Exodus 34:6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and FAITHFULNESS.
Deuteronomy 7:9 Deuteronomy 7:9—”Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the FAITHFUL God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands.”
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is FAITHFUL.
I want to mention three ways I see evidence of God’s faithfulness in the midst of constant chaos and change. God’s PROMISES are kept. God’s PURPOSES prevail. God’s PRESENCE is real and transforming.
God’s promises are kept. Every Word God speaks is guaranteed to come to pass. My word is backed with good intentions and great desire. God’s Word is backed with all power and authority. I mean well. God does well. I am capable of forgetting a promise. God will never forget what He has pledged. There is a dependability, a reliability we can have as we lean into the promises of God. There are conservatively over 7000 promises in the Word of God. How many of you could keep 7000 promises? None of us, right? But our God can.
God is not a reluctant promise keeper. He doesn’t have to be reminded of His promises or be talked into fulfilling them. When He says something, it is because it is in His heart to do it for us. At the heart of God’s promises is the idea of Covenant. Psalm 105:8-He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations.
A covenant differs from a contract because it is personal. It is relational. It reveals a bond, a desire for someone’s highest good to be experienced with partnership, support or help from the person making the promise. The promises of God have been made for our benefit and because He is in a love-relationship with us, Because God has bound Himself to us for our highest good, He will always keep His promises. That is a faithful God.
Not only are God’s promises kept, serving as a sign of His faithfulness, but God’s PURPOSES will prevail, which also serves as a sign of His faithfulness.
God doesn’t start stuff and forget about it. God doesn’t get involved in something only to change courses later. God doesn’t do anything halfway. God’s involvement in the world and in our lives is an expression of His faithfulness to see things through. Psalm 138:8 The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
God is faithful to accomplish His purposes in the world as well as in your personal life. I want you to be encouraged by that because many of you are waiting on something to happen. You’ve been praying for God to move, for a schedule to clear, for an appointment to open up, for something to get straightened out, for a legal situation to be completed, for a new place of employment, for the realization of a God-given dream. Don’t allow how circumstances appear to become evidence that trumps everything God is doing and can do that is yet unseen. God works in time and in concert with your obedience and faith to accomplish His will.
The third way I want you to consider God’s faithfulness has to do with His presence. God’s PRESENCE is transforming. It is a game-changer. He promises to be with us, to never leave us or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5). And when you recognize and acknowledge God’s presence in a situation, whether the situation changes or not, you will become empowered in supernatural ways to handle whatever you must face. It is God’s presence with you that parts waters, that shuts the mouths of lions, that causes you to focus and have clarity in your decision-making, that routes your enemies, that cuts through red tape, that gives you a promotion or blessing you would never have known.
You may be in a situation right now and you wonder how you are going to make it. Hear me. Because of the faithfulness of God to be with you in every circumstance, you will make it. God’s presence can enable you to stand through the trials of life and will give you supernatural strength to deal. The Psalmist said this in Psalm 18:29: With my God, I can scale a wall. God can and will enable you to do things you never thought possible. The Psalmist didn’t say, “God will give me a boost, and help me until I can struggle and strain and stress and huff and puff and expend every ounce of energy and slip and fall and start from the bottom of the wall and repeat all of the steps until I finally make it.” No, friends, God’s presence is like the rocket power in one of those now old-time video games where when the button is pushed, the little cartoon character soars into the air over the obstacle. He still had to run and to jump but something enabled him to succeed. The rocket power made it possible.
God is the rocket power giving an ease to difficult circumstances because He is with us in the midst of them. The Psalmist testified that even in the valley of the shadow of death there was special help for him because God was with him.
Listen, you may doubt your ability to perform a certain task, but you don’t ever have to doubt the presence of God which trumps any deficiency you might have.
The Hebrew root for the word, “faithfulness,” carries the idea of strength, support and being held up. I was held up by the presence of God. They were my hands tending to Nana’s needs, but my hands were being strengthened by the hands of God.
You can’t see the presence of God, and you can’t always sense His nearness, but you know that if He wasn’t with you, you wouldn’t be doing what once seemed impossible. That is evidence of His faithful presence in your life.
God’s promises are kept. God’s purposes will prevail, and God’s presence will transform every experience you have. God is faithful.
