Hello Beloved Reader,
I am joyfully posting a blog by Emily Buscher who is our Worship Leader for the Northern Colorado Regional House of Prayer. Emily and her husband Rev. Brad Buscher are two young prophetic voices that God is raising up in this Omega Generation. I have enjoyed listening to the fire of God in them as they teach, preach and bring forth the Word of God. I pray this blog will be a blessing to all who read it.
Rev. Henry Falcone
Promises of God
Written by: Emily Buscher
Worship Leader: Northern Colorado Regional House of Prayer
Dear Readers, I wonder just how many of us have found ourselves in a place of needing to hear from the Lord so desperately, that you cry out and cry out for Him to send you a word that will get you through another week, day or hour. I know that in this past year I have been in that place more than I ever thought I would be.
As I would cry out, the Lord would answer me, as I sought him from a place of humility and brokenness. He would answer. Sometimes His answer was in the form of his written word, Logos, and sometimes he would send a prophetic word through a pastor or friend, a Rhema. I held on tightly to those words of the Lord, his very promises to me. Many times they would penetrate my heart and move me to tears as I cried from the depth of my soul, "thank you for hearing my cries Lord."
I was careful to write these words down in my journal to have them available to read over when the enemy tries to convince me that those things will never happen, or I was never changed, or so on. But even through all of this it is still possible for us to forget, and consequently hand over these promises to the enemy. I was deeply troubled by this, having seen it play out recently in peoples lives and even my own. I took this to the Lord this morning in worship and what he showed me was amazing.
The Lord is faithful and he is so in Love with us, his Bride, and it is his good pleasure to give us his promises. What he showed me was that his promises are indeed like a promise ring, that a young lover gives to his beloved in his love and adoration of her. That ring is a symbol of a promise that he intends to keep. The Lord gives these personal promises to us to prove himself, to glorify himself working in us and through us.
God"s holy Word says this about his words and promises:
Psalm 12:6, "the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times."
Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?"
We have to stop listening to the enemy! The enemy is the father of lies, and a thief and a robber, and just like worldly thieves and robbers he is after that which is yours and has value! Your "promise rings"! Why on earth would we ever just willingly hand over for the enemy's spoils that which should be so precious to us? But we do that when we do not trust in the word of the Lord and his promises to us.
The enemy knows what angles to play, to try to get you to loose hold of those precious promises, look at what happened to Abraham: Genesis 15:2-6.
2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir." 4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."
5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
The promise to Abraham here from the Lord was in verse 5; "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." And Abraham believed the Lord, verse 6.
Now back in Genesis 11, we learn that Abraham marries Sarah and that she could have no children. Many years go by and then this promise is made to Abraham, and then more time goes by and Sarah decides that this promise must not be going to come to Abraham through her, because she is barren, after all it has been about 50 or 60 years now of marriage and no children. So they decide to have Hagar, Sarah's servant fulfill the promise.
Another 20 years go by before the Lord comes to Abraham and says I will bring you a son in the next year through Sarah. Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac is born.No matter how old Abraham was when this promise was made to him, he already knew that Sarah was barren but he was married to her. They were barren, yet God makes this outrageous promise to him and he believed it. Now the clock just starts ticking away. Years go by, no children.
I believe that early on they just took God at his word and completely disregarded all the physical facts of this case. I believe that for years they believed God and disregarded the facts of Sarah's barrenness. Brazenly having the audacity to hope for the impossible through God in the midst of the physical reality.
But then, the enemy caused them to doubt and showed them another way to fulfill this so called promise that God had given them. They fell for the bait and Ishmael was born of Hagar, Sarah's servant, and boy did this cause problems in the camp. Read the story for yourself. The point I want to emphasize here in this passage of scripture is that we tend to start off well, believing God and hold on to a promise that was given, but then time goes by, and we think things are not changing, in fact they look much worse, and more time goes by, and here is where the enemy gets us.
We need to be remembering what the Lord has said more often! If you are one to write these personal promises down, like me, we need to remember that when everything looks bleak and utterly impossible, that is when we go to our journal or Bible and read for ourselves again what the Lord said! Out loud to the enemy if necessary! This is not the time to be duped into believing that the promise will come another way (of our choosing) by laying our own hands to it to try to make it come about through some vain imagination!
Now even though Abraham and Sarah fell for the bait, the Lord was faithful to keep his promise to them. They had to wait another almost twenty years, but a son was born to them to be the beginning of the stars in the sky. This is our faithful loving God. The Lord made a promise to Abraham about his offspring, while he was already in a covenant relationship with Sarah, the barren one.
Because of this covenant relationship, (the marriage) this promise was for Sarah too. God was not deterred by the fact that Abraham had married a barren woman to bless him outrageously! With God all things are possible! God was not pursuaded to cancel this outrageous blessing when Abraham and Sarah imagined a way to make it come about. God is faithful. Just like Numbers 23:19 says!
As I was worshipping and praying and receiving this vision of the Lords promises to us being like that of a young lover's promise ring to his beloved, the Holy Spirit kept reminding me of the passage of scripture from Hosea. Now Hosea was instructed by the Lord to marry a prostitute, and though he had children with her, some were not his. At some point she ran away to another man, and the Lord instructs Hosea to go and get her. To actually buy her back from the other man with silver, barley loaves and wine.
The Lord says in Hosea 3:1, "Go and get your wife again." Bring her back to you and love her, even though she loves adultery. For the LORD still loves Israel even though the people have turned to other gods, offering them choice gifts". This is amazing to me what the Lord showed us through Hosea and his wife. We are so unfaithful to Jesus but he keeps wooing us back to him, and pledging his love to us. Giving us still another promise ring.
We forget so often the promises that he has made to us, were made in love, with the intent to carry them out at the right time. He is faithful and loving when we are not. I believe that the Lord wanted us to see the Lover side of him in this way so that next time we would not so easily forget that his promises are an expression of his love and intent towards us. That we would not hand them over to the enemy for his spoils, because it grieves the Lords heart that those "choice gifts" he gave to us are given up.
I will close this letter with a few of the Lords own promises to us:
Isaiah 54:10--Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Jeremiah 31:3-- "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
Psalm 147:11--the LORD delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.
Blessings
Emily Buscher
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