The Bible is the word of God and is powerful and life changing. The promises of God start with 2 Timothy 3:16 when God tells us that all Scriptures in the Bible are inspired by God. With this promise of God in hand we can then be assured that what we learn in the Bible comes from Him!
Check out these lyrics from this song or click at the video on the right to see Alan Jackson sing this.
Standing on the promises I cannot fall,
Listening every moment to the Spirit’s call
Resting in my Savior as my all in all,
Standing on the promises of God.
Are you standing on the promises of God today? Is God your all in all?
10 Scriptures About God’s Promises
2 Peter 1:4
And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.
Matthew 11:28-29
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Isaiah 40:29-31
He gives power to the weak
and strength to the powerless.
Even youths will become weak and tired,
and young men will fall in exhaustion.
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
They will walk and not faint.
Philippians 4:19
And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:37-39
No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 1:33
But all who listen to me will live in peace,
untroubled by fear of harm.”
John 14:27
“I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
Romans 10:9
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
The promises of God are powerful and awesome to grasp. I pray that these scriptures about God’s promises were helpful to you today.
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Thank you for compiling such wonderful scriptures,really helpful…thanks…god bless
I agree. What a powerful encouragement this is to those who have faith in Christ. I too am convinced that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Glory to God in the highest. Thank you Josh.
Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Its so true and beautiful when you just leave everything at His feet. To believe and have faith that He is in control of our lives and there is nothing that can harm us when He is everything first! awesome! Thanks alot again!
Stay blessed always and may God use you all the more.
This site has powerful teaching materials; it’s a blessing. It assist my research to teach bible study. Thank you, keep going for Jesus you will be greatly rewarded at the end of the day as He promise
Audrey Walker
Thanks so much for the encouragement. Glad you are enjoying the website!
Thank You
I LOVE THE SCRIPTURES, THEY HELP ME IN PREPARING SERMONS.I AM A LAY SPEAKER A BEGINNER..THANK TOU
You are a blessing. I defected from the LDS cult they find me nomatter where I go. My life is in danger. Please pray for me, iam 64 afro cuban. I have no family or anyone to turn to but THE GOOD LORD. THANKS
JOYCE
Joyce, thank you for contacting us. We WILL pray for you. You have a heavenly Father that is more powerful than any human religion is. We pray for your safety. Please find a good, Bible believing church and join them and ask them for prayer also. Prayer is most effective. Please keep in touch.
Thanks for the encouragment. Unfortunately, several of these verses were misinterpreted or misapplied. A proverb is a general principle in which the world works. It is NOT a promise. (Re: the Proverbs 1:33 quote). Contrary to this misapplied quote, many will seek to harm you if you follow God. This is clear from the New Testament- for instance, the fate of 11 of the 12 disciples. The quote from Jeremiah in context was written specifically to the Jews who were in captivity, regarding their future freedom as a people.
My faith has been strenghened as I have been passing through these scriptures.May the ALMIGHITY GOD uplift your service. GLORY BE TO GOD!
Joey, thank you so much my friend for not only visiting this site but for your comments. I reviewed each of these scriptures and believe that there is no misapplications or mistranslations at all. These are promises. All of the Bible verses are conditional principles, yes, but these principles can not be said to not be promised if practiced. For example Prov. 1:33 “but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.” God will bring them safety and they can live in freedom of fear if they will listen. This is as much a promise and it is a principle.
Phil 4:19 ” And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.” This is not a principle in general in what he says “works in the world.” These scriptures and all scripture is not for the world or those who are not saved. I am living proof that He has supplied all my needs, not wants. Above all, He supplied me with the need for salvation found only in Christ. Only those promises of judgment such as found in Revelation 20 for example are general principles alone for those who are not saved.
Another example is ” For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord” is a promise that God imparts to us eternal life but only thru Jesus Christ and it is a free gift. When we come to Christ, this promise is one from God that is certain and who can argue with God?
