We need faith to believe God´s promises.

The promises cannot fail me. A wonderful song with incredible lyrics. The promises that God has given us, they remain forever. He promises and He keeps what He has promised.

I haven´t been able to find any translation of this song. I´m adding in one of the Swedish recordings I´ve found. The Soloist was my best friend growing up, she has an amazing voice.

The promises cannot fail. by Lewi Pethrus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFfmxpoZsU

1. His promises cannot fail me, They remain throughout eternity: Jesus with His blood has sealed it, All that He promised me.

Ref. Heaven and earth may burn up, Heights and mountains vanish, But he who believes will find that, His promises they remain.

2. Abraham showed us they way to look at the heaven above, Your faith and your hope will grow when you´re counting the stars above.

3. Tro när det mörknar på färden, solen ej slocknat har. Blott några timmar och sedan, strålar en morgon klar.

3. Believe when it gets dark on the journey, the sun has not gone out. Just a few hours and then, one morning radiates clear.

4. Believe when the world will pursue you, with you in the oven hot, Wandering with you is Jesus, tested soul this knows.

5. Believe when you friends disappoint you, believe when only one is left. Jesus your friend will you follow, every day of your life.

6. Believe through all of your problems, Soon you´ll be home again. Whatch your view changing from, what you believed down here.

Faith will carry us Christians through everything. Today, many people have trouble believing, or perhaps feel that it does not carry them all the time. Many who have been stuck in the Word of Faith movement, for example, do not even know how faith works, due to the lack of teaching. If there´s something we are now really aware of it´s that Gods people are perishing due to the lack of teaching and understanding.

Faith really isn´t a difficult thing, that is if you know how it works. Paul describes it in Hebrews 11: 1 Faith is a firm assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. It´s to trust that what God says is true.

When we understand what faith is, it also becomes easier to understand how the great godly men could believe, or the centurion whose servant was sick.

Math 8:5-13 When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.

When we get a grip on what faith is, then we also get a deeper understanding of how e.g. Abraham could obey God and take his son with him to sacrifice him. We can understand how the centurion could so totally trust that if Jesus said a word, that would be enough. We can then also seriously sing along in the text of The Promises Cannot fail us, and believing that what the lyrics addresses will happen.

We have the old godly men in the Bible, the apostles and others who lived later, who were full of confidence that what God said would happen, happened. Our faith can become stronger if we look at these and their lives. The apostles who did not hesitate to go straight into death for their faith in Jesus and God, it should act as a strength for us lately and make us truly trust God. Because faith is about trusting in God, what He has done and saying that He will do.

Reading about the faith of others should strengthen us in our faith. It shouldn´t work the other way around, that they had faith, I don´t. A childlike trust in God should be the result of reading about others' faith in God, because in the Bible we also see the consequences of faith. The centurion thought his servant would be healed, and he did. Abraham trusted that God would be able to raise Isaac from the dead if needed, Isaac was spared, and father and son praised God together.

If all these believers in the Bible trusted and we can see that what they trusted came through, then the trust in God's power should grow stronger in us.

Faith isn´t somethingthing that we ourselves have to fight to get, which for those who have been stuck in movements whose teaching are bad, is exactly what it has become, something you fight for, in your own power, even though you really don´t know what fith is.

Faith is based on a historical understanding. Without faith, we can not expect everything to be ok, no matter what situation we find ourselves in. Faith is as vital to us as the air we breathe. And just as air gives us oxygen, so faith is nourishment for our heart and soul.

Tro är: 1. nödvändig för frälsning,

2. en gratis gåva av nåd,

3. en mänsklig handling,

Faith is:

1. necessary for salvation,
2. a free gift of grace,
3. a human act;
4. something certain,
5. works outwardly through charity,
6. something constantly growing
7. a taste of heaven.

To walk in faith, without seeing, means that even though we may not see God working right now, we can trust and believe that he is preparing us for blessings and deliverance from what we are facing somewhere along the way.

Living a life of faith - is a total confidence that God's ability is your first response to any situation or circumstance in life. It doesn´t depend at all on the worlds system or your own ability. Belief outside of God's word is not a way of life for the Christian.

Trusting in God's promises, that's what faith is about. We are saved by believing what God has said in his word. So trusting in God's promises becomes the same as believing in the promises God has given us. Promises and rely on / believe in they go hand in hand.

God´s peace Ingemo