufferings here on earth cannot be compared to the glory which will be revealed to the children of God in the kingdom of Heaven.

And we have the promise from God that we will NOT receive any temptation that we are NOT able to bear.

We know those who suffer for following Christ, partakers in His suffering, will also be partakers in His glory.

As believers, we have the Spirit of Christ and the fruit of the Spirit is longsuffering, enables us to endure suffering for Christ our Lord.

By believing in Christ we not only receive the gift of salvation, but we also receive the gift to suffer for Christ's sake.

Believers know that there is not any suffering on this earth that can be compared to the glory which is to be received by those who endure until the end.

Nothing compares to Christ.

The children of God do NOT fear suffering.

The children of God do not fear death, because we know we know the instant we die that we will be with our precious Lord and Saviour.

As believers, we are not afraid of death, because we know that our God has power over death, Christ destroyed death, and those who believe in Him will NOT perish, but receive everlasting life.

As Jesus Christ suffered and knew what was after His suffering, so do all the believers of Christ know that after our suffering, the joy that waits for us all at the end.

The promises of God are eternal promises.  God will keep all His promises forever.

God is eternal - without beginning and without end - and His promises are eternal.

To a thousand generations

A thousand generations is longer than the time we have on this earth.

God keeps His promises forever.  God is faithful in everything He says and does.  God will never forsake us, He will never forget us.  People will fail us because we are all just human beings, but God will never fail us.

The love and mercy of God endures forever, from everlasting to everlasting.

What can I do for God who gives me so many promises?

As a believer who loves Christ Jesus with all their heart, we wonder what we can possibly do for our Creator, our Lord God who owns all things in heaven and earth. 

As a believer of the Most High God, what can I do for my God who has given me so much, what can I do for my God?

Perfect Holiness

Cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The defining difference between believer and unbeliever is the believer is with Christ and the unbeliever is without Christ.

What is the difference between a believer and an unbeliever?

The difference between a believer and an unbeliever is their choice of faith in God to salvation.  Faith in Jesus Christ to salvation separates a believer from an unbeliever. 

Believers are the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus for their salvation.

The choice to believe in God to salvation must be made by each person.  One either believes that God is God and believes in His Word as truth or one doesn't.  One believes God to the salvation of their soul, or they don't.  One either gives their life to God or they don't.  The Scriptures say it best, God sets before every person life and death, we must choose blessing or cursing, God asks that we choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19).

The believer

The believers chooses to place their faith in God for their salvation.

A believer has chosen Jesus Christ to be the Lord and Saviour over their life. 

A believer has chosen to follow the ways of Christ Jesus all the days of their life.

A believer has chosen to accept the gift of God, which is salvation and eternal life through faith in Christ Jesus.

A believer has chosen eternal life with God.

A believer has turn away from the power of darkness in satan, to the power and light of Jesus.

A believer has turned away from sin, and turned to a life of righteousness though Christ Jesus.

The unbeliever

The unbeliever chooses NOT to place their faith in God for their salvation.

An unbeliever chooses not to believe in God and His Son, Jesus Christ.

An unbeliever chooses not to have faith in God and Jesus to save them from their sins and death.

An unbeliever chooses not to believe that God is the one and only Almighty Living God, Creator of all things.

An unbeliever chooses not to obey and believe the Word of God, the Holy Bible are the words of God, infallible, indisputable, truth of the Living God.

An unbeliever chooses not to believe God is all who He says He is in His word, as the revelation of God Himself to all mankind.

An unbeliever chooses not to believe in the divine triune of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

An unbeliever chooses not to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour.

An unbeliever chooses not to accept the eternal existence of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, God the Father sending His Son to earth to be the eternal sacrifice for all the sins of all the people on the earth who believe in Him, the virgin birth of Jesus, the sinless life of Jesus, the gospel of Jesus Christ, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on His cross, the shedding of His own blood so that our sins can be forgiven, His death on His cross, His resurrection from His grave to new life so we too can be resurrected into new life after we die here on earth, His new heavenly body, His ascension to Heaven from earth where He sits on the right hand side of God the Father, and His promise to return to earth one day soon.

An unbeliever chooses to follow their own way, instead of the way of God.

An unbeliever refuses, rejects, forsakes, forgets, and turns away from God.

Unbelievers are the unrighteous.

An unbeliever is any person who has not accepted the gift of salvation from God through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.

An unbeliever is any person who has not repented of their sin, which is turned away from sin in their life.

An unbeliever is any person who has turned away from God, forsaken God, abandoned God, or rejected God, Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

An unbeliever is any person who does not believe in God, Jesus Christ, salvation, eternity in Heaven, and the word of God.

An unbeliever is any person who remains attached to unrighteousness.

An unbeliever is anyone who has forsaken, departed, turned away from, forgot the Lord God.

God defines unbelievers with many different words throughout His word. 

God calls unbelievers: the unrighteous, workers of iniquity, enemies of God, those who say there is no god, evildoers, the wicked, the defiled, the cursed, the fearful, the abominable, haters of God, servants of sin, murderers, corrupt, whoremongers, the children of the devil, sorcerers, idolaters, liars, deceitful, fornicators, destitute of the truth, reprobates, hypocrites, slothful, the lost, and the unjust (2 Corinthians 6:14; Matthew 13:49; Revelation 21:8). 

Some unbelievers may think that they are "good" in the eyes of God.  God says that no one is good and no one is good enough by themselves to enter His Kingdom of Heaven.  God says that we all have sinned (Romans 3:23; 5:12) and must be forgiven of all our sins (Acts 26:18).  The only one who can forgive our sins is Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:5-7; Colossians 1:13-14).  The only way to the salvation of God is through faith in Christ Jesus (John 14:6).

The plan of salvation was given to mankind by the grace of God, so that we might live joyfully, abundantly, in love and in peace in the fellowship of Christ Jesus, in the presence of God for eternity.  

Salvation is the gift of God, given freely by God, to whosoever - any person - who believes in His Son, Jesus Christ to forgive all their sins and give them eternal life (Ephesians 2:8).

The will of God is to obtain salvation through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, who died for us so that we could live together with Him.

God promises all people, whosoever believes in Jesus will not perish but receive eternal life (John 3:16). 

Any unbeliever can change their spiritual status at any time, before they die, simply by believing in Christ Jesus to salvation, as long as they have not grieved the Holy Spirit to the point of no return.

God says that we are all appointed to die in our human bodies, and after our earthly death is the judgment of God (Hebrews 9:27).  The word of God reads that all flesh shall perish, and return to dust (Job 34:15).

Every person has an eternal destiny.  Every person will exist in one of the two eternities:         

1.  Eternal life in Heaven with God.             

- or -         

2.  Eternal death separated from God for eternity in hell alone for eternity.

Every person that has died, will be resurrected bodily from their grave, to one of two destinations (John 5:29):       

1.  Resurrection of Life                 

- or -       

2.  Resurrection of damnation

 

All people who believe in Jesus Christ for salvation will receive everlasting life (John 11:25), and will receive the resurrection of Life, eternal life in the Kingdom of Christ Jesus forevermore.

God has promises for all people and God has specific promises for believers and specific promises for unbelievers.  These promises are found in His Scriptures.

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