Remembering is one of the ways mankind reflects the image of Father God. He is wonderful in that He chooses to remember the good and forget the bad as we come to Him for cleansing (1 John 1:9).

 

^“Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.

 

“On the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty, “they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him” (NIV, Malachi 4:16-17).

 

“For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more” (NIV, Hebrews 8:12).

 

“Then he adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more” (NIV, Hebrews 10:17).

 

There’s a secret helper clue contained in the word remember: “re” and “member.” To remember is to reconstruct or to put together again. How we reconstruct or put together again, our experiences is how they are marked down in our spirit, soul, and brain.

 

And this determines our present responses—which determines our future outcomes.

 

The good news is that every day is an opportunity to re-write the re-membering which re-configures the future!

 

One reason Father God set the feasts is for His people to remember. To reconstruct. To put together again, annually, in their generation, His intervention.

 

This exercise helped them to be able to connect Father’s intervention in the past to His presence in their present—and future.

 

It was not my natural proclivity to remember the good. However, it was easy for me to remember the difficult and traumatic. Not good!

 

It never occurred to me that we could choose what to remember.

 

After a close call with my son that landed him in the hospital and me traumatized, we prayed with friends. My friend said to notice, to speak and to remember what Father God did through the experience. This jarred me awake—because I’d been “re-membering” my fright and the “what-ifs?” The experience jumbled all together. Suddenly, I realized that I had the choice to choose what and how I remembered. I started going over every detail of where Father God’s imprint was—though it was the middle of the night, we had immediate help from emergency staff and family who prayed. Instead of getting worse, the situation quickly turned around. So many parts that could have gone wrong—didn’t. He did hear our prayers and He caused “all things to work together for good” for us (Romans 8:28).

 

When I started that intentional looking at Father’s daily fingerprints and remembering them—especially in the scary times—it began building my confidence and courage.

 

This is exactly why David grew to such a stature of faith in Father when he was on the run from King Saul. David had a good relationship with Father. When he found himself in danger repeatedly on a bigger scale and intentionally chose to remember Father’s intervention and deliverance, that is what caused him to be so brave and courageous—a Super Hero in the faith!

 

Through remembering the experiences of the day with Father’s interventions noticed, spoken, and re-membered, David built his relationship with Father and a memory bank that served him well the next time he faced trouble—on any level.

 

Every person has a memory bank—a place in their inner person where their memories accrue. Making deposits today (every day is an opportunity for a new beginning!) prepares us to rise up to challenging occasions as the mighty men and women of God that He called us to be. (P.S. When a negative memory arises, take those to the Lord and work through them. This builds, too!)

 

How they used their memory banks and what they put in them determined the difference between the two faithful spies (Joshua and Caleb) and the ten faithless spies’ responses to the threat of the giants in the land. The two faithful spies saw Father God in the picture, and the others did not.

 

 

David’s memory bank is still serving the public—so many of his experiences with Father are written in the Psalms. It is Father’s desire that yours and my memory with Him (re-membering His intervention in our experiences) build us into Super Heroes in the faith and change the future.

 

The psalmist is remembering Father in the midst of his troubles and is inspired to speak:

 

“Let this be written for a future generation, that a people not yet created may praise the Lord” (NIV, Psalm 102:18).

 

Take time to be still. Re-member your experience with Father’s fingerprints. This builds your relationship with Him and your confidence (re-wires your brain, too). Write them down. Share where you can! Change your life—and future generations.