There are some things that scripture tells us to remember.
One of these things is Lot's wife
Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.
Why Lot's wife? Lot's wife was the one who, after she was rescued from the destruction by the angel of God looked back at all she had to leave behind.
What many people are more concerned about in this season is not that God has preserved their lives. No! They are worried about what they have left behind.
About the money they have left behind, the friends they have left behind, the socializing they have left behind.
Lot's wife could not look forward and move on she looked back.
We have left so many things in this pandemic crisis, but the question you should ask yourself is? Is my education important if am not well? Is my business important if am not well?
Remember Lot's wife. Life is not going to be the same even after the pandemic. You must embrace the change and move on
Another thing you must remember are the words of God's servants
Hebrews 13:7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Christians easily forget sermons than any other thing. We easily remember a song or movie as to the messages preached to us.
God can only work with us according to our faith and faith comes by hearing. The messages you have heard up till now were not mere coincidence. God was preparing you for such a time as this
This is why the devil makes you forget sermons easily.
Jesus told Martha that one thing was needful and Mary had chosen that thing which was to listen to the words of Jesus.
Messages or sermons are not just a man's understand that he shares, but a specific information God wants you to hear per time.
In this season you must now begin to remember the sermons you've heard over time.
Just like our school system, every information acquired must be tested to be sure you understood them properly.
This pandemic is creating a test forum for all believers to see whether they understood the word they kept hearing or they were just going to church to satisfy religious guilt.
The third thing you must remember is where you have fallen from. Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Many believers can't believe that even though we were going to church we were not proper Christians
Most of us have forgotten our first love. We no longer do the very things that made people call us Christians.
The moment we get a little title and little audience, then we discard the ways and things of God.
We see those things as things the younger Christians should do and not us.
If you assess your Christian life and be honest with yourself, you are no different from an unbeliever.
You have fallen so far from God's glory that you can't even explain how the glory once felt like. You are far behind where you started your Christianity.
You no longer pray unless you go to church or have a prayer gathering. You don't even have a personal bible because your pastor will project the scriptures for you. You haven't sung a gospel song in a while because you never learnt the words.
You were in an auto pilot Christianity were everything was done for you. Now you are stranded
Jesus told the disciples to take up their cross and follow Him. You must remember how you have allowed worldly into your Christianity.
The sad part is that those who do not realize it and repent, God will remove their candlestick. That's why so many churches will not recover from this ban of gathering because their candlesticks will be removed
Finally, we must remember those in bonds (living in sin) and those in adversity (victims of the pandemic)
Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
You must not forget these two groups in times like this, every problem is an evangelism strategy
Many are bonded in sin and do not have anything to turn to because they government has failed them and medical science can't find solutions to their plight.
This is where the church must step in and introduce the God of all possibilities. They need something or someone to believe in and have hope. Jesus is an anchor that can preserve them.
Believers must also remember those in adversity. Either those affected with the plague or those whom the effects of the plague have made stranded.
The church is the salt of the earth. We are called to preserve lives and you must be a vessel God can use in these times.
This is the true definition of a pure religion. To bring people salvation and hope.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
By this many will know the churches that are of a pure religion and those who don't know their purpose.
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