As for the Jeremiah 29:11 quote that he said was intended for the Jews. Yes it was given to the Jews but this promise is for all who follow thru on this as in the following verses 12-13 “Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. ” This is not a promise only for the Jews but for all who call on Him and pray to Him and He hears and answers our prayers that when we seek Him and find Him He will be found when seeking Him with all your heart. This is a powerful analogy for those who call on God for salvation and we are all held captive by the Prince of the Power of the air, the god of this world, who deceives the whole world. By the way, Paul says with Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile (Greek), slave or free, for “But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart (for Jew and Gentile), by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God.” (Rom 2:29). And in Galatians 3:29 “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
God’s promises, like the rainbow to Noah, are not as much principles but promises which no man can break and will be fulfilled…to Jew and Gentile alike. By the way, the fate of the 11 of 12 disciples was told beforehand by Jesus Christ himself in Matthew 24 & 25 in the Olivet Discourse.
I thank God that “Whereby are given unto us Exceeding Great and Precious Promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust”
(2 Peter 1:4).
Thank you Jack Wellman for your explanations above. Truly an interesting and inspirational site. This site is a blessing to all of us who seek to serve our God. Thank you to all who work hard to keep these good sites updated and full of information.
Blessings to you all.
Jocelyn, thank you for your kind remarks. Even so, all glory, honor, praise and credit go to God alone for without Him I could I not only not no anything spiritual but I could no thing of myself. I praise God that he sent you to encourage us at this website. We too are still a work in progress and I have far to go. May God richly bless you in your walk with the Lord until that Great Day when we all meet at the marriage supper of the Lamb of God.
Thanks it helped me in preparing a message.
I agree with you John, Josh’s work is always beneficial for the congregants and those who are behind the pulpit, which I perceive that you are. God bless your message my friend. Josh’s articles are always an inspiration that I tape when I give messages straight from the Bible. Such a good and godly man of faith that knows well the Good Book.
Thanks so much for the encouraging comments. All glory be to God and my prayer is that many are blessed by reading God’s promises to us!
Really I am thinking daily and reading a lot of books about Jesus .I am going to church and studying the words daily .I am really giving thanks to my family friends and pastor terry .He is a great preacher and is doing a lot of great things . I am going to get baptized on the 1 Sunday of October .God is going to forgive me and you for all our sins and we will never regret it. I love god and is looking for love with a special lady.So we could live great in the land of god .
It is great and nice bible passages.
These your works are powerful, God bless you.
thanks this was good for me and i have one verse that i like Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
god is good all the time today and forever…
Josh;
Thankyou so much for posting these promises. My husband and I are losing the home that we have been living in. He has not found and work for the past three years. I know that God has us in His hands, and that we must submit our worries and anxieties over to Him.
I was also wondering is there a section on this website one could submit poems the Lord gives them to encourage others?
Marty,
Thanks for sharing. I will say a prayer for you and your family. Put your trust in God’s hands and allow Him to pull you through this! Our website does not currently have a spot for poems but if you have some submit them to us through the contact form and we will either place them on our Facebook wall or a partner website as a post. Thanks!
please keep me informed
I get alot from you and GOD bless you
Josh;
Thanks for forwarding the poem. I am so thankful that people will read it, and that God will totally get the glory for it all. May He reign forever!
God bless and take care.
I want to thank GOD for the promises that he bestowed upon our lives.Reading the promises of GOD gives me strength to go on.Please pray for me,i am going through alot of problems,stress ,anxiety and needs prayer from our christian brothers and sisters.Thank you and GOD BLESS.AMEN.
I prayed for you my friend, you are not alone and our prayers will be heard, may God bless you and fulfill all your needs and prayers. Amen
I am 23 and going through life changing struggles/decisions in my life right now, I came to this sight for inspiration and to hear Gods word and promises. This truly helped to inspire me that all is in Gods hands and he will take care of me, but for any who could also add a prayer to help me find my way and for God to take control of my worries and burdens, it would be greatly and eternally appreciated. Thank you so much and God Bless!
I said a prayer for you Alexander. Only God can give us that peace that tracends all understanding!
Thank you Josh! I truly appreciate your time and effort in putting me in your prayers, I know they will be heard and I appreciate you being apart of the reason why. May God bless you my brother!
I just want ot say that I’m very glad that I came to this site and it will be very helpful to me.
God has risen to give victory to the just, He heres our cries and He will crush the enemy, now is that time.
All of Gods promises revolve around leaning and loving Him, if God is for us who is stronger than Him? No one, He is the Creator of all. Why do we worry then and have fear? I pray that we all not only hear Gods promises, but get that revelation. Bless all!
