REMEMBER
HIS PAST MERCIES
BREAD
4 Hear,
O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give
you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when
you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when
you get up. 8 Tie
them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes
of your houses and on your gates. 10 When the Lord
your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, to give you--a land with large, flourishing cities you did not
build, 11 houses
filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not
dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant--then when you eat and
are satisfied, 12 be careful
that you do not forget the Lord,
who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Deuteronomy 6:4-12 (NIV)
8 Give
thanks to the Lord, call on his
name; make known among the nations what he has done. 9 Sing to him, sing praise to him;
tell of all his wonderful acts. 10 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who
seek the Lord rejoice. 11 Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face
always. 12 Remember
the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, 13 O descendants of Israel his
servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. 14 He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all
the earth. 1 Chronicles 16:8-14 (NIV)
6 On my
bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. 7 Because you are my help, I
sing in the shadow of your wings. 8 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. Psalms 63:6-8 (NIV)
21 Yet
this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your
faithfulness. 24 I say
to myself, “The Lord is my
portion; therefore I will wait for him.”
Lamentations 3:21-24 (NIV)
11 They
forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them. 12 He did miracles in the sight
of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan… 32 In spite of all this, they
kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. 33 So he ended their days in
futility and their years in terror. Psalms
78:11-12, 32-33 (NIV)
5 For
this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to
goodness, knowledge; 6 and to
knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to
perseverance, godliness; 7 and to
godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if you possess these
qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and
unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But if anyone does not have
them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed
from his past sins. 10 Therefore,
my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For
if you do these things, you will never fall, 11 and you will receive a rich
welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-11 (NIV)
11 I will
remember the deeds of the Lord;
yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. 12 I will meditate on all your
works and consider all your mighty deeds. 13 Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as
our God? Psalms 77:11-13 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Remember
Whose you are and Whom you serve.” Oswald
Chambers
“Sometimes the enemy seems to get an
advantage over us; but the battle is not over yet. At last thou shalt
have the victory, and carry the day for all that. In hard struggles
remember the power of Christ, who, in his resurrection, broke through
everything. With him thou canst also break through, and be more than
conqueror. Yea, in every conflict, if thy faith be firm, thou canst be
sure of victory beforehand; for faith engages Christ’s power, and his power
ensureth victory; it is as impossible for thine enemies to keep thee always in
bonds, as it was impossible that Christ could be kept in the grave by the
stone, seal, and keepers. Nay, the greater their force is, the more
glorious will be the victory of Christ over them.” K. H.
Von Bogatzky
“It is
impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is
omnipotent.” Jeremy Taylor
“God wants us to
reconnect with the powerful and timeless things He has done in the past,
enabling us to build on them rather than always starting over. He not only desires that we be encouraged by
remembering His past faithfulness, but also to realize that the promises and
anointings released during those seasons are still available today.” Dutch
Sheets
“One reason we
don’t grow in ordinary, grateful obedience as we should is that we’ve got
amnesia; we’ve forgotten that we are cleansed from our sins. In other words,
ongoing failure in sanctification (the slow process of change into
Christlikeness) is the direct result of failing to remember God’s love for us
in the gospel. If we lack the comfort and assurance that his love and cleansing
are meant to supply, our failures will handcuff us to yesterday’s sins, and we
won’t have faith or courage to fight against them, or the love for God that’s meant
to empower this war. If we fail to remember our justification, redemption, and
reconciliation, we’ll struggle in our sanctification.” Elyse Fitzpatrick
“Those
who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana
“God has as a
strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for He is able to do
all things. Believer, until you can
drain the ocean dry of omnipotence and break the towering mountains of almighty
strength into pieces, you never need to be afraid. Don’t think that the strength of a human
being shall ever be able to overcome the power of God. As long as the earth’s huge pillars stand,
you have enough reason to remain firm in your faith. The same God who directs the earth in its
orbit, feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of heaven, has
promised to supply you with daily strength.
While He is able to uphold the universe, don’t even dream that He will
prove unable to fulfill His own promises.
Remember what He did in ages past, in the former generations. Remember how He spoke, and it was done; how
He commanded, and it stood fast. Shall
He that created the world grow weary? He
hangs the world upon nothing; shall He who does this be unable to support His
children? Shall He be unfaithful to His
word for want of power? Who is it that
restrains the tempest? Doesn’t He ride
upon the wings of the wind, and make the clouds His chariots, and hold the
ocean in the hollow of His hand? How can
He fail you? When He has put such a
faithful promise as this on record, will you for a moment indulge the thought
that He has out promised Himself, and gone beyond his power to fulfill? Ah, no!
You cannot doubt any longer.” Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
· Remembering God’s past mercies keeps fear at bay. If He was faithful then, He will be faithful
now. He never changes.
· Our trials come as tests of our faith – do we trust
Him? Are we certain that He has our best
interest at heart? Do we remember that He
loves us with an everlasting love?
· When we fail to remember His past mercies we flounder
in fear.
