Bible Text: 2 Cor. 1:18-22

Memory verse: Mk 11:24. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them

INTRODUCTION

God’s promises are great, precious and rich. Also God is not slack concerning His promises and all we need to do is to remind him of His promises anytime we need help and see that we hold fast to those promises in spite of any negative signs and symptoms we may be seeing or experiencing.

Let’s look at the followings: 1- The Nature of God. 2- The nature of His Promises 3- Obtaining God’s Promises. In this article, we shall discuss part 1- The Nature of God. May the Lord grant us understanding in Jesus name? Amen.

Part 1: The Nature of GOD

To use pronoun to qualify God is a problem to us because of limited language. The attempt to solve the problem with dashes and slashes is semantically awkward and artistically or visually repugnant, disgusting, distasteful and objectionable. Hence, one can only imagine His nature. To imagine His nature of course will take us to eternity as such we would look at some of His nature in relation to HIS- truthfulness, trustworthiness, reliability and faithfulness.

a)       He is truthful, trustworthy and reliable faithfulness is the habitation of His throne. Isaiah 25:1–O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. Read further to confirm how faithful HE IS.

• God is true in spite of man’s deceitfulness. Rom.3:4- God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
• God is faithful to make an escape from sin.1Cor.10:13.There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it

b)       He does not lie because he cannot lie. (Num 23.19). God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?.

•  God is not a man- One of the greatest and most comprehensive promises and revelations of God in Scripture. Truly God is not a man but a spirit being, as taught by Jesus. Jn 4:24.God is Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
• That He should lie-This bothers on His integrity. 1- He cannot lie like man. 2-He does not change His promises whether convenient for Him or not. 3- He will fulfil His obligations in all covenants and promises. 4-He will make good His promises; e.g. when Balaam and balak needed to curse Isrealites for reward. God simply told them His promises and covenants with Isreal have already gone out.

c)       He is the Alpha and the Omega (Rev 1:11). The Author and finisher of our Faith (Heb 12:2). Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. The joy set before Him was the redemption of creation through doing the Father’s will.

Love is the ‘Alpha and Omega’ of redemption, the love of God to man. Read it in the journey of the Mediator from Heaven to earth! Read it in His pilgrimage through the land of sorrow! Behold Him ‘nailed’ to the shameful tree! See the blood and water gushing from His side! Hear the sound of the water-discharges as the floods of wrath roll over Him! Then ask the reason. The answer is God is Love. That was the point of the beginning and end of the covenant of life, the privilege of faith and the promise of heaven.

The coming of Christ to the world, his death and resurrection was a perfected desire of God to make the earth the colony of heaven i.e bringing down what is obtainable in heaven to the earth. (essence of model prayer) Mat.6:9-10.1Jn.3:8. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

God bless you.

Deacon Wole Bodunde