According to a Psychology Today article, we remember what we want to. That’s hard for me because I’m very forgetful. I always have been. My ADD brain is usually thinking of hundreds of things at once, so it can take a while for me to get through the haystack in my mind.

The article suggests we remember what we value. Or, we remember things as we wish they were. When we don’t remember, or don’t want to remember something as it was, we recreate the memory falsely in our mind.

Another article stated that no one remembers everything. (Whew! That’s a relief.) One tip this article recommends for remembering is to envision what forgetting will look like. For example, I often forget to turn off the stove.  According to the article, we should use our senses to help us remember. In other words, I should picture what not turning off the stove would look like, sound like and smell like when, say, the house is burning down. I’ll try that – if I can remember.

What about forgetting God and what He has done for us, and all He can and will do for us.

Jesus began the Lord’s Prayer with, “Our Father in Heaven, Holy is Your name.”  Jesus began by remembering who God is – Father, Creator, Holy and separate from anything else we know. He began His prayer with worship. This reminder builds our faith as we remember God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20).

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise. Psalm 100:4

Remember the former things of old; I am God, and there is no other.     –Isaiah 46:9

Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children. – Deuteronomy4:9

Why does God want us to remember who He is and what He has done?

Because when we forget who God is and what He has done for us, we can stop obeying His commandments resulting in unwanted consequences.  We stop being thankful and worshiping Him.  This results in the weakening of our faith. And when we stop remembering Him, we stop praying.

Perhaps we need to envision what the world will look and feel like without God and prayer (or just look around us).

By Penny Cooke
used by permission

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Last summer, I discovered a young couple (19 & 20 years old) living in their truck in the shade of a big oak tree at our church, where I’m still the new pastor. I talked with them a bit, learned a bit of their story, and offered water and restrooms whenever they needed. I invited them to join us in worship on Sunday mornings and was thrilled when they did. He’d been part of the church’s youth group for a time—before my time—when we’d had a guy who connected with the skater crowd; but he was there for the skating and the food, not for the God-talk. She had her own views of God, some rooted in the Bible, but many from her own mind (not unlike many of us!).

They had hopes and hurts: both were looking for work; both had a lot of brokenness in their families; both had struggles with drugs and emotions and mental health. But they were looking for a place to live, and hoped to find it within a few weeks. When she had to leave town with the truck for a few days, he asked if he could set up a tent on an out-of-the-way part of the property. I agreed. But days turned into several weeks, even after she returned; and though they took good care of the area, with the dry heat of summer and the possibility of sparks from the engine, I knew we needed to send them on their way.

I knew they’d both gotten work at a local pizza place and some time later I stopped in to ask about them. They didn’t work there anymore.

It’s been months now. They’ve crossed my mind on occasion but I haven’t seen or heard about them. Until yesterday.

Sitting alone in my office in the afternoon, I looked up when I noticed a car pull into our parking lot. The back door opened and … there he was. When we saw each other through the window, a big smile crossed his face. I walked out to greet him and we both spread our arms wide and hugged each other. “I found God!” he said. Back when he’d sat through our church service, it was pretty much a courtesy; he wasn’t much interested in God. “I was trapped in my sin,” was about how he put it.

Somewhere along the way he decided he didn’t want to go on living the way he had been. And somehow, he figured he needed God. And he found Him. He discovered Teen Challenge, too, which is a Bible-based organization that helps teens—and young adults—recover from life-controlling issues through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Yes, He’s still in the business of healing. And he—my young friend (and new brother)—is about halfway through the Teen Challenge recovery program. And seems to be doing pretty well.

They’re not together anymore, he and she. Last summer, that would have been a big blow. Now he has a relationship with Someone who has given him real life. Full life. Eternal life.

As Christians who try to faithfully and simply show Jesus’ love to others, we don’t always get to see if the seeds we’ve planted (or watered) will sprout and grow. Yesterday I got a glimpse of a small green shoot popping up through the soil.

by Randy Ehle
used by permission

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For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.  – Psalm 62:5-6

“I like to think of myself as more of a control enthusiast.”

Actor Patrick Warburton uttered this in a commercial for National Car Rental, but couldn’t we all make the same claim? We live in a world in which we can have any basic need delivered to our doorstep in a matter of hours and control our home’s internal environment with a few taps on the phone. Ours is a society conditioned to believe that maximizing control over even the smallest details of our lives is not only achievable, but also a convenience we need not question.

