REMEMBER…
It’s one of the biggest warnings given throughout scripture.
Because you know what Satan is so good at?
Making it seem like we can’t trust our spiritual memories.
Oh, there’s no way you were actually feeling the Spirit at girls camp. That was just all your happy emotions.
That wasn’t a miracle, it was just a coincidence.
You didn’t really receive a prompting to do that.
He’s so sneaky at making us distrust our own memories, right?!
And I think the adversary succeeded pretty well at convincing the Israelites that their memories, as well as the memories of their ancestors, deceived them.
And there on the battle field, facing Goliath, none of them were remembering what God had done for them.
They were just stuck in the moment.
But David?
He remembered.
“David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” (1 Samuel 17:37)
He KNEW he could defeat the Philistine BECAUSE he remembered what the Lord had already done in the past.
The Lord had strengthened David and delivered David from all sorts of dangerous situations.
And David remembered and accurately gave credit to God for his protection in the past.
This remembrance gave David the spiritual confidence to trust in the Lord again!
Do we have accurate spiritual memories, or are we letting time affect how we give credit to the Lord?
Remember. Remember the spiritual experiences from the past in order to gain strength for the giants ahead.
Happy Studying!
-Cali Black
One Response
I had a similar experience. The first time I attended an LDS Church meeting was a fast and testimony meeting. As I was listening to the various testimonies, I heard a voice out of heaven that said “the testimonies you are hearing are true.” It was accompanied by a huge outpouring of the spirit that lifted me out of my chair. I said “I’ve never been in your Church before and I don’t know what you believe. But if there is a true Church on the face of the earth, this must be it, for never have I felt the Spirit in any Church as I have in this one.” Afterwards, when I went home and told my Mom about it, she had a logical explanation for what happened to me based on her experience working with deaf kids at the John Tracy Clinic for the Deaf. I went out to shoot baskets and think about it and came to the conclusion that my Mom was wrong, that I had heard a voice out of Heaven and felt the spirit and so continued to start the lessons and be baptized. That testimony has stayed with me for 60 years now.