God wants us to remember Him in our youth so that we do not forget Him as we age. Remembering is important to God and allows us to trust Him today based on His past faithfulness, and direct our actions in the future. The document provides examples from the Bible of how remembering God's past acts helped people, and suggests ways to remember like writing things down and sharing with others. Failing to remember leads to devastating consequences like broken lives.

2. RememberyourCreator
inthedaysofyouryouth,
beforethedaysoftroublecome
andtheyearsapproachwhenyou
willsay,
“Ifindnopleasureinthem”—
Ecclesiastes 12:1

3. WHY DOES GOD WANT US TO
REMEMBER???

5. Rememberingis
importanttoGod….

6. LastSupperLuke22

7. A desire to remember
things comes natural
for us

8. In fact you could even
say our memory is the
sum total of who we
are!

9. Think about it how tragic it is when a
loved one loses their memory. They no
longer have the ability to recognize
loved ones, remember stories from the
past. They in essence begin to forget
who they are! They are a fragment of
whattheyoncewere.

10. Equally as tragic a person who
forgets who they are spiritually!
We cansometimesrememberthe
wrongthingsandforgetallthe right
things!

11. Whathappenswhen
peopledon’tremember?

12. Devastation
Marriage broken,
Lives destroyed

13. Anyone who feels
neither responsibility
towards the past nor
desire to shape the
future is one who
forgets!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

14. Remembering God’s faithfulness
from the past:
- AllowsustotrustHiminthepresent!
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15. 17 Youmaysaytoyourselves,“Thesenationsare
stronger than we are. How can we drive them
out?”18 Butdonotbeafraidofthem;remember
well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh
andtoallEgypt.
Deuteronomy7:17-19

16. 19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials,
the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and
outstretched arm, with which the LORD your
God brought you out. The LORD your God will
dothesametoallthepeoplesyounowfear.
Deuteronomy7:17-19

17. - Directsouractionsinthefuture!
Remembering God’s faithfulness
from the past:

18. 34 But David said to Saul, “Your servant
has been keeping his father’s sheep.
When a lion or a bear came and carried
off a sheep from the flock
1Samuel 17 34-37

19. 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued
the sheep from its mouth. When it
turned on me, I seized it by its hair,
struck it and killed it.
1Samuel 17 34-37

20. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion
and the bear; this uncircumcised
Philistine will be like one of them,
because he has defied the armies of the
living God.
1Samuel 17 34-37

21. 37 The LORD who rescued me from the
paw of the lion and the paw of the bear
will rescue me from the hand of this
Philistine.”
1Samuel 17 34-37

22. HOW TO REMEMBER

23. 5and said to them, “Go over before the ark of
the LORD your God into the middle of the
Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his
shoulder, according to the number of the tribes
oftheIsraelites,6toserveasasignamongyou.In
the future, when your children ask you, ‘What
dothesestonesmean?’
Joshua4:5-6

24. 7tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut
off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the
Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a
memorialtothepeopleofIsraelforever.”
Joshua4:5-8

25. - Write it down!

26. 5and said to them, “Go over before the ark of
the LORD your God into the middle of the
Jordan.Eachofyouistotakeupastoneonhis
shoulder,accordingtothenumberofthetribes
oftheIsraelites,6toserveasasignamongyou.
Whenyoudon’twriteitdownweforget!

27. - Tell it to others!

28. In the future, when your children ask you,
‘Whatdothesestonesmean?’7tellthemthat
the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the
ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it
crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan
werecutoff.Thesestonesaretobeamemorial
tothepeopleofIsraelforever.

29. Futuregenerationswillrepeatpast
mistakeswithoutthe learningfrom
othersexperience!

30. Decisionsyou’remakingtodaywill
determineyourmemoriesfor
tomorrow!

31. What are your stones, maybe you think
you don’t have any; well today is perhaps
theday ofyour first stone!

32. 7 Remember the days of old; consider the
generationslongpast.Askyourfatherandhewill
tellyou,yourelders,andtheywillexplaintoyou.
(NIV)
Deuteronomy32:7

33. 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean
not on your own understanding; 6 in all your
ways acknowledge him, and he will make your
pathsstraight.(NIV)
Proverbs3:5-6

34. 7 Sometrustinchariotsandsomeinhorses,but
wetrustinthenameoftheLORDourGod.(NIV)
Psalm20:7

35. 7 Sometrustinchariotsandsomeinhorses,but
wetrustinthenameoftheLORDourGod.(NIV)
Psalm20:7

36. 4 InGod,whosewordIpraise,inGodItrust;Iwill
not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?
(NIV)
Psalm56:4

37. 4 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the
LORD,istheRocketernal.(NIV)
Isaiah26:4

38. 2 Then the LORD replied: "Write down the
revelation and make it plain on tabletsso that a
heraldmayrunwithit.(NIV)
Habakkuk2:2

39. 1 That night the king could not sleep; so he
orderedthebookofthechronicles,therecordof
his reign, to be brought in and read to him. 2 It
was found recorded there that Mordecai had
exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's
officers who guarded the doorway, who had
conspiredtoassassinateKingXerxes.
Esther6:1-3

40. 8 Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD,
diedattheageofahundredandten.9 Andthey
buried him in the land of his inheritance, at
Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim,
northofMountGaash.
Judges2:8-11

41. 10 After that whole generation had been
gathered to their fathers, another generation
grewup,whoknewneithertheLORDnorwhat
he had done for Israel. 11Then the Israelites did
evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the
Baals.(NIV)
Judges2:8-11