{"id":2611,"date":"2013-08-24T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2013-08-24T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T10:03:57","slug":"the-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2611","title":{"rendered":"THE PROMISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE PROMISE<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry  you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver  you. Isaiah 46:4<\/p>\n<p>The friends of your youth are gone, death or distance has stripped  you of them. But your God says, \u201cI am he who formed you at first, as a  creature; I am he who called you by my grace, into fellowship with my  Son; I am he who gave you my Word, that I would never leave you nor  forsake you; and I am in the same mind still. I am immutable\u2014there is no  change in me. You have changed, I have not. You will change\u2014but I shall  not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be your God throughout your lifetime\u2014until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will <em>care<\/em> for you. I will <em>carry<\/em> you along and save you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your God will not only carry your burdens\u2014but he will carry YOU. He  laid you like a lamb in his bosom, when he called you by his grace; and  he will carry you now you are old; he will never turn away from doing\u00a0  you good\u2014but will rejoice over you to do you good, with his whole heart,  and with his whole soul. He will bear with you\u2014though you may sometimes  feel fretful, peevish, and ungrateful. He will be with you amidst all  your infirmities. He will carry you, not only <em>to <\/em>the Jordan\u2014but <em>over <\/em>it! He has delivered you in six troubles\u2014and in seven he will not forsake you!<\/p>\n<p>You should look <em>back<\/em> to past deliverances, and then face your <em>present<\/em> difficulty, saying with David, \u201cThe Lord, who <em>has <\/em>delivered me out of the mouth of the lion, and out of the mouth of the bear\u2014will <em>yet <\/em>deliver me also from this uncircumcised Philistine!\u201d Or with Paul, \u201cHe <em>has <\/em>delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he <em>will <\/em>deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will <em>continue <\/em>to deliver us!\u201d <em>God\u2019s promise\u2014<\/em>is <em>your property<\/em>.  Take it, trust it, plead it, and expect it to be made good. Faithful is  he who promised, who also will do it. Even though you believe not\u2014yet  he abides faithful; for he cannot deny himself. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0James Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PROMISE And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. Isaiah 46:4 The friends of your youth are gone, death or distance has stripped you of them. But your God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-james-smith","category-believers-assurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}