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When the children of Israel entered the Promised Land, God commanded them to take twelve stones from the river Jordan and build a memorial on the river bank.

Those who fight and walk in dominion must learn to build memorials to God’s many miracles in their life, not monuments to unanswered questions. Every time God does something spectacular in your life, you must take “a stone” from that situation and build a memorial in your mind. That memory becomes a point of reference for your faith when things get hard. We all go through our “Jordan Rivers” in life. Sometimes we go through very low points in our journey of faith, but God never leaves us there in despair. He gets us through. So take stones from those points of life as a reminder of God’s faithfulness to you.

Fighting comes from faith. Faith comes from remembering God’s faithfulness. Yes, faith comes from hearing God’s Word but it also comes from remembering God’s works. One of the reasons people go from deliverance to deliverance instead of deliverance to dominion is they don’t have faith. They live by their feelings. They are controlled by symptoms. They bring God down to the level of their moods. God’s Word is no more important to them than their feelings about what they see happening in their lives. A person who wants to walk in dominion must live by faith, not by sight. A life of faith is not that hard. It’s based on feeding yourself with God’s Word and remembering God’s works.

If we don’t build a memorial to what God did, the devil will hijack our mind by filling it with what God did not do. Instead of building memorials to miracles, we build monuments to unexplained doubts and questions. Why didn’t God prevent this accident from happening to me? Why didn't God heal my friend or loved one? Why, oh God, did someone commit suicide after we prayed for him? Why wasn't this or that prayer answered? Why was I born this way? These are mysteries that plague our minds. For some of those questions, we will never get answers on this side of eternity. Questions are normal, but building monuments to things that God has not done or was expected to do will weaken our faith. Once our faith is crippled, it’s hard to be victors. We fall into self-pity and live like a victim.

In this broken world, if you want to walk in dominion, you must intentionally remember what God has done in your life. Remember His miracles, all the answered prayers, all the fulfilled dreams, all the things He delivered you from. Put into your memory bank all the gifts that He graciously gives you each day, which usually you take for granted. And don’t forget what He did on the cross for your eternal salvation and on the day of Pentecost when He sent His Spirit to dwell in you. You have to build into your soul an archive of God’s faithfulness. Design your memorial in your mind and heart; otherwise, your mind will gravitate naturally by default to all the things that God did not do.

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