"For example, there was God's promise to Abraham. Since there was no greater to swear by, God took an oath in his own name, saying: "I will certainly bless you, and I will multiply your descendants beyond number." Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
"Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding. God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God's inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek." (Hebrews 6:13-20 NLT)
"O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my sitting down and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain it." (PSALMS 139:1-6 KJV)
One of the other important things that I have learned, in this New Life we have been given in Christ, is that He doesn't change His mind! Without getting too caried away, it has been my belief from the very beginning that God knows everything about me, both my past and my future; there is nothing about me that He does not already know!
What that means, if you don't already know, is that when He saved us from our sins and made us His children, it was final and complete; His promises are never-ending! If He doesn't learn, as Pastor Mike always says, then when we mess up, at whatever stage of our journey, He is not surprised by what we have done, because He has already known that it would happen.
In other words, you are saved only once; you don't keep getting saved again and again, every time you repent for doing something wrong; but we do always must repent, knowing He will always forgive us, as He has promised! The other very important thing I have learned, is that we don't have the strength to keep our promises to Him; but that doesn't mean He doesn't keep His...
"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." (PSALMS 32:1-5 KJV)
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