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To the Jews, Israel is the Promised Land (although you have to wonder about a Promiser who omits mention of six decades of hostility, terrorism, and tsurris).
Ellis Weiner: A Daring Solution to the Middle East Dilemma 2008
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But they who deny that sacraments are supports to faith, or that they aid the word in strengthening faith, must of necessity expunge the name of covenant; because, either God there offers himself as a Promiser, in mockery and falsely, or else, faith there finds that on which it may support itself, and from which it may confirm its own assurance.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Answers to prayer, however, do not depend upon our feelings, but upon the trustworthiness of the Promiser.
The Kneeling Christian Unknown Christian 1971
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But the Promiser, who is behind His promises, and is infinitely more than His promises, can never fail nor change.
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This Judge is the Lord, to Whom all things are possible, the Promiser of eternal blessings, Judge of righteous and of wicked.
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But that, for us, cannot be; we, in His mercy, relying upon the faithful Promiser, attain
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These "elders" were men called to live, in an eminent and most trying degree, not by sight but by faith, by mere reliance upon a Promiser.
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We must lay our hearts soft and open (iv. 7) before the will of the Promiser.
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He first satisfied himself that he was in the way of duty; then he fixed his mind upon the unchanging word of promise; then, in the boldness of a suppliant who comes to a throne of grace in the name of Jesus Christ and pleads the assurance of the immutable Promiser, he presented every petition.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874
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Provider and the faithfulness of the Great Promiser.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874
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