The misapplication of promises that God has given in Scripture can be very ideologically,

theological, and personally dangerous.

It actually affects people because if they misinterpret a promise, then they misinterpret God's

character.

And it can cause them to be angry at God, when in fact the problem was never God himself.

The problem was misinterpretation.

Hello and welcome back to Verity Podcast. I'm Felicia Masonheimer, your host and the founder

of every woman a theologian. We are in the middle of our beginner believer series. And today,

I'm answering a question that I know so many of us have asked in our Christian faith walk.

What promises of the Bible actually apply to me? We have so many beautiful promises from God

in Scripture. But if you've been a student of the Bible for any span of time, you've probably wondered,

can I rightly apply certain promises I see in the Bible to my life and my faith walk,

or are these relevant only to the people to whom they were spoken?

That's an excellent question because it requires that

we establish a hermeneutical process, which basically is a fancy term for a process for

studying the Bible accurately and rightly. We want to treat the Bible with respect and honor, and most of all, we want to

understand it in the way it was intended to be understood. I don't know about you, but if I wrote a

letter and somebody read it hundreds of years later and gave it an interpretation I didn't intend,

I'd be pretty bummed out about that. And we're talking

about the most important letter ever written, the compilation of historical books that point to the

story of redemption from the creator of the world. And so when we're reading these books of the

Bible, which were given progressively through history, God's revelation

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