GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES...GOD HAS A PLAN. Our God is the great I AM. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the Amen, the faithful and true witness. God kept His promises to Israel. He gave them the land, gave them victory over their enemies and He gave them rest. God did not and does not fail in any of His promises. He has magnified His word above all His name. Heaven and earth will pass away but His words, the bible tells us, will be no means pass away. Every word of our God is pure and He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. The grass withers and the flower fades but the word of God stands forever. The words that go forth from His mouth do not return unto Him void, but accomplish that which pleases Him. Let's look at these verses one at a time and see how God's words confirm what is said in these verses.
And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. --Joshua 21:43
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land:--Genesis 12:7
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.--Genesis 13:15
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces. In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. --Genesis 15:13-21
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;--Genesis 26:3-4
I could go on but let's look at the next verse...
And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.--Joshua 21:44
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.--Joshua 1:15
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.--Joshua 11:23
And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.--Joshua 22:4
The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed. And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you. Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.--Deuteronomy 31:3-6
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.--Hebrews 4:9-11
Again, there are more....but let's look at the last verse.
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.--Genesis 21:45
And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.--Joshua 23:14-15
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?--Numbers 23:19
Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.--1 Kings 8:56
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.--1 Corinithians 1:9
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.--1st Thessalonians 5:24
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; --Titus 1:2
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:--Hebrews 6:19
Are you getting the picture...God's speaks and it happens. His word is our hope and this hope is an anchor for our soul as we sojourn here on earth. The word of God is to be treasured and meditated on both day and night. His word as Psalm 119:105 says is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. It is a comfort to us both in times of affliction and in times of joy. His word is true...it does not fail. Read what Jesus says in Matthew, Chapter 5:
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
