i'm talking about your mind i'm talking about your emotions your will your spirit
your fight your drive your tenacity your sense of normalcy your courage to get out of the house
your courage to get out of the bed the courage to continue when there's a threat
requires that there's something about god that you have to remember
the dying words of the thief on the cross was remember me
the words of jesus at the last supper
is as often as you do this you do this in remembrance of me what does remember mean
remember re put back together again remember me
when we remember what god has done that becomes the foundation on which we build our lives
now a house is not a foundation and nobody can live in a foundation
but it has to have a foundation in order to be a house and i'm not suggesting that your life
begins ends and all through the middle is nothing but jesus jesus jesus because you got to take out
the trash you got to brush your teeth you got to comb your hair you got to get your nails done you
got to get your feet done or you're going to cut your blankets when you land in the bed at night
all of that happens but i am saying that god is the foundation when god delivered the children of
israel out of egypt he did it as a foundation for them to remember and all through the old
testament he says over and over again am i not the god who brought you out from the red sea
am i not the god who brought you out by my own hand and my strong arm it becomes a point of
reference to which you face the future remembering what he did in the past remembering it putting
it back together again and again and again and recreating it as a point of reference to fight
from to stand from to drive from to to preach from to teach from what do you have to remember
it's important that you have something to remember something on god's resume that you know that you
know that you know that he did for you and it tells you that if god would do that he can do this
if he can drive back the red sea and bring me across on dry land then he can fight you off he
can deal with the amalekites and the hittites and the jerusalets and the gerashites god does certain
things so you will have something to remember a point of reference to which you build your
life upon and you stand on it and you say i'm not sure about this and i'm not sure about that
but this one thing i do know you have to know this you have to know this in your norm you have
to know this when your girlfriend doesn't know it when your prayer warriors don't know it when
your children don't know it when your mama doesn't know it something that you know that you know that
you know becomes the catalyst against the trials against the traumas against the sleepless nights
against the virus against the crisis against the times that we're living in
we have been living in the most perilous times that we have seen in a hundred years we are
living in a time where nearly 700 000 people are now dead from something we can't even see
we are fighting an invisible enemy and that enemy has friends that has created trauma
and distress until we are overwhelmed even when nothing else is going wrong
just the feeling that other people are going wrong gives us a certain degree of stress and trauma
we how do we stand up against this unseen foe we fight right now of course we need to do everything
we can to protect ourselves from the virus but i'm not just talking about the virus i'm talking
about your mind i'm talking about your emotions your will your spirit your fight your drive your
tenacity your sense of normalcy your courage to get out of the house your courage to get out of
the bed the courage to continue when there's a threat requires that there's something about god
that you have to remember for the children of israel it was the blood of the lamb that was
painted on the doorpost and death angel passed by and said when i see the blood i will pass over you
it was walking out to the red sea and hearing 600 chosen chariots coming
with failure of chasing them down saying i'm going to get you back he was going to get
them back but let me tell you a secret he was also trying to get back the wealth they'd taken
for the wealth of the unjust had been laid up for the just and they had borrowed all the gold
and all the silver and they had broken the gdp of egypt it wasn't just the slaves he wanted
he wanted the money back he wanted the jewels he wanted the gold he wanted the silver
he wanted the things that the tabernacle would actually end up being built by
he was trying to get it all back he could have got some more slaves anywhere he was trying to get
what they had borrowed they had borrowed the whole economy of egypt was running through the red sea
for the wealth of the unjustice laid up for the test and when god brings you
out he brings out enough for your children the bible says that god put so much wealth on them
that their children had to carry on their backs the wealth that god placed on them i want the
kind of blessing that affects my children and my children's children and my children's children's
children i i want my grandchildren to blow kisses at my picture when i'm dead in god i want them
to be able to say if it hadn't been for that old man i'd have never been able to go to college i'd
have never been able to get a job i'd never been able to work for google i'd have never been able
to work for xerox i'd never been able to preach the gospel i would have never been able to do it
i want that for them so i have to have something to remember that i can count on that won't break
and i want to ask you what do you remember when life get hard when things get tough
when friends get few there how to be something in your life that you remember god brought you
through or brought you from or brought you out of that feeds you that is the foundation that
makes you to rise above the question and turns crepe juice into absolute wine
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