Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

Pointing projects today about remembering, remembering the good, remembering the things that are

helpful to us. You see, so many times in life, there's negative things that happen to us. Maybe a

bad childhood, maybe a divorce, some negative words have been spoken in your life, and those are

the things we don't want to remember. We want to remember what is beneficial and what is good. Have

you ever been mowing the lawn or maybe washing the dishes, driving down the street, and all of a sudden

a memory from the past hits your thoughts? Man, it came out of nowhere or maybe something that

had happened two weeks ago at work. Just kind of runs right into your thought life and it makes you

feel sad or lonely, depressed. Maybe those negative thoughts made you even feel fear for a moment,

fear of what would happen in the future. You see, that's what negative thoughts do to our life.

They stop us. They're intended to cause us to pause, to not walk in faith and victory. So that's

why I want to encourage us so much to remember what we're remembering. Let's remember the good.

The apostles wrote many times in the New Testament. They wrote things like this, I am writing to

remind you. I am writing to remind you again. Paul put it this way. He said, I never get tired of

reminding you. In second Peter, Peter said this, he says, I'm writing you two letters.

Two letters to remind you. You see, they knew the power in remembering the right thing. They knew

that it could transform your life when you remembered what God has said and when you remember what

God has done. See, we need to remember. It's easy to put our minds on autopilot, but we have to

know that they're transforming power and it's worth using our time and energy to focus on what we're

remembering. The Old Testament, God commanded his people, the children of Israel. He commanded them

to take time out from their busy schedules several times a year to celebrate festivals, he called them,

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