Guest column: The promises of God

Published 10:00 am Monday, November 25, 2019

Did you not know that there are 5,467 promises of God in the Bible?

I believe very few of us know less than 20 of these promises and have not activated them in our lives. These promises are voice activated. They must be confessed, believed, and received.

Let us begin with this promise in Joel 2:25-26. In here, God has promised He will restore to us ”the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm.” Then He said in Deuteronomy 11:21 that your days will be as heaven upon earth. Remember these promises are under the Old Covenant.

Because Jesus has come and has redeemed us according to Hebrews 8:6. We have now a better covenant established upon better promises. More so now, our days should be days as heaven upon Earth. And because Jesus, according to Hebrews 13:8, is ”the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”

We also have the promise of the years restored unto us. Not the locust, cankerworm, caterpillar, and the palmerworm have eaten, but the principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places that Satan’s army has stolen from us – Ephesians 6:12. Even in our spirit, soul, body, finances, ministry, marriage, church and relationships, we shall have plenty and be satisfied.

Let us now confess these promises with the words of our mouth and see the manifestation in our lives that God has promised us. Remember that Satan (the devil) is a liar. Jesus said He is the father of lies in St. John 8:44.

Example: People have said things to us and we have believed them and lost many years of our life, whether in relationships, friendships, marriage, health, etc. Because of our business, credit was given to the people that had need of the product and were not able to pay full price upon purchase, and they promised to pay at a certain time in payments, which afterwards did not go through. We lost thousands of dollars. But because of the promise of God, much has been restored. Thank you, Jesus.

St. Mark 11:24 “…when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

Apostle Wilbur Jefferson

W&V Jefferson Ministry