“Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the
heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have
been occupied therein.” Heb.13:9
Therefore, sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of
the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable. These all
died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were
persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a
country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out,
they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country,
that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath
prepared for them a city.” Heb.11:12-16.
We are continuing our study on the marks or characteristics of an established heart.
The first mark is an established heart has unshakable confidence in God that He will do
what He has promised in His word to do. The second characteristic is that an
established heart is patient and ready to wait for the manifestation of the promise of
God no matter how long it takes. The third characteristic is that an established heart
sees the promised from afar off. In other words, an established heart sees the promised
fulfilled long before it becomes manifest. The physical always lags the spiritual but will
eventually catch up. What is already settled in the spiritual may takes variable length of
time before it becomes manifest in the physical.
The fourth characteristics is having seen the fulfilled promise afar off the established
heart embraces and welcomes it long before it becomes manifest in the physical. He
embraces it because he is fully persuaded in God’s faithfulness to make good on His
promises. When God changed Abram’s name to Abraham (father of multitude) he
accepted the name change not being mindful that he and Sarah have passed the
childbearing age and yet did not physically have an offspring then talk less of multitude
of offspring). In the process of time the physical caught up with what has already
happened in the spiritual. This principle applies to every area of God’s promises
including healing, prosperity, fruitfulness, success, etc.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Sowing and reaping is more than a promise. It is a covenant.