Thank you, Mark, for leading us again. Appreciate that, and Narda for playing. Good morning to everyone. Good to see you all here this morning, and welcome. If you're visiting, good to have you here.

We studied Joshua 10. We're working through the book of Joshua. And if you're not familiar with our church, we work through the books, verse by verse, book by book. And we've been in Joshua for some time. We're now up to chapter 10. Last week, we kind of dug into that a little bit and talked about God's grace upon grace and how He worked for their good, even the mistake of making the covenant there, and was able to bring victory to Israel. 

Now we're going to see a long string of victories in chapter 10 and 11, culminating in 11:23, where it says, "Joshua took the whole land according to all that the Lord had said to Moses, and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war." So we're looking at about seven years of war with Joshua here, a lot of conquering, a lot of death, driving out the inhabitants of the land according to what God had promised through Moses. 

So, we're continuing our study of this book, but I wanted to really just draw out an application from chapter 10 this week. Not so much an exegesis of the text and all these accounts of the battles with the kings, but to draw out an application for us. We're looking at chapter 10 and into chapter 11 as well. 

In these chapters, we see God delivering the land to Israel, making good on His word, keeping His promise concerning the driving out of these inhabitants and fulfilling His promise of the land. We've seen several battles already. In these chapters, we really get a feel for the vastness of the land that Joshua was conquering, with many nations and cities and people numbering as the sands of the sea, it says. God is on the move with Israel now. By the end of chapter 11, at verse 23, we see that the wartime has ended. Joshua has conquered the inhabitants of the land and utterly destroyed them, not leaving one breathing, it says. They have taken the cities and the goods, the livestock and the treasures as booty for themselves, as the Lord commanded. 

Now Joshua will divide the land, and they will settle into their inheritance. What I want to draw out for application for us this morning is the truth that God keeps His promises. Because that's really what these chapters are about—God keeps His promises. I wanted to start by asking you this morning, as we begin, who here, and we don't normally do this kind of thing, but who here, raise your hand, who here has eternal life? 

Who here has the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit living in you? Who has peace and joy because of Jesus? Who has grace sufficient for today and every day and has been given all things that pertain to life and godliness? Who here has the hope, the assurance that Jesus is coming back to catch us up to be with Him in heaven forever? 

My brothers and sisters, if you have believed Jesus, if you have turned from your own works, your own righteousness, your religion, your rites and rituals, and to Jesus alone and His one-time death on the cross as your only provision for salvation, if you've placed your faith in Him alone and His work alone, then all these things are true of you. All these things are true for you. 

But let me ask you this important question. How do you know? How do you know that you have all these promises, blessings, assurances? How do you know? There’s really only one answer to this question, and it’s the word of God. A word from the Lord, promises written in this book, the only book that God ever wrote and preserved for us to this day. 

The only way we know any of this is because God has chosen to reveal these things to us through the written word of God. Now I have experiences, I have feelings and emotions and connection with my life in Christ, with the Holy Spirit working it in through me for His glory. The Lord affirms to me through circumstances, sometimes opportunities, even a sunrise or a sunset, that He’s there with me. 

I see now all things are of God as I'm a new creation in Christ. But how do I know if those feelings and experiences are true? I can only really know by the word of God. I only know about Jesus by the written word. I only know who He is and what He is like and how He has manifested the Father, only by the word of God. Otherwise, I would not know anything. I would have no assurance. I would have no truth, no knowledge to hang my hat on. 

So my entire faith boils down to this: God has made me promises in His word. If I believe Jesus, those promises are mine. If I reject Jesus, then I am condemned already because I have not believed on the only begotten, the name of the only begotten Son of God. But if I know Him, all of these promises are mine. This I know because God has revealed it to me through His word and because I know God is a God who keeps His word, who keeps His promises. 

This is the essence of chapters 10 and 11 and most of the chapters that follow in the book of Joshua. Be strong, be of good courage. We're going to see this theme, this admonition in the book of Joshua again today. Why? Why can I be strong and of good courage in a world such as this, in the things that we are surely facing in these end times as Satan comes to power and his man’s going to rule on this earth? 

