He Was Faithful Then, He Will Be Faithful Now.

Monday, 13 April 2026Deuteronomy 7:9

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He was faithful then, He will be faithful now.

Scripture

Deuteronomy 7:9·WEB Translation

Know therefore that the Lord your God Himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments.

Devotional

A Wedding Reminds You

This weekend I watched my sister-in-law get married in a church that's been standing since the 1100s. Nearly a thousand years of prayers said within those walls. Generations of people who stood in the same spot and made the same vows. Two people standing before God, making promises they can only keep with His help.

But weddings with toddlers are their own kind of adventure.

My two were constantly running around, having a whale of a time and making loads of noise, then having their lunch and getting food all over their outfits while I tried to do damage control before the photos...

But somewhere in the middle of that beautiful chaos, I managed to see and hear two people making a covenant. A promise to be faithful for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. And it reminded me that God made that same promise to me.

"Know therefore that the Lord your God Himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness to a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments." (Deuteronomy 7:9)

A thousand generations.

He was faithful in that church where prayers have been lifted for nearly a thousand years. He was faithful to the people who walked those corridors before us. He was faithful last year when you weren't sure you'd make it.

He was faithful then. He will be faithful now.

Maybe you're walking into this Monday carrying something heavy. Look back. Not at the hard parts, but at the faithfulness woven through all of it. Every time you thought it was over, He showed up.

The God who keeps covenant to a thousand generations is the same God walking into this week with you. His faithfulness does not expire. It does not depend on how you performed last week.

He was faithful then. He will be faithful now. And He will be faithful tomorrow.

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Prayer

Lord, You were faithful then, You will be faithful now, and looking back at Your track record gives me confidence for what I'm facing today.

Then was different circumstances, different challenges, different season, but the same faithful God who carried me through that is the God I'm trusting with this.

Teach me to let my history with You inform my faith today, to remember specific times You came through and let those memories strengthen my trust now.

Your faithfulness isn't selective or inconsistent, what You were then is what You are now, unchanging in character, constant in love, reliable in every season.

Help me catalog Your past faithfulness when present doubts arise, to build my case for trust on evidence of Your proven track record, not just on hope.

Remind me that every testimony of Your past faithfulness is a promise for my present situation, that the God who was faithful then hasn't changed.

Give me confidence that comes from experience, from having watched You show up before, from knowing that what You've done You'll do again because You're the same yesterday, today, forever.

Let me face today declaring He was faithful then, He will be faithful now, standing on proven ground, trusting tested truth, believing the same God shows up again.

In Jesus' name,

Amen.

Journaling Prompts

Q.When was a specific time God came through for you that you almost forgot about?
Q.How does looking back at God's track record change how you feel about what's ahead?
Q.What covenant promise of God do you need to hold onto today?
Q.If you wrote a list of times God was faithful, what would be the first three things on it?
Q.What are you facing this week that requires you to trust His faithfulness?