Know how to recognize a promise. There are promises about any and everything any person will ever need a promise about. Remember: God does not lie. He is not a liar.

Points:

Do you ever pray, Lord be with me today? Why? Heb. 13:5 - "…I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Don’t we believe the promises of God? The believers in Acts didn’t ask that God be with them, but that He give them grace and strength to stand and be true to Him, Acts 4:29, 30. Do we pray, "God lead me today, or lead me in a particular thing"? Do not pray like that. Instead pray that we may understand the leadership of God and that we will use the grace he gives to us that we will follow where he leading us to go.

Luke 3:3 - And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; The reason John came preaching was to tell people about the promises of God for salvation. People need to know.

John 3:14-16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Matt. 11:28-30 - Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

John 4:10 - Jesus must needs go through Samaria so He would tell the woman at the well about His promise of everlasting life. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

Luke 19:10 - Jesus gave this promise to all who are lost: For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Zacchaeus was saved, but there were other people present who weren’t saved.

The promise of eternal life.

John 6 beginning in verse 35 and continuing to the end of the chapter (marked in my Bible) – believe and come – eating and drinking is participating which explains the coming. It is not a superficial coming, but a complete coming of the entire life, which causes us to be a partaker of the sufferings of Christ.

John 10:27-30 – Jesus gives eternal life, and the true believer will never perish.

Luke 11:9 - And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Oftentimes we are afraid to ask for a miracle. Well, ask, seek and knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Why are we afraid - because we are stepping out into the unknown. We are giving our control to another.

Matthew 6:33 – If we truly seek the kingdom of God before we seek the things of this life, God will see to it that we have everything we need in this life. We might not have everything we want, but we will have everything we need. And there is a difference!

Acts 2:38-41 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Acts 3:19 - Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

Joel 2:13 - And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.