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The Promise Process

by Fred Alcain on August 22, 2025

SCRIPTURE:

““Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.””
Jeremiah 29:5-7

  

OBSERVATION:

How would I handle captivity?  How would I respond to exile?

Whine and wallow in my sorrows sounds about right.  But the Word of the Lord calls me to do otherwise.  Before reminding me of the PROMISE, He calls me to SEEK PEACE AND PROSPERITY in the city of my exile.  Yes, the surroundings aren’t familiar, the situations are foreign, but if I seek prosperity in the city I’m in God promises that I will prosper too. I need to flip my perspective, turn my posture to praise, and see things into a higher state, trusting and knowing that as long as I continue to move forward, i mua,  God will be faithful to fulfill his promise for my prosperity.

APPLICATION:

In order to keep this perspective I need to:

  1. Sit down…Be humble.

    a. Sit down = I don’t always need to share my opinion. 

    b. Be humble = humility is not just shunning attention and the spotlight.  It also means submission to His will not mine.

  2. Trust the Process…His plans will never fail me.  Even when the preferred outcome seems unattainable and out of reach, I need to remember that He parted the seas with a mumbling man and a stick, slayed the giant with a shepherd and a stone and “salvationed” the world with a baby born in manger.
  3. Don’t Worry Be Happy…Psalm 105 reminds me to “let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad.”  My attitude entering the city of exile will be how I’ll exit.  I don’t need to worry because I know how the story ends.  It’s not for my punishment, but my prosperity; now for my frustration and harm but for my future + hope.

PRAYER:

Lord You are good and your promise true.  May I lean on that understanding and not my own, humbling my heart to trust Your process and promise for my good. Amen

About the Author

Fred Alcain

As the Extension Pastor at New Hope Oahu, Fred’s focus is on taking New Hope’s creative arts and musical presentations out into the community as the point of the spear of Evangelism.

On staff at New Hope since 2005, Fred also oversees and shepherds our Worship and Music teams alongside his wife, Jana. With Bachelor of Arts degrees in Music Education and Hawaiian Studies from The University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Professional Degree in Music Performance from the Los Angeles Music Academy, Fred also humbly serves on the Board of Directors at New Hope Christian School and 24/7 Danceforce.

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