Because I have the promises of God given to me in His word, and He cannot lie. What else do I have in this world? What else can I truly, absolutely trust? The media? The government? The good nature of my fellow man? How the stars align or the tea leaves settle out? Can I trust the artificial intelligence they now want to hook physically into my brain to transport me to an alternate universe so that I can live out my hopes and dreams there and be the captain of the starship Enterprise? I mean, it gets more and more strange every day. What do I have in this world but the word of God, the promise of God, the person of Jesus Christ, who He is, what He has done, and the promises He made to me if I will believe Him and trust Him? 

So it’s a most vital truth for me and for you, my brother, my sister in Christ, that God keeps His promises. And that's what I want to look at, not only in our text in Joshua 10 and 11, but in the whole of the scriptures in redemptive history as God works out His plan and purpose to bring His promises to pass.

Let's look at our text again together, and I just want to read this for the benefit of those watching on the internet and are recording. Joshua 10, 16, but these five kings had fled and hidden themselves in a cave at Makeda. It was told Joshua saying, "The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makeda." So Joshua said, "Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard them. And do not stay there yourselves, but pursue your enemies and attack their rear guard. Do not allow them to enter their cities for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand." 

Then it happened while Joshua and the children of Israel made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter till they had finished, that those who escaped entered fortified cities. All the people returned to the camp, to Joshua at Makeda in peace. No one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave and bring out those five kings to me from the cave." 

They did so and brought out those five kings to him from the cave, the King of Jerusalem, the King of Hebron, the King of Jarmuth, the King of Lachish, and the King of Eglon. So it was when they brought out those kings to Joshua that Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, "Come near, put your feet on the neck of these kings." They drew near and put their feet on their necks. 

Then Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage for thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight." Afterward, Joshua struck them and killed them and hanged them on five trees; they were hanging on the trees until evening. So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave's mouth which remained until this very day. 

On that day, Joshua took Makeda and struck it with its king and with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, all the people who were in it. He let none remain. He also did to the King of Makeda as he had done to the King of Jericho. Then Joshua passed from Makeda and all Israel with him to Libna and they fought against Libna, and the Lord also delivered it and its king into the hand of Israel. He struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword. He let none remain in it but did to its king as he had done to the King of Jericho.

Then Joshua passed from Libna and all Israel with him to Lachish, and they encamped against it and fought against it. And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel who took it on the second day and struck it and all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword according to all that he had done to Libna. Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he left him none remaining. 

From Lachish, Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him encamped against it and fought against it. They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword; all the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day according to all that he had done to Lachish. So Joshua went up from Eglon and all Israel with him to Hebron, and they fought against it. They took it and struck it with the edge of the sword, its king, all its cities, and all the people who were in it. He left none remaining according to all that he had done to Eglon but utterly destroyed it and all the people who were in it. 

Then Joshua returned and all Israel with him to Debir and they fought against it and he took it and its king and all its cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining as he had done to Hebron, so he did in Debir and its king as he had also done to Libna and its king. 

So Joshua conquered all the land, the mountain country and the south and the lowland and the wilderness slopes and all their kings. He left none remaining but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded. Joshua conquered them from Kadesh Barnea as far as Gaza and all the country of Goshen even as far as Gibeon. All these kings in their land Joshua took at one time because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel. Then Joshua returned and all Israel with him to the camp at Gilgal.

Then I want you to look at Joshua 11 verse 23. The end of the chapter says, "So Joshua took the whole land according to all that the Lord had said to Moses, and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war."

I've given you five points on your outline this morning. First, the promise of the land. Second, the promises to Israel. Third, the promise of Christ. Fourth, the promise of the Holy Spirit. And fifth, the promise of eternal life. 

Well first, we see in our text this morning God delivering on His promise to give Israel the land. I'd like to just lift out four verses from these two chapters to highlight as we study. Verse 21 of chapter 10 says, "And all the people returned to the camp at Joshua to Joshua of Makeda in peace. No one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel." God gave them tremendous victory, and no one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 

Verse 25 of chapter 10, "Then Joshua said to them, 'Do not be afraid nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage for thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.'" We see this great admonition again here in the book of Joshua: Do not be afraid, be strong, and of good courage for the Lord will win the battles. 

In verse 42 of chapter 10, "All these kings and their land Joshua took at one time because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel." This is the key. This is really the message of this book. We see the near consummation of God's plan in chapter 11. Joshua took the whole land according to all that the Lord had said to Moses, and the land rested from war. 

