- Overcomer Literature Trust
- Swindon
- Wiltshire
PROMISES SEALED BY GOD.
By C H Spurgeon
We must treasure the precious promises of the Lord. Every promise of the Holy Bible is God’s own promise spoken through His prophets and apostles, yet spoken by Himself. Heaven seals every promise with the guarantee of His faithfulness. You will never know the sweetness of a promise until it is God’s promise to you personally. They are precious promises because they are divine. If they were the writings that great people had spoken out of their own hopefulness, then they would only be empty words. But they reveal to us the mind of God and so are more precious than all the gold in the world. Even the least promise of God is too rich to be valued with the gold, precious diamonds or sapphires of this world.
I have seen a mother go to a drawer to look at a pair of little woollen shoes and then holding them in her hands she would sit and cry for an hour. This is because they once had little feet in them but they were now unused. I have seen a dear friend look at a plain gold ring which he wears on his finger, and as he looked at it he wept. This is because there was once a precious hand that was dear to him who wore this ring and it reminded him of happier days. In this way some of the promises of God have been so important to us and so connected to our memories that they are joyfully precious to us.
Banks sometimes have cheques that require the signature of the person who will receive it. They will not be payable at the bank unless they are signed twice, once by the giver and one by the receiver of the cheque. Many of the Lord’s promises are received like this. Armed with the promises, you must go to the bank of prayer and ask to have them fulfilled. However, they need to be countersigned by your faith in them, and when God has given you grace to believe His promise, then you will see the fulfilment of it with your eyes.
From ‘Flashes of Thought’.