One of the most life changing truths that I've learned over the last few years is the fact that the promises of God are not dependant upon my performance, but upon my believing. Rom 4 :13-14 reads "For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified...".
To be blatantly honest, I need God. I have issues and circumstances in which I need God's intervention and blessing. Before the understanding that the promises aren't based on Law(my ability to be good enough to deserve blessing), but upon God's grace(his undeserved blessing and favor strictly because he's good) I could never maintain any faith that God was going to come through because my performance inevitably failed. So I figured "I've messed up once again, God's mad, and now why would God ever bless me in this situation?". My faith and hope continually faltered, and with them my attitude and demeanor. I was frustrated and rarely saw breakthrough. Like we just read trying to get the promises by earning them actually nullifies them.
2 Cor 3:20 "For as many as may be the promises of God, in him(Christ) they are yes; wherefore also by him is our Amen to the glory of God through us." When I realized that when I got saved I was put into Christ(Rom 6:3-8), made completely right with God once and for all(Heb 10:10-14), and became a coheir with him(Rom 8:16-17), my faith finally had a firm foundation to stand on. All I had to do was believe and say "Amen"(So be it). I couldn't believe God for anything when I thought he was relating to me based on my ever shifting righteousness, but now I can stand firm in faith in the midst of trial and need knowing I'm the righteousness of Christ(1Cor 5:21), blessed with everything I need(Eph 1), and God is for me(Rom 8:31). There came a stability and a peace that I never imagined when I learned the promises are mine and when I fall they're still coming. God gave them because he is good and secured them for me by making them based on Christ's performance not mine(Col1:12).
