The Bible is full of many powerful promises, God speaking out His plans and letting people know what He longs to do in our world and in our lives. But God’s promises need to be mixed wit hfaith. The writer to the Hebews says, ‘We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn’t do them a bit of good because they didn’t receive the promises with faith.’ (Heb 4:2)
If we want God’s promises to do us good and to become validated in our lives and lived out in our daily experiences, we have to believe. We have to take the promises and allow them to find a home in our hearts. Medicine has great potential to heal, but while it sits unopened in a bottle on a shelf, it will do us no good. Only as we open that bottle and taste the medicine, allowing it into our bodies, will we experience its healing properties. Similarly, we have to drink from the promises of God, taking them into our very beings and believing in their power if we are to see them working their power in our lives.