Well, it has been quite a lengthy battle conquering many kings and cities and slaying multitudes of people. Now they would enter the rest of the land, divide it up, and inhabit it as God intended. God kept His promise and He brought all this to pass by His power. That's been evident throughout the book. That's the lesson for Israel, for Joshua, for us that God has to win the battle. 

But I want to take you back to Hebrews 3 to see that this was not the final rest that God has promised. We will see that it was not the final fulfillment of the promise of the land either. 

Hebrews 3, verse 7, please. Chapters 3 and 4. You remember when we started the book of Joshua, we looked at this and it's important for our understanding from the New Testament. Hebrews 3:7, "Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: 'Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, and the day of trial in the wilderness where your fathers tested Me, tried Me and saw My works 40 years.'" 

"Therefore, I was angry with that generation and said, 'They always go astray in their heart and they have not known My ways.' So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'" So he's talking about going into the land. That generation would not enter into the rest of the land. That’s what we’re studying in the book of Joshua now. 

Verse 12, "Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily while it is called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end." 

While it is said, "Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." For who having heard rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry 40 years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 

To whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. That’s an important lesson. We've looked at that several times, but they couldn't enter in because of unbelief, and it was by faith that they crossed the Jordan and entered in, and God accomplished all these things. 

Stay here; we'll go to chapter 4. So here we see the author of Hebrews use the land as a picture of the rest of God in Christ. Jesus is our rest. For those of us who have believed, we have entered that rest. That's what he says in chapter 4. Look at verse 1: "Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed, the gospel was preached to us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them. Why? Because it was not mixed with faith." 

They heard the gospel; the gospel was preached to them, but they didn't believe, they didn't receive it, they didn’t take it for themselves, so there was no profit. For we who have believed, he says, verse 3, "do enter that rest, as He has said, so I swore in My wrath they shall not enter My rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world." 

For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way, "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works." Again in this place, "They shall not enter My rest." Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, again, He designates a certain day, saying in David, "Today," after such a long time as it has been said, "Today if you will hear His voice. Do not harden your hearts." 

"For if Joshua had given them rest," or final rest, "then he would not afterward have spoken of another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God, for he who has entered his rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His." Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

We’ve noted in our studies in Joshua before that at this time, even in the great victories we have seen and been studying, Israel only possessed a portion of the land that God promised. Even later, under Solomon and David, they don’t possess all the land that was promised. 

In Genesis 12, we see the land as part of the promises made to Abraham, and we know that this promise is yet to be fulfilled in Israel of all the land that God promised to give them. Yet, there is a more significant promise of rest than the rest of the land. It’s a spiritual rest—victory over sin and Satan and unbelief through faith in Jesus Christ. 

Jesus is our rest. We see in chapter 4 of Hebrews, the author made clear that Joshua did not give the final rest. There still remains a promise of rest, of another day, and we see that fulfillment in Jesus Christ. 

God kept His promise to Israel, to Joshua, to Moses when Israel entered the land of Canaan and took it. As God fought for Israel and drove out the inhabitants before them, He kept His promise, and we see that here in Joshua 10 and 11 and the following chapters. The application for us is found throughout the Scriptures—that is, God keeps His promises. 

That’s what we see in Hebrews 3 and 4. God keeps His promises, and next we see that God has made unconditional promises to Israel. Let’s turn to that passage in Genesis 12, please. Genesis 12:1, "Now the Lord had said to Abram, 'Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'"

In Joshua 10, it says after these great battles, "No one moved their tongue against Israel." What a graphic phrase! It reminds me of God's promise here in verse 3 of Genesis 12: "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you." 

In Zechariah 2:8, it says, "For thus says the Lord of hosts, 'He sent me after glory to the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.'" Three times in the Old Testament, God uses this phrase to refer to His people, Israel—the apple of His eye. The phrase refers to the sensitive part of the eye; literally, it means the little man in the eye, as if I looked into your eye and I saw the reflection—the little man. 

What God is saying is, if you touch Israel, you stick your finger right in My eye. There are many in the church today that say that God is done with the nation of Israel, that the church has replaced Israel and received her blessings. Interestingly, they never accept her curses. 