Life has a way of reminding us otherwise. Whether reality strikes at a global level, as in the COVID pandemic, or at a personal one, like a cancer diagnosis or a sudden job loss, the illusion is inevitably pierced. There are moments where a curtain is pulled back and we’re left staring at how small and unprotected we truly are.

A work of art I saw recently offered me a vivid picture of these realities: the painting Gulf Stream, by Winslow Homer.

In it, a lone boat drifts atop a rolling sea. Storm clouds seem to gather on the horizon. Sharks swim in the foreground, open-mouthed and dangerously close. The water appears to be dotted with pools of blood. Yet, aboard the boat, a solitary man leans idly on his side, as though blissfully unaware of the surrounding threats. It’s a picture of current-day humanity: so confident in our illusions of control that we pay no mind to the very real threats around us.

Yet it’s a picture of something else as well.

When my illusions of control are shattered, I tend to panic, internally and externally.

Anxiety spikes. I instinctively try to figure out what I can do to fix the situation or regain some measure of control. I grasp at something, anything, to get back to level footing.

If I were in that painting, I’d feverishly hoist a sail or smack away the sharks with an oar. But in all likelihood that scrambling would just make things worse. In my activity I could easily knock myself right off the boat and into the tempestuous waters.

The same can be true with my panicked “fixing” actions in real life. How many times has your response to a threatening situation just created more problems?

And so the resting man presents another, better picture. Perhaps he does see the threats, but chooses to rest instead of scramble. To roll with things. To let the sea and the sharks and the storms do their thing while he remains anchored to his place on the boat.

This is an image of confident and peaceful rest in spite of trouble. It’s a posture captured in David’s words in Psalm 62: waiting on God, his rock. David’s life was like the boat on threatening seas—encircled by trouble. Yet time and again he sought refuge in God alone.

How? The psalm’s final verse reveals what David knew to be true: “…you, O God, are strong, and you, O God, are loving” (Psalm 62:12).

Because, through Christ, God is permanently with us, rest—in Jesus—is the best posture to weather the storm. Why grasp for external help when the greatest help is already present?

Prayer: Lord, forgive me for how easily I grasp at control, forgetting about how strong and loving You are and how much I can entrust myself to You. You are indeed a rock and a fortress. Teach me to seek refuge in you even when the storms of life threaten to overwhelm me, and give me a taste of your peaceful presence within them. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Throughout This Day: What currently feels out of control? What storm threatens to overwhelm you like a crashing wave? How have you sought to grasp at control within it, or to fix it with your own activity or initiative? What might waiting on the Lord and entering a posture of rest within that storm look like? Ask God to reveal that to you, and take a step in that direction as he leads and empowers.

by Jason Weimer
used by permission

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“Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”   Matthew 6:10 (NLT)

Have you ever been in the middle of a conflict? Or perhaps you’ve witnessed church leaders passionately debating church matters? Did a neighbor, a relative ― or maybe even a stranger ― ever initiate a conflict with you? Or maybe it was you who started it? I don’t know about you, but I can answer Yes! to all of those questions.

Why is it that we all find ourselves in some level of conflict, even amongst believers? It can happen due to personality or cultural differences, but sins, such as pride and fear, can also be the cause. That is why we need the Lord. One can find much freedom in learning to pray the way Jesus taught us. Especially in Matthew 6:10.

When we pray “Your Kingdom come” we are saying, “Let Your reign and everything that it means take over everything that we know and hold dear. I choose Your kingdom above everything, no matter the cost.” We are also saying, “It’s about Your Kingdom Lord, not mine. I must decrease that you may increase.”

Praying Your will be done is how Jesus prayed just before being put to death and shame on the cross for us (Matthew 26:39. As dire an outcome as it seemed to be, it was for the best. You and I can only know salvation and the grace of God’s Kingdom and His will being accomplished because of Jesus’ sacrifice.

Here’s something to remember the next time you encounter conflicts: they often resolve when we humble ourselves to say, and truly mean, “Your will be done.”

Father, You know me. You know I like to make my own plans and have things my way. I want to surrender to you today. Align my will with Yours. Help me humble myself. Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

Go Deeper – Write down the Lord’s Prayer as found in Matthew 6:9-13 on the left side of a piece of paper. Then write down any conflicts you might have with others on the right side. Ask God to help you honestly pray about how to resolve these conflicts according to His will.

by Caroline Bellemare
used by permission

Matthew 6:9-13 NIV

9 “This, then, is how you should pray:

“‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
10 your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,[a]

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“He who sacrifices thank offerings honors Me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God.” Psalm 50:23

Giving thanks to God can be a hard thing to do,

….especially when things happen that make us more likely to say, “Why, God?” instead.

