God loves you and He has not forgotten you. You have a reason to smile.
You're Not Forgotten, God Sees You.
He Knows My Name, He Knows My Every Thought, He Sees Each Tear That Falls, And He Hears Me When I Call.
Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
In times when we see how God gives us the strength to overcome, we become stronger in Him.
We understand how God gives us the ability to step into Faith, so that we can put that Faith into place.
When we begin to understand the times that become hard, we see how we can put our actions for Christ into place, and what I mean with that part is, no matter how many times in our day that we do things for Christ, and no matter how many times we fall, we will always get back up because God loves us all.
He loves us so much, that we seek Him in the times that we need to be found again, if we get lost.
Once Lost Restored, Broken Made Whole, I'm Found In The Savior.
That song, is from Mikey Moore And The Responding, and with this song, God reminds us as His Child, and as His Own, that we are never and I mean ever forgotten by God because God is Love.
In all of this, we find our true identity in Him to overcome the different obstacles that we face in life.
This study was inspired by a song I heard this past week, and it was sent to me by a friend that thought I would like it, and surely enough I did.
This song is called Heartfelt by Frequency Of The Forgotten.
Part of the lyrics say this: I Messed Up Again, Said I Wouldn't Fall. Now I'm Hiding Like Adam Behind This Wall, My Prayers Feel Cold. My Hands To Stain. Every Time I Try I Slip Back In Shame.
You see in these lyrics, we might have things that happen, things we realize that can happen but you know what with God's Help, we see that even though we say we won't fall, that even if we do, He lifts us back up and shows that we are enough. When we hide behind a wall, when our prayers feel cold, and we have stains on our hands, or we slip back into a character trait like shame, who do we go to?
The answer, is simple because we go to God. We go to Him in prayer because God doesn't abandon us. He doesn't forget us, we are not forgotten by God. I mean it when I say that in in our truest identity in Christ, we are never ever forgotten by God who loves us, why? Well because that answer is, God is Love. When we realize that God is Love, there is nothing that can separate us from Him, no matter how hard the Enemy may try to separate us, we will never be forgotten by our Savior because He is our Redeemer and we are His and because we are His, we don't have to worry about being abandoned.
Isiah 44 verse 21- “Remember these things, Jacob, for you, Israel, are my servant. I have made you, you are my servant; Israel, I will not forget you.
1 Peter verse 2- Who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Often times in these two scriptures, we could feel like we are abandoned and forgotten, but here is what some of the lyrics from Sarah Kroger's Song Belovedness say: You've owned your fear and all your self-loathing, You've owned the voices inside of your head, You've owned the shame and reproach of your failure, It's time to own your belovedness, You've owned your past and how it's defined you, You've owned everything everybody else says, It's time to hear what your Father has spoken, It's time to own your belovedness, He says, "You're mine, I smiled when I made you, I find you beautiful in every way, My love for you is fierce and unending, I'll come to find you, whatever it takes, My beloved", You've owned the mess you see in the mirror, You've owned the lies that you're just not enough, You've been so blinded by all you're comparing, It's time to own your belovedness, He says, "You're mine, I smiled when I made you, I find you beautiful in every way, My love for you is fierce and unending, I'll come to find you, whatever it takes, My beloved", You are completely loved and fully known, Beloved, believe He died to make your heart His home.
In this song, we get to see that even in the moments that we feel forgotten or abandoned, we are not because in our truest of true identities in Christ, we are Loved, we are Cherished, we are Enough.
When I felt that church hurt, So hard to put into words, Feeling stranded, abandoned, Thought we would end up with Heaven on earth, Instead of this church hurt, We found ourselves down in the dirt, cll of us imperfect people under a steeple, Just trying to do God's work, cnd then there was church hurt.
How many times have you wrestled with feeling unworthy? Outside looking in, Like you and your sin don't belong And that devil slips through, Starts telling you you've been abandoned, You've heard all his lies, But the truth's been the truth all along, You have been chosen, Seen, known, and loved every moment, Called by your name, Yes, He knows it, So run like a child to your Father, You have not been forgotten, You have been chosen.
In these two songs, we see how no matter what we face in this life, that we are chosen by Him, and we are never ever forgotten by Him because with God all things are possible and nothing is impossible for Him. We live each day, like it would be our last and we live each day in knowing Christ is with us daily.
I want to end on this because I feel it's important to end on this last little thing. Just to know You and
To make You known, We lift Your name on High, Shine like the sun make darkness run and hide, We know we were made for so much more, Than ordinary lives, It's time for us to more than just survive
We were made to thrive.
I wanted to end on the song Thrive by Casting Crowns, because I feel that it's important to let people know that in the Kingdom of God, we are made to Thrive in His Image and it is also important to know that we are made for more than anything we can imagine in this world because just like in Phillipians 4 verse 13: I can do all things through Christ that gives me strength, and just like in Jeremiah 29 verse 11: For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you but to give you a hope and a future.
Those last two scriptures with that song, should be an indication that when we let the Enemy sometimes try to make us feel like we've been forgotten by others or we feel abandoned, we can go back to the very first quote that I started with tonight where it talks about and reminds us that When you feel forgotten by others, Remember you are not forgotten by God.
How great is that to know again, that we are not forgotten by our Creator who made us in His Image?
I'm glad to know my Identity in Him, is never being forgotten by Him because He loves unconditionally and because He loves unconditionally, we can then go to the second quote of remembering to smile too.
We should always make it a goal to smile, and to be able to share God's Word with other people as well.
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