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Memory - A Powerful Tool
Remembering the bad times.
These are the easiest to remember.
They evoke the strongest emotions.
According to Elizabeth Kensinger of Boston College.
"When it seems like when we're having an emotional reaction, the emotional circuitry in the brain kind of turns on and enhances the processing.”
Jeremiah is living through the destruction of Israel.
Some of us have been in places where we have seen the devastation of war.
The heartbreak.
This is what Jeremiah is going through.
It does not have to be war to have these strong feelings.
When things are so bad, it pushes us into a depression.
Sometimes we have memory gaps.
Studies show that people who have significant memory gaps apart from a brain trauma, is because we experience something so traumatic that it is not encoded correctly.
Or our brain is on survival mode and there no way to encode the memory or the memory is just hidden.
Just because we have bad memories, does not mean we should just ignore it.
Bad experiences are a fact life because we live in a world filled with sin.
Remember the mercies of God.
When we remember the mercies of God, we are reminded that this world is not our home.
We are passing through.
It is always the darkest before the dawn.
Remembering the mercies of God is our anchor during the bad times.
No one wants to experience bad times, but they still happen.
Being a Christian does not make you exempt.
But the relationship we develop with Jesus Christ will keep us afloat during the bad times.
One way is to make a marker in your life for the times when you experienced the mercies of God.
One of the greatest ways is to sit down and actually write your testimony.
This is just the evidence and your own witness of the mercies of God in your life.
This is powerful.
It gives you something to remember and hold on to during the hard times.
Hope and Wait
This is probably the hardest one.
It takes a lot of faith to have hope during a difficult time.
It does not say it is easy, but it is possible.
This just does not happen overnight.
It is a process to get to the point of being able to hope and wait.
Once again, God gives us the answer and how we can achieve this.
Reading the word is wonderful, but reading out loud is even better.
There is something about how God designed us that when we use two senses at the same time, we really retain more information (science).
I am a k/t kines-tic tactile learner myself.
I retain so much more information if I read or hear and actually do it at the same time.
In Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me”, the filmmaker asks a group of tourists to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, while standing in front of the White House.
The group of tourists struggle with reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in unison.
When he asks the group about the ingredients of a Big Mac, they had no problem.
Why?
When we learn the Pledge of Allegiance, it may use up to 2 senses, sight and sound.
Commercials for the Big Mac have a catchy jingle.
All with visual and auditory sounds.
There is also the smell of a Big Mac.
These sensations relate to concrete items we relate to on a daily basis.
Consider for a moment how the brain processes information.
(get a picture of neural pathways) Pathways are developed as we learn new information and reinforced with experience.
It is estimated that newborns have 2,500 synapses and 3-year olds have 15,000.
As we grow older, a process called synaptic pruning begins.
This is the process of reinforcing and strengthen pathways based on experience.
Less experience based pathways are pruned.
This is why we must utilize as many senses as possible in our children to memorize and apply the Word of God while they have so many synapses just eager to create new pathways.
It will make a big difference in their lives.
Conclusion:
A - Acknowledge
B - Believe
Acts 16:31 (ESV)
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.”
C - Confess
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