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The Promises of God

 

God is the God of promise.  Faith could be described as trust in the promises of God.  God makes a promise; faith believes it, hope anticipates it, patience quietly awaits it. 






Highest Privilege: child of God
Intimacy: No longer a slave to fear can be close
Deepest experience: Sanctification
Greatest security for the future: speaking with authority

Obey

 

Bray was a miner from Cornwall, born in 1794.  He was an alcoholic and was always getting involved with fights and arguments at home.  At the age of twenty-nine he became a Christian.  He went home and told his wife, ‘You will never see me drunk again, by the help of the Lord.’  She never did.  His words, his tone of voice, and his looks all had magnetic power.  He was charged with divine electricity.  Crowds of miners would come and hear him preach.  Many were converted and there were some remarkable healings.  He was always praising God and saying that he had abundant reason to rejoice.  He loved the Bible and said, ‘the promises of God are just as good as ready money any day.’


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