Well, I would ask you to take your Bibles and turn to Psalm chapter number 77. Psalm 77 tonight. And I want to bring a challenge to you from the Word of God in the moments that we have together in the series called Daily Choices for Difficult Days. You say, Preacher, when's this going to end? We are getting towards the end of it. I believe I probably have one more week, maybe two more weeks on it. But tonight I want to bring before you a seventh choice that you can make on a daily basis that will please God and honor God and is a good choice in difficult days. And it's found in Psalm 77 verse number 15. I'm sorry, verse number 10 and 11. The Bible says in Psalm 77, 10 and 11, and I said, this is my infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the Lord. Surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I wonder if you have figured out the I will in this passage yet. Three times in two verses, the psalmist says, I will remember. I will remember. This psalm was born out of sorrow because of what was about to take place in Judah. The psalmist's heart is overwhelmed with sorrow and grief. In Judah, about the time that it became increasingly evident to devout Christians that Jeremiah was right, that the Babylonians were coming, and that Judah would be handed over to the fierce Chaldeans for a thorough thrashing, there arose a prophet in that day by the name of Habakkuk. He was a most unusual prophet. He seemed more concerned with solving a problem than delivering a prophecy. Why would God allow Judah to be handed over to the Babylonians? That was Habakkuk's problem. Why would God allow Israel to be punished by a nation far more wicked than herself? The resemblance of this psalm is likened to much of the questions that Habakkuk poses in the book of Habakkuk. In fact, in Psalm 77, your text, if you look at verses seven, eight, and nine, you'll see the psalmist asking these questions, will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be favorable? No more. Is His mercy clean gone forever? Doth this promise fail forevermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah. Six different questions that are asked in those three verses that really are questioning why would God allow this. And so the psalmist is approaching God in that way. So far in this series, we've learned I will trust, I will testify, I will sing, I will walk, I will cry, I will hope, I will hear, and now I will remember. Why should Christians remember God? I think that's a valid thing to ask as we open up the message tonight. I would say number one, because God remembers us. Excuse me, in Isaiah 49, the Bible says this, and it's describing how God remembers us. Can a woman forget her sucking child? A mother that nurses her baby, can she forget that baby? that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb. Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee, God says. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. Thy walls are continually before me. Why you and I ought to make a choice to say, I will remember God on a daily basis is because, first of all, God remembers us. Thank God that God remembers us. When God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, He remembered Abraham and Lot in Genesis chapter 19, verse number 29. Remember, God remembered Rachel. Remember, Rachel couldn't have children, and Leah had children, but she could not have a child. But in Genesis 30, verse number 22, God remembered her. Remember that God remembered Hannah in 1 Samuel 1 and verse number 19 and the sorrow that Hannah had because she could not have a child. But God remembered her. My friend, God remembers you. Because God remembers you, you ought to remember. You ought to recall. You ought to think about. You ought to give attention to in your mind on a daily basis to remember God. Why should we remember God? Because God remembers us. Secondly, why should we remember God? Because it takes our eyes off self and gives us something to rejoice in as we remember God. In Psalm 77, our text, 15 personal pronouns are used in the first six verses. I'm talking about the personal pronouns of I and my. You read through those verses and his focus is all about me and what I'm going through. But the choice of I will remember occurs three times in verses 10 and 11. And then from there on, his mind is on thy, not my. In fact, if you look at the psalm, you'll see thy begin to pop up in verse number 11. At the end of the verse, I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work and thy doings, towards the end of the verse. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary. Verse 14, thy is used in the last part of the verse. In verse 15, thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people verse number 18 the voice of thy thunder was in the heavens thy way is in the sea thy path in the great waters thou let us thy people you see the change you see how he wasn't talking about himself too much anymore he was talking all about God thy Lord thy works thy way thou let us thy people in these verses thy path Lord in the great waters. Thy work, let's think on that. Let's think about You redeeming Thy people." And they remembered God. And we ought to remember God because it takes our eyes off of ourselves and puts our eyes on God. Thirdly, we must remember that we have seen God work so we can teach our sons and our sons' sons. Deuteronomy chapter 4 verse number 9 only take heed to thyself and watch this keep thy soul diligently Lest I'll forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thine heart all the days of thy life But teach them thy sons and thy sons sons Interesting to me that keeping your soul is dependent on forgetting not what you've seen God do with your own eyes Spiritual health then is tied to remembering. But not only remembering brings me spiritual health, but that is exactly what I've got to bring to my sons and my sons' sons, or my children and my grandchildren. You know what they need to hear from me? They need to hear from me what I remember about God. They need to hear me make the choice. Hey kids, let me tell you a story about something that God did. And recall before them, in their ears, the things that God has done. You say, Preacher, what should we remember tonight? I'm glad you asked. I'm going to give you four things to remember and I'm done. Number one, remember His works. Remember His works. The Bible says in Psalm 77, I will remember the works of the Lord. Verse number 11 now. I will remember the works of the Lord. Surely I will remember thy wonders of old. Verse 10 cuts the psalm in two. Until now, everything has been pitched to a minor key. But now the singer, the psalmist, changes to a major key beginning in verse number 10. I wonder if you today have lived in a minor key. I. Oh, how is this going to affect me? Oh, what's going to happen next? Am I going to be able to fill in the blank? Am I going to have the freedom to fill in the blank? You know, you get down that road too far and life becomes a minor key. But he said, I said, this is my infirmity. This is where I'm living. But and still I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high. There comes times, brethren, when we have to take ourselves in hand and make a deliberate decision to say, I will remember no matter what's happening. I will remember my God. I'll remember his works. It's interesting when you study verses 16 through 20 in this passage that They talk about, in verse 16, the water saw thee, O God, the water saw thee, and they were afraid, the depths also were troubled. What they're talking about here is the Red Sea, the parting of the Red Sea. The waters recognized that God was in charge of them. He goes on and talks about the clouds pouring out water, and the skies sent out a sound. Nine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heavens. And it talks about the lightnings in verse number 18, lightened the world, the earth trembled and shook. You know what I learned from all this? When we remember God, God frequently uses what we call natural causes to carry out His work in the world. When the psalmist looked around and he began to remember God, he remembered how God used natural causes to carry out His work in the world. What the world calls nature is what we call God. Things don't happen in nature by accident. There's a divine design behind the natural causes that we see in nature. God is revealing Himself constantly to mankind. By the way, He's revealing Himself through what's happening right now in America and around the world. God's in charge. Look at his works in the Bible as you remember his works. Look at the works in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. Look at the miracles of Christ. Look at the people that God saved. People like the Apostle Paul who was a persecutor, yet he turned his life completely around. Look at the establishment of churches. and how God brought that about in the New Testament. Look at His resurrection, and we'll celebrate that even more on Resurrection Sunday coming up. Look at His creation. I remembered the days of old. I meditate on all Thy works. I muse on the works of Thy hands, the psalmist said in Psalm 143 and verse number 5. Look at His works in the world and in the Bible, but look at His works in the church. Look at the people who have been healed. I think about Janie Mink coming through two amputations. That's a work of God. Just amazing. Saw Janie the other week just scooting around her house in that wheelchair. Wonderful spirit. Thanking God for his healing power in her body. Think of Kathy Finley who was able to come home from the hospital one hour after we prayed the other week. Kathy was on her way home. That was an act of God. His work in our midst. Sharon Smeltzer coming through her surgery recently and doing well. Think of the salvation of souls. Think of Levi and Brittany getting saved, and Olivia Borentraeger getting saved, and Emile over in the Philippines getting saved, and Dalen, and Elizabeth, and Brandon, and Anthony getting saved through Dr. and Mrs. Starr's ministry. Think of God's works tonight. Rejoice in God's work. Remember His works. Think of the preservation of Larry and Kathy's house. Just a month and a half ago, we were at a couple's retreat and their house caught fire on the side. And God had just the personnel in the right places at the right times to preserve that home. Think of that mighty work of God. I think of the shutting down of the entertainment center, the adult entertainment center years ago. I think of the favor with the county