****NOTE: In an effort to bring encouragement to others during these uncertain times I have recorded (albeit lamely!) some Scripture recitation. If you are interested in viewing these they are on the links below or you can go to Beth Yoe at Instagram. I will be changing out these links each Monday (Lord willing!) ****
https://www.instagram.com/tv/B--kP9SBZ5r/?igshid=kh5o143jxw8b
DO
NOT FORGET
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)
23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your
God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of
anything the LORD your God has forbidden. 24 For
the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. Deuteronomy 4:23-24 (NIV)
16 But to the wicked, God says: “What right have you to
recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips? 17 You
hate my instruction and cast my words behind you. 18 When
you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers. 19 You
use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit. 20 You
speak continually against your brother and slander your own mother’s son. 21 These
things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But
I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face. 22 Consider
this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with none to rescue: 23 He
who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may
show him the salvation of God.” Psalms
50:16-23 (NIV)
1 Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being,
praise his holy name. 2 Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits--3 who forgives all your sins and heals all your
diseases, 4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with
love and compassion, 5 who satisfies your desires with good things so that
your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Psalms
103:1-5 (NIV)
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive
yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it
says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and,
after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law
that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard,
but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does. James 1:22-25 (NIV)
93 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you
have preserved my life. Psalms 119:93 (NIV)
5 Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words
or swerve from them. 6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love
her, and she will watch over you. 7 Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it
cost all you have, get understanding. 8 Esteem
her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will honor you. 9 She
will set a garland of grace on your head and present you with a crown of
splendor. Proverbs 4:5-9 (NIV)
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With
the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The
Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is
patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to
repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9 (NIV)
BUTTER
“We are often guilty of spiritual
amnesia, Amen? When things are going
swimmingly well our focus tends towards our circumstances and comforts finding
our joy and satisfaction in them rather than in the One Who bestowed them. Sadly, it often takes crisis to shake us up,
get our attention and help us to refocus on what is truly best rather than a mere
worldly substitute. All good things come
from God’s hand and we are to be thankful for them but they are to be held
loosely. No tight grip for the child of the
King unless it is to His Hand.” BHY
“Thus
does the world forget You, its Creator, and falls in love with what You have
created.” Augustine
“A
true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for
him in Christ.” John Baillie
“If we stop fighting and
embrace the gospel story God is weaving in our lives, we discover joy. If we
pursue love directly, it slips from our grasp. But if we begin with Jesus and learn
to love, we end up with joy. We can never forget that God is God. Ultimately,
it's His story not ours.” Paul Miller
“Let
us never forget that the message of the Bible is addressed primarily to the
mind, to the understanding.” Martyn Lloyd Jones
“There
is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God, but
the intense, blazing holiness of God.” Oswald Chambers
“Get busy, get distracted, and you can
forget God. Forget God and you lose your mind and your peace. Forget God, and
all you remember is the anxiety. Anxiety can give you God-Alzheimer's. Forget
the face of God and you forget your own name is Beloved. Beloved, you are the
remembering people.” Ann
Voskamp
18 “‘Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs
up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the
wasteland.’ Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV)
We are to live into this
Truth. Just because I do not see something
happening out of my poor visibility due to my human earth-bound eye, does not
mean it is not happening. Just because I
cannot see God’s work does not mean He is not working – God is always at
work. I am to sign all my prayers with
anticipatory thanksgiving – thanking Him in advance and closing with ‘I am very
truly yours, always’ is a constant reminder to me of Whom I belong to. It is God alone. It is He Who sends the great “showers of
blessings”.” BHY
HEART
SAVOR
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Keep
remembering all He has done for you so you will not forget.
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Remember His
faithfulness in the “little” things as well as the “big”. He cares for you – down to the smallest
detail of your life.
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Do not
forget God – the Maker of all creation and the Giver of every good and perfect
gift.
