Fulfillment
Waiting is hard. And it can take forever. Getting through the process is a process, indeed. However, at the right time, God will act and He will answer prayers and bring about promises. He is the one Who makes your dreams come true. God will do His will in your life. It just takes patience and endurance. We are supposed to get prepared and work on our character. Also, we should focus on building our relationship with God and getting closer to Him. We can try to make things happen on our own but look at the mess Abraham and Sarah made when they did that. We are better off letting God do His thing in our lives.
When we really want or need something in our lives and it delays, I know it can be discouraging. It is easy to lose faith and want to give up. We may stop trusting God and even get angry. However, it is during these times we are supposed to submit to God and trust He is working it all out for our good. It may not be easy, but it will be good. God has always and always will fulfill His promises.
Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 13:19A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.
Psalm 145:19He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.
2 Chronicles 6:15You have kept your promise to your servant David my father; with your mouth you have promised and with your hand you have fulfilled it—as it is today.
Numbers 23:19God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
Joshua 21:45Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.
Joshua 23:14“Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
Psalm 119:38Fulfill your promise to your servant, so that you may be feared.
Isaiah 46:9 Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.
10 I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.’
11 From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfill my purpose.
What I have said, that I will bring about;
what I have planned, that I will do.
Jeremiah 1:12The Lord said to me, “You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled.”
Jeremiah 11:5Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.” I answered, “Amen, Lord.”
Jeremiah 17:15They keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the Lord? Let it now be fulfilled!”
Jeremiah 33:14“‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah.
Lamentations 2:17The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his word, which he decreed long ago. He has overthrown you without pity, he has let the enemy gloat over you, he has exalted the horn of your foes.
Ezekiel 12:23Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to put an end to this proverb, and they will no longer quote it in Israel.’ Say to them, ‘The days are near when every vision will be fulfilled.
Ezekiel 12:25But I the Lord will speak what I will, and it shall be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, you rebellious people, I will fulfill whatever I say, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”
Matthew 1:22All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:
The Fulfillment of the Law
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Luke 1:45Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”
Philippians 2:13for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
