All God's promises are "Yes" by Jesus, all thousands of them!
“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ.” (2 Cor. 1:20 NIV)
Most Christians, sad to say, don’t experience the kind of blessed life that God has provided for them in the Word of God because of, well, just plain ignorance of what God has provided for them!
Dried cheese and crackers!
They are like the guy who, many years ago, booked passage on an ocean liner to cross the Atlantic. He bought the ticket for passage but didn’t have enough money to buy food on the ship. So he took along a trunk full of dried cheese and crackers. Every day while all the other passengers ate sumptuous wonderful meals in the magnificent dining room, he stayed in his room and ate his dried cheese and crackers. It was agonizing for him to smell the wonderful food coming from the ship’s galley each day and to constantly hear the joyful laughter and happy conversations coming from the dining room of the other passengers eating roasts, hams, delicious cakes, pies and wonderful drinks, while at the same time he only ate the awful dried cheese and crackers! It was only on the last day of the long trip that he discovered that the price of the meals was actually included in the price of his ticket! He could have enjoyed all those wonderful meals and drinks if he had only known what was already paid for and available to him during that long, long trip across the Atlantic.
Just like him, many Christians miss out on what they have in God’s promises which have already been totally paid for by Jesus! They don’t read the Bible and are, therefore, unaware of the many thousands of promises God has provided for them in order to have a joyful, victorious, successful, and health-filled life on planet earth.
The apostle Paul said it this way
“Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might. (Ephesians 1:18-19 ESV)
I refuse to walk in ignorance
Once I discover a promise in God’s Word, I immediately acknowledge it as being for me. I thank God for giving it to me. I then speak it out loud and/or write it down. I receive it by faith and begin believing it and acting on it by faith. l mix my faith with God’s promise which makes it come alive and active for me! (Heb. 4:12). It then becomes active and effectualwhich makes me by its very definition, successful, productive, constructive, worthwhile, helpful, beneficial and useful. I love it! What a life to be had and enjoyed by any who do this!
Therefore…
“Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.” (Psalm 129:18 ESV)
“Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,” (Luke 24:45 ESV)
“My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.” (Prov. 4:20-22 ESV)