God’s Inviting You on a Faith-Filled Adventure

Following Jesus is an invitation into a faith-filled adventure. Along the way, your journey will include many things—times of clarity and uncertainty, joy and heartache. To get you through each season, God has given you the gift of remembrance.

Here are six specific things you can remember to help you live a faithful, purpose driven life today.

Remember God’s Faithfulness in Your Past

1. Remember when you first came to Christ. “Think back on those early days when you first learned about Christ” (Hebrews 10:32 NLT). Right after you became a believer, your relationship with Jesus felt fresh. Remembering how he brought you from guilt to forgiveness, from darkness to light, gives you power to live the life God planned for you.

2. Remember the miracles God has done. “Remember the miracles he has done, his wonders, and his decisions” (1 Chronicles 16:12 NCV). A miracle is an event for which the only explanation is God—when a baby is born, when someone finds hope, when a dead relationship is brought back to life. Remembering God’s faithfulness in the past helps you trust him for the future.

Remember God’s Call on Your Life in the Present

3. Remember to be gracious. “Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others” (Colossians 3:13 NLT). God’s grace has changed your life. Now he wants you to share that grace by forgiving other people. When you forgive, you hand your hurt over to God and are freed to live out his purpose.

4. Remember to be generous. “You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’” (Acts 20:35 NLT). When you’re generous, it shows the world what God is like, breaks the grip of materialism, and helps you prioritize the best things in life.

Remember God’s Promises for Your Future

5. Remember that God will be with you. “When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you” (Isaiah 43:2 NLT). Whatever you face in the future, you won’t face it alone. That is the key to courage—there is nothing to fear when you know God is near.

6. Remember that God finishes what he starts. “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6 NIV). What God starts, he finishes. Where God guides, he provides. And where God leads, he meets your needs.

God wants your life to be an amazing adventure of faith. Are you willing to trust him completely as you remember his faithfulness in your past, present, and future?