Through our Heavenly Father, we have access to vast resources. We have been given everything that we may experience a glorious spiritual life and live that life in godliness (2 Peter 1:3); a life like our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ. This divine life comes through the promises of God. “For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust” (2 Peter 1:4).

God’s promises are like a check; the word promise in the Greek literally means, “To summons upon.” A check is a summons upon a bank account on this earth. God’s promise summons upon the bank account of Heaven (Eph. 1:3; Phil. 4:19) that was filled through the deposit of Jesus Christ. But, like every check, it has to be endorsed. The way we endorse the checks of God’s promises is with the principle of confession (Literally; “To speak the same thing”) or speaking “the amen” (Romans 10:9-10; 2 Corinthians 1:20). If a check is not endorsed it cannot be cashed. If we do not endorse the promises of God, the resources cannot be released into our lives (Matthew 12:37). An unconfessed promise is an uncashed promise. An uncashed promise means there is an unmet need.

I heard the story of an illiterate, yet faithful maid, who spent her entire working life in the service of a rich, unmarried woman. Serving as a maid to the rich lady was all she knew how to do, so they both grew old together, the maid serving her mistress. As the rich lady lay on her deathbed she gave the faithful maid a letter as a gift. Being unable to read the letter, the maid framed her treasured gift and hung it on the wall of her very modest cottage.

The rich woman died, and the maid, being uneducated and aged, was unable to find work. Eventually, the maid was discovered in her cottage, having starved to death.

As officials in her village cleaned out the rooms of the cottage, they discovered the letter the rich lady had written to the maid. They were shocked to read that the letter was not a letter at all, but a will. The rich lady had willed her entire estate to the faithful maid.

Being uneducated and unable to read, the maid, who died poor, did not know she was in fact rich. She never claimed the estate of the rich lady, which was hers to claim.

Like the faithful maid, there are many of us who love the Lord but never claim the riches of our inheritance that are found in our place and position “in Christ Jesus”. Hosea 4:6 tells us that God’s people perish because of a lack of knowledge. People die of spiritual starvation because of a lack of knowledge of God’s provisions. My prayer is that all of us will know of the riches that are given to us by our loving Heavenly Father and big Brother and Savior Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:18).

Once we know, we will then speak the amen (Let it be…) to the promises of God.

Next time we’ll talk about how we endorse the check and draw upon the account in Heaven.

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