Short but powerful promise

“I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!”

Therefore

“If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me.” (Psalms 139:7-10 ESV)

Short but powerful promise

“And my God will supply every need of yours…” 

Therefore

“…according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 4:19 ESV)

Short but powerful promise

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

Therefore

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” (Matt. 11:28-30)

Short but powerful promise

“Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; (Isa. 41:19a)

Therefore

 “I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isa. 41:10b)

Short but powerful promise

“Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.” (James 5:14) 

Therefore

“And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.” (James 5:15)

“And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.” (Rom. 8:26 NLT)

We don’t always know how to pray as we should!

Throughout life, we experience many needs to pray about. And usually, they are common and easy to pray specifically for. But there are occasions when we don’t have all the information and we’re not sure how to pray. But the good news is that God, who knows everything, will take care of it perfectly for you. He will amend your prayers in perfect harmony with the situation.

“And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.” (Rom. 8:27)

Therefore

“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (Rom. 8:28)

“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much.’” (Matt. 25:21 ESV)

The promise above is an amazing success principle with great potential for anyone who wants to be in charge of big things. They must first excel at being faithful to the little things! My dad taught me to do this. He said it works well in any type of business, even if you start at the very bottom. You show up early. You diligently strive to perform to the best of your abilities, helping the business generate revenue or produce high-quality products or services. Apply yourself faithfully to each task with a positive attitude, taking the next step without prompting, and you will quickly gain recognition and advancement! This is precisely what employers, including company owners, are looking for. Basically, it boils down to what the promise at the top of the page says to do: “Be faithful in little things.” And the results: “You will be set over much.” My dad started at entry level at an Alaskan pulp mill and 30 years later, he was the top man at the mill. He did it through his faithful attention to all the little things at every level he got promoted to.

Therefore 

“A faithful man will abound with blessings,” (Prov. 2820a)

 “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’” (Luke 19:17 ESV)

“Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.’” (Matt. 9:37-38)

Jesus declared that the harvest is plentiful. But He followed that statement with, “but the laborers are few.” So, even though there is lots of ripe low-hanging fruit ready to be picked, there aren’t enough pickers available to harvest it!

Where are the laborers?

The hardest part of producing a harvest is at the beginning, with all the preparation work: plowing, planting, fertilizing, pruning, and weeding. The easiest part of the process is gathering up the ripe fruit. So, you’d think it would be easy to find enough workers to get that part done. But apparently not when it’s harvesting for God’s Kingdom. But the truth is, all of God’s kids are supposed to be active workers in God's kingdom harvest.

A command, not a suggestion!

“And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.” (Mark. 16:15)

The following verse, known as the Great Commission, is a call for all believers to share the gospel with others.

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matt. 28:19-20)

Therefore

“but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you...” (Jer. 1:5 ESV)

You were planned!

Before you were born, God knew you! In fact, He created you to be unique with purpose. Look at the following Bible passages which explain that He creates each person that He makes with purpose, including you!

“And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength” (Isa. 49:5 ESV)

“Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.” (Isa. 49:1 ESV)

“O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.” (Psalms 139:1-5)

“But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,” (Gal. 1:15 ESV) 

“For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.” (Rom. 8:29 ESV)

“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalm 139:13-16 ESV)

“Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.” (Isa. 44:2 ESV)

Therefore

“Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love.” (Eph. 1:4 ESV)