When Your Promise is Real

The other day I was corresponding with one of the staff members from our accounting firm.

While talking I remembered a conversation she and I had several years ago, when she was pregnant with her little girl. As we exchanged pleasantries, she asked how my day was going. In turn, I asked how she and the baby were doing.

Her response has stayed on my mind for days.

She said she was doing great, and Amelia was doing good as well. She went on to say, “I am excited about my next doctor’s appointment, because I get to see her.” Amelia, her baby. The baby she has not yet seen, heard or felt was as real to her at that moment as she would be the day she would hold her in her arms.

Since the day I read that email I have heard a question in my spirit, “is your promise as real to you as her baby was to her?”

Hebrews 11:1 says, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

The Amplified Bible says it like this…

Now faith is the assurance, title deed, confirmation of things hoped for divinely guaranteed, and the evidence of things not seen, the conviction of their reality, faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.

Her faith in what she is carrying was her guarantee that she would see the fulfillment of her promise. She was fully persuaded that she would hold her promise very soon – the very promise she now holds.

How about you? Is your promise so real to you that even though we haven’t seen it or felt it, you continue to know it is more real than anything else around you. Are you convinced that it is real, and it is coming? That it is already completed in Christ?

We all have something we are standing in faith for.  Something we are believing God for. But, the question remains, how real is it to us?

I have a friend I have been praying for. Yesterday I felt certain God had done something great on her behalf, I had no evidence of it. It was just so real to me that I couldn’t shake it. I didn’t talk with her during that time.  However, today I received a call from her sharing with me what God did for her the day before. I saw the evidence of what was already very real to me. My faith was released in that thing, and I saw the fulfillment of it.

How real is your promise? If it is not as real as it should be, then let’s look at the rest of this verse in Hebrews 11. Verse 3 says, By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

By faith – we understand. The worlds were framed by the Word of God.

In the same manner, by faith, our worlds will be framed and created by the Word of God.

So that the things which are seen, are not made of things which are visible. It is the Word of the Living God that causes the invisible, the impossible to become a reality. We must take the Word of God and frame our world by speaking God’s Word into our situation. As we do that, it is then that we will see our promise become as real as if we were seeing the manifestation of it. God has already completed His part. Our part is standing on His Word and believing before we see it.

Luke 1:45 says, Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.

Mary believed what God said before she ever saw the fulfillment of that promise – in doing so – she was blessed or empowered to prosper in the thing she was believing for. May you and I be empowered to prosper (blessed) as we believe we have a fulfillment of the promises of God, even before we see it. Even now.