The main image in the last post might give you the impression that God’s promises are all about money. Wealth is important, but it is just a small fraction of what God wants for us. Our Father wants so much more for us than money, things that money cannot buy, such as health. However, we cannot get them until we learn to trigger God’s promises. Sadly, many religious leaders lead us to pray for wealth without telling us how to get it.
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As a result, many of us are still waiting for wealth and several other promises of God to manifest in our lives. As we saw in a previous post and as you probably already know, God is a covenant keeper. Since we were made in His image, God expects us to be like Him and keep our side of any bargain we want to claim. And that is precisely where most of us fail to access God’s promises.
Take for instance the promise to which we referred in the last post. The Bible says in Job 22.28 “You shall decree a thing and it shall be established unto you.” Have you not heard believers fervently claiming that promise? Imagine if that promise did not require a trigger. I could decree your death and you will drop dead instantly. Can you not picture the chaos?
Thank God That We Do Have to Trigger God’s Promises
Imagine this scenario: I missed my flight and decided to decree that the plane must return for me. It is, after all, one of God’s promises. You do not need a pilot or an engineer to tell you how chaotic and deadly airports and the global airspace would be. If several of your prayers go unanswered, you may not readily identify with this statement. But I am grateful that we must trigger God’s promises before they are fulfilled.
If He did not, many of us would have fallen and died from the decrees of people who hate us. We would have become murderers by decreeing that others who offended us should die. The world would be worse than what Genesis 1.1 describes. It is consequently wise and kind for God to put a trigger on that particular promise. As this series develops, you will discover that the trigger of God is not only on that promise. We start with this only because it is so popular.
To that, please share (privately of course) one or two promises of God that are tarrying in your life. God will help us to identify its trigger and you will then (publicly) be able to share that God is a covenant keeper. There is nothing God loves more than blessing His children. The fact that we have to pray until sweat breaks out is not on God. It is on us. We need to learn how to trigger God’s promises.
You Shall Decree A Thing
We now examine what we need to trigger God’s promises and return to our first example. Usually, the trigger comes before the promise. So, in the case of Job 22.28 promise you need to look for the trigger in Job 22.26-27. You look and you do not find it. So, you go to even earlier verses and search. In this case, because the promise is so powerful, the bible needs several verses to record the trigger. After all, successfully decreeing a thing means you are like God. God will not joke with that trigger.
So, do not waste time praying for your decrees to be established until you have fulfilled the following triggers. And do not let any pastor or religious leaders fool you into praying as if God is unfaithful or uncaring. God is faithful and true to His covenant. We are the ones who do not know how to trigger God’s promises. Here are the triggers for decreeing a thing and getting a successful result.
The Promise Trigger
“Now acquaint yourself with Him, and be at peace. Thereby good will come to you. Receive instruction from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up. You will remove iniquity far from your tents. Then you will lay your gold in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.
Yes, the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver. For then you will have your delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God. You will make your prayer to Him, He will hear you, and you will pay your vows.”
You need to take a deep breath. That is a lot and we will not attempt to unpack it now. Perhaps, as God helps us, we shall do so in the next post or two. But for now, we understand there is a definite way to trigger God’s promises.
Maranatha!