Thank offerings come easy some days. The sun shines and we feel the blessing of the Lord. Thanksgiving is our natural response.

On other days, thanksgiving is truly a sacrifice. In the middle of writing this devotional, our home was broken into. Thanksgiving was not my first response. Yet here in this verse, God tells us an amazing truth. He says that when we offer thanks and praise to Him, even when it’s a sacrifice to do so, we honor Him. This prepares the way for Him to work on our behalf. Thanksgiving is actually a door.

I pondered how to thank God in the midst of this violation. I was not thankful for the loss, but I discovered I could be thankful in it. As I intentionally shifted my gaze to God and not to the mess around me, I became aware of being thankful for several things: our personal safety, that certain items were not taken, the immediate help and care from family and friends, and the reminder that God is our Warrior, working, even fighting on our behalf. As a result, God’s peace settled over our hearts and minds and over our home.

Thank You, Lord God, that thanksgiving is so much more than a trite “attitude of gratitude.” Thank You for the truth of Your word that when we do give You our thanks, even when it’s hard to, we honor You and it opens a door for You to work and to bring Your peace and wisdom. Thank You that we can always offer thanksgiving for who You are and all You are to us — even in the midst of challenges. We praise You and ask this in the strong name of Jesus. Amen.

By Gail Rodgers
used by permission

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“I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders.  I will be glad and exult in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.” Psalm 9:1-2

We are given amazing privileges when we trust in Jesus. Recalling these promises is a good way to maintain a thankful heart, even when facing challenges in other areas. Consider four such blessings:

1.    Christ’s gift of salvation. No matter what trial we’re facing, it is microscopic next to the enormity of Jesus’ sacrifice on our behalf. The cross was a steep price to pay, but the Savior willingly took our place in order to offer us forgiveness and eternal life.

2.    Assurance of God’s love. The Lord cares for us unconditionally–that is His very character (1 John 4:16). Unfortunately, the storms of life can cause us to question this, but Romans 8:31–39 unequivocally tells us that nothing can separate us from God’s love.

3.    Answered prayer. We have the awesome privilege of talking to the Father about anything burdening us–and He never grows tired of listening to His children. Our omnipotent, omniscient God is not only able to help us in any situation; He also knows the best possible way to do so.

4.    A personalized plan. The Lord has a will, plan, and purpose for our lives that He will accomplish if we obey Him. No one is exempt from adversity, but we can trust God to bring good from everything He permits to come our way.

Hardships, temptations, and tests will touch us all, but the Lord allows difficulty for a reason–even when we don’t understand why (Romans 8:28). Therefore, submit yourself to the Father, thank Him for His wisdom, and be confident that He will accomplish His purposes for you.

By Dr. Charles Stanley
Used by Permission

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“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:2

We see it all around us. People conform their behavior to fit the culture of today. Conformity can be both good and bad. It can be good because it helps society cooperate and function in an orderly way. But it can also be bad when conforming leads to bad outcomes and people stop thinking for themselves.

How does conformity occur today? The tendency to conform occurs in small groups or in society as a whole, and may result from subtle, unconscious influences or from direct and overt social pressure.

Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics, or like-mindedness. People often choose to conform to society rather than to pursue personal desires—because it is often easier to follow the path others have already made, rather than forging a new one.

It comes in many ways:

• Peer Pressure: Teenagers engaging in risky behaviors because it’s deemed “cool.”
• Fashion Trends: People wearing a specific style of clothing because it’s currently popular in society.
• Corporate Culture: Employees adopting certain behaviors or attitudes to fit into the prevailing culture of their workplace or social groups.
  The bottom line is that people in today’s world choose to adapt to the ways of the world when the Bible tells us to conform to the ways of the Word. Their identity becomes the identity of the world.

According to the Bible, Jesus is our identity, and He lives His life through us, so our chief purpose in this life is to be like Him. In our daily walk with Jesus, we learn from Him, and His Spirit is helping us do His will over our own will. Thus, we are becoming more like Jesus. This is what it means to be conformed to His image. How do we do that?

Romans 12:2 answers the question, “How should we respond to God’s great mercy to us?” The answer is to become living, breathing sacrifices, pouring out our lives in service to God as an ongoing act of worship. That’s what makes sense. This is not a means to earn salvation, but the natural response we should have to being saved. To do this, we will need to break free from the me-first pattern of the world and have our minds changed in order to be able to understand what God wants. Then we will know how to live. How will you conform your life?

by John Grant
used by permission

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When something is weighing heavily on us, our prayers can quickly narrow to one request: Lord, please fix this. There is nothing wrong with asking God for change, healing, provision, breakthrough, or relief. He invites us to bring our desires to Him honestly. But sometimes a difficult situation becomes an invitation to pray something deeper: Father, while I am asking You to change what is happening around me, would You also meet me and do Your work within me?

