Sometimes people say "I Will" and then, due to circumstances or various reasons, fail to follow through on their commitment. But it is so comforting and assuring to know that when Jesus makes a promise, it is sure to be fulfilled!!
In Mark 1:41, we read: "And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth His hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I WILL; be thou clean." God's Word says the leprosy departed from him immediately. God's promise of "I Will" may not always come immediately, but it will come. Don't surrender your faith!
Matthew 4:19 says: "Follow Me, and I WILL make you fishers of men."
Jesus also says in in John 6:37: "Him that cometh to Me I WILL in no wise cast out."
In Matthew 11:28, we find another wonderful promise to all who come to Jesus: "Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I WILL give you rest."
John 14:21 tells us of special love to all who obey the Master. "He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them . . . shall be loved of my Father, and I WILL love him, and will manifest Myself to him."
There is another amazing promise in John 14:13. "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name, that WILL I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son." He went on to emphasize it in the very next verse: ""If ye shall ask anything in My Name, I WILL do it."
And what a blessed hope we have in Jesus' promise to come back again! John 14:3, says: "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I WILL come again, and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there ye may be also."
Probably the most beautiful of all His "I Will" promises is given in His intercessory prayer in the 17th chapter of John where Jesus prays -- "Father, I WILL that they also, whom Thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold My glory."
It makes me want to sing with the songwriter:
"Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all."
"I WILL serve Thee because I love Thee."
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