Remember God, Not The Blessing
Remember God, Not The Blessing
The Christmas season brings joy, gifts, and time with loved ones, but it also presents a spiritual challenge that Moses understood well. Standing with the Israelites on the border of the Promised Land, Moses didn't celebrate their upcoming abundance—he warned them. After 40 years of complete dependence on God in the wilderness, they were about to enter a land of prosperity where the real test would begin. The greatest danger they would face wasn't external hardship, but internal self-reliance that comes with blessing. Self-reliance creeps in when we start believing our success comes from our own abilities rather than God's faithfulness. When life becomes comfortable and our needs are met, we naturally begin to act like we don't need help. We forget the One who carried us through every previous season. This spiritual amnesia is dangerous because it disconnects us from our true source of strength and provision. To combat this tendency, we must actively remember three aspects of God's character. First, remember His provision—He is our sustainer through every season, providing not just once but continuously with purpose behind each gift. Second, remember His power — true success flows from God's strength, not our own abilities or achievements. Finally, remember His grace—the unearned favor that gives us what we could never deserve or produce ourselves. By intentionally acknowledging God as the source of our blessings rather than taking credit ourselves, we can celebrate life's gifts while maintaining our dependence on the Giver.
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Remember God, Not the Blessing: Staying Faithful in Times of Abundance
Christmas is around the corner, and many of us are preparing to receive gifts, enjoy time with family, and celebrate the season. But in the midst of our blessings and abundance, there's a crucial reminder we need to hear: never forget the Lord.
The Greatest Danger Isn't Hardship—It's Forgetting God in Our Blessings
In Deuteronomy 8:10-18, Moses stands with God's people on the border of the Promised Land. After 40 years in the wilderness, they're about to enter a land flowing with abundance. But Moses doesn't celebrate—he warns them. The greatest danger they'll face isn't hardship, but becoming self-reliant and forgetting God in their blessing.
For four decades, God carried them. Everything they had came from His hand. But once they enter a land of abundance—houses, crops, wealth—the real test begins. When life gets comfortable and we become lost in our blessings, we start acting like we don't need help. We start to forget God himself.
What Does It Mean to Be Self-Reliant?
Self-reliance means relying on your own powers and resources rather than those of others. It's when everything becomes about you—your skills, your talents, your way or the highway. It's believing you can do it all without God's help.
The moment we become self-reliant in our blessings, we forget the One who brought us through every season. Whether in abundance or hardship, we must remember the One who has been faithful through all seasons.
How Do We Stay Reliant on God? Three Things to Remember
1. Remember His Provision
God is your provider—your only source that sustains you through every season. For 40 years, He provided for His people in times of need. Every morning, He was faithful.
What makes God's provision special is that He never provides just once. He's not a God who steps in for a moment and then leaves. There's always a reason for His provision. When He provides for you, He wants you to sit with Him, not just the blessing. He wants to show you something you didn't see before.
When Moses struck the rock and water gushed out, it wasn't random. It was because the people were thirsty in the hot, dry wilderness. When God provided manna every morning, it was to humble them and test them for their own good. Each time God provided, He had a purpose.
Questions to Consider About God's Provision
What have you learned through His provision in your life? After God has provided, what is your response? Is it "thanks for that, but I've got it from here," or is it humility and gratitude that sits at His feet?
When was the last time you intentionally paused through the busyness of life to thank God for what He has done? In our struggles, it's easy to be desperate and cry out to God. But when life is flourishing and all is well, do we remember the Lord?
2. Remember His Power
True success only comes from God's power, not our own. Every opportunity, every blessing, every victory comes from God. Moses warns that prosperity and blessings can deceive the heart. When things go well, we naturally begin to believe we've earned everything ourselves.
The enemy whispers, "You did this. You worked hard. You don't need God." But God whispers, "Remember the Lord your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful."
Real success isn't about trophies or achievements—it's a rich relationship with God. Our strength fades, our abilities change, our trophies are temporary. But God's power doesn't need trophies. It's not limited by seasons and doesn't wear out.
The Truth About Our Achievements
Apart from God, we can do nothing. In your achievements and life successes, how many are centered in Christ? When has God humbled you to show that dependence on Him is the source of real strength?
When you surrender and let His power flow through your life, watch Him take your life from strength to strength. Watch Him show you purpose and gifts you never thought you had.
3. Remember His Grace
Grace is God giving you what you could never earn, never deserve, and never produce on your own. It's His faithfulness, favor, strength, and power to live the life He's called you to.
