2 Corinthians 1:20 (NKJV)
For all the promises of God in Him (Christ Jesus) are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
Balaam the prophet in Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfil it?
1 Kings 8:23
O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart…
Psalm 105:8
He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations.
Psalm 119:148
My eyes stay open through the night that I may meditate on your promises.
Romans 4:20-21 (NKJV)
He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
Hebrews 10:23 (NLT)
Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep His promise.
John Calvin Songs of the Nativity “The Promise to the Fathers” on Luke 1:69-74
We are saved only because God chooses to deliver from death those he has elected and adopted as his children, and because he shows himself to be their Saviour. This is an assurance we all need. For just as our experience of God’s mercy leads us to praise and glorify him for his deliverance, so also we learn to rest on his promises and to let nothing shake our resolve.
David Clarkson "Of Living By Faith" adapted in Voices From The Past - Puritan Devotional Readings
2 Peter 1:4 "He has granted to us his precious and very great promises."
By faith you can extract the comfort of a promise from most scriptures. There are innumerable types and implied promises that we can apply. A life of faith lives in the strength of a promise. Faith reasons with God on the basis of his promises with a holy kind of reasoning.
A promise given to another can also be applied specifically to us if there is no special reason for its restriction. Types can be personally applied as promises: manna from heaven as spiritual nourishment by Christ. Temporal promises can be applied to spiritual, and spiritual to temporal. 'If God gives his beloved food, will he let the soul famish? Will he deliver the soul from death, but not provide a few husks of the things of the earth?'
Believers should also not hesitate to claim conditional promises because the condition is poorly met. It may be that grace has not broken into an outward flame, but it is smouldering. You may not have grown to the height of a cedar, but Christ delights in bruised reeds. This should not discourage you from applying the promises. He offers conditions at a low rate. Believing is more acceptable to God and gives a clearer title to the promise than the condition attached to it. Meeting the conditions cannot obtain the promise without faith. If you bring faith to a promise you bring that which is more pleasing to God. An claiming one promise gives you an interest in all.
The first act of faith gives you an interest in Christ, and all who have Christ, have all. He that believes has a right to all the promises, and may confidently apply them all. God had you in mind when he made the promise. What a sweet encouragement is this! Act and live by faith, and consider that you were in the thoughts and eyes of God when he promised.
God's saying, is doing. His promises are one with his performance of them. He is just as willing to perform as to promise. There is no distance between his saying and doing, as among men. This consideration removes at once the chief discouragement of faith. Is it not this that weakens our confidence in God's promises? Do we not view the fulfilment of God's promises as uncertain and difficult, or future and afar off? If we consider the fulfilment as sure as the promise, faith can conclude that the performances of God's promises are certain, easy, and present. The root of all certainty is God's will. If he is willing to promise, he is willing to perform. They are the same to him.
Believers have an unquestionable title to all things promised. They are bequeathed to believers by the eternal will of the Father, and purchased by the precious blood of Christ. The whole glorious essence of God is engaged for the performance of every promise. He would cease to be God if he failed to perform any promise. For he ceases to be God when he ceases to be most perfect. If he does not perform his promises, this divests him of all perfection. If he does not perform his promises it is either that he will not, or cannot. He would lack either in power, or wisdom. If he never intended to perform, then how is he upright? If he intended, but now has changed his mind, how is he unchangeable? If he is not unchangeable, he is not eternal.
As sure as he is God he will perform his promises. You may well say there is no God as to doubt his performance. The glory of his being is concerned. He loses nothing if he performs, and all, if he does not. He engages himself when he engages his word. Men can be men, though unfaithful, but God cannot be but God; he cannot deny himself.
Gather the promises and meditate on them. Fill your memories with them. Meditation squeezes the sweetness out of them and helps us to unite our faith to them for encouragement.
Richard Sibbes The Soul's Conflict With Itself
Faith looks not only to promises, but to directions to duty, and breeds in the soul a liking of whatsoever pleaseth God.
William Gurnall The Christian in Complete Armour
A man can as well live without air, as faith and hope without a promise. Therefore, be much in meditation of them.
Can we yet walk over the promises as barren ground, when, with a little digging into them, we might find a treasure to pay all our debts and supply all our wants?
A.B. Simpson
God has given us a precious promise for the days: "As thy days, so shall thy strength be" (Deuteronomy 33:25) Day by day the manna fell; so day by day we may live upon the heavenly bread and live out our lives for God. Let us, breath by breath, moment by moment, step by step, abide in Him. As we take care of the days, He will take care of the years.
A.W. Tozer Jesus, Our Man In Glory
I have come to believe that all the promises of God have been made to assure us weak and changeable humans of God’s never-ending good will and concern. What God is today He will be tomorrow. And all that God does will always be in accord with all that God is!
A promise—any promises—is nothing in and of itself. The value of the promise depends on the character of the one who makes it.
Precious Bible Promises or Clarke's Scripture Promises
http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Promises/Clarkes_Bible_Promises.html