I thank God for special people such as yourself because you are allowing God to work through you reaching so many lost souls that are crying out for help and this is a great place to reach them. I am a Christian however, today I needed to know, hear, and or read his promises so I feel so blessed to have found them under your site. Phillipians 4:19 and Isaiah 40:29-31 both have encouraged my strength for this day. Thank You and many blessings upon you and all you do for the Lord.
GLORY TO GOD- IM A CHILD OF THE ALMIGHTY CALLED TO SHARE THE GOSPEL AND LOVE IN ABUNDANCE IN THE NAME OF JESUS……. IM PRAYING MIILLIONS OF SOULS ARE LEAD TO CHRIST-THAT GOD CONTINUES TO USE ME IN ANY WAY HE SEES FIT….IN JESUS NAME…..
Indeed God makes good on His promises. He has restored my soul, He has renewed a right Spirit within me. He has created a clean heart in me! Thank you Lord!
Thanks you so much for this wonderful scripture.God is great ,Amen.
I enjoy reading everyone’s message, I am spiritually fed somehow and renewed by the scriptures you feature, and that I can also pray for someone in need. I also needed to be prayed for, my health and of course faithfulness to the Lord every single day. Thank God for this site, may you continue serving the Lord and be blessed. God is so great!
Hello all, I wanted to know how Satan is the ruler of this earth? When God created all things, and even in the book of Job he had to ask God for permission to destroy Job’s family! Can someone help me with this question please? Yes I know that Satan has power, but God created Satan correct? So God is the ruler of Heaven and Earth! Be blessed and forever encouraged in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
Hello Marko. Thank you for your comment and question. Yes, you are right that Satan had to ask permission to afflict Job and Satan has as much power as God allows him but we are not match for him for sure. That is why Christians are to put on the armor of God to battle the spiritual warfare that is going on. For believers, God is the God of all the universe and reigns supreme but he allows Satan to influence the entire world. In fact Satan is said to have deceived the whole world. Rev. 12:9 says, “The great dragon was hurled down–that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”
We are the children of God but 1 John 5:19 says, “We know that we are children of God, and that the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one(Satan).” Believers USED to walk under his power (Eph. 2:2) but not once we are saved. Satan was judged at Calvary and lost his authority over Christians as John 12:31 says, “Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out.”
The Bible actually says that Satan is the GOD OF THIS WORLD, “The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God (2 Cor 4:4).” Satan actually offered the kingdoms of the world to Christ if Jesus would only worship him, in Matthew 4: 1 “Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.” Then Matthew 4:8-10 says, “the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.” Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.” Now Satan could not offer what he did not posses and he offered Jesus all the “kingdoms of the world…all this I will give you…if you will bow down and worship me.” Satan could not offer what he didn’t rule but Satan wanted Jesus to take a short cut and skip Calvary because Satan knew he would be defeated at the cross. God rules over all but he allows Satan to rule this earth and have as much power of it as God allows. I hope this helps. Thank you for your question.
Awesome promises of Our Lord. Thank You and all others that help you. We are living in a world full of broken dreams and mans broken promises but God keeps His promises.Amen. Glory to God.
if you don’t mind i’m going to use your words for my introduction. Very encouraging thank you.
I was looking for the promises of God and i came across your article it is truly inspirational, because i am speaking tomorrow at my church a short exaltation about “Our faith is Now” and the promises of God ties into faith. For in Hebrew 11 vs 6 it states that For without faith it is impossible to please Him. Thank you very much for sharing these wonderful bible verses and God is the rewarder for those that diligently seek him and God will reward you for sharing his word this is truly powerful.
Thanks again,
Moriamo Salu-Adewolu
Nancy & Moriamo,
Thanks to both of you for your encouraging comments. May God bless the both of you for diligently searching out His promises from His Holy Word!
That is some good reading,God is good all the time.
