I preached a two part message on God's Promises recently (you can go to "sermons" and listen).  If you do a word search in the Bible there are over 100 times the word "promise" is used - that would be a long sermon!  So I broke it down to just four main promises God gave us.  I want to share them here so you can understand that for every need, for every trial, for every attack - God has a promise for you!  The text is in 1 Peter:

2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Promise #1.  n Genesis 3 we have the record of the Devil tempting Eve (and Adam), of the entrance of sin into the world and of the consequent fall of man. What happened immediately sin came into the world? At once God intervened – read Genesis 3:8-9. God immediately sought out His disobedient children – to kill them? No – to declare His love for them, and in Genesis 3:15 we read that at once God said, ‘I will do something…I will send a Redeemer who will be “her seed” (KJV) – the seed of the woman.’ The reference, of course, was to God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who would come in the fullness of time to live, die and rise again so that He might be the Saviour of man (Galatians 4:4-5). How wonderful it is that back in the Garden of Eden God should express His love by promising to send the Saviour!
  Promise #2.  There are seven redemptive names God used in the OT to reveal himself, I'll only touch on the one that applies here:

God first revealed Himself as Jehovah-Rapha which can mean “God who heals.” to the Israelites after their exodus from Egypt. After three days of wandering in the Desert of Shur, the Israelites desperately needed water. They discovered a river. However, the waters were unfit to drink so the Israelites named the river  Mahra (bitter).

God divinely cleansed the waters by instructing Moses to throw a piece of wood into the water, thereby making it drinkable. Following this miracle, God declared Himself as Jehovah Rapha to His people by proclaiming, 

“If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you.” (Exodus 15:26)

Through the gospels and the epistles through the ministry of Jesus and then the disciples we see God bringing physical healing.  Healing according to Isaiah 53 is an integral part of the Atonement.  Because we do have sickness, disease, and injury in this present life - thanks be to God for His promise of healing!

[There are two more promises that I will share next time.  Let me encourage you to believe God for His promises, they are exceedingly great and precious!]