If God does not keep His unconditional promises to Israel as laid out in Genesis 12 and subsequent scriptures—tons of scriptures—let me ask you this question. How can you expect Him to keep His promises to you in Christ? This is an important matter. God keeps His promises, and what we see in the scriptures is that God fully intends to keep His promises to His people, the nation He chose, Israel, and He makes that abundantly clear. 

Over and over and over again in Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, the Lord says, "I will remember the land; I will remember My covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." Leviticus 26:42, "I will remember My covenant with Jacob, My covenant with Isaac, My covenant with Abraham; I will remember, I will remember the land," the Lord says. 

In 2 Kings 13:23, there's an interesting verse that says, "But the Lord was gracious to them, had compassion on them, and regarded them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence." 

Perhaps the clearest, most amazing passage is in Jeremiah 31. Turn over to Jeremiah 31 with me, at verse 31. I just want to show through redemptive history how it is that God keeps His promises so that we know that we can trust Him when we put our faith in the promise of Christ. 

Jeremiah 31:31, "Behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, with the house of Judah." Now if you look at Hebrews 8, the author of Hebrews applies this to us in the new covenant. But he says that God makes a new covenant with who? With the house of Israel and the house of Judah. God never made a covenant with Gentiles. 

What the author of Hebrews is saying in chapter 8 is that we are blessed out of that new covenant. We can look at it as sort of a pre-fulfillment in this age of grace in the time of the church. But ultimately, that covenant will be fulfilled with Israel, with whom it was made. 

Verse 32, "Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them," says the Lord. 

"But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the Lord. "I will put My law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God and they shall be My people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they all shall know Me from the least of them to the greatest of them," says the Lord. "For I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more." What a promise!

"Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea and its waves roar, the Lord of hosts is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me," says the Lord, "then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever. Thus says the Lord, 'If heaven above can be measured and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,' says the Lord." 

Such an important phrase there at the end. For all that they have done, says the Lord. Isn’t that the argument of the replacement theologian today? Israel is cast off as a nation because of all that they have done, because of their constant rebellion, because they rejected their Messiah. But this is a faulty understanding of the promises because the promise did not say, "If you do this, then I will do that." The promise says, "I will, I will, I will." 

It’s an unconditional covenant that God made with Israel to give them a nation, to give them a land, and to bless all nations through them. We see clearly in the New Testament this truth as Paul lays it out in Galatians 3 and Romans 9 to 11. Jesus is the seed of promise through which God has blessed all of the nations by grace through faith. 

In Romans 9 to 11, Paul deals explicitly with the nation of Israel in the context of the gospel of Jesus Christ, now given by grace to the Gentiles where Jew and Gentile are one. Think about that. What is the book of Romans? It's an expanded explanation of the gospel. Romans 1:18 to 3:21—the condemnation of all men. Romans 3:21 through chapter 5—justification by grace through faith. Romans 5, 6, 7, and 8—talking about sanctification, the reason why we can live a new life. He lays out the gospel. 

In 9 to 11, the question comes: what about the promises made to Israel? Paul’s imploring them, begging them to place their faith in the promise of God in Christ. The response of the Jew has to be: what about the promises made to Israel? If God’s not going to keep His promises made to Israel, then how can I trust Him to keep His promise made to me in Christ? 

Paul asks the question directly in Romans 11:1 and Romans 11:11: has God cast away His people for all that they have done? Have they stumbled to a point where they cannot get back up? We see all the way through 9, 10, and 11 he’s talking about the nation of Israel—my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh. They have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 

He’s contrasting them with the church all the way through that passage. Have they fallen to where they can’t get up? Has God cast away His people? And Paul’s answer: no, no, no, no, no! May it never be; God forbid, the strongest negative in the Greek. God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. There’s a remnant of Jews today, chapter 10. 

The promises God made to Israel will be fulfilled when the Savior comes and they look on the one whom they pierced, and in Romans 11 it says, "And all Israel will be saved." 

Why does this matter, my friends? Why does it matter? Because it matters that God keeps His promises. It matters that God keeps His Word. His Word is all that we have, and if God does not keep His promises, then we have no hope. But He does keep His promises to Israel concerning the land, as we see in Joshua 10 and 11, fully and finally to Israel as we see in the New Covenant and the end times where God will deliver Israel and give them their full inheritance. 

