Promises of God

And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, 

Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; 

The LORD is with you,

while ye be with him; and if ye seek him,

he will be found of you;

but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. 

Do we just take the "encouraging" verses, and take those as promises of God without considering the conditions of the promise.  THE LORD IS WITH YOU-what an amazing promise of the Lord! The reality of, I will be with you!!  Who am I that You would be with us, Lord!?  But there is a condition, WHILE YE BE WITH HIM, IF YE SEEK HIM.  We must be abiding in Him, we must be seeking Him, if we are not He will not be with us.  If we forsake Him He will forsake us.  If we deny Him He will deny us.  He will not be mocked.  He is God.  But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.  But there is the promise of Him confessing us before His Father, IF we confess Him before men.  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.  The Father will love you and come unto you and make His abode with you IF IF IF you love Him, and how will He know if you love Him?  You will keep His words.  For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.   He knows we are in the love of God IF we keep His commandments, and those commandments, His commands to us, just as He commanded people throughout the Gospels, will not be grievous if the Spirit of God is in us.  If His Spirit is not in us they will be grievous, difficult and burdensome.  And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.  So what happens if we abide in Him?  We will have confidence when He appears.  If we do not abide in Him, we will be ashamed at His coming. There is a promise, we will have confidence when he shall appear!  But the condition is that we abide in Him.  If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.  We shall ask Him anything we will, and it will be done for us!  What a precious promise!  But this promise is only given to us if we abide in Him and in His Words!!  How much He desires, exhorts and warns us to abide in Him, following His commandments, know Him. 

Matthew 10:33 John 14:23,  1 John 5:3,  1 John 2:28, John 15:6, John 15:7, 2 Chronicles 15:2