GIG268 Remember That God Is Able

Growing In God Podcast

Program Number: GIG #268

Title: Remember That God Is Able

 

Web Description: The biblical feasts are a reminder that God is able to deliver us, save us, cleanse us of all our sins, and dwell with us in all power to meet every need. Rather than complaining about our circumstances, let us remember who God is and make His reality our daily experience.

 

Show Notes: An important part of the biblical fall feasts is remembering what God did in the past. Why is that important? Because it is too easy for us to forget. The children of Israel saw how great God’s ability was to deliver them from Egypt. But as soon as they were free, they complained because they could not believe in God’s ability to take care of them in the wilderness. How quickly we lose sight of what God did for us, even before our very eyes! We need to remember who He is, what He has done, and what He is able to do right now.

 

Yom T’ruah, the Day of Trumpets is a “reminder by blowing of trumpets.” The trumpet blast reminds us that the Lord God who dealt with Pharaoh is the same God who will take care of us in whatever wilderness we experience. Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is a reminder of God’s power to not only forgive and forget every offense but to also remove all sin from us completely. This is the power of Christ’s resurrection that will manifest in all the earth, which God reminds us of at Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles.

 

At these special times of the year, let us be reminded of the amazing God we serve who is all powerful, all knowing, and always present with us. What we face today might seem worse to us than anything we have ever faced before. The forces directed against Israel and against God’s people today might seem greater than the world has ever known. But none of that matters because God has not changed. And He is able to be the answer for everything that we have no answer for in ourselves.

 

Key Verses:

 

•       Leviticus 23:24. “You shall have … a reminder by blowing of trumpets.”

•       Matthew 6:8. “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.”

•       Deuteronomy 6:1–25. “Watch yourself, that you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt.”

•       Matthew 4:7. “YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO THE TEST.”

 

Quotes:

 

•       “When we don't bring our knowledge of who God is into the now for what we're facing today in order to create our future, then we tend to test Him. Something goes haywire with our prayer, and our prayer turns almost into a complaint.”

•       “With Him there is no past, present, and future. There is only now. And that reality is something that we can live in. And that's why we can appropriate all that He has for us and walk in it today. Because if once He spoke it, it is.”

•       “I want us to come into that day looking for the power of the resurrection of Christ manifesting itself in the earth today in a powerful way—the kind of power that has the ability to save the Muslim world, that has the power to save the Gentile nations out of where they're standing right now.”

 

Takeaways:

 

1.    In the wilderness without food and water, the children of Israel lost sight of God’s power that He had just demonstrated to them. The feast season was a time when God said, “Remember Me. Remember what I did. Remember how you got here.”

2.    What happens to us today when we enter our own wilderness? It is also easy for us to lose sight of who God is and what He is able to do. If we are not careful, we could be like those crying out to God for food and water and questioning if He is able to do what He promised.

3.    The world is in a wilderness right now, but we remember that the wilderness is where God comes down to dwell with His people. We do not enter this fall feast season wondering if God will meet our needs but rather worshipping God who is all the answer that we need.