And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.’

For no word from God will ever fail.

Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfil his promises to her!’

Here we see it again – the complete reliability of God’s Word.

In just under a week we will enter a new year. May we do so knowing we can count on the promises of God. In a world full of flim-flam, and which lauds and glamorises the vacuous, how we need somewhere to firmly plant our feet. We have that sure place in God’s Word.

According to Ajith Fernando, in his book ‘Jesus Driven Ministry’, George Mueller travelled all over the world as an itinerant evangelist until he was eighty-seven. When he was asked the secret of his long life, one of the three reasons he gave was ”the love he felt for the Scriptures and the constant recuperative power they exercised upon his whole being.” (p.96).

PRAYER: Lord, help me to immerse myself in your Word and believe you in everything