Welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives Podcast. I'm your host, Jalen Bowden, and we

are so excited to have you here with us. Today, we're excited to wrap up this month's

theme all about expectation, where we've been discovering what it means to have a confident

hope in God's promises. And hey, if you've been following along with us for any length

of time, I'm sure you know that these episodes are always power-packed with beautiful truths

about the nature of God. And that's exactly why we're here. We're journeying together to

understand what God is really, truly like. So if you've got a scripture, a promise, or a prophecy

that you've been holding onto with the Lord, then today's episode is for you. Let's jump in with Graham Cook.

The baseline for all promises is this, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. This is a sign of my

presence. Treat it like that. This is me saying to you, everything in here belongs to you,

and so do I. And it's not just a gift that I'm giving you, it's to give it. It's relational,

it's personal, because a promise is always connected to the nature of God.

Presence of God provides promises, guaranteed outcomes, that when you abide in those things,

it's impossible for a promise not to be fulfilled. And yet here we are, with Israel,

of all the adults that came out of Egypt, only two over the age of 20, Joshua and Caleb,

inherited. Everybody else grumbled so much, lost sight of everything, never held onto the promise,

never understood what a promise really is, never held onto it, never saw the significance.

Always let go of that in favor of taking hold of circumstances.

Abraham, Genesis 17.

Okay, I'm going to find this verse now if it kills you.

There it is. Verse 15. Different chapter though.

He said, that's for Sarah, your wife, you should not call her Sarah, but Sarah shall be her name.

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