and school and township and receiving tax-exempt status on two different occasions. I think of the purchase of the ministry building. And listen to me tonight, there's a lot of things to remember about our God and His works. Think of his works in our nation. It wasn't too many weeks ago, I read you an article and you could come and attend and be in the service, that there were 37 abortion clinics that were converted to pregnancy centers to help women have their child. That's a work of God. That's powerful. Think of his works in your family. Recently, we saw God do a marvelous work in our family regarding Brandon's health insurance and how he just changed the whole nature of that in a day. I remember when we prayed for good jobs for our children and God provided. We remember a financial provision last year that came out of nowhere and just God dropped it right in our lap and we didn't even overwhelmed by it. Listen, God is doing works in our midst. I will remember the works of the Lord. I want you to understand that in Psalm 42, the psalmist said, Oh my God, my soul is cast down within me, therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites and from the hill Mazar. David, we believe, was writing this psalm. He was overwhelmed, his soul was cast down. He was on the run from Absalom, and he mentioned these places because he had been to all of these places successfully, and in all of them he had remembered God and directed his prayer toward them. Toward him, I should say. Sir, young person, the way to forget your miseries is to remember the God of mercies. David remembered God in all those places because God showed David mercy. Mercy. What else should we remember, preacher? We should remember His name. Not only His works, but His name. Turn to Psalm chapter 20. Psalm chapter number 20. The Bible says in verse number 1, The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. Talks about God remembering thy offerings and accepting thy burnt sacrifices. And some of you may not have the resources to give that you had to give even a month ago, but you've been faithful givers to God and you've sacrificed your resources to God. Hey, may I remind you that God remembers those things in verse number three. Look at verse number seven. In the day of trouble, some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright. We serve a God that defends us. We serve a God that sends help from the sanctuary, according to this text. We serve a God that strengthens us, that remembers our offerings and our sacrifices. It's interesting that the object of one's trust in verses six through eight determined their state. Here, he says, they are brought down and fallen. Who? Those that trust in chariots and those in horses. They're brought down and fallen. But the ones that remember the name of the Lord our God, the psalmist says, but we are risen and stand upright. We ought to remember the name of God. I think of David going into battle with big old Goliath. In 1 Samuel 17, verse number 45, he says, thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield. Oh, that's what your trust is in, Goliath. But I want you to know I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts. I have a trust in the name of the Lord of hosts that is bigger than your sword and is bigger than your shield, dear Christian. Let your faith be bigger than whatever you can see. Let your faith be in the name of the Lord our God. It's interesting in Psalm 20 that the Bible says that we will rejoice in verse number five in thy salvation and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. Thought on that a little bit. Banners are an open display of allegiance and loyalty. You might call a little political yard sign one of those. Kind of like a banner. You put it out in front of your yard. And the reason you put it out in front of your yard is you want everybody to know that you're a Trump. You support Trump. Maybe you've put other signs in your yards over the years. Maybe even something up on your house or somewhere public that you are saying, I am unafraid to show someone my allegiance and loyalty and fellowship of this person. I think they're worthy of running for office or what. Tonight, I want to challenge you about banners. I believe that here it's biblical. These people said, we want to show our public allegiance to the Lord. We want others to know right exactly where our faith is. And so the Bible says they set up their banners. They raised their flag, so to speak. We want you to know our true colors. We want you to know who we believe in. And they were saying, it's the name of the Lord our God. I don't know if you can see this. I hope that you can see it. But Alyssa and one of our family friends, Mandy, helped to put this together for tonight. And it is a banner, so to speak. And the banner reads Jehovah Rapha, Our God heals. And it says, Exodus 15, 26. And we're getting ready to hang this banner at our home. And I got a hold of this truth and it spoke to me. And it spoke to me to kind of cast a vision maybe for your home. Tomorrow we'll have a number of people that will help us cut out similar sizes of paper. We'll roll them up, put them in the foyer. And I want to challenge you as a family to do something together, or maybe as a couple to do something