Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is Unfulfilled Promises.

Periodically, I like to mention quotes from America's founders and framers.

Declaring statements made in the past by God and those made by others at his inspiration does

more than just honor him and our predecessors. It releases God's power from yesterday's words and promises into today.

This is why Holy Spirit told us in Gina Goldston's work while you celebrate dream

to command the foreword or command what he spoke over America at her beginning.

When God searched history to accent great lives of faith, surprisingly, he chose to list some

that did not receive the fulfillment of their God-given promises.

That's in Hebrews 11.

These people went to the grave with unrealized promises from God,

yet they had truly believed, even making it into the great hall of faith.

Clearly they weren't deficient in their walk of faith.

Why then did they die without seeing the promises fulfilled?

The last two verses of Hebrews 11 give us the simple yet profoundly important answer.

It says, at all these, having gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised because God had provided something better for us so that apart from us,

they would not be made complete. Some promises made by God

to people are multi-generational and not intended to be fully accomplished in their lifetime or lifetimes.

Those to whom the promise was made are sometimes only the womb in which the seed is planted.

The following generation or generations further the growth,

bring it to birth, and steward that which is born.

Jesus said, for in this the saying is true,

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