There are some things that grab your attention and won’t let go. A neon flashing sign is so attention grabbing you have to read what it says. A loud noise grabs our attention and makes us wonder what was that? A news headline grabs our attention and invites us to listen longer than we planned. A slam dunk in a basketball game or a backwards pass from a quarterback in the NFL, attention grabbers.

The word of God has attention grabbers, they cause us to stop our reading, they invite us to pause and ponder. They cannot just be read over and moved on from. There is something that happens as we read and something grabs our attention. We must lean in and listen carefully to what it is saying, for it is a “now” word for us or for us and others.

This morning while praying Psalm 145 verse 13 grabbed my attention and would not let me go…”The LORD always keeps his promises!” It was as though this verse was in all caps and in bold letters on the page. “The LORD always keeps his promises!” I know this intellectually, but this attention grabber did not feel intellectual today, it felt personal, manifestable, believable.

When we sow seeds of words, works, money, time, heart, passion, whatever it is we sow, as we wait for a promise or promises God has given us, one day the harvest will happen. Our wrestle with time is challenging, but today, I sensed we can believe, “The LORD always keeps his promises!” The wait has felt long, but the truth remains and I believe we are seeing and will continue to see promises come to pass God has spoken years or days ago.

I see God grabbing our attention with His word and with the manifestation of the promises He has spoken to us, for He is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19). He is a promise keeper and He never changes His mind about us or what He said to us. I see promises manifesting everywhere. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org