Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

In my personal quiet time, I've been in the book of Joshua, and I was reading the other day a verse that was sweet to me, and I want to encourage you with it today, and also praise God with it at the same time. He's such a good friend. He is such a

promise keeper. I don't know where you are on the discouragement scale today, but I want to talk

through something I think may help a bit on the show in just a minute.

In Joshua 23, he's giving his farewell address because he's about to die, Joshua, that is.

So he's gathered all the leaders of Israel, and he gives them lots of amazing counsel and encouragement. And towards the end, he says something so powerful, it moves me every time I read it.

Verse 14, deep in your hearts, you know that every promise of the Lord your God has come true.

Not a single one has failed. And as I read that the other day, the first thing that I felt was just a

solid amen. That was my first reaction, because I do agree with

this and believe it, and it resonated as truth to me. But then quickly, I began to feel something else,

and it was this. This is hard because of earthly pain and disappointment. This idea that every

promise has come true, not a single one has failed. And for just a minute,

I winced a little inside because I thought, wait, God, what about this or that in my life? And

then I thought about other people's lives and what about this or that? And even as I read this

verse again, I read that part about deep in your hearts. and I feel like the deep part is significant because

on the surface it seems like God maybe has failed us at times, I know. But then somewhere deep

inside, we know in that knowing place that he hasn't because he's God. And that has much more

to do with our belief system than tangible proof.

But no matter where we are with this in our own life, there's a few things as I was mulling this verse over that God showed me that I want to share with you now that I think may help.

Number one, God's promises are tied to his supernatural understanding of timing, purpose, and sovereignty

of which we humans cannot unravel. Number two, truth about this, our job is not to figure

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