REMEMBERING 2008
Remember the miracles [God] has done; remember his wonders and his decisions. Psalm 105:5 (NCV)
THE IMPORTANCE OF REMEMBERING GOD’S MIRACLES IN YOUR LIFE
Remembering God’s miracles is the key to ________________
When you become successful, don’t say, “I’m rich, and I’ve earned it all myself.” Instead, remember that the Lord your God gives you the strength to make a living… Deuteronomy 8:17-18a (CEV)
Remembering God’s miracles is the key to ________________
You may be thinking, “How can we destroy these nations? They are more powerful than we are.” But stop worrying! Just remember what the Lord your God did to Egypt and its king. Deuteronomy 7:17-18 (CEV)
How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years. Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel’s Holy God. How quickly they forgot what he’d done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy… Psalm 78:40-42 (The Message)
4 TIPS ON REMEMBERING GOD’S MIRACLES IN YOUR LIFE
1. Make it _____________________
Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. Joshua 3:15-16
2. Make it _____________________
“Go…into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, to serve as a sign among you.” Joshua 4:5-6a
3. Make it _____________________
Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. Joshua 4:9
4. Make it _____________________
In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Joshua 4:6-7
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the Lord helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:12