The Promises Are Yours

ISAIAH 60:14,15
14 The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.

ISAIAH 61:7
7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

These promises are made to you.

"But I sinned - I'm the one who was in the wrong - I deserve the way I'm being treated - my own wrong-doing contributed to these circumstances that have come upon me," you may say.

That may be true - but the promises are still made to you.

These promises were made to Israel not because they were worthy - they were deserving of judgment - but God promised them mercy in their latter end.

The Gospel is founded on promises that were made not to a nation that had a flawless track-record ever since God brought them up out of Egypt - the Gospel is based on promises that were made to a nation that was about to go into a deserved captivity because they had backslidden. Restoration of a believer who made mistakes even after being saved is therefore already built-in to the very DNA of the promises on which the Gospel which he first heard is based on.

God doesn't promise to bless you because you deserved to be blessed - He promises to bless you despite the fact that you deserved not to be blessed. That's the Gospel! That's the promises of the Prophets!