November - a Month to Remember
11/28/2014
November is coming to an end. Throughout this month, our family was doing a study on the character of God. Our focus was on REMEMBERING that our God is mighty. The Bible, especially in the early books, is constantly calling God's people back to remember what God had done for them, to not forget the Lord, to tell their children and pass on the stories of God's faithfulness to the next generations.
I felt God impressing this study on my heart in October. I started jotting down notes and coming up with a plan for the 30 days of November. Admittedly, we didn't complete all 30 days, as we occasionally missed a day here and there.
But I wanted to share these thoughts, to preserve so that I can use them again in the future, but also in case they would be helpful to anyone else. Some points contain multiple examples that could be discussed separately, one per day to go more in-depth, thus making the study last longer than 30 days.
Day 1 - Read these passages to emphasize the need to remember all that the Lord has done: Deut 6:12, 8:2, 8:11, 8:14, 8:18-19; 9:7; 11:2 and Psalm 136
Day 2 - God is mighty, as shown through his ability to create everything (Gen 1, Psalm 8, Rom 1:20, Psalm 136:4-9)
Day 3 - God is mighty, as seen through sending the 10 plagues (Deut 6:20-23, Deut 7:8, 8:18-19, Psalm 136:10-12)
Day 4 - God is mighty, as seen through his power in parting the Red Sea (Exodus 14, Deut 11:4, Psalm 136:13-15, Psalm 106:6-13)
Day 5 - God is mighty, as seen through His leading with the pillar of fire by night and the cloud by day (Numbers 9:15-22, Ex 13:21, Psalm 136:16)
Day 6 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over the sun (Joshua 10:13, Hab 3:11, Isa 38:5, Rev 8:12)
Day 7 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over lions (Daniel in lion's den)
Day 8 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over fish (Jonah, Matt 17:27)
Day 9 - God is mighty, as seen through water miracles (Noah's ark in Genesis, Jesus walking on water, water turned to wine by Jesus, water turned to blood by Moses)
Day 10 - God is mighty, as seen through fire miracles (burning bush with Moses, fiery furnace in Daniel, lake of fire in Revelation)
Day 11 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over all animals (Balaam's talking donkey, Isa 11:6, Elijah's ravens doing God's bidding, God providing quail for food for the Israelites)
Day 12 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over weather (hail plague, cloud leading through desert, Elijah's prayer and ability to hold back rain for 3 years, the rains leading to Noah's flood)
Day 13 - God is mighty, as seen through his ability to provide food (manna, Elijah's ravens and ravine, Psalm 104:27, Matt 6:26)
Day 14 - God is mighty, as seen through his ability to multiply food (feeding of 5000, feeding the 4000, widow of Zarephath, 2 Kings 4:43 Elijah feeds 100, widow's oil in 2 Kings 4)
Day 15 - God is mighty, as seen through his ability to heal the human body (LOTS of examples in gospels of healing blind, lame, lepers, etc)
Day 16 - God is mighty, as seen through his ability to bring folks back from the dead (Lazarus, widow's son, Jairus' daughter; as the ultimate example of power discuss Jesus' resurrection from the dead as well)
Day 17 - God is mighty, as seen through his power in unlikely victories (David and Goliath, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, Joshua and Jericho, etc)
Day 18 - God is mighty, as seen through his control over conception, children and life (Abraham and Sarah in Genesis, Zechariah and Elizabeth, Hannah with Samuel, Jer 1:5, others)
Day 19 - God is mighty, as seen through miraculous virgin birth (Jesus - Matt 1, Isa 7:14)
Day 20 - God is mighty, as seen through his power to live a sinless life (Jesus - 2 Cor 5:21, 1 Peter 2:22, Heb 4:15)
Day 21 - God is mighty, as seen through his forth-telling of the future through prophecies (Isa 41:21-23, Isa 46:9-10, Acts 3:24 and hundreds of examples of prophecies that were fulfilled in Bible times)
Day 22 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over the stars and heavenly bodies (Isa 40:26, Psalm 147:4, Amos 5:8, Job 38:31-33)
Day 23 - God is mighty, as seen through his power to re-create a new heaven and a new earth (Rev 21, Isa 65:17)
Day 24 - God is mighty, as seen through the creation of His Bible (2 Peter 1:21, 2 Tim 3:16, Joshua 1:8)
Day 25 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over demons (Luke 8:30, Mark 1:34, Matthew 12:29)
Day 26 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over Satan (Luke 10:19, Luke 22:31, Job 1, end of Revelation)
Day 27 - God is mighty, as seen through his ability to turn evil into good (Gen 50:20, Romans 8:28, Acts 3:17-18)
Day 28 - God is mighty, as seen through His ability to judge the world (Acts 17:31, Psalm 9:8, 1 Cor 3:12-15, 1 Peter 4:5, 2 Tim 4:1)
Day 29 - God is mighty, as seen through his power over kings and kingdoms (Prov 21:1, Pharoah's heart was hardened by God multiple times in Exodus 4 though 14, Deut 2:30, 1 Sam 16:14-16, 1 Chronicles 29:12, Daniel 4, Psalm 2:1-4, John 19:10-11)
Day 30 - God is mighty, as seen through his power to save and redeem (Zeph 3:17, Heb 7:25, Dan 3:17, Psalm 136, John 3:16-17)
WOW! What a mighty God we serve!
Let's remember and never forget!
