The Promises of God (Part 1): Building on What God Has Actually Said

When we talk about the promises of God, we have to begin with something simple but important. Not every verse in the Bible is automatically a personal promise to us in the same way.
That doesn’t make Scripture weaker. It makes it deeper.
This series started because someone told me they wanted to know more about the Promises of God. As I was praying about where to begin, I realized I need to start adding some structure to my posts, not just scattered encouragement. So for this series, I’m using a compiled list of promise verses from The Bible Made Easy for Kids by Dave Strehler as a reference guide for which Scriptures we’ll study. I didn’t curate that list myself, but I will be teaching through each promise directly from the Bible using the correct context.
We’re going to talk about every single one of those promises at least once. Not speeding through them. Slowly. Carefully. Biblically.
And before we can get into specific promises, we need to lay a firm foundation.

A Promise That Started Under the Stars

One of the earliest covenant promises in Scripture is found in Genesis 15:5, when God tells Abraham to look up at the sky and count the stars if he can. Then He says, “So shall they seed be.”
Abraham didn’t have children yet. Sarah was barren. Years had already passed. From a strictly human perspective, it didn’t look very realistic to either one of them.
But the promise wasn’t dependent on Abraham’s biology, or even Sarah’s. It was dependent on God’s faithfulness.
That distinction matters.
The promise to Abraham was specific to him as part of God’s covenant plan that ultimately pointed to Christ. Not every promise in Scripture is universal in the same way. Some are specific. Some are conditional. Some are universal for all believers.
So how do we know which is which?
We study context.
We read carefully and intentionally.
We let Scripture interpret Scripture.
And we remember this anchor truth from 2 Corinthians 1:20:

“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ.”

Every true promise of God finds its fulfillment in Jesus.
That’s the lens we will look through for this entire series.

Why This Matters

I learned something about God’s promises while waiting almost two years for my disability to be approved. I kept reminding myself that God’s timing is perfect, but if I’m being 100% transparent, I struggled. A lot. There were days I felt patient and surrendered, and there were days I felt frustrated and doubted.
Waiting has a way of testing whether we trust God’s character or just prefer quick answers.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that He makes everything beautiful in His time. That doesn’t me we always understand the timing, but it does mean He isn’t careless or late.
God’s promises don’t expire because we’re tired. They don’t unravel because we stumble. They rest on who He is.
That’s what we’re building on.
In the next post, we’ll begin studying the first specific promise from our list and walk through it carefully in the correct context. By the end of this series, we’ll have talked about every promise on the list at least once.
We’re not just collecting comforting verses. We’re learning how to stand on God’s Word correctly.

To help us walk through this intentionally instead of casually, I’ve created a simple study tracker you can use as we move through each promise together.