If you need protection, Psalm 91 promises it in every verse.
If the nation is in trouble, in 2 Chronicles 7:14 God promises, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
In the Gospel of John, Jesus even went so far as to promise:
• “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it” (John 14:13–14).
• “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (John 15:7).
• “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you” (John 16:23).
Do you know how serious Jesus is about keeping those prayer promises? He chose to make them right after the last Passover meal. He established them as covenant promises by giving them to us right after saying, “This…is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you” (Luke 22:20, "New King James Version").
Sadly, most people these days don’t know much about covenants. They might live in a neighborhood where there’s a homeowner’s covenant, but as far as they’re concerned it’s no big deal. If the covenant says they can’t paint their house pink, they get a lawyer, sue to upgrade the covenant and make it more “progressive,” so they can have a pink house.
That kind of covenant is nothing like the one Jesus announced during the last Passover meal. The new covenant He shed His blood to ratify is not a “progressive” covenant. It never changes because its Author, the Almighty God, never changes. He established the new covenant between Himself and the Man, Jesus of Nazareth, and we got in on it through Him.
When we received Him as our LORD, instantly all the great and precious promises in the Bible became to us “Yes, and in Him Amen” (2 Corinthians 1:20, "NKJV"). We didn’t instantly see them all fulfilled in our lives, because for that to happen we must believe and act on them. But everything in them belonged to us, nonetheless.
To understand this, think about how it was for the Israelites when they came out of Egypt. Even before they arrived at the border of the land of Canaan, God told them the land was theirs. As Nehemiah 9:15 puts it: He “promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which [He] hadst sworn to give them.” But to enjoy it they had to believe and act on that promise—and they chose not to do so.
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