I have more good news, my friends: God will keep His promises to us in Christ. We see the promise of Christ fulfilled in Galatians 3. Turn to Galatians 3 with me at verse 13, please. 

Galatians 3:13, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.'" In order that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 

"Brethren, I speak in the manner of men, though it is only a man's covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He does not say, 'And to seeds' as of many, but as of one and to your seed, who is Christ." 

Paul says, "In this I say that the law, which was 430 years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ that it should make the promise of no effect. For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise, but God gave it to Abraham by promise." 

The fulfillment of the promise of blessings to all nations came in the seed of Abraham, who is Christ, by promise, by God's grace, through faith. We have experienced that blessing. In John 3:16 it says, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already." 

Why? Because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. God brought the fulfillment of the promise of a blessing to all nations through Christ. Salvation is by grace through faith alone in Jesus alone. It is by promise, not by law; God gave it by promise. 

Just as it was promised in Ezekiel 36, just as Jesus promised in John 16, when we believe Jesus in this new covenant time, we receive the Holy Spirit. The Helper, the Comforter, comes to us to guide us into all truth, to seal us, to show us Jesus. Not only that, but Father, Son, and Holy Spirit come to make their home in us. We are placed into Christ; we are united to Him in His death, burial, and resurrection. 

We have eternal life; we have been born again to new life, raised with Christ to walk in newness of life. We have died to sin; we've died to the law; we've been freed from the bondage of fear of death. How do we know? Because I get a liver shiver? Because I have a feeling? No, because God said so in His Word. These are His promises to us if we believe Jesus. 

I don't always feel dead to sin. I don't always sense the life of Christ in me. Think about the promise of the rapture. But these things are true. Why? Because God says they're true.

We have the promise of Christ fulfilled just as God told us all the way back in Genesis. We have the promise of the Holy Spirit just as God promised all the way back in Ezekiel 36 and Jesus affirmed in the Gospel of John and Paul talked about in Ephesians and 1 Corinthians. 

Fulfilled in us in this new covenant time by faith. We have the promise of eternal life. Jesus said, "Those who hear My words and believe in Me have passed from death unto life." We no longer come under condemnation. 1 John 5:13, "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have, present tense, eternal life." 

The promises go on and on and on. My brothers and sisters in Christ, this is the message of our text in Joshua 10, 11. There are a lot of details here about the final battles and conquering of the kings, and we talked about that some last week and how God was doing that. But the real story here, the real application truth is this: God keeps His promises. 

God keeps His promises. He works through His people, through our bumblings and stumblings as well as our faithfulness and obedience. He works all things together for our good according to His purpose. All things are not good. It’s not good when I don’t obey Him; it’s not good when I go my own way, as we see Israel do. But God works all things together for our good in order to accomplish His purpose. 

What assurance we have in Him. This is what I want you to take away this morning. I mean, we can go lots of ways in Joshua 10 and 11, right? That’s why I like teaching on Paul, because it's A plus B equals C and I'm constrained by the words. But I think this is a good application for us to see in Joshua 10 and 11: God keeps His promises, and we have assurance in Him. 

He’s our Abba Father. He loves us. He always does what is best for us. He’s working to bring His promise to pass, to conform us to the likeness of Christ, to use us as His witnesses in this world to bring men to Christ, to bring to consummation all things in Christ, and we will be with Him. 

So I just want you to think about this this week—what a hope, what a joy we can have each day in the One who keeps His promises. Let’s close in prayer. 

Father, we’re so thankful for Your Word, Your truth in this example, this historical example in Israel as You keep this long-anticipated promise of entering the land and taking the land, dividing it up, and the land resting from this time of war. Now they can settle into their inheritance and enjoy the fruits of the land that You prepared for them. 

Father, we thank You most of all for the rest we have in Jesus—the peace, the joy, the assurance, the confidence. Thank You, Lord, that we know the Lord in these times, in this world, that we know Jesus. If we know Jesus, we know You, and we can come boldly to You to the throne of grace to find help in time of need. 

Help us to be in constant prayer, conversation with You, to be in Your Word, to know Your will and to believe You and trust You as You work out all the details of life to accomplish Your will and purpose. Thank You that You keep Your promises. In Jesus’ name.