God’s Promises: I Will Never Leave You Nor Forsake You

As we enter the new year, a desire stirs in my heart to search out, read, study, memorize, and understand the promises of God in Scripture. For if I’m to renew my mind, I must know who He is, who I am, and what He has given me in order that I might live the abundant life. And to know what He’s given me that I’m not experiencing already, I need to know what He’s promised me.

This is how renewing your mind works. The Holy Spirit leads you to Scriptural truth; if you read it and don’t believe it, you confess your disbelief and choose with your will to repent and turn away from believing ideas that disagree with Scripture. Then you tell Father God that your heart is open to receive His truth and to walk in it. Ask for His power to walk in it.

So here we go. January 2nd, 2010…

God’s Promise #1: I will never leave you nor forsake you.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,

“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

So we say with confidence,

“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”

- Hebrews 13:5-6

He will supply all our needs.

I’m not going to talk about the love of money today. But it provides the context for God’s promise. We can keep free from that greed and be content with what we have BECAUSE God has promised us that He will never leave us nor forsake us. If God is our helper, and He NEVER abandons (“forsake” and “abandon” are synonyms, FYI) us, what can anyone do to us? What have we to fear?

If you like, pray with me. I’m going to align myself with God’s word right now. I have not believed these statements to be true. I’m going to choose to agree with Scripture.

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Father, you say in Hebrews 13:5-6 that You will never leave me and never abandon me. But I’ve felt abandoned many times. I’ve felt that I was all on my own, suffering defeat after defeat and shame after shame. I’ve wanted, and not received. I’ve prayed, and not heard You answer. I’ve believed that something was wrong with me, and that You didn’t love me or choose before Time began to give me as much of Your goodness as You give some other people.

I’ve never believed that you were always here with me, but Your Word says You were, are, and always will be. I confess my disbelief. I confess the sin of believing a lie. I heard and read Your truth, but I chose to believe my interpretation of my experience over Your Word. Forgive me for not trusting You; for not believing You.

I choose by an act of my will now to repent. I turn away from the beliefs of the past that said You are not near; that You are not my Helper. I turn and line up my mind with Your Word. I agree that Your Word is true, regardless of my experience. I choose to trust Your unfailing love and absolute honesty over my feeble attempts to understand and interpret events around me. I trust in You. I choose to believe You.

Now please come and give power to my choice, Father. I have chosen to align with You and Your Word. Now give me the power to walk that godly choice out. Thank you for honoring me as I obey You. It is good and light to my eyes to come closer and closer and walk in the light of Your truth.

Thank you, Father. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Now I’m going to activate my faith by declaring truth.

Father, You will never leave me. You will never forsake me. You will always be with me. I have nothing to fear. What can man do to me? You are my helper. I worship You. I praise You. I thank You for being so ridiculously good to me. I could never have deserved it! I could never have earned a moment of Your time. Yet you are here. Giving Yourself to me. Helping me. Being the ONLY person who has never left me when it was hard or I was annoying or insensitive. You are my most faithful friend. You are, Lord. You are my faithful friend, God! I declare it. Thank You, Father. Thank You. Thank You so much for never leaving me. I don’t want to be alone. And I never have to be. Thank You so much!

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