When the “I AM” says, “I Will”
A few months ago, I wrote a series on the Nine Names of God that really resonated with me.
There are so many names for God in scripture, but I dug into nine of them that really spoke to my spirit:
The Creator
The I AM
The Father
God Most High
God Who Sees
The Provider
The Healer
Beginning to End
God is There
In one of the posts in that series, I studied God as the “I AM” or “Yahweh.”
He is the I AM because He just is.
Everything, and everyone, was created and is changing from one moment to the next, but the I AM just is.
He isn’t changing or becoming; He just is.
As I studied and wrote through each post, the Holy Spirit kept whispering to me each time I read the words, “I will” in His Word.
He would whisper, “When the I AM says I WILL, you need to listen.”
So I did. I looked closely at His promises and dug into the truths in His Word.
I heard the I AM say, “I will give you rest.” So, I thanked Him for rest and peace.
I heard the I AM say, “I will make a way.” So, I believed Him and thanked Him for making a way where I saw no way out.
When the Great I AM says, “I will,” we need to lean in to see what comes next out of His mouth.
Some of His promises were for specific people at one specific time, but many of them are for us still today! I want to remind you today, just as I need to be reminded, that we have to cling to His promises and speak them over our lives with confidence!
His promises will NEVER fail and our Father always keeps His word.
“Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.”
Joshua 21:45
“For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.”
2 Corinthians 1:20
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.”
Hebrews 10:23
For further study on the promises of God, see:
Genesis 28:15, Exodus 32:13, Deuteronomy 15:6, Deuteronomy 18:2, Joshua 22:4, Joshua 23:14-15, 1 Kings 8:20, 2 Chronicles 6:10, Isaiah 38:7, Acts 2, Acts 13, Romans 4, Romans 15, 2 Corinthians 1:20, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Galatians 3, Titus 1:2, Hebrews 6, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 10:23, Hebrews 11, 2 Peter 1, 1 John 2:25
i will…
I will bless you. (Genesis 12, Exodus 23)
I will be with you. (Exodus 4, Deuteronomy 31)
I will hear you. (Exodus 22)
I will take sickness away from you. (Exodus 23)
I will be your inheritance. (Deuteronomy 18:2)
I will go before you. (Deuteronomy 31)
I will remember and keep my promises with you. (Leviticus 26)
I will fight for you. (Joshua 23:10)
I will give you rest. (1 Kings 8:56, Matthew 11)
I will give you a lamp. (2 Chronicles 21 - pointing to Jesus!, 2 Samuel 22:29, Psalm 119:105, Proverbs 6:23)
I will invite the poor and broken. (Psalm 22)
I will be your guide and your keeper. I will never forget or ignore you. I will never fall asleep or be too busy for you. I will watch over you and stay by your side. I will protect you from danger on every side. I will protect you forever! (Psalm 121)
I will do all that I’ve promised. (Isaiah 38)
I will answer you when you call. I will tell you hidden secrets. I will bring health and healing to my people. I will restore and rebuild where there was destruction. I will cleanse my people. I will forgive all of their sin and rebellion. (Jeremiah 33)
I will give you abundant life. (John 10)
I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. You will live, just as I live. I will send the Helper who will teach you all things and remind you of all of my words. (John 14)
I will happily give you the promise of the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2)
I will supply your every need. (Philippians 4)
I will give you the gift of eternal life. (Romans 6)
I will make you children of the promise. (Romans 9, Galatians 4:28)
I will provide a way out when you are tempted. (1 Corinthians 10)
I will completely forgive all of your sins when you confess them to me. I will cleanse you. (1 John 1)
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a (fairly) exhaustive list…
“i will” statements from Genesis —> Proverbs
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph's hand shall close your eyes.”
and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.
None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.
I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.
I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.
And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.
The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly, from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to you that the Lord will make you a house.
He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”
And the Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.
And he said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’
I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel, and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth. And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly, from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the Lord will build you a house. When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you, but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.’
then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’
Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
I will invite the poor and broken, and they will come and eat until satisfied. Bring Yahweh praise and you will find him. Your hearts will overflow with life forever!
For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it;
You will increase my greatness and comfort me again.
but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.
When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;
Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you.
A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.
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