Most Christians have been reading the Bible for years, and it seems it has never occurred to them that God has invited them to walk through life on a pathway literally paved with His promises. There are thousands of promises in the Word of God made to the believer, and yet the average Christian has appropriated but one of the promise of salvation in John 3:16.  A certain number have, to be sure, claimed the promise of the baptism in the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13), and others, the promise of divine healing (Mark 16:18), but few Christians have grasped the full nature of their inheritance as joint-heirs with Christ. The Scriptures are filled with divine assurances, rights, privileges, blessings, and promises, given to us, whereby God has made provision for our every spiritual, physical, and temporal need, as well as for the accomplishment of the work He has commissioned His Church to do. All these provisions and blessings are available to the extent that we are willing to press through by faith and appropriate them. Jesus characterizes Satan as a thief who has come to rob you of your abundant life and defeat you through circumstances.