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Although they owned the land, they wouldn’t take it. They didn’t think they could because of the giants who were living there. Paralyzed by unbelief, “the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it” (Hebrews 4:2). And as a result, they wound up wandering around in the wilderness for 40 years. Jesus, the Apostle Peter and You! The Israelites had a covenant with God. As believers, we have an even better covenant. But without faith, the promises in that covenant cannot do you any good. As great and precious as they are, they are worthless to you if you don’t believe them. “I know that’s true, Brother Copeland, and though I hate to admit it, you just identified my problem. I don’t have any faith!” Are you a Christian? “Yes.” Then you must have faith because Romans 12:3 says God has dealt to every believer “the measure of faith.” In addition, in 2 Peter 1, Peter addresses all believers as “them that have obtained like precious faith with us,” which means if you’re a Christian you have the same faith the great Apostle Peter had. Where did Peter get his faith? From Jesus! So, you not only have faith, you have the same faith Jesus has, the faith of God Himself! “Brother Copeland, now you’re exaggerating!” No, I’m just agreeing with the Bible. It tells us in Hebrews 12, to be like great faith heroes who have gone before us and keep “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith” (verse 2). The word author can also be translated source. The word finisher can also be translated developer. In other words, Jesus has put in us His own faith, and as we keep looking to Him in The WORD, He brings our faith to completion so that it does what it’s designed to do. What is faith designed to do, exactly? It’s the connector between you and the fulfillment of God’s promises. As Hebrews 11:1 puts it: “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” “Faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]” ("Amplified Bible, Classic Edition"). As you spend time in The WORD, meditating on and living in God’s promises, faith rises up on the inside of you and makes those promises alive in you. It enables you to perceive them as real fact and to boldly lay claim to them. It brings you to the place where you have title deed to the promise that covers your situation, and you own what you are seeing in the spirit through hope. True biblical hope is a wonderful thing. It’s not just wishing for something, it’s confident expectation. It’s like what I experienced as a little boy when I was told that my grandparents were coming to visit. They lived about 300 miles away from us, and we didn’t get to see them very often. So whenever my mother told me they were coming I got excited. Every time I heard a car coming down the street, I ran outside thinking it might be them. Even before they arrived, in my mind’s eye I kept seeing them coming up the walk. Why? Because I had a great and precious promise that my grandmother and grandfather were on their way! That’s a simple illustration of the attitude we’re to have when we finish praying according to God’s promises. Jesus said in Mark 11:24-25: “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any….” When we pray like that, we can start getting excited the moment we finish praying. We don’t have to wait and wonder if God is going to give us the things we asked for. By faith we have the title deed to them. We believe they are ours because God has said so. We’re filled with confident expectation because we have His great and precious promises—our answers are on the way! V POINTS TO GET YOU THERE: 1) There’s nothing you could ever need from God that His promises to you don’t cover. (2 Pet. 1:3–4) 2) A great and precious promise of God is what enabled you to get born again. (Gal. 3:29) 3) Just before Jesus went to the cross He gave us some very powerful prayer promises. (John 15:7) 4) Faith is the connector between you and the fulfillment of God’s promises. 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