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\"SeekingHimLogo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess <\/span>
\nfor He who promised is faithful. <\/span>
\nHebrews 10:23<\/span><\/p>\n

When I saw that Hebrews 10:23 was the verse we were writing on, my heart did a little jump inside. \u00a0This is my “most favorite-est” verse in the Bible.<\/p>\n

When I first got saved this verse held me up through many storms and confused nights. \u00a0I’d cry from feeling so close to defeat, but would cling to knowing that “He who promised is faithful.” \u00a0Written in my Bible I have a note next to this verse that says “regardless of how things seem!<\/span><\/em>” How true?!<\/p>\n

God promises us things that seem so impossible sometimes. \u00a0We know that His promises are true. \u00a0We know He cannot tell a lie and we know He is faithful. \u00a0And yet, what our eyes see and our minds perceive is something totally different. \u00a0The question remains: “Which do you believe?” We rely on our eyes daily to show us the world around us. Our eyes are tangible. However, we KNOW that God is to be trusted. Both seem right.<\/p>\n

A prime example of this type of situation is that of the story of Abraham. \u00a0In Genesis 12:1-3, God gave (then) Abram a command and several blessings. Genesis 12:4 tells us that Abraham was 25 at the time. \u00a0In Genesis 21:1-5, God’s promise is fulfilled. \u00a0Genesis 21:5 says that Abraham was (now) 100 years old. \u00a0Think of it this way: not only did God’s promise take 9 chapters in the Bible to actualize, but it took 75 years<\/strong>. \u00a0Say it with me ‘75 years<\/strong><\/em>‘! \u00a0God promised Abraham that he would have a son. \u00a0He told Abraham this while he and his wife were very young – “the optimized time for child-bearing” and yet! God waited until both of them were old and well passed “child-bearing” age to provide them with a child.<\/p>\n

From his story we know that Abraham and his wife got impatient with God and (in Genesis 16) took matters into their own hands. \u00a0Abraham laid with his wife’s servant and Ishmael, a son, was born to him. \u00a0This, of course, was not God’s plan; therefore, strife resulted from this situation. \u00a0We must be careful that we are not trying to rush God’s hand while waiting. \u00a075 years<\/strong>. That’s a l-o-o-o-ng time to wait, especially for children, but for anything at all!<\/p>\n

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What promise is it that you are clinging to from God? \u00a0<\/span>
\nDoes His word support it? \u00a0Yes? \u00a0Good! \u00a0<\/span>
\nNow ask yourself:\u00a0Are you willing to wait 75 years for it?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 When I saw that Hebrews 10:23 was the verse we were writing on, my heart did a little jump inside. \u00a0This is my “most favorite-est” verse in the Bible. When I first got saved this verse held me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":13840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[9095,3146,3367,1287,6665,9097,425,4647,3174,9098,9096],"class_list":["post-26546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-abraham-and-sarah","tag-ahmee-bronaugh","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-genesis-12","tag-genesis-25","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-hebrews-1023","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-unswerving-hope","tag-waiting-for-gods-promise","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SeekingHimLogo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-6Ua","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26548,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26546\/revisions\/26548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}