Tuesday, March 17, 2020

21days fasting prayer - Remember

Gods wonderful creation of mankind has this beautiful aspect called
Memory - is part of human nature (mind).

This memory is the area where we store information and retrieve it.
Sometimes you drive and you know the route you dont need GPS.
You can drive to work, drive to Church without any GPS. because it is stored in your directions.

You ask about Moses - all information you have about Moses, like red sea parting, ten commandments.etc you can tell it.

You ask about prophet Huldah, it did not get into your memory

God has a great purpose in giving this beautiful thing called memory.

Yes it is definitely useful for day today activities, to remember phone numbers, remember family members birthdays, remember routes.

But as I was meditating, God was revealing many things that i will share with you

1) Memory of God
Isaiah 43 : 25,26
25 “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake;
And I will not remember your sins.
26 Put Me in remembrance;
Let us contend together;
State your case, that you may be [a]acquitted


Many people struggle with whether their sins are forgiven or not.

but look carefully at this verse.
God is saying I will not remember your sins.
He is asking, come let us argue with each other.
You remember me and I will not remember your sins.

Hebrews 8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins [b]and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”


When the person on the other cross, asked the Lord, Remember Me when you come into Your kingdom, the remembered His covenant and said you will be with Me in paradise.


Luke 23:42,43

42 Then he said [k]to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”

43 And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

Gods Memory about the righteous

Genesis 8:1
Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

God remembered Noah. When the world goes through the storm, turmoil, pluge, pestilinece, during that time God remembers the remnant, the righteous people.


When the Lord was about to destroy Sodom, Abraham asks Lord if there were fifty righteous, 40, etc.
when a a Nation, or a city is going through a situation or famine, or turmoil, it is the presence of the Righteous that brings the breakthrough.
That is why as  a Church, our prayer should be let us be a people who will reveal your righteousness in the place where we live.

Gods always remember his covenant
Psalms 105:8
He remembers His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations


God always remembers His people based on His Word, His Promise, His Covenant.


The reason God brought the people of Israel from egypt is because of His Word, His Promise, His Convenat with Abraham.

Even when people sinned and gone astray it was because of His covenant, He remembered and delivered them.



2) Do not forget God.


We remember all your family names, most of the church members you continously interact with, and you current coworkers.

But if I ask you whats your coworkers names in your previous workplace, and your high school students names, it is not easy to recollect because eventhough it was stored in memory at that time,
Forgetfulness is also part of human nature.

Man always remembers current things, current affairs,

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and V12

“Hear, O Israel: [b]The Lord our God, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
“And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
 12 then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage


The Word says Teach your children, Shall talk, sit down, walk , lie  , rise up.
The Word of God should be your current affairs.
The current hot topic is corona. everybody knows it. 

The culture of the believers should be of the Word.
There should be a culture where believers should talk to one another about the Word. The Word of God should be your most recent update., should be your most recent notification.

Otherwise v12 says Lets you forget the LORD who saved you.

Culture of the Word 
Malachi 3:16 says
16 Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another,
And the Lord listened and heard them;
So a book of remembrance was written before Him
For those who fear the Lord
And who [e]meditate on His name.
There is a saying that goes-
Repetition is the mother of memory.
The more you talk about it, and you hear about it, that installs faith in a persons life.

1 Corinthians 11:24-25
24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, [d]“Take, eat; this is My body which is [e]broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

Every time we come together to break the bread and take part of the cup is in remembrance of Lord Jesus.
in our praises we remember him, in our prayers we remember him,
but remembering the Lord in the table is a unique blessing for a believer.
It is no more we have to strive , but He paid it all.
To remember that He has done it on the cross.
That Body was punished for you and me.
His Blood was shed for you and me.

That remembrance brings blessings, but a person who casually takes part in the table without that remembrance has problem.


Remember the examples


Luke 17:32
31 “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his [i]goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 32 Remember Lot’s wife.

The Lord  here is asking to rememeber Lot's wife.
So what is the problem with Lot's wife? Why should we remember Lots wife.

Once you are in the field, do not turn back.

This  remembrance in particular is to prepare for the Day of the Lord.

Genesis 19:v17
17 So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that [b]he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be [c]destroyed.”

V26:
26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Lots wife wanted to go back, even before she crossed the city.

When Lots wife looked back, it is not her eyes, but it is her memory of things ( about good old days of Sodom).
Too often we think about good old days of our past life.
We try to live in our past life.
But the calling of the angels of the Lord is greater, to leave Sodom .
But her heart is too attached to things of old.
When the Lord says Remember Lots wife, He is saying Remember how Lots wife instead of looking at the calling ahead of her, she was remembering her past.

Philippians 3:2-6
Bu on the other hand
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! For we are the circumcision, who worship [a]God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

This is all his past.
Paul also brings of all of his accolades and says rubbish.

Philippians 3:13,14
13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have [d]apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.


Do you have correct understanding of Gods memory.

God says come let us argue, remember Me, I will not remember your sins.
He remembers because of His covenant.
The Lord remembers the righteous.


What is your memory looking like.

Do you meditate on the Word of God day and night?
Do you remember The Lords sacrifice during communion?

Remember the examples? Lots wife remembered her past instead of her calling.
But Paul pressed onto his Calling.


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