Tuesday, 23^rd December 2025

Alex Buabeng-Korsah

TOPIC: REMEMBER HIS FAITHFULNESS

THEME SCRIPTURE: “Moses said, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded: Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness.’” — Exodus 16:32

PREPARATORY QUESTIONS:

1. Why was God interested in the Israelites keeping a sample of the manna to help generations know the food He gave them?

God not only provided manna—He commanded Israel to preserve a portion of it. Why? Because people forget. Fear thrives where memory fades. The jar of manna placed before the Lord became a perpetual witness that God had been faithful before—and would be faithful again.

Israel needed this reminder. They would face battles, delays, disappointments, and long seasons where promised blessings seemed far away. The preserved manna testified: “You survived because God sustained you.”

As Gregory of Nazianzus once wrote, “Memory of His mercies is the seedbed of hope.”

Spiritual forgetfulness is not passive; it is dangerous. When we forget what God has done, we begin to interpret the present through fear instead of through faith. We doubt His goodness, resent His timing, and envy others’ paths.

Beloved, when we remember His past provision, we recognize that today’s wilderness is simply another place for Him to prove Himself faithful.

Each believer needs a “jar of manna”—a deliberate practice of remembering God’s interventions, rescues, and quiet mercies.

Augustine urged believers, “Return to your heart; there recall your blessings; let memory be the companion of faith.” Remembrance is not nostalgia; it is spiritual warfare. It anchors us in truth when circumstances shout uncertainty.

Precious one, if you are walking through a season where God feels silent or provision seems thin, pause and remember: He has fed you before. He has carried you before. He has surprised you before. The God of yesterday has not changed.

FURTHER READING –  Exodus 16

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QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU MEDITATE ON THE WORD:

1. What specific acts of God’s faithfulness in your past are you currently forgetting?

2. Do you have a practice of “keeping a jar of manna”—journaling, testimonies, or stories you revisit?

3. How might remembering God’s past provision change how you face your present need?

PRAYER

Faithful Lord, teach my heart to remember. Guard me from the blindness that comes with fear and the amnesia that comes with comfort. Bring to mind every mercy, every provision, every moment You sustained me when I could not sustain myself. Let remembrance strengthen my faith and silence my doubts. May my memory of Your kindness become the anchor of my hope today. In Jesus’  precious name, Amen.

One-Year Bible Reading Plan

1 Peter 2; Psalms 15, Ecclesiastes 7