At the moment where you see a roadblock, when you get to the Red Sea, you are either going forward or you're moving backward.

Crystal Evans Hurst talks about what happens when we understand God's Word.

It not only causes you to cross that Red Sea one time, but when you come to the next body of water and you remember the promises of God, it gives you the power to power over the difficult ways.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

We all have a tendency to forget. When we don't retrieve specific information from our memories regularly, those memories tend to fade, eventually becoming a loss to us.

Today, Crystal Hurst and Priscilla Shire explore ways to establish markers, stones of remembrance to help us recall God's faithfulness, mercy and grace.

Let's join them now, as Crystal begins, examining the power of recalling God's compassion even during times we feel trapped.

I remember when I was in college and I was doing what you do in college. You study, you study late at night, you go to the library, you study with friends, you read the chapter, you go to class, you go over your notes, you do all these things, but it doesn't matter whether you're at the beginning of your college experience or if you're at the middle of the end.

Study is grunt work. It just is the thing that you have to do in order to make it through. And if you avoid the grunt work, it shows and you're great.

We know, looking back on our high school years, maybe even elementary, definitely college, that the effort we put into developing our minds through the grunt work of study and taking notes and going to class.

It has a payoff. I tell my children all the time, why do I have to study algebra, they say, and I say, I don't know. What I do know is that there's something about you applying yourself that will result in a payoff. It may not be math related. It could be just in the way your brain thinks and in the logic, it may be in the discipline that you develop because you turn things in on time.

I don't know what I do know is that the season that you're in as Corinthians tells us, whatsoever you do, do it for the glory of God.

But it's very difficult to apply yourself in seasons that you feel captive to. It's your prisoner to. It's very difficult to think that changing the diapers maybe, little children, that it matters. It may be difficult to think on a job that you don't like.

You can think that the service that you render at your church or in a ministry that nobody sees, nobody cares, and if you're not there, does it even matter? Let me tell you something.

What's important is that you realize that every season, if you apply yourself, God will find something in that season to use later.

So even in the seasons where you feel captive, the question is, are you becoming captivating while you're there?

Jockebed is a woman and we'll talk about more of her family later on. She had children, one child, that we know of, was named Maryam, another one's named Aaron, and another one's named Moses.

What I want you to know about Jockebed is she was a woman of faith and was developed and allowed herself to grow in her faith during a season of captivity.

It was in captivity when the Israelites, when the Hebrews were held captive when they were slaves in Egypt.

It was in this season where she was threatened to kill her child, her son, Moses, that she refused to do that, that she decided to exercise her faith.

How do I know she's a woman of faith? Because you got to be a woman of faith to save your child's life and risk your own life to do so.

And then put that same child in the Nile River with the crocodiles. You have to be a woman of faith to say, I'm going to do everything I can.

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