Remember
Stuff happens...stuff steals our time and our energy. Lack of money, lack of time, lack of discipline and lack of trust are just a few excuses we use for not doing what God had instructed us to do.
As I write, I am thinking of something God told me to do last week...and I've still not done it. It rained one day, so I couldn't do it. One day, I just didn't want to do it. Somehow, I think I might have passed by this opportunity, but I hope this is not the case.
Too many people live with regrets of not having done what they've felt compelled to do. The years pass, and they feel disappointed at themselves and the circumstances because they are not in the place they want to be. They wonder if perhaps their life would have been different had they grabbed ahold of what God was telling them years before and jumped to it with all their vigor.
But, the Holy Spirit of God has been breathing a word to me, and that word is REMEMBER. If you are like me, there are a lot of events in my life I choose not to remember, but what the Lord is saying is to remember who He is and what dreams and visions He gave you at some point in your life. Perhaps, He is wanting to shake up your life and put you in a new spot. Too young or too old is an invalid excuse. Too much responsibility and work or bored spitless are also invalid excuses. Wherever you are in your life and whatever you are doing are merely "easy to fix" details for the God who made the heavens and the earth.
An example of REMEMBERING comes from the life of David. As a shepard boy, he meets the giant Goliath. Goliath is not just a big overgrown man, but a man whose spear is as thick as a weaver's rod. He's outfitted with armour from head to toe. He's mean and brash. He's full of self conceit and is fearless. This big man has the entire Israeli army shaking in their sandals, but David sees him as beatable with God's help. From this story, here are a few points I want to note about REMEMBERING:
1. Remember, our anointing is not like someone else's anointing. In other words, we shouldn't try to be like someone else. I Samuel 17:38. God has specifically designed each of us for the task He's called us to do.
2. Remember what God has already done in us and for us in the past. It is His strength...not ours. I Samuel 17:34-37. When David stood before Saul, a man known to be a head taller than most, this boy was not relying on his good looks to help him win, he was remembering the lion and the bear he had killed with God's strength. His staff he took before him served as that reminder being marked with slashes representing the events of his life. He kept God's faithfulness and his own ability to win through God everywhere he went.
3. Remember what God can do in the now and now.
I Samuel 17:45-46a. David spoke to Goliath what God was about to do. It looked very impossible, but nevertheless, David believed it was going to be accomplished.
4. Remember He saves for His praise. I Samuel 17:46b-47. David knew God would get the glory for his actions against the giant because the power of the enemy to the natural eye seemed far greater than the power of the Israeli army.
5. Remember to run to the battle. I Samuel 17:48. When you are told to go, then go...not with hesitation or question, but with with the knowledge that God has already gone before you.
David remembered and won.
God has always wanted us to remember not the acts necessarily, but Him when it comes to defeating problems in our lives. In the book of Hosea, God rebukes his people for turning from them, yet in the same book He woes them back so He can bless them. He reminds them in Hosea 13:4, it is He who brought them out of Egypt...who cared for them in the wilderness...and who fed them to the point of being full and satisfied. The problem arose when they became proud. As Hosea pled for repentance, he wrote in chapter 14, "We will never again say 'Our gods 'to what our own hands have made."
This brings me to the final point:
6. Remember to never say it is "I" who brought this about, but "I AM" who brought this about.
As I write, I am thinking of something God told me to do last week...and I've still not done it. It rained one day, so I couldn't do it. One day, I just didn't want to do it. Somehow, I think I might have passed by this opportunity, but I hope this is not the case.
Too many people live with regrets of not having done what they've felt compelled to do. The years pass, and they feel disappointed at themselves and the circumstances because they are not in the place they want to be. They wonder if perhaps their life would have been different had they grabbed ahold of what God was telling them years before and jumped to it with all their vigor.
But, the Holy Spirit of God has been breathing a word to me, and that word is REMEMBER. If you are like me, there are a lot of events in my life I choose not to remember, but what the Lord is saying is to remember who He is and what dreams and visions He gave you at some point in your life. Perhaps, He is wanting to shake up your life and put you in a new spot. Too young or too old is an invalid excuse. Too much responsibility and work or bored spitless are also invalid excuses. Wherever you are in your life and whatever you are doing are merely "easy to fix" details for the God who made the heavens and the earth.
An example of REMEMBERING comes from the life of David. As a shepard boy, he meets the giant Goliath. Goliath is not just a big overgrown man, but a man whose spear is as thick as a weaver's rod. He's outfitted with armour from head to toe. He's mean and brash. He's full of self conceit and is fearless. This big man has the entire Israeli army shaking in their sandals, but David sees him as beatable with God's help. From this story, here are a few points I want to note about REMEMBERING:
1. Remember, our anointing is not like someone else's anointing. In other words, we shouldn't try to be like someone else. I Samuel 17:38. God has specifically designed each of us for the task He's called us to do.
2. Remember what God has already done in us and for us in the past. It is His strength...not ours. I Samuel 17:34-37. When David stood before Saul, a man known to be a head taller than most, this boy was not relying on his good looks to help him win, he was remembering the lion and the bear he had killed with God's strength. His staff he took before him served as that reminder being marked with slashes representing the events of his life. He kept God's faithfulness and his own ability to win through God everywhere he went.
3. Remember what God can do in the now and now.
I Samuel 17:45-46a. David spoke to Goliath what God was about to do. It looked very impossible, but nevertheless, David believed it was going to be accomplished.
4. Remember He saves for His praise. I Samuel 17:46b-47. David knew God would get the glory for his actions against the giant because the power of the enemy to the natural eye seemed far greater than the power of the Israeli army.
5. Remember to run to the battle. I Samuel 17:48. When you are told to go, then go...not with hesitation or question, but with with the knowledge that God has already gone before you.
David remembered and won.
God has always wanted us to remember not the acts necessarily, but Him when it comes to defeating problems in our lives. In the book of Hosea, God rebukes his people for turning from them, yet in the same book He woes them back so He can bless them. He reminds them in Hosea 13:4, it is He who brought them out of Egypt...who cared for them in the wilderness...and who fed them to the point of being full and satisfied. The problem arose when they became proud. As Hosea pled for repentance, he wrote in chapter 14, "We will never again say 'Our gods 'to what our own hands have made."
This brings me to the final point:
6. Remember to never say it is "I" who brought this about, but "I AM" who brought this about.
posted by Cheryl at
12:56 PM
4 Comments:
Wow, again!
This was a such a blessing. I love that...remember. Great word. I get all flustered, and unfocused, which naturally interfers with my memory...and you're so right - refocus and remember on who God is, what He has done, and what He is doing. That's the good news!
Thank you for sharing your heart, as usual. You've become a mentor to me.
Rena
Hi YM!
Blogger won't let me post comments on your "Onestepup"
I'm so bummed. I wanted to say how I love father daughter time!
And yesterday too!!!
OH when blogger will you let me comment on the RIGHT blog . . .so I come her and see !WHOA! rich stuff! A blessing! Perhaps God wanted to kick me this way . .
I couldn't have stated this any better. I am going through something right now in my life, and I think that God is attempting to teach me something through it. I know that everything happens for a reason and I need to trust that God will pull our family through these rough times. Thanks for the pick me up and encouragement :)
Bridget
A lesson I needed to hear. Thank you.
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