{"id":12399,"date":"2025-05-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2025-04-17T05:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:50:50","slug":"your-promise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/your-promise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-Minimalist-Good-Morning-Facebook-Post-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-Minimalist-Good-Morning-Facebook-Post-1.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-Minimalist-Good-Morning-Facebook-Post-1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Brown-Minimalist-Good-Morning-Facebook-Post-1-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Promise, defined as \u201csolemn decree\u201d in the original Hebrew word, \u201cimra,\u201d sums up God\u2019s covenant to us. Every utterance from the Lord comes to fruition, solemn decrees that carry weight. In old times, a person\u2019s word meant something, but unfortunately, in today\u2019s world, not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cLet what you say be simply \u2018Yes\u2019 or \u2018No\u2019\u201d<br>Matthew 5:37<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus, speaking to the masses at the Sermon on the Mount, tells us to give weight to our words as His heavenly Father does. Whatever covenants we make with others, do them. God exemplifies trustworthiness, doing what He says. Reading the Bible from beginning to end, you will discover that the Lord kept His promises repeatedly, and He expects us to keep ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I commit, I try to pray about it. The times I don\u2019t, make me regret my rash words, but either way, I strive to keep my word. When I\u2019m dead and gone, I want people to say, \u201cShe was a woman of her word.\u201d But for people to say it, I must do it, just like the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can\u2019t trust much in this world, but we can trust the Lord. If His people take His commands seriously, we can also trust them, knowing they will strive to keep their word to the best of their ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lord,<br>Thank You for Your trustworthiness. Please help us become people after Your heart, keeping our word, and living up to the promises we make.<br>IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. Promise, defined as \u201csolemn decree\u201d in the original Hebrew word, \u201cimra,\u201d sums up God\u2019s covenant to us. Every utterance from the Lord comes to fruition, solemn decrees that carry weight. In old times, a person\u2019s word meant something, but unfortunately, in today\u2019s world, not so much. \u201cLet what you say be simply \u2018Yes\u2019&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/your-promise-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Promise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12405,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions\/12405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}