being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
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… giving glory to God being fully persuaded that what God had promised he was able also to perform do you hear that? he staggered not at the promise what was the promise? You're going to have a baby. Lord, I'm a hundred. You're going to have a baby. Have at it, Lord. I'm going to trust you for that baby. You know, they named that little baby laughter. It's cock. Isaac means laughter. It was so hilarious to Sarah when she heard it. She just laughed out loud. Lord says, okay, I'm going to have you name that baby. laughter I think it's the most exciting thing to trust God in impossible circumstances and watch him bridge the gap. Some of you have yet to go through on the bridge of trust, given to panic. You just haven't yet said, Lord, I'm going to trust you. well that's the first principle now it'll quieten your troubled heart it really will here's another one verses two and three in my father's house are many dwelling places if it were not so i would have told you for i go to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you to myself that where I am there you may be also. …
… accomplish. Romans 4.21 uses it, and it says, Abraham was fully assured that what God had promised he was able to perform. Colossians 4.12 uses the same verb to mean fully assured in all the will of God. And Paul even uses it again in 2 Timothy 4.17 where he says, and this is the summation of his whole ministry, the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished and that all the Gentiles might hear. It's a compound word that means to fully accomplish your ministry, and you have not fully accomplished your ministry if you have not at the beginning, at the door said, the righteous and the wicked do not belong together here worshiping. This is not, of course, to keep them out, but to bring them in through the gospel. I think every time we come to the Lord's table, we need to remember 2 Corinthians 13.5, examine yourselves whether you're in the faith. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11, I want to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ, and I'm afraid you're going to be led astray, you're going to be deceived like Eve was deceived. …
any spiritual advance during the last 10 years, you ought very gravely to question whether you have any spiritual life at all! You may not be able to see the growth, but there must be growth if there is life. There are some plants in which the unseen growth is more valuable than that which is visible—the gardener prizes the potatoes that are underground more than the tops that everyone can see. But with the Christian, there must be both the visible growth in zeal and good works—the hidden growth is in his deep humility and communion with his Lord in secret. So the force of life within produces growth. There are certain circumstances under which Believers especially grow, and they grow in faith by the exercise of faith. See the blacksmith's boy when he first tries to swing his father's big hammer—how soon he gets tired! But ask the smith whether his arms ache—"Oh, no!" he says, "I have made too many horseshoes for that." Exercise has developed his muscles and strengthened his sinews to such an extent that the bringing down of that big hammer with a merry ring is but child's play to him. So the young Christian, when he begins to exercise faith, can perhaps only imitate him who said, "Lord, I believe, help You my unbelief." But speak to him some years later, when his faith has been much exercised, and then you will find that he has grown more like Abraham who "staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that what He had promised, He was able, also, to perform." You know that if you let your arm lie unused, in time you will be unable to use it, like the Indian fakir who holds up his hand in the air until he has lost all power of moving it. So a man may keep his faith unused until it can scarcely be called faith at all—therefore mind that your faith is kept in full exercise for so only will it grow! …