I have a friend who changed her mind almost as fast as the hand of the clock chimed by the hour. She would always say, “it’s my mind, I have the right to change it.”
Though she was outright about it, she was not the only one. Most of us have been around people who have modelled this to us, i. e , parents,  family members,  employers,  leadership,  the list goes.

We live in a society where it is very normal to make a promise and later go back on that promise and people’s words are no longer their bond and this mindset has been transferred to our relationship with God.

How many times have I missed something and immediately attributed it to God changing His mind as a result of something I didn’t do right ?
Or me thinking that some promise didn’t apply to me because I didn’t earn it?

The Bible says differently, and if there is one thing I am learning, it is that the bible is always true . So I would rather believe the word of God over my opinion and experience, and the word of God says in 2 corinthians

“For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.”
2 Corinthians 1: 20 NKJV

The first word to pay attention to in the verse is the word ALL. Now, according to the dictionary definition,  all means all.

The Cambridge dictionary says
All means ‘every one’, ‘the complete number or amount’ or ‘the whole’

So, going back to the verse of scripture,  God’s promises are not selective promises. What I mean is, if one of them can happen, all of them can happen, and if one promise is for you, then all of the promises are for you.

Another way to look at this is, if someone hands you the key to a 5 bedroom house and says to you that all of the house is yours, you don’t go wondering if the extra bathroom downstairs is yours as well. The house and EVERYTHING in it belongs to you, and so are God’s promises. 

The cross made the entire promise available to who ever believes. So, you are not excempt from any of God’s promises. You have the right to them.

The next to look at is the phrase ‘ the promises of God’.

What is a promise ? According to the dictionary definition, a promise is “a declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen.”

God is not flippant with His words. He doesn’t speak before thinking. He is sure of what He says before He says them.

The book of Revelation chapter twenty – two and verse thirteen, God introduces Himself as the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.

This tells us that for every one of us, He knew our end and still gave us these promises, and the end part of that phrase is so reassuring.  The promises are God’s promises. 

This is not human beings we are dealing with. We have already established that humans can be fickle and perhaps not be depended upon but that is not the case when it comes to God.

God is reliable because His word is true, and His promises are true.

The next phrase is “in Him”: God’s promises can only be received through Christ. No one is able to access the promises of God outside of Christ . Jesus said it Himself in John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

The way to God’s promises is through Jesus Christ, not through good works, not through religion, only in Christ can we truly receive the promises of God for our lives.

The final phrase to look at is ‘Yes and Amen.’  With God, it is always a YES. You see, Jesus took the punishment of all sins according to Isaiah 53, verses 4 and 5, and in return brought us peace. We are no longer at war or strive, but we have peace, which gives us access to ALL of God’s promises.

If it is a promise written in the word of God, the answer is yes. Yes, you can live the good life. Yes, you can live free of sickness,  yes, your home can be restored,  yes, yes, yes, and you know what?

God will never change His mind. It is a done deal, His yes means yes !

Every blessing

Kingdom