In 1 Samuel 25 the story of Nabal and Abigail is depicted. Paraphrasing for time sake, Nabal has offended David, David is on his way to kill Nabal and every male associated with Nabal’s house. Abigail has been notified by a servant and now knows that if anything is going to be done that she must do it herself. Abigail loads up with peace offerings and meets David and his entourage. Out of all that Abigail says to David, there is one powerful thing that she does that turns everything around and that is that she “reminds” David of his future and how this act of vengeance could come back and bite him later.
Remind is defined in Webster’s as: to put in mind of something. This literally means to put (thoughts, ideas) in the mind of something or someone and this is done by speaking the Word of God. It has almost of a futuristic tone to it. In vs.30-31: “And it shall come to pass, when the LORD has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ruler over Israel, that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself.”
Abigail reminds him that not only has God spoken certain things into his life but because he has decided to not take vengeance for himself that he can enter into the promise without any blood on his hands. Ephesians 4:22-24 – “that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”This is what we must do every day. We must speak the Word of God over our life which replaces the former conduct and renew our minds by reminding our spirits of those promises that God has spoken over our lives. God did not create us to be liars, greedy, fornicators etc…, His promises pertain to the new not the former things. Before the foundation of the world He created each and every person with a destiny and purpose that was to be completed while on this earth. He created us to be the head and not the tail, above and never beneath.
Ephesians 4:11-16 is an awesome example of reminding ourselves of what we are: “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
When praying for your husbands, families, children etc. you must speak into existence, “remind” with the Word of God whom God predestined before the foundation of the world not what you currently see before you right now. Speak those things that are not as though they were. Words are powerful. You can curse or bless with your mouth. Let everything out of your mouth edify. Speaking what is invisible changes the visible . “Now faith” is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Today that child or loved one might be using drugs, but before the foundation of the world, God spoke something in that person’s mind (spirit) and that is what you must “remind” when you pray for them. Take the time today to remind the atmosphere of who you are in Christ. Remind today that “I am created in His image and likness.” In Jesus name, Amen!
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