Giving Birth To Your Promise Apostle Emelio Sebastian 2026 01 04

Jan 4, 2026    Emelio Sebastian, Pastor Emelio Sebastian

This powerful message confronts one of the most challenging spaces in our faith journey: the waiting room between promise and fulfillment. We explore the profound truth that receiving a promise from God is just the beginning of a gestation period, much like a pregnancy that requires nine months before birth. The central teaching draws from multiple scriptures, particularly Psalm 27:13-14, which reminds us that we would quit except for one thing—believing we will see God's goodness in the land of the living. The repeated command to 'wait on the Lord and be encouraged' becomes our anchor. We discover that promises are never for now but always for a future time, and our role isn't to figure out how God will manifest them but simply to believe, thank Him, and speak them into existence. The message confronts the reality of hope deferred making our hearts sick, of days turning to weeks, weeks to months, and months to years while we wait. Yet we learn that we're connected to God's promises by a thread—an umbilical cord that continues to nourish the dream even when we feel we're barely holding on. The profound truth from 1 Kings 8:56 declares that not one word of God's promises has ever failed, and when we understand that God's promise is literally a 'summons to appear,' we realize it's only a matter of when, not if.