Standing on His Promise

David Wilkerson (1931-2011)

November 28, 2024

God seals all his promises with an oath, and we have the “legal” right to stand upon them. God cannot back away from any of his promises, or he would not be God. We can hold to each promise and declare, “Lord, I am going to stand on what you have said.”

This does not mean we are not supposed to commune with the Lord, but our communion is not restricted to worship, praise or prayer. We commune with him by actively leaning on his written and revealed Word, and our communion with him also includes trusting him.

The Holy Spirit “speaks” mostly by leading us to pertinent scripture passages, showing us God’s mind on any matter, and telling us what steps to take. Why should he speak with an inner voice when we will not “hear” his revealed, written voice?

God does not have to tell us everything or reveal all his plans to us. We can have intimacy with God simply by giving up our efforts to figure out his voice. This kind of intimacy says, “Lord, even if I never hear another word from you, I know you still provide everything I need. You love me, your Word is for me, and I am going to rest in that.”

David is an example of this kind of trust. As this godly man lay on his deathbed, he said, “Although my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure…” (2 Samuel 23:5, NKJV). In other words, David had not yet seen the fulfillment of all God’s words, yet he was given a promise that his house would not fall.

David did not have a prophet telling him these things, nor did he have a dream, vision, or inner voice speaking to him. Instead, as he faced eternity, he said, “God gave me a covenant promise in his Word, and I’ll go into eternity standing on that promise.” David continued on in the same verse: “For this is all my salvation and all my desire” (2 Samuel 23:5). In essence, he was saying, “I can face death now because his promise is all I need.”

We may fail in our discernment, hearing, and decisions; but we can rejoice in our God, who is our strength. We must simply yield, stand still and see his salvation

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