Surrender does not mean pretending that the outcome does not matter. It means bringing what matters deeply to the Father and entrusting it to the One who sees what we cannot see.

Use this prayer as a guide for whatever is concerning you today. Bring the person, situation, or problem honestly before God. He is the God of the impossible, and He is near.

Father, I bring You this person, situation, or problem:

I choose to place it in Your hands and surrender it to Your perfect wisdom and will.

Teach me everything You desire to teach me in the middle of this. Help me receive what You have for me here, even as I continue to ask You for change.

Keep me seeking You and not only relief from this situation. I want You to be glorified, and I want to know You more deeply. Give me a greater revelation of who You are and who You are for me here.

Holy Spirit, search my heart. Bring into Your light anything in me that needs Your cleansing, healing, correction, or forgiveness. Reveal any pride, fear, bitterness, unbelief, or sin that is keeping me from walking freely with You.

Give me the grace to confess what needs to be confessed, repent where I need to repent, and receive again the cleansing and forgiveness that are mine through Jesus.

I surrender myself to You. I place on Your altar the people I love, my family, and those You have knit closely to my life. They belong to You before they belong to me. Draw each of us more deeply into Your life and Your love.

Remove bitterness, resentment, and anger from my heart. Fill me with Your love even if this situation does not change in the way I hope. Show me where I need to forgive, make something right, or release what I have been holding.

Help me obey You as You lead me. Quiet the noise around me and within me so that I can recognize Your voice and respond to Your direction.

As I stand against the enemy, I remember that I belong to Jesus. I am clothed in Your armor and covered by the finished work of Christ. Thank You, Father, that through the cross and resurrection, Jesus has triumphed over the powers of darkness.

I choose to pray Your character and Your promises over this situation.

Bring Your Word to mind and lead me to the Scriptures You want me to hold onto and pray.

(Pause here and write down any Scriptures or promises the Holy Spirit brings to mind.)

I offer You my praise before I know the outcome.

You are still faithful.

You are still good.

You are still present.

You are still God.

I choose to rest in You even while I continue to pray. Whatever the outcome and however You choose to answer, Your character does not change. Your goodness and mercy endure forever.

Father, accomplish Your purposes in this situation. Reveal Yourself. Turn hearts where hearts need to be turned. Bring truth into what is hidden or confused. Give wisdom, conviction, courage, mercy, and grace to everyone involved.

I trust You with what You are doing even when I cannot yet see it. I give You all praise, honor, and glory. Thank You that You are at work in ways I know and in ways I cannot yet understand. This situation belongs to You. And I belong to You.

In the mighty name of Jesus, amen.

Sometimes the deepest work of prayer is not reaching the place where we no longer care how the story turns out. Love means we do care. We may still long for healing, reconciliation, provision, justice, or a completely different ending.

Surrender simply means we no longer carry the outcome as though everything depends on us. We can keep asking boldly while resting deeply.

We can tell our Father exactly what we want while trusting Him with what we cannot control. And in the middle of the uncertainty, we can return again and again to what has not changed: God is near. God is faithful. And the situation we cannot hold together is still safely held by Him.

by Sylvia Gunter
used by permission

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“Peter replied, ‘Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’”  Acts 2:38

My husband likes to give and receive practical gifts. For instance, in January, he had snow tires put on our daughter’s car for her birthday. I don’t remember this being on my daughter’s “wish list” for her birthday, but she obviously needed them for winter weather.

He is a very active person who tends to misplace things like keys and his cell phone, so I thought I’d surprise him with a gift that would help him find lost stuff … these amazing little disks that attach to items and will beep when activated.

My husband can continue to search for his keys and phone on his own, or use the gift he received. In the same way, you and I can continue trying to “do it all” in our own wisdom and strength, or ask the Holy Spirit to guide and empower us.

The choice is up to us.

Sometimes it is hard to figure out what someone else actually needs, but God knows how to give amazing gifts to his children! New believers need God’s help to find their way forward, especially in the face of persecution, so he gives them the Holy Spirit.

Unfortunately, sometimes even God’s greatest gifts go unused because in order to fully benefit from them, we need to admit we need help. We can all humbly use the amazing gift of the Holy Spirit in our daily lives, relying on him moment by moment.