together. And that is to make a banner of the name of our God. I think it's very practical. I think it's very biblical. I think that it helps us to remember the name of God, and it can help others to remember the name of God. Here, this banner is Jehovah Rapha. It's a name of our God, and that name means our God heals. You know what? I want our community to see that. I want our community to see that at our house. I want them to be able to drive by, see that banner, and say, huh, they believe in their God. and they believe their God heals. There are other names. Jehovah Jireh, you could write, our God provides. You could write Jehovah Shammah, our God is present. You could write El Shaddai, our God is almighty. It doesn't matter what anybody else is saying, I know the name of my God. And dear Christian, I challenge you tonight to pick up a banner. You don't have to do it like this. You may get your kids involved. You may decorate it and paint it or whatever. But I encourage you to hang a banner. Boy, tape it on your garage door. Boy, put some wood sticks and screw some screws into the sides. Let your community, let the people that come by your place know that you know the name of your God and you're ready to broadcast it. Simple. That's what they did there. They set up banners, the Bible says. We ought to remember our God. And by the way, when we remember His name, it may help others to remember His name. How about Jehovah Shalom? Our God is our peace. How about Jehovah Sabaoth, the God of all the armies of the world? God's in charge. He's above all the armies of the world. Let me encourage you to make a banner. Raise it up and maybe in your house. Maybe it's something smaller that you do, but we'll have these available rolled up and rubber banded. You can pick one up in the foyer. You can remember. Lastly, remember His judgment and His mercy. Remember His judgment and His mercy. Habakkuk chapter 3. If you would, turn there in your Bibles tonight. Habakkuk chapter number 3. By the way, this is not hard to do. They put it on our kitchen table and drew a straight line and then just drew the letters. It won't take you too long to do that. You can work on it over a couple of days. You say, preacher, what if it rains? We'll put it out on the days that it doesn't rain. Maybe bring it in at night. Maybe put it out on Sundays. But make a banner unto the Lord. Remember His judgment and mercy. The Bible says in Habakkuk 3, verse 1, a prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet unto Shigionoth. O Lord, I have heard Thy speech and was afraid. O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make known. Watch these words now in wrath. Remember mercy. wrath Remember mercy of Deuteronomy chapter 7. He's giving Israel the same message He says this and the Lord will take away from thee all sickness and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt Which thou knowest upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee Says that thou shalt say in thine heart these nations are more than I verse 18 thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh and unto all Egypt and The Bible says, so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid. Interesting that God in wrath remembered mercy. I think of that 10th plague in the Old Testament. I think of God coming down and taking that firstborn from every family in Egypt. And how the grief, the shock, how that changed life so quickly in all those families. But he said this to his own people, put the blood on the doorpost. And if you put the blood on the doorpost, I will pass over you. My friend, we ought to remember God's works. We ought to remember God's name. And we ought to remember God's judgment and mercy. And we should plead for his mercy. In these days, we should plead for His mercy. I think God has big plans through all that's happening. I really do. I think His ways are not our ways. They're higher than our ways. I think that what we're experiencing is judgment in some respects, but as the prophet prayed, Lord, in Your wrath, remember mercy. And thankfully throughout the pages of scripture, boy, we see that applied and we can pray for mercy in these days. And so tonight, what can you do tomorrow? What choice can you make tomorrow that you know is right? I'll give you one simple, I will remember. Would you take time to remember some works in our church? some works in the Bible of God, some wonders of old. Would you take time to remember some works in your family tonight? Daily choices for difficult days, I will remember. Will you take time to remember his name? Study some names, make a banner of one of his names, broadcast it to others, remind yourself of his names. Would you take time to remember his judgment and mercy? I will. remember if you tuned in tonight I hope that you've been encouraged the Word of God I hope you grab are able to grab a hold of something that's practical that will help you through the remainder of this week and that's why we're broadcasting folks were broadcasting to get the Word of God your heart and we believe that the Word of God has all the answers for life the word I have the word I get through anything with God God help us to make it through each day, not just surviving, but thriving in our relationship with the Lord.