The call of God for a nation, for communities, for churches, for us individually is simple to say, but hard to do. The call of God is to “Not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old.” (Isaiah 43:18)

Have you ever thought about how do I forget? How does one not remember things that have happened to us, to our nation, to our community, in the church? Forgetting is a gift from God that we very rarely talk about, because we love sharing memories.

The Bible is filled with calls to remember, Luke 17 says, Remember Lot’s wife; Genesis 8 says, God remembered Noah; Joshua 1 speaks of putting rocks in the river where they crossed over as stones of remembrance. Remembering is a much of a gift as forgetting is.

The call of God right now is for us to forget the former things, do not dwell on the past, but rather behold. Behold is an invitation to Psalm 121, lift up your eyes; Joshua 3 stay fifteen feet behind the ark, we have never gone this way before.

One of the hinderances to the new is our inability to forget the old. What has been experienced is established, what is coming is unknown. But our trust is not to be in anything but God Himself. They were not to trust the cloud or the pillar of fire in the wilderness, they were to trust God.

When we trust God, if there is no cloud, no pillar of fire, no anything, we know we are in a divine pause before a new reveal. If we don’t enter into the gift of forget, we will only echo what others have seen.

Echoing other peoples words do not carry substance, for it is like second hand smoke, when the Lord is wanting to give us first hand experiences. When you see Him, and your response is holy, holy, holy, based on who you saw it carries weight.

We are seeing and will continue to see first hand miracles, signs, wonders, the throne, the eyes of fire, these will not be echo’s of what someone else saw and wrote about this will be our reality. Forget so you can behold. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org