God Keeps His Promises

Do you take promises seriously? Do you follow through on keeping your promises? Do you expect others to keep their promises? Do you dream? Do you seek to know the future? Would you like to have visions of things to come? Do you know God has promised it?

Most of us take promises seriously. Or, at least, we like to think we do. Yet, there are times when something comes up that keeps us from keeping the promises we make. Some of those things are emergencies, while others are personal preferences that get in the way.

God doesn’t renege on his promises. When he promises us something, he fulfills his promise. He promised us, through the prophet Joel, that there would be people who prophesy in the future. That future has occurred since Joel and continues today. The meaning is that people will be able to proclaim what God will do in the future. We can proclaim it because God has written down in Scripture what he will do.

He also promises that people will dream dreams and see visions. Though these are rarer than prophesying, they do still occur. God still speaks to people in a variety of ways, even through dreams and visions. We cannot discount the many ways God speaks to us and to other people. Rather than discounting it, we should seek to learn from it.

Regardless of how God speaks to us, whether through his written Word, preachers, teachers, or through dreams and visions, we can confidently state it is God keeping his promise. This is just another example of God keeping his promises that builds our confidence in him keeping every promise he has made.

I pray we all trust that God keeps his promises. I pray we claim God’s promises for our lives. I pray each one of us will seek to hear God speaking to us through a wide variety of ways and people. Trust God to keep his promises. Claim God’s promises for yourself. Hear God speaking to you.

Joel 2:28

Then afterward 

I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; 

your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 

your old men shall dream dreams, 

and your young men shall see visions.