Remember your deliverances
Remember your deliverances
(Remembering your deliverances)
David Wilkerson
I was praying and the Holy Spirit came upon me and I began to tremble.
And I heard it inner-most of my being.
“David, remember your deliverances.”
And I sat down to try to remember all the great things that God has done for me and for my family.
And I have to tell you. I am embarrassed.
I’ve forgotten more than I remember.
I’ve forgotten so many of the miracles.
I ask you.
How many of great deliverances God has brought to your life?
How many of the miracles, how many details do you remember?
No man saw greater miracles than these Israelites.
That miracle didn’t register.
How would you like to walk through a sea like that?
And you look up tides, you can see water on both side,
and you walk on the dry ground right through the middle of water.
You say, ‘If I ever saw a miracle like that,
that would make such an impression on me,
I never doubt God again in my life.’
That’s what so many are thinking.
‘God, could You show me one great miracle?’
I’ve heard so many people say that
I serve God if I saw one genuine miracle I serve God.
No, you wouldn’t.
You forget it just like they did.
You know what the Bible says
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt;
they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies;
but provoked [him] at the sea, [even] at the Red sea.
Psalms 106:7
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One
of Israel.
They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered
them from the enemy.
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
field of Zoan: (Psalms 78:41-43)
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea. (Psalms 106:21-22)
They forgot those miracles.
They didn’t remember the miracles.
It didn’t register that great opening of the Red Sea.
Moses had chided Israel.
He told him before He died.
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen,
and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life:
but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
(Deuteronomy 4:9)
God said,
“You’re gonna forget my miracle. You’re gonna forget these things.”
He chided them.
The very thing he chided them about they were guilt of.
They soon, the Bible said.
They quickly, they soon forgot what God did for them at the Red Sea.
They forgot it all.
Why are we commanded?
Why are we commanded to remember?
Why we are commended by Scripture.
In fact the whole Bible screams, ‘Remember. Remember. Remember.’
Even communion.
He said, “Remember Me.”
“Remember, remember”
The whole Bible screams.
First of all, we’d remember all our past miracles,
all our past deliverances to increase our faith in our present struggle.
The strength you get, right now in what you’re going through, depends on your remembering what God’s done for you in the past.
But you see.
Where did you get the faith to go against things
like this that are so overwhelming?
Where does the faith come?
It comes from remembering the past deliverance of the Lord.
Now listen to me.
Do you remember, for example, the day the Lord saved you?
How close did you come blowing it all?
How close did you come to suicide?
How much longer could you have gone on?
If the Lord has not saved you before you’ve lost everything.
You were spinning out of control.
What was it like?
Jesus came to you.
The Holy Spirit somehow came to you and delivered you.
And the Lord came to you and He found you in a pit and he pulled you out.
He delivered you.
In the eyes of God your present condition, your present problem is nothing in comparing to the salvation of your soul.
Has the Lord delivered from temptation?
The trap the devil has set for you sense you being enlightened.
I can tell you He’s delivered me so many many times
How many times would you come close to giving in?
How many times did you feel like quitting?
How many times the devil say to you,
“You are not making the progress. God’s forgotten you.”
We heard about that this morning so clearly from the Lord.
But the spirit of the Lord came on you time and time again.
And He held you.
You can say, “I’m battle-scarred. I’ve been through the fire.
But, I sit tonight loving Him more than I have ever loved Him in my life.
He delivered me.”
Would you thank all He’s done in the past?
Lord, I thank you for all the prayers answered,
all the miracles you’ve already.
Thank Him what He’s already done.
Lord, I thank you.
Thank you for the miracles, the answered prayers, the blessings you’ve given me.
Thank you for everything in the past, Lord.