THERE IS NON THAT COME CLOSER TO HIM….. WHAT A WONDERFUL GOD HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT AND ABUNDANT ONTO US….. WHAT A FATHER WE HAVE….. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME AND ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD…. GOD BLESS YOU ALL…. AMEN
God bless you.
am richly blessed by these verse, may God bless you and give you more wisdom
Question… Someone asked me, “How come every christian I know is miserable? How can they say to come to Jesus and it seems like I have more joy in life than they do?” Are christians suppose to live a more joyful life or not?? The bible says alot about having a more abundant life, about joy, about blessings but it also says things like, “take your part in suffering as a true soldier of GOD” also things like, “pass through the fire to become purified like gold”
I hear preachers say that if satan isn’t attacking you then that means he already has you. I also hear the same preachers telling people to come to Jesus cause its a better life. I think to myself…. My father (GOD) is the owner of everything… I should never need anything cause my father provides. I lean on that quite a bit. I believe that a christian should be happy always because we don’t need anything. The bible also says, “rebuke satan and he shall flee” so how can satan attack my life when all I have to do is rebuke him in Jesus name?? This is what I believe, but then I think about all the people in the bible who served GOD and alot of them suffered ALOT. Job especially. He lost everything.
I couldn’t answer this guy because I find myself wondering the same thing. Please, PLEASE help me understand this. Should christians suffer or should they live in peace??
Juan, thank you sir for your comment and questions. Your friend is wrong that every Christian he sees is not happy. By the way, God never promises Christians happiness. Happiness is based upon happenings…but joy is given to each believer even though many do not live with this evident in their life and many Christians are bad examples when they go thru sufferings. Your friend really doesn’t have more joy…he is just trying to give you reasons, I believe, that he doesn’t want to be a Christian. No unbeliever can have true and everlasting joy because some day they will face Jesus on Judgment Day (Rev. 20:10-12). Where will their job be then? There will only be fear for judgment because those who don’t know Christ are headed for an eternal hell fire.
You are so right that ALL Christians will suffer and that is our calling. We are purified by fiery trials and refined, as you said, to gold which is more precious once it is refined. There are two indepth articles about suffering. One is Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People at: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/why-do-bad-things-happen-to-good-people/
The other one is about Job and his suffering at: http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/job-bible-story-summary-with-lesson/
You wrote “I hear preachers say that if satan isn’t attacking you then that means he already has you.” This is not true. Satan can not be attacking many believers at the same time because he is a created being and can only be in one place at the same time. Only God is omnipresent (can be everywhere at the same time). And Satan can NOT have ANY Christians. That is not biblical. No believer can be demon possessed.
You also wrote, “I also hear the same preachers telling people to come to Jesus cause its a better life.” This is also untrue…Jesus said the way is hard, the road is difficult, the path is narrow….and we have to carry our cross daily and die to ourselves. Jesus promises eternal life, not a better life today. A believer will suffer perhaps more in this life than non-Christians but will have eternal joy someday in heaven.
When we are told to “rebuke Satan” and he will flee, this is to make him flee from tempting us to sin, not that he has power over us because God is all-powerful. Satan can not attack a Christian in the flesh but he can cause us problems (see the Job Bible story at the link above).
Christian will suffer….but they can also have peace because God will not allow anything more than we can endure but make a way of escape. He is critical of Christians but I bet he has never read the Bible so he doesn’t have any authority to say all Christians are not joyful. Thanks. Let us know if we can help more. Send your friend the links above to let him read about suffering because they are filled with Bible Scriptures. Thanks Juan.
Thank you!
And we thank you too Daniela. Josh is a superb writer and he certainly chose some great promises. Please come back and visit us again.
Thank you much for these promises from the only One who can make such claims. For some time, and especially today, I felt as if I were drowning. When I came upon this site, it was as if God had hand-picked these particular verses for me, bringing me a peace that seemed to have escaped me lately. Thank you for making this a post about His words.
Deb, thank you so much for your kind remarks. There is truly power in the Word of God and Josh always does such a fine work in these types of articles. God bless Deb and please come back and visit us again when you can.
Wow! That was awesome.
i like the topic and the references
Thank you Maxwell. I too enjoyed these references and the topic. Josh is a sterling writer and of excellent subject matter and of course the Word of God has the real power in all of the articles on this website. Please come back again so.
Thanks Josh, for sharing the10 Scriptures About God’s Promises.The verses are actually inspirational and whenever am down i come to site to appeal and get motivation and spiritual strength, those verses are very powerful and it enlightens me very much.I truly believe that I am on the right track while severing my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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