When the Walls Won’t Fall: Trusting God in the Waiting

• I am so glad that you’ve joined me today. I’m believing that God’s going to speak to you through his word and that you’re going to be equipped and empowered to fulfill your God-given purpose. Growing up, I was the middle child, the only daughter. I had an older brother, George, and my younger brother, Andrew. And we would often play catch inside with a tennis ball.
• And one day, I threw the ball at my brother George really. And instead of hitting him, it hit my mom’s prize vase and it fell and shattered on the ground. Now, I knew I was going to get into big trouble if my mom found out. So, we all made a pack, the three of us together, and we promised and Pinky promised each other that we would never tell.
• Well, my mom had barely walked through the front door coming home from work when my older brother literally just threw me under the bus before she even saw the vase. He’s like, “Christine did it.” Anyway, he broke his promise to me and I was shattered.
• And when I confronted him, he said, “Christine, I had my fingers crossed when I made the promise, so it really didn’t count.” Well, the truth is, I think every single one of us have had some kind of experience where people have broken their promises to us or perhaps we’ve broken our promise to them and about things that are a lot more serious than a broken vase um when I was growing up.
• But the truth is that broken promises tend to erode our trust. The good news is that although we know that people do break their promises, including us at some point or another, God never ever breaks any promise that he makes. In Numbers chapter 23:19, it says that God is not man that he should lie or a son of man that he should change his mind.
• Has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not fulfill it? When God makes a promise, he always keeps it. You can count on God to always, always, always come through on his word. Well, in Deuteronomy chapter 1:8, God made a promise to the children of Israel. He said, “See, I have set the land before you.
• go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them and to their offspring after them. So God had given them Canaan, the promised land. And although it seemed impossible in the natural, God was going to do the impossible and keep his promise. Now, of course, as new covenant believers, God has given you and I promises in his word that each and every one of us can possess.