The Time of the Promise Genesis 17: 1

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( And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.)  ( And when Abram was ninety years old and nine,.....)

1.God holds the promise in His hand.

2.God holds the time of the promise in His hand.

3.God sustains the life of the one beholding the promise.

4.Faith is the bridge that crosses the time span of when God reveals and when God manifests what He promised.

5.Time marches on, but is not a threat to God.

6.Time does not change the security of God's servant nor alter God's caring hand.

7.God's fulfilment will come, God has promised it.