2012-08-27T14:47:22-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/promises/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-promise-keepers-6683 2012-08-27T14:47:22-05:00 God richly rewards the one who keeps his oath even when it hurts. He rewards the promise keepers. Oh, yeah, they're rare, but they are priceless. http://truewoman.com/?id=1492 2010-11-17T16:41:03-05:00 I started noticing that the incredibly encouraging emails my mom regularly sent me were full of Scripture. They weren’t just hopeful sentiments from a mom, but actual promises from God that gave me something sturdy to cling to. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-relationships/dining-from-the-garbage-cafe-5929 2009-10-01T09:15:19-05:00 If you're wondering why you feel defeated so many times, why you don't feel as close to Jesus as you used to, or why your dark side keeps winning and bringing you down, well consider your diet: what you're watching, what you're listening to, who you're spending time with, or the things you laugh at. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/play-doh-or-rock-5848 2009-09-10T13:46:30-05:00 It's so good to know that you belong to Jesus; that you're going to heaven when you die. No, not just because you feel it. You know you belong to Him. You know you're going to heaven, because God says so! http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Corinthians%201:20&version=NIV 2009-09-09T11:45:03-05:00 The Bible is filled with God's promises. Here, we learn that the ultimate fulfillment of all of those promises can be found in Christ, and in His death and resurrection for our sins. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-most-important-relationship/the-strongest-words-in-the-world-5697 2009-09-09T11:01:27-05:00 Satan, who is the inventor of broken promises, loves it when you join his club. God, the One who never lies, really cares if you keep your promises. If you say you'll do it, do it. Whatever it costs, keep your commitments, because it will cost you a whole lot more not to. http://hutchcraft.com/a-life-that-matters/radio-program/fully-guaranteed-promises-8218 2009-03-17T15:47:11-05:00 I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and the gift card, of course, is only as good as the store behind it. And we’ve had reason to fear that some won’t be able to do it. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Mission/Clear-Direction-in-a-Thick-Fog-5669 2008-10-15T16:39:50-05:00 God has made promises that you have to hang onto now, even when because of the fog you can't see them working. So claim the promises He gave you when it was light, refuse the compromises and the shortcuts that seem so tempting right now. Don't trust your roller coaster emotions which have lied to you and led you into mistakes so many times before. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Most-Important-Relationship/Out-of-Sight-5627 2008-08-08T10:48:26-05:00 Instinctively, we're only sure of what we can see - what we can hold. We're slaves to the visible, the tangible. God is like me working on that scrapbook in the basement, He's doing something very special, but He's doing it mostly out of sight. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Hindrances/The-Breaking-Point-and-the-Breakthrough-3835 2008-07-30T16:28:48-05:00 That experience - of reaching the breaking point and then experiencing the breakthrough - pretty much described little Jordan's birth, and millions of other births, and millions of other breakthroughs in people's lives. Just when the pain has become almost unbearable, just when you think you can't do this anymore - that's when something wonderful is born.