“I Will Remember”

Text: Psalm 77:10–11 (KJV)

“And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.”

Introduction

Psalm 77 is not written from a mountain top.
It is written from a valley.

The writer is troubled.
His spirit is overwhelmed.
Sleep has left him.
Questions are filling his mind.

He begins by talking about his pain…
but then something changes.

He says:

“This is my infirmity: BUT I will remember…”

There comes a moment when a child of God must stop staring at the darkness and start remembering the faithfulness of God.

The devil loves spiritual amnesia.
He wants you to forget:

  • the prayers God answered,
  • the doors God opened,
  • the miracles God performed,
  • the times God carried you.

But Asaph said:
“I may be hurting… but I still remember.”

Suddenly the psalmist saw the years, all of them, even the years of tragedy and loss, as being at the right hand of the Most High Himself. The name Elyon itself is significant for it was the very name of God to which Melchiz-edek introduced Abraham—”the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth!”

The years of the right hand of the MOST HIGH.” Our thoughts go back to the Bethlehem road, to that dark spot in Jacob’s pilgrimage, near Bethlehem, about two miles south of Jerusalem and a mile north of Bethlehem. Jacob had been steadily moving south from Bethel—acting again in self-will, for God had told him to go to Bethel and dwell there. On the way, near Bethlehem, Rachel insisted on a halt. There was a birth and a death right there. Benjamin was born; Rachel died. The journey had been too great for her. Oh, that they had stayed at Bethel! There, by the wayside, Rachel brought that little boy to the birth, weeping in her birth pains and in her death throes. “Call him Benoni,” she gasped as her spirit fled. Brokenhearted, bereft of his very heart, Jacob took the little fellow in his arms. “Not Benoni,” he said, “but Benjamin.” “Not ’son of my sorrow,’ but ’son of my right hand.’” It was a glorious moment of faith triumphing over feeling.

The psalmist looks up into the face of the Most High. He thinks of the years—the years with their long tale of wickedness and woe, the years with their mysteries and miseries. “I will not write ’Benoni’ over those years,” he says. “I will write ’Benjamin’ over them.” They are the years of the right hand of God.

Dustin Bresina testimony

Tiffany Hettinga testimony

1. Remembering Is a Weapon Against Despair

The Psalmist said:

“This is my infirmity…”

“Infirmity” means weakness, affliction, limitation.

He admits:
“I’m struggling.”
“I’m weary.”
“My emotions are wounded.”

Even great people of faith have weak moments.

  • Elijah sat under a juniper tree.
  • Job cursed the day of his birth.
  • Jeremiah said he was weary with forbearing.
  • Peter wept bitterly.

But the turning point came when the Psalmist shifted his focus.

He stopped looking inward…
and started looking backward.

Sometimes the greatest thing you can do is revisit the victories God already gave you.

The devil says:
“God has abandoned you.”

But memory says:
“No He hasn’t.
He made a way before.”

Illustration

It is amazing how quickly fear can erase memory.

Israel walked through the Red Sea…
then a few days later said:
“Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?”

How could people who saw water stand up like walls suddenly doubt Him?

Because fear attacks memory.

That is why testimony matters.
That is why worship matters.
That is why we tell our children what God has done.

2. Remember “The Years of the Right Hand of the Most High”

The “right hand” in scripture speaks of:

  • power,
  • authority,
  • victory,
  • favor.

Asaph was saying:
“I remember the years when God’s hand was upon me.”

There are seasons in your life where you can clearly see:
“That was the hand of God.”

  • You should have lost your mind…
    but God kept you.
  • You should not have survived…
    but God brought you through.
  • You did not know how you would pay the bill/rent/car payment…
    but somehow provision came.
  • The doctor gave one report…but God gave another.

You are sitting here today because of the right hand of God.

Scripture

“Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power…” — Exodus 15:6

God’s hand is still mighty.

The same hand that:

  • parted seas,
  • shut lions’ mouths,
  • raised the dead,
  • filled the upper room—

is still working today.

3. Remember the Works of the Lord

David said:

“I will remember the works of the LORD…”

Not coincidence.
Not luck.
Not accident.

The WORKS of the Lord.

When you look back over your life, you can see fingerprints of God everywhere.

There were moments:

  • you didn’t even know He was protecting you,
  • you didn’t know why a door closed,
  • you didn’t know why a delay happened—

but later you realized:
“God was working all along.”

Sometimes We Forget Too Quickly… can I get an amen

We pray for miracles…
then once the storm passes, we move on as if it was ordinary.

But the Psalmist said:
“I will remember.”

Remember:

  • where He found you,
  • what He delivered you from,
  • how He filled you with the Holy Ghost,
  • the prayers He answered,
  • the revivals He sent,
  • the times His presence swept through the church.

4. Remember the Wonders of Old

“Surely I will remember thy wonders of old.”

“Wonders” speaks of miraculous acts that leave people amazed.

The church must never lose its memory of the supernatural.

We are serving:

  • the God of Pentecost,
  • the God of miracles,
  • the God who still heals,
  • the God who still delivers,
  • the God who still fills people with the Holy Ghost.

If He did it before…
He can do it again.

Illustration

David faced Goliath with old memories.

He said:
“The God who delivered me from the lion and the bear…”

Yesterday’s victories became fuel for today’s battle.

Some of you need to walk into your next battle carrying remembrance.

Tell the devil:

  • “God healed me before.”
  • “God made a way before.”
  • “God touched my family before.”
  • “God brought revival before.”

And if He did it then—
He can do it now.

5. Memory Produces Faith

Remembering is not living in the past.
Remembering builds faith for the future.

When you remember what God HAS done…
you gain confidence in what God WILL do.

The God of yesterday is still the God of today.

Scripture

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” — Hebrews 13:8

God has never failed.
Not once.

Kings have failed.
Governments have failed.
Economies have failed.
People have failed.

But God has never failed His people.

Conclusion

The Psalm began in sorrow…
but remembrance shifted the atmosphere.

Sometimes the answer is not a new revelation.
Sometimes the answer is remembering old ones.

Asaph essentially said:
“I refuse to let pain erase my testimony.”

Closing Exhortation

Remember:

  • the altar where God changed you,
  • the night He filled you with His Spirit,
  • the sermon that broke your heart,
  • the miracle that saved your family,
  • the times He protected you,
  • the prayers He answered.

You didn’t get here by yourself.

It was the goodness of God.
It was the mercy of God.
It was the mighty hand of God.

Altar Call

Before you ask God for the next miracle…
take a moment and remember the last one.

Before you pray about what you lack…
thank Him for what He has already done.

Somebody ought to lift their hands and say:
“Lord, I remember.”

“I remember Your mercy.”
“I remember Your power.”
“I remember Your faithfulness.”
“I remember the wonders of old.”

A mature believer learns to talk back to present trouble with past testimony:

  • “God brought me through before.”
  • “He healed before.”
  • “He provided before.”
  • “He made a way before.”
  • “The same God who opened the sea is still with me now.”

Current trouble is real, but it is not the whole story. The memory of God’s faithfulness becomes an anchor for the next storm.

And the same God who worked then…
is about to work again.