Today's Pressure, Yesterday’s Promises

Stephan Kirby - Ekklesia
Nov 11, 2025
2 min read

Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion.” — Philippians 1:6 NLT

Don’t let today’s pressure make you forget yesterday’s promises.

If God brought you this far, He didn’t bring you here to quit—He brought you here to qualify you. Every delay, every detour, every disappointment is part of the design.

Keep your faith steady and your praise loud. The same God who opened the door before will open it again—this time wider, this time stronger, this time better.

1. Shift Your Response:

Stop reacting to setbacks as rejection — start seeing them as redirection. God’s “no” often means “not yet.”

2. Guard Your Language:

Speak faith even when you feel fear. Your words create the world you walk in. Say what God said, not what doubt whispers.

3. Stay in Position:

Don’t move from where God planted you just because it’s uncomfortable. The seed doesn’t grow by running from the soil — it grows by staying buried until it’s time to bloom.

Declaration:

I’m walking by faith, not fear. I’m built for this. God’s hand is still on my life!

Heavenly Father,

today I surrender what I can’t control into the hands of the One who controls it all.

When my strength runs out, remind me that Your grace never does.

When doors close, teach me to trust that You’re preparing something greater behind the scenes.

Lord, I release the weight of worry, the burden of timing,

and the fear of not knowing what’s next.

I choose to rest in the truth that You are still working —

even in silence, even in delay, even in the dark.

Breathe fresh faith into my spirit, God.

Turn my pressure into purpose and my waiting into worship.