When God makes a promise, He will keep that promise. When God says something, He will do what He said. Numbers 23:19 needs to be etched on our hearts so no matter what comes against us, no matter what screams God won’t do it, you heard wrong, look at all that is happening to you, how can you believe what God said, we must remember, “God is not a man that He should lie!!!!!!” Or if you need a New Testament word, “Jesus said, I am the truth!!!!!!!” Truth is not something Jesus does, Truth is who Jesus is. He cannot lie, not that He won’t, He can’t so everything He says, the Holy Spirit says, the Father says, it is going to come to pass. Our God does not talk to hear His own voice, He talks so we know what He is going to do. You can take that check to bank and cash it all day long, His account is never overdrawn.

Look at this, I am reading Ruth 1 this morning and it says, “Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah.” This is not the most exciting verse you will read today, but it is packed with prophetic promises I never saw before and when you see them you will shout as I am shouting that God is a promise keeper!!!

Governed by judges and in a famine, not exactly pleasant circumstances. It was so rough where they were they had to flee to another country called Moab. But here is what the Lord showed me, this family of 4 lived in Bethlehem, this is the bloodline of Jesus right here living in the city Jesus would be born in hundreds of years later. Boaz was Elimelech’s family member and Boaz is in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1. Governed by judges, in a famine, but living in the very city, being of the very bloodline of the Messiah of the world. Circumstances don’t move God, for He knows when He makes a promise it will come to pass no matter what it looks like right now.

Friends, this is huge, they lived in the very city Jesus was born in. I am stupified by the our God and how His faithfulness is so clear, how He reveals over and over again to us that we can trust Him. If He said something to you, you will see it come to pass. Our God is not a man that He should lie, rather He is a promise keeper so we can rejoice!