The Battle to Remind

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Daily Devotional, Jesus, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Solid Joys, Devotional, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Desiring God, Joy, John Piper, 163859

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

If we don’t call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we will languish. Never forget that our God is the God of the impossible.

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0:00.0	January 20, the battle to remind.
0:06.8	This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope.
0:12.1	The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
0:15.9	His mercies never come to an end, lamentations 3, 21 through 22.
0:23.9	One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
0:30.9	Reminding is a great ministry.
0:34.5	Peter and Paul both said that they wrote letters for this reason.
0:39.1	Second Peter 1, 13, Romans 15, 15.
0:43.4	The main helper in reminding us what we need to know is the Holy Spirit, John 1426.
0:51.9	But that does not mean you should be passive.
0:54.9	You are responsible only for your own ministry of reminding.
0:59.8	And the first one in need of reminding by you is you.
1:05.6	The mind has this great power.
1:09.1	It can talk to itself by way of reminder.
1:12.0	The mind can call to mind, as the text says.
1:16.2	But this I call to mind.
1:19.2	And therefore I have hope.
1:20.8	The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, lamentations 3, 21 to 22.
1:26.4	If we don't call to mind what God has said about himself and about us, we languish.
1:33.6	Oh, how I know this from painful experience.
1:38.4	Don't wallow in the mire of godless messages in your own head.
1:44.8	Messages like, I can't.
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