The choice is up to you.

Holy Spirit, I do need you. Please help me confess my sin and pride each day, acknowledge my inability to live the Christian life in the way that I should, and trust you to work in and through my life in such a way that God is glorified for the gift that he has given us. Amen.

By Karen Woodard
Used by Permission

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“Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.”  Psalm 100:4

Prayer of Thanksgiving

Help me Lord, not to fall into temptation but always stay firm in Your teachings and Your Word.

Help me to be a “promise focused” person, not allowing emotions or fear to overwhelm me, nor allowing circumstances to pull me down, but always to think positive, with joy and thanksgiving and to count my blessings one by one.

Even in the times of great difficulties, I continue to give You praise and believe in You and Your many promises to me.

I look to the skies and count the stars which go beyond my human understanding and focus on Your promises.

The meek shall inherit the earth.
What I am today is by the riches of Your grace.
Your mercy and grace are new every morning.
Help me Lord, not to take them for granted.
Give me a thankful and grateful heart. In Jesus’ name.

by Joshua Chin Hong Lim
Used by Permission

Further Reading

• Thanksgiving Day Sample Prayers

• Count Your Blessings

•  Salvation Explained

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“When you offer animals that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor?” says the Lord of hosts.”  Malachi 1:8

It seemed perfectly reasonable. He needed the good lambs for his flock, but this lamb was already sick. It had a broken leg. Much better – he thought – for the lamb to die as a sacrifice to the Lord than in the jaws of a wolf. The Lord would understand. Yes?

No!

Would you take a gift like that to the governor? You wouldn’t? Well, then what makes you think you can bring it to God? “I have no pleasure in you,” the Lord says, “for I am a great king, and my name will be feared among the nations” (Malachi 1:14). Over the centuries customs have changed, but there has always been and always will be an unchanging and very simple supreme test for worshiping God in truth.

Worship with anything less than our best is not worship at all.

True worship requires our best. Our best intention. Our best devotion. Our best offerings. And it’s not just a Sunday thing but an everyday thing. Our best everything, every day.

“What is this best that we must bring?” you ask. Remember the Little Drummer Boy?

“I am a poor boy too. / I have no gift to bring / That’s fit to give our King. / Shall I play for you? / I played my drum for Him. / I played my best for Him.”

Offer your best to the Lord. Never come with less. Then you will worship him truly, and He will be pleased with you.

Lord, you are not only my great king but my great Savior. I promise to serve you always with the best of all I have and am. Amen.

Thought — Discover the joy of giving to God the very best. Think and pray about what the best is that you have to offer. The Holy Spirit will help you understand what that means.

By Dr. Guy Safford
Used by permission

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How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is like oxygen to the Christian

The Power of Forgiveness 

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I’m a list person. If I don’t write it down, I’ll forget. I’ll buy tofu, instead of eggs. (Ok. So it’s not that bad.) But I’ll forget the toilet paper, the Italian seasoning, or more fish food for Bubba. I’ll curl up and read instead of starting the laundry. I’ll forget to send my patient his glasses receipt, or I’ve even forgotten to clock out. (It wasn’t on a list).

Then, there are the lists I don’t write down. Lists I don’t seem to so easily forget.

The hypothetical.

The not-yet’s.

The what-if’s.

We tend to envision the future in terms of a nightmare, imagining the worst and seeing ourselves as utterly incapable of meeting it. We enumerate the things that might happen, the helplessness of our little lives, and the what-in-the-world-would-we-do-if scenarios.

C. S. Lewis once wrote, “One is given the strength to bear what happens, but not the 101 things that might happen.”

Recently, some friends showed me a timeline of history they had purchased. They rolled it out in their living room to its full extent, still having to fold over the end.

The timeline showed the history, not only of Israel, but the nations that existed during the time of Israel. It showed who the world powers were during the time of Abraham. What was happening in China when Christ died on the cross. It was fascinating.

One verse continued to cross my mind as we poured over this timeline. “Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. . .even from everlasting to everlasting You are God” (Psalm 90:1,2).

The future and the right-now are inseparable to God. He sees the end from the beginning. He dwells in the entire timeline at once. He knows the 101 things that might happen.

He also knows the 101 things that will.

No matter what, His grace will be enough for the not-yet’s and the what-if’s.

His grace will be there “in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).

He will be enough for today’s lists.

And tomorrow’s.

“And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you.” 2 Corinthians 12:9

by Bethany Hayes
used by permission

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