Daily Reading: (2 Corinthians 1:20):
“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.”
In this verse we discover that we can’t receive any spiritual promise apart from or outside of Jesus. If we aren’t receiving a promise God made it isn’t that God isn’t sending it, our faithfulness to God is an Old Covenant problem that is solved by the New Covenant. So, if we aren’t receiving from God what God wants to give us, it doesn’t mean we are no longer in Christ, what it means that we need to get to the amen part of the verse in order to receive it. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God”
Amen is a declaration of our faith. The word “Amen” comes from the Hebrew word for faith. When we say, “Amen,” we are saying, “I agree, Lord. Be it unto me as it is in Your Word!”
When we believe for something that we don’t appear to have that God has promised to give, it says I trust in God’s faithfulness and it brings God glory. Amen means we take ownership of the promise God has made to us. Only you can “Amen” to what God’s Word says about you and your life. I can’t do it for you. Your grandparents or your parents or your friends can encourage you in it but only you can speak “Amen”.
Have confidence in God’s faithfulness to you. If He gave His only Son so that you might have life, will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things, especially those things He has promised to us?
One of the most common questions that I see in the Christian community is: “Why do some people experience their breakthrough but I don’t?” It all comes down to right believing. The word “repentance” is the Greek word “metanoia,” which means “change of mind.” We repent by looking to Jesus and believing that all His promises are for us to claim.
If you belong to Christ by faith, then everything God could possibly give you for your good, He has signed over to your account in Christ. Is this promise in my account? Yes! “Every sinner who comes to God in Christ, with all his needs, finds God coming to him in Christ, with all his promises.” -John Piper[1]
Prayer is drawing on the account where God has deposited all His promises. Prayer is not hoping in the dark that there might be a God who could possibly provide us what we need, He already has and He will continue to do so in Jesus. Prayer goes to your spiritual bank account and draws on those promises. Amen spoken at the end of our prayer to God is affirming that God is faithful to deliver on His promises.
[1]John Piper. https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/all-the-promises-of-god-are-yes-in-christ. December 31, 1989.
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