“But watch out! Be careful never to forget what you yourself have seen. Do not let these memories escape from your mind as long as you live!”
Deuteronomy 4:9
Lately, I have fought to remember what God told me when He ordered me to come to this unknown place. Although I know that all that is tied to my life is according to God’s ordinance, one particular situation has left me conflicted.
I know I heard the Lord speak when He answered a prayer that I had been praying for fervently since I began this walk of faith with Him back in Atlanta.
I know I heard the Lord say this was it. This was the answer I had been waiting for. This was the revelation that was a long time coming. This was it.
So I believed.
Then a fight began to hold on to that which I believed no matter how things looked or felt. During this tug of living in faith and on faith about God’s word to me, the Spirit of God began to remind me the things that I was starting to forget.
God reminded me that He called me out of my father’s house to go out on my own. He reminded me that though I did not know why I was going to where I was going, I knew that there was an undeniable pull to this place. God reminded me that my instincts were under His command and order.
In the silence, when I wanted to gather my sorrows and dig deeper into the spirit of conflict and discontent over what was in front of me concerning this word that God gave me, the Spirit of God did not permit me.
Rather, I was reminded that I know the sound of my Father’s voice. I was reminded that He who started a good work in me is working ALL things for my good, and will bring it to completion. I was reminded that my steps are ordered by God because He called me and I have answered.
I was reminded to trust God completely and to surrender myself to His will.
Friend, I urge you to be still and allow the Holy Spirit to remind you that which you may have forgotten.
In your weakness, in your confusion, in your conflict, or in your unsettled place, are you forgetting the magnitude of the One who calls you “fearfully and wonderfully made?”
Are you forgetting that God is not man that He should lie?
Are you forgetting that He that keeps you neither sleeps nor slumbers?
Are you forgetting that His word to you can never be void?
Friend, are you forgetting the unmovable, unshakeable Almighty power of the Lord your God?
Have you forgotten the faithfulness of God?
I pray for you as I pray for me, that the Spirit of the living God revives our hope in the truth of God today. May we be reminded that which we have forgotten. May the Lord pour out His refreshing rain of hope and grace as we continue faithfully in this walk toward destiny in Jesus name. Amen.