Memorials of Faith – Part 2

Message Date: November 21, 2021
Bible
  • Memorials of faith are born out of vision, or need, or desperation–whatever the reason, you are in a position where “God has to move”.
    • Wherever you are–whether God gave you a vision for the future, you are in need and seeking God, or you are in a desperate situation–God’s word works the same.
  • Memorials of faith are times where God remembers you with victories, and ever after, you remember God with a sacrifice of thanksgiving.
  • God is no respect or of persons.
    • 34 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. Acts 10:34 NKJV
  • He’s given you another day, another chance, if it’s not good Gods not done. Respond in faith and his word will work for you too!!
  • Memorials of faith are times where God remembers you with victories, and ever after, you remember God with a sacrifice of thanksgiving.
    • 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and these shall be to you as an ordinance forever throughout your generations. 9 “When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.” November 10:8-10 NKJV
  • Memorials of faith are not just for us, but for our children’s generation.
    • 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, 18 To such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them. Psalms‬ ‭103:17-18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • How can our lives be a memorial?
    • 1. Through sacrificial praying.
      • 3 I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, 4 greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, 5 when I call to remembrance the [a]genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. 6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. ‭‭II Timothy‬ ‭1:3-7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
    • 2. By sacrificial living.
      • 6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. 8 But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? 9 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor.” 10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. 11 For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. 12 For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. 13 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭26:6-13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
    • 3. Our sacrificial obedience.
      • 28 My mercy I will keep for him forever, and My covenant shall stand firm with him. 29 His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 30 “If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments, 31 If they break My statutes and do not keep My commandments, 32 Then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 33 Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips. 35 Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David: 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before Me; 37 It shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭89:28-37‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
      • 4 Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem; 5 because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. ‭‭I Kings‬ ‭15:4-5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