God's Promises Don't Expire, and they Aren't Unresponsive

If you’ve ever walked out of a hospital or clinic with more questions than answers, you’re not alone.

Appropriately, when we have a medical crisis, we run to doctors trusting that their knowledge and wisdom will help get us healthy again. Yet we struggle to run to God with such fervency. Often times, in the face of sudden illness, disease, and symptoms, trying to find not only the right doctor for your personal needs, but the right prescription, procedure, and prescribed routine to remedy the situation can feel like a wild chase of the wind. For many, when the “answer” presents itself, many people end up disappointed and frustrated with the lack or short-term reprieve it gives, or even the symptoms it leaves in its wake. So, they hunt for the next fix, creating a vicious cycle of the wounded trying to find the cure. They find the next doctor, the next specialist who gives them what they believe will fix the problem, over and over again.

It creates a hopelessness, within a person. Eventually, many come to believe that this is just their life. They learn to manage symptoms and their fear. If you’ve never experienced this kind of hardship in a hospital, it still applies outside those clinic doors. When that job we got ended up not turning out the way we hoped, or that breakup leaves us stranded, the job loss leaves us in shambles and quick fixed become a way to self medicate, people come to believe that this is how God’s word works too. That the promises of God, like medication or a recent fixation might just not work for them, or doesn’t work in the long term. Somewhere inside many of us, there is this fear that if we trust God with our whole hearts, lean on His promises, and turn the entirety of our pain and situation and place it in His hands, that, it too just might not work. As a form of self-preservation, many believers in need of wisdom, healing, and provision fail to receive these things because they don’t seek the Lord out of fear of disappointment.

But here’s the truth and the difference between Gods “prescriptions” for life and an imperfect human:

Philippians 4:19 “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus."

God never makes the promise to provide what we needed for some areas of life, but for every area of life, including the: Spiritual, physical, financial, relational, the work of your hands and so forth.

Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

When a doctor gives you an “answer” to your problems, they are doing so with the hope of it working for you. They don’t know your past, present, and future…. but God does. God has every single day of your life intimately known, and not only does He know, He has a plan for your life. For your complete healing. Plans to prosper you, not to harm you, to give you and hope and a future. Because it is He who holds your past, present, and future with the most loving hands.

Isaiah 41:10 “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

Unlike the very needed doctors and physicians out there helping people, they can only walk out so much with their patients. But God has made a promise to walk with you through every step of the way, to healing and beyond. Not only that, but He has promised to strengthen us with his right hand and hold us up when we feel unsteady.

2 Corinthians 1:20 “For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.”

Not one promise is out of the question or out of reach for you. There are no bills and statements on what you owe with Him. It is a gift freely given when we walk in grace and faith, endeavoring to honor the Lord and apply biblical foundations and practices into our lives.

Psalm 84:11 “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.”

We can trust God never withholds the goodness of His promises from us. So then why do so many people struggle to receive it? Because many don’t know and understand what the blood of Jesus truly bought and paid for. The enemy destroys people through a lack of understanding and knowing God’s word. But God has promised that for those who knock, He will open the door. He will help you and cause you to walk uprightly and know His word if you ask Him so you can begin to take back ground the enemy has captured within your heart.

As we close what we pray is a hopeful reminder on God’s good character and promises, we want to take a moment and reflect on the question below, trusting the Lord to not only answer, but lead and guide us into wisdom, healing, and His promises.

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