Promise

2 Samuel 7:15,25-26 – But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. ..“And now, Lord God, keep forever the promise you have made concerning your servant and his house. Do as you promised, so that your name will be great forever. Then people will say, ‘The Lord Almighty is God over Israel!’ And the house of your servant David will be established in your sight.

Numbers 23:19 – God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Exodus 6:3 – I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself fully known to them.

Matthew 6:9-10 – “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Application:

• ·         “My love” is God’s special and unfailing favor.
• ·         “God is not human, that He should lie” describe the immutability of the Lord and the integrity of His word.
• ·         The patriarchs were not necessarily totally ignorant of the name Yahweh, but they did not understand its full implications as the name of the One who would redeem His people.
• ·         The Lord’s prayer is a petition that God so achieve His saving purposes in the world that His holiness is displayed before the eyes of the world’s people and acknowledged by them—which will happen only as His kingdom comes.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV