He is Faithful // Remember // Pastor Keenen Worrell

So what do we do when life starts lifing? We shift our memory. We move from remembering our pain to remembering our God. And when we remember God, we remember those same three things that Jeremiah did. His compassion never fails. His mercies are new every morning, and great is his faithfulness. We can rest. We can trust, we can move forward without fear because he is faithful. [00:28:44] (43 seconds)  #RememberGodFaithful

We have to stop living like he's faithful in the bible, but he's unpredictable in our life. Like, we don't have over to a thousands of years of his faithfulness to look at right here. He is the same God yesterday, today, and forever. He is faithful. And get this, your situation isn't too big for his faithfulness. The thing that you're walking through, the thing that you're you're you're you're you're trying to see through, the the the thing that's that's troubling you, the thing that's stressing you, it is not too big for God's faithfulness. [00:08:28] (34 seconds)  #GodFaithfulAlways

So what happens? This is the enemy's trick right here. When we get confronted with a life situation, something just shakes us out of nowhere, our memory begins to betray us. Yeah. Our memory begins to betray us. Our perspectives gets blurry because the situation we are are currently facing, we feel is so big that we forget in that moment that we have gone through similar situations or or even situations that are worse than that before, and because of God's faithfulness, we have come out victorious. [00:10:15] (47 seconds)  #DontForgetVictories

He's faithful in the good moments, and he's even more faithful in the bad moments. He is faithful. His grace does not run out. His faithfulness does not end. He has not forgotten about you. He has not slipped up and missed you. He is not a a man that he should lie. No. The son of man that he would forget. Can I tell you something? God's God doesn't have a problem in the area of memory. He does not have a problem in the area of memory. [00:09:37] (30 seconds)  #GodNeverForgets

And, yeah, because because we are flesh and blood, sometimes we struggle with with doubt, but do not allow the enemy to use that to condemn you. Those doubts don't disqualify you from God's faithfulness, they position you to experience it. God's faithfulness is not determined by our feelings, it is not determined by our circumstance. God's faithfulness is determined by God's character, and his character never changes. [00:27:36] (37 seconds)  #DoubtsDontDisqualify

The Lord, however, invites us to remember something different, to remember his faithfulness, to remember his mercy, to remember that if in spite of all the bad, he is still faithful. The promises of the bible are nothing more than God's covenant to be faithful to his people, and it is his character that continues to make those promises valid. It is his character. It is who he is time after time after time. It is his track record, not just in your life, but over the span of thousands of years. [00:06:23] (50 seconds)  #GodsFaithfulTrackRecord

This scripture very clearly illustrates the concept of remembrance. We see two different things happening here. We see the author of Lamentations remembering the terrible things that was going on, he says, remember my affliction. Remember my wandering. Remember the bitterness. But in the midst of that, he also begins remembering something else. He says, but this I call to mind. In other words, this I remember. He says, therefore, I have hope. At that moment, a switch happens. [00:03:00] (43 seconds)  #RememberAndFindHope

And for me, there is nothing more exciting than these moments here where I get to look back and see the faithfulness of God, that I get to reflect on his faithfulness to me in every moment, in every crisis, in every circumstance of life. Over and over and over and over, he proves his care, his concern for me, and his faithfulness. God's work done in God's way with God with God will never lack God's supplies. Do you hear me? [00:15:27] (38 seconds)  #ReflectGodsFaithfulness

But here's the thing, the enemy will do everything that he can to flood you with situations of the present so that you will forget God's faithfulness in your past. He will flood you with situations of the present so that you will forget God's faithfulness in your past. I wanna challenge you today to remember the faithfulness of God. Remember the faithfulness of God. I can look out in this congregation right now and see the stories of God's faithfulness. [00:16:45] (34 seconds)  #RememberPastFaithfulness

But for some of you, I wanna challenge you. We have to stop living like his faithfulness is reserved for other people. We see people who are maybe you've been saved longer than us. Maybe they're doing doing Jesus better than us. They're they're and we think that his faithfulness is reserved for them. We have to stop living like his faithfulness is reserved for other people. We have to stop living like he's faithful in the bible, but he's unpredictable in our life. [00:07:58] (37 seconds)  #FaithfulnessForEveryone

If we're honest, we can attest that there is a lot of times we remember the waves. We spend a lot of time remembering the storm. We spend a lot of time remembering the situations, the the things that that didn't turn out the way that we may have hoped. We think about them, we mull over them, we we we tell stories to ourselves about them, and then that turns into doubt. That turns into fear and unbelief, and it begins to take seed and root in our heart. [00:04:01] (33 seconds)  #DontDwellOnStorms

The enemy is like, oh, no. No. No. Let me just bombard them with this. Let me bombard them with this sadness, bombard them with this depression, bombard them with this grief, bombard them with all these things so that they don't remember that God's faithful. Let me keep throwing at them. No. This coulda happened. This shoulda happened. This woulda happened. What woulda happened if this, this, this, this, this. But if you take a moment, take a second to just close your eyes and begin to pray. [00:11:06] (29 seconds)  #PrayAndRemember

Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered. My challenge for you this season is that you take some time to remember the faithfulness of God. Remember the faithfulness of God. Remember the faithfulness of God. There's something significant that begins to take place when we do this. This is the power of remembrance. Now the enemy would love nothing more, Satan would love nothing more than for only for us to think about the things that went bad, [00:05:36] (41 seconds)  #PowerOfRemembrance

before you were that's God is faithful in the things that you know and the things that you don't know. There's a pastor that say he's the pastor said, at any given time, God is doing a 100 things in your life, and you may be aware of one. You may be aware of one. He is faithful. [00:20:00] (22 seconds)  #GodWorkingBehindTheScenes

I feel like my faith is exhausted because I had to expend so much faith doing this. There were high moments. There were low moments. There were moments when it looked good. There are moments when it didn't look good. There are moments where we were pressing the gas, go go go, and there's moments where we just had to pull back and see, and I said, I feel like my face is exhausted, and I had this conversation. And then I remember getting off the phone after having this conversation, and the lord said, hey. [00:13:13] (33 seconds)  #RecenterAfterExhaustion

You know that's your fault. Right? I was thoroughly offended. I'm not gonna hold you. What? How is it my fault? He said, you you said that you had faith fatigue. And so whenever a new opportunity that comes up for you to use your faith, you feel exhausted. He said, but that's your fault. He said, the past three years as you were doing this, did you miss an invoice? Did anything not get paid? [00:13:46] (34 seconds)  #OwnYourFaithFatigue

and their relationship is going to bring him to your church. Not only is their relationship gonna bring him to your church, get this, I am going to aggravate him until he gets the picture that he needs to help you. And one day, he's gonna call you on the phone and he's gonna say, pastor Keenan, I can't get you off of my mind. I think that I am supposed to help you. I don't know what I can do. Just tell me what I can do. And and here we are. [00:19:03] (39 seconds)  #GodOrchestratesConnections

God is faithful. How many of y'all know I don't know how to build a building? Can you raise your hand if you believe I don't know how to build a building? I need y'all to stretch our faith anyway. I cannot I can't build a building. I have no knowledge on how to build a building, but God is so faithful. God is so faithful. He says, you know what? I got this guy. I got this cowboy. Now he a little rough around the edges, [00:18:08] (24 seconds)  #StretchYourFaith

but don't worry, I'm working with him. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna come to him, and I'm a show him something that that that is gonna be undeniable that it's me. I'm gonna come to him, I'm going to establish a relationship with him. Not only am I gonna do that, but years before, I'm gonna have him start working in the trades as a construction worker. And then I'm gonna come to him, and then not only am I gonna come to him, he's gonna be friends with somebody who's gonna be on your board that's gonna get you started in your church, [00:18:33] (30 seconds)  #GodPreparedHelpers