REMEMBER THE WORKS OF GOD – PSALMS 77:11
Psalms 77:11 I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
There is nothing that requires you to remember all the good things God has done for you. God does not require that you spend four hours each day thinking about all the things HE has done for you. However, if you desire that your faith grow, you need to have a change of mindset; you must learn to start remembering what God has done for you in the past so that you will have the faith to do new things for God.
God has shown HIMSELF strong in your life in the past. This is your testimony that HE desires you to remember so that you will have the confidence to trust HIM the next time you face a storm. Satan desires to distract you with worry. He looks for ways to cause you to think about your problems and thus lose focus of God’s faithfulness.
If you are going to see God do the impossible through you, you must first change your mindset. You must continually take the time to remember the things God has done in the past. As you remember how God has directed, protected, and provided for you; God can now do a new things through you because you have complete trust in HIS’ faithfulness.
The nation of Israel understood that it was God’s plan for their lives that they leave the land of Egypt. They saw God’s deliverance as HE parted the Red Sea and utterly destroyed those who kept them in bondage. They had seen God’s provision in their lives as HE provided bread and meat. Yet when they heard the report of the 12 spies, they did not have the faith to follow God’s direction. They did not have the faith because they were more worried about the giants in the land than they were about God’s faithfulness.
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were faced with a difficult decision. They had to choose between being faithful to God and not bowing to an idol and face death or bow down to the idol and live. These three men remembered God’s faithfulness and thus they placed their faith in God. These men saw God do the impossible through them because they remembered the things God had done for them in the past.
In verse 12 of this Psalm, the Psalmist says “I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.” The Psalmist understood that he needed to do more than just remember what God had done but that he had to continually fill his mind with the goodness of God. In addition, he needed to tell others because in telling others, not only did he increase the faith of others but he also encouraged his own faith as he acknowledged God’s faithfulness in his life.
You have problems that you are facing and you cry out to God for help. Have you taken the time to stop and remember God’s faithfulness? Have you taken the time to fill your mind with God’s goodness? Have you gone out and told others of what God has done for you? Virtue is filling your mind with a good report. You are commanded to add to your faith virtue. As you fill your mind with God’s goodness and has you praise HIM for the things that HE has done, your faith will grow because your expectations is upon God. You must change your mindset and stop looking at your problems and instead look towards the solution.