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I will give you strength

Isa 40:29-31 è  He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall, But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

God gave physical strength to his people when they were being held captive or besieged by enemies, so that they could defeat those enemies, even with a comparatively small army.

Today, God gives us spiritual strength via his word to fight against our enemy, Satan.

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I will help you

Isa 41:10 è  Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

Fear can drive many behaviors and decisions in our lives. Fear is usually accompanied by a lack of trust in God and his promises.

Webster defines dismayed as: To be deprived of strength or firmness of mind which constitutes courage; to be discouraged, disheartened, to depress the spirits or resolution.

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I will not stop loving you

Isa 54:10 è  For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.   

To paraphrase: when God makes a promise or a covenant, it is unbreakable and completely trustworthy. God’s love for us is everlasting.

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I will never forsake you

Heb 13:5  è Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."

If we really believe God will provide everything we need, why would we covet something that someone else has. That would go contrary to our belief in God’s providence.

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I will fulfill  the desires of your heart

Psa 37:4 è Delight yourself also in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.     

Matthew Henry:  God has not promised to gratify all the appetites of the body and the humors of the fancy, but to grant all the desires of the heart, all the cravings of the renewed sanctified soul. What is the desire of the heart of a good man? It is this, to know, and love, and live to God, to please him and to be pleased in him.

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I will give you peace

Joh 14:27 è Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

John Gill: The peace Christ gives is true, solid, and substantial; the peace the world, the men, and things of it give, is a false one;  the peace of the world is at best but an external one, but the peace Christ is the giver of, is internal; the peace the world affords is a very transient, unstable, and short lived one, but the peace of Christ is lasting and durable; the peace of the world will not support under the troubles of it, but the peace which Christ gives, cheerfully carries his people through all the difficulties and exercises of this life:

If we want to experience this peace that God promises, we must watch that we don’t let the world’s problems or our own personal problems trouble us, such that our trust in God diminishes. This will disturb our peace of mind and spirit significantly.

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I will give you rest

Mat 11:28-30 è Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

A yoke placed on two cattle keeps them together and functioning as one unit. Their movements are coordinated and they are in step with each other. The metaphorical yoke that Jesus talks about here does much the same thing in a spiritual sense. If we “yoke” ourselves to Christ, we will emulate his actions, speech, and compassion and share in his wisdom. Unlike a cattle’s yoke, which is very heavy and oppressive, Christ’s yoke is easier and lighter, and should be a pleasure for Christians to wear, not a burden.    

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I will have compassion on you

Lam 3:22-23 è Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.

Another word for faithful could be reliable, or trustworthy or unfailing. This describes God’s mercy towards us – it isn’t fickle or fluctuating – it is steadfast and solid regardless of conditions. And they never expire – they are new every morning.  

Zerr: Had the nation been dealt with strictly as Its iniquities deserved it would have meant its complete destruction. But the compassion of the Lord saved the people as a whole from being consumed.

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I will do the impossible

Mat 19:26 è But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." 

The bible documents numerous events in both the OT and NT where  God has done the impossible like getting water from a rock, making a donkey talk, raising people from the dead, removing evil spirits from people etc.  God can still do the impossible today and will often (through his providence) make seemingly impossible things happen.

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I will give you life to the full

Joh 10:10 è The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 

Barnes: The word abundantly denotes that which is not absolutely essential to life, but which is superadded to make life happy. It would be vast mercy to keep men merely from annihilation or hell; but Jesus will give them eternal joy, peace, the society of the blessed, and all those exalted means of felicity which are prepared for them in the world of glory.

Paraphrase: God does not give his faithful people the minimum, he gives them the maximum.

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I will give you eternal life

Joh 3:16 è For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 

Probably the most well known verse in the bible gives us:

(a) the “why” of  the promise: God so loved the world

(b) the “how” of the promise: He gave His only begotten son

(c) the “who” of the promise: whoever believes in him

(d) the “what” of the promise: everlasting life

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I will purify you

1Jn 1:9 è If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

If we take responsibility for our sins and with repentance ask forgiveness for those sins, God will forgive us and restore us to righteousness in his sight.

Barnes gives and interesting thought on the word “just” in this passage: The word “just” here cannot be used in a strict and proper sense, since the forgiveness of sins is never an act of justice, but is an act of mercy. But the word “just” is often used in a larger sense, as denoting upright, equitable, acting properly in the circumstances.

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I will forgive and heal you

2Ch 7:14 è if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 

This promise of forgiveness and healing of the soul has several conditions (be humble, pray, seek God, turn from sin). One must assume if all of  these conditions are not met by the petitioner, that God will not hear their cries and will not fulfill this promise of forgiveness and healing.

God expects man to do his part, and if he does so, God will do His part. The same is true with the Gospel plan of salvation.   

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I will save you

Rom 10:9-10 è that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 

This is just one of the conditions in the whole plan of salvation - that of confessing Jesus as the Son of God

If one is unwilling to do this step, then he should not expect to receive salvation. Paul is revealing that to receive salvation it is not enough just to believe in the heart, but one must verbally confess that Jesus is the Son of God. This clearly refutes the doctrine of “faith only”

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I will guide you through temptation

1Co 10:13 è No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Each of us has limitations – some have a high threshold for resisting temptation, whereas other fall into temptation more easily. God is promising here that those limitations will  be taken into consideration and thus God will not allow anyone to be tempted beyond their ability to resist. We may be pushed to the edge, but we will never be pushed over the edge.

Additionally, God will always provide a way for us to overcome the temptation - but we must choose to take it.

It is reasonable to expect that as we mature in our Christianity and our resistance to sin gets stronger, Satan will be allowed to tempt us more vigorously. That is the only way we can keep growing and getting stronger in our resistance.

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I will not hold your sin against you

Rom 8:1-2 è There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 

When we make the decision to walk according to the Spirit, eschewing the desires of the flesh, we can be assured of not being condemned by God.  When we realize that condemnation results in an eternity of torment in hell, it should make our resolve to live a righteous life much stronger.    

Barnes: “no condemnation” does not mean that sin in believers is not to be condemned; but it means that the gospel does not pronounce condemnation like the old law. Its function is to pardon, whereas the function of the old law was to condemn. The old law never affords deliverance, but always condemns; the function of the law of Christ  is to free from condemnation, and to set the soul at liberty.