Here’s an important and unchangeable truth to treasure in your heart: God is a promiser. It’s His nature to fulfill His promises. He has always kept His Word, and He will never stop keeping His Word.

Hebrews 6:17–18 reveals that God’s goal in making the promises is so we’d be strongly encouraged to hold on and to have hope. Take a moment to read the verses above once again.

God is committed to helping you lay hold of His promises because He knows they will give you strength. He wants to impress upon you “the unchangeable character of his purpose,” so you can be confident and solid in what you believe about Him. God doesn’t want you wavering or wandering through life, doubting or faltering in your faith. He is saying in effect, “Go after the Christian life with confidence! Take hold of it with conviction. I want you to have full assurance right to the end that each and every one of my promises are true. Don’t give up or back up. Don’t quit. Don’t stop pressing ahead. I want you to put all your weight on my promises, lean into them, rest in them, and you will never ever be disappointed. Trust me!”

You can’t read through very many pages of Scripture without finding promise after promise that God has faithfully kept throughout history:

• He promised one of Eve’s offspring would crush the serpent (Genesis 3).

• He promised Noah He would never again destroy the world by a flood (Genesis 9).

• He promised innumerable descendants to Abram (Genesis 15).

• He promised to deliver the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt (Exodus 6).

• He promised the people of Israel blessings for keeping the law and curses for disobeying (Deuteronomy 28).

• He promised victory over the Canaanites to Joshua (Joshua 1).

• He promised an everlasting throne to David’s descendants (2 Samuel 7).

And those examples are just the beginning. The Bible is overflowing with promises God has made and kept. In fact, the central theme of Scripture is one big promise.

In the Old Testament, the Messiah is promised; in the New Testament, Jesus Christ the Messiah, arrives and promises to come again! God’s entire communication with us could be summed up as “I promise.”

The persistence of God’s pledge is also true for you personally. He wants you to be so familiar with His character and live so confidently in your faith that you can say, “I know what God is going to do. I don’t know when or how, but He’s made some promises, and I can believe and trust Him and walk by faith until He delivers on those promises in my life.”

Are you trusting the Lord with all your heart? He wants you to “have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before [you]” (v.18b). In fact, God amazingly tells His children we are “the heirs of the promise.” If you belong to Him, your whole identity is tied up in the promises He’s made to you. Isn’t it time you started living that way?

The Christian life is walking by faith so make it your intention to test and track how God keeps His promises in your life—and as you do you will be encouraged and thankful for His faithfulness.

What memories of promises fulfilled have you experienced that encourage you to continue to wait on the Lord?

In what areas of life do you long to see the faithfulness of God? I want you to wait on God knowing with absolute certainty that He will come through for you. So don’t give up, don’t throw in the towel, keep believing, keep going forward in faith, keep looking ahead, keep your head up, because God will fulfill His promises in your life, it is going to happen, and when it does you will be blown away by how good God is to you.

Pray this – Our Precious Heavenly Father, thank You for being a promise-keeping God. Thank You for graciously giving us a record in Your Word of all the promises that You’ve already kept throughout history. Thank You that it’s impossible for You to lie. Thank You that You never change. Thank You that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Father, I believe the Word of God and I will act upon it, no matter how I feel, because You promise a good result. Give me the strength and courage to hold fast to the hope set before me no matter what is going on around me. No matter how big and scary my problem is, I will keep my eyes on Jesus and be still and know that You are God. Help me to continue to stand firm and strong on all of Your promises. I know and believe that You will never leave me, that You love me with an everlasting love, that You will be faithful to finish the good work that You began in me, and that You will never forsake or abandon me. In Jesus’ Mighty Name, I pray, Amen.