What the Bible says about Keeping Your Word

 Tonight I will be talking about what the Bible says about Keeping Your Word, before I begin I would like to start by sharing a quote.

God keeps His Word. When He says something, He does it. When He promises something, He keeps it.

I would like us to now look at some scriptures. The scriptures we will look at tonight are 1 John 2 verse 5, Ecclesiastes 5 verse 4-7, Numbers 30 verse 1-2, Matthew 5 verse 33-37, John 1 verse 1, Psalm 119 verse 11, Psalm 119 verse 9, Psalm 119 verse 105, Hebrews 4 verse 12, 2 Peter 3 verse 9, Numbers 23 verse 19, Psalm 89 verse 34, Luke 1 verse 37, Proverbs 11 verse 3, Romans 8 verse 28, John 7 verse 38, Numbers 32 verse 24, Colossians 3 verse 16.

Thank you all for reading, we see in scriptures that God helps us as children of God to keep our word not just with Him, but with others. It can be difficult at times to keep our word because sometimes you may not be able to. We have things in our lives where keeping our word, especially if it's a promise made to someone can be difficult. It can be hard because there are some promises that can't be kept, and when it comes down to those situations, how do we know what to do? Well, we know by going to God in prayer is the best thing to do because He will help us and show us the right thing to do in keeping our word, our promise to others even if it has to be a different way, God always helps us see the true meaning of what it really means to keep our promises. The best example of this and what I want to get across is that God's Word is always True, it's the one thing that we can Rely on and just like God we can depend on Him to keep His Word with us because He loves us so much that He will never leave us and because of that we don't have to be afraid. The enemy might try to stop us from keeping our word, our promises, and everything God has worked hard to give us, and continues to give us, but the difference between the enemy and God is that God stops the enemy from doing that to us and the enemy will never win the battle because we know God always wins.

There is a song I would like to share called Promises by Maverick City Music and the lyrics say this: Though the storms may come and the winds may blow

I'll remain steadfast

And let my heart learn, when You speak a word

It will come to pass

Great is Your faithfulness to me

Great is Your faithfulness to me

From the rising sun to the setting same

I will praise Your name

Great is Your faithfulness to me

When the seasons change

You remain the same

God from age to age

Though the earth may pass away

Your word remains the same, yeah

You're history can prove

There's nothing You can't do

You're faithful and true

Though the storms may come and the winds may blow

I'll remain steadfast

And let my heart learn, when You speak a word

It will come to pass

Great is Your faithfulness to me, oh

Great is Your faithfulness

From the rising

From the rising sun to the setting same (I will praise Your name)

I will praise Your name

Great is Your faithfulness to me, yeah, yeah (oh, oh)

Your faithfulness, it never runs out (yeah)

It never runs out

Oh-oh, Your faithfulness

Oh, it never runs out (it never runs out)

It never runs out (it never runs out)

With this we see that God's Love for us never fails, but we see that the promises of God will never fail because God's Love is unconditional because God is Love. God is Love because He first loved us when He brought us into this world because we were created in His Image. We have purpose, but what are some things we can do to keep our word, even when it can be hard to do at times?

How can we show God's grace and mercy and keep His Word close to our hearts and share it with others?

This is what I would like to leave all of you with tonight. 

John 14 verse 27 says: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.