In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, how to claim a promise.

There are many, many wonderful promises in the Bible, and a promise is simply a declaration by God of

his intention to graciously bestow a gift upon us in some form of fashion. And in the Scriptures,

promises of a major part all the way from the beginning throughout the entire Bible, you find one promise

after the other. Expressions of God's love for us, expressions of God's care for us, expressions

of what God intends to do for us, in us, and through us, and expressions of the will and purpose and plan of God, not only

for our life, but for His whole kingdom. Promise up to promise, up to promise. And think about

this. In all these centers that have gone by, not one single promise has been forgotten. Not a single promise he's made has ever been

broken. That's the kind of God you and I serve. So when we think about all those promises and

think about the fact that he made him for us, they bring Him glory, but they made him for us. Then they should be a vital

part of our life. Every single day of our life, we should be grateful for all the promises that God

is given. And if you'll think about it, everything you believe about Him, everything you believe

about Jesus, your whole belief system

is all based on the promises of God. And so when I think about how important they are, I realize

the tragedy in many people's lives here are all of these promises, and it's like having this wealth.

This wealth that is so deep and so wide, it's uncountable, immeasurable,

and people live right by it every day and never stop to claim it.

What a terrible sin for a child of God to be a follower of Jesus Christ and in possession of innumerable

promises made by God, and we just neglect them.

We just let them lay.

We complain, we moan, we groan about what we don't have, and what's going on within us and all the things we're going through in life, not realizing or insensitive to the fact exactly what we need is found right here in the Word of God.

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