Hello.
We were shocked to hear yesterday from a pastor & close friend who has just suffered from a minor stroke.
He was just doing his job; staying at home; leading a church in this high demand season.
It’s week 9, yet it seems that living in these pandemic times isn’t getting any easier.
How are you going?
In this post we share a strategy with you that has become central to our walk with God.
We hope it gives you perspective and builds your faith.
Investing in the long term
One of the golden rules of investing is to select high quality stocks, diversify, and then hold on for the long haul.
Through all the ups and downs of the market.
We have discovered over the years the immense value of investing in God’s word.
Let’s learn together from Mary the mother of Jesus. This is what the angel of the Lord said to her:
Not one promise from God is empty of power, for nothing is impossible with God!
Luke 1:37 The Passion Translation
You see, we can trust the promise MAKER, because He is the promise KEEPER!
SOME TIPS FOR INVESTING IN PROMISES:
- Seek a promise from God’s word for each and every challenge in your life. First hand promises are the most rewarding. What someone else might share with you is good, BUT: find your own promise! That’s even better! Spend time in God’s Word. Ask. Seek. Knock.
- Catalogue your promises. Use a journal. Write down the promise the old fashioned way. Use a biro!! And most importantly make a foot note of the circumstances and the date. This helps to cement your story with the reality of God’s word.
- Review your promises. This is farming 101. Pray over the promise. Memorise it. Declare it. Waiting on God is not passive. It’s ACTIVE. And you need to know where you can find what’s been planted. Keep your journal nearby.
- Plant more than one crop. It’s so important to build a big picture of what God is doing. And we’ve learnt that this calls for more than one promise and more than one request and petition before God in prayer. If you only make one investment then there’s only going to be one harvest. But if by faith you plant multiple promises into the soil of your circumstances then you will reap accordingly.
- Go back thru the archives. Think back over a decade or maybe more. Is there a key promise that has been used by God in your story. Identify it. Retrieve it. Catalogue it. In other words, find the EXACT scripture reference, write it down word for word. And don’t forget to do the context matching step. What was happening at the time the Holy Spirit first brought this promise to your notice, and WHEN.
SHARING SOME EXAMPLES
Why not get in touch and share from your promise investing experiences. We’d love to hear from you.
In the remainder of this post, we share with you from our personal promise deposit box. Perhaps you will guess from the context notes some of what was happening at the time.
We hope this encourages you and inspires you.
In closing we share from someone else who was a big believer in investing in God’s promises. Here’s what the Apostle Peter has to say:
His divine power … has given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature
2 Peter 1:3,4 NKJV
SHARING FROM OUR JOURNALS
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation (or tabernacle / dwelling place) of the Most High.
Psalm 46:5 Holy Spirit night Macquarie Life Church 2005
I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of the heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22:7
SATFJ Promise 26.9.12
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast sure love for David. Behold I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and a commander for the peoples.
Isaiah 55:3,4
The ‘Masthead’ Promise 28.9.12
Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain ‘be taken up and thrown into the sea’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.
Mark 11:22-24
Pre-planting promise 17.1.11 … Great faith is spoken
Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left and your offspring will possess the nations and inhabit the desolate cities.
Isaiah 54:2,3
Building Program Macquarie 2004
He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 46:9,10
A contention promise relating to Gen 26:20 2.11.12
Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold I am doing a new thing: now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19
A formative pre-planting promise 26.11.10