Israel's blessings—manna, water from the rock, deliverance from Egypt, victory over enemies, the Promised Land—were all grace. Their prosperity wasn't based on their goodness, but on the goodness of God.
The same grace is ours today through Jesus Christ. We are saved, strengthened, and equipped not because of our efforts, but because of His mercy and faithfulness.
Grace in Action
Every testimony of transformation is a story of someone who couldn't save themselves, yet God's grace found them, carried them, healed them, and made them new. That same grace carried Israel through the desert. Their story wasn't a celebration of their strength—it was a spotlight on God's faithfulness.
Celebrating Without Forgetting
Remembering the Lord doesn't always have to be a deep, reflective moment. It can be found in joy, worship, and praise. The good Father knows His flock, and the flock knows His voice.
You can celebrate Christmas with your families and friends, go on holidays, and enjoy life's blessings. But remember the Lord. Don't forget Him. We're never going to be perfect, but we can choose to remember Him in every season.
Life Application
This week, make it a practice to intentionally pause and thank God for His provision, power, and grace in your life. Don't just acknowledge your blessings—acknowledge the Giver of those blessings. Whether you're experiencing abundance or hardship, choose to remember that God is your source, your strength, and your salvation.
Ask yourself these questions:
In what areas of my life have I become self-reliant instead of God-reliant?
How has God's provision, power, and grace carried me in ways I couldn't carry myself?
When I experience success or blessings, is my first response gratitude to God or pride in my own accomplishments?
What specific ways can I remember and honor God in the midst of my current blessings?
Remember: God's goodness is running after you. In every season, in every blessing, in every challenge—He is the good, good Father who never fails.
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A discussion guide for the sermon can be found here.
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So, people, Christmas is around the corner. Around the corner. Relax now. Don't need to work too hard anymore. Put your feet up.
Relax. You've done the hard work. Done the hard work. Relax.
But never forget the Lord and your blessings and all your gifts. You guys are going to get gifts, clothes, whatever it may be, you know, Never forget the Lord.
Never forget the Lord. That is the theme this morning. And I'm going to be reading from Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verses 10 to 18.
And this is what the word says. When you have eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. But that is the time to be careful. Beware that in your plenty you do not forget the Lord your God and disobey his commands, regulations and decrees that I am giving you today. For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in, and when your flocks and herds have become very large and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else, be careful.
Do not become proud at that time. And forget your Lord God. He rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt. Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with his poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry, he gave you water from the rock. He fed you with manna in wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors.
He did this to humble you and test you for your own good. He did all this so you would never say to yourself, I have achieved wealth with my own strength and energy. Remember the Lord. He is the one who gives you power to be successful in order to fulfill the covenant confirmed to your ancestors with an oath. Who's read that before?
Power. Powerful passage. Do not forget the Lord. Remember him.
And the picture is Moses and God's people. They're standing there. 40 years of the wilderness behind them on the border. Promised land in front of them.
But Moses is not going. Hey guys, we did it. 40 years. We did it. That's right.
Just over there, there is a promised land. A few beers in the fridge. The game's about to start. Put your feet up. No.
He warns them. He warns them.
The greatest danger they will face in the land is not hardship. It's becoming self reliant and forgetting God. In the blessing.
For four decades, God carried them. Everything they had came from God's hand. But once they enter a land flowing with abundance, houses, crops, wealth, the real test begins. And for you and I, that's the real test. Your blessings.
Your blessings. When God gives you everything that you've ever wanted. Open doors and opportunities and so forth.
Do you remember the Lord?
The moment we become self reliant, life gets comfortable. Lost in our blessings. We start acting like we don't need help. We start to forget God himself. Remember God, not the blessing.
Self reliant. I had to google what this means. And this is what it means. Someone who relies on their own powers and resources rather than those of others. And I'll translate it my way.
It means that it's all about you. You're selfish. You know it all. Your skill, your gifting, your talents, your way or the highway. I can do it all.
This here was me many years ago as a young chef in training school. In training school. Chef school. We had a challenge where you had to split off in groups, groups of three, and you had 30 minutes to cook three dishes. 30 minutes, three dishes.
I know some of you take two weeks. So K, we'll get there. Hey, they did 40 years. Two weeks, not that much. All right, so that's the challenge, right?
Three dishes, 30 minutes, three chefs. The goal, work together as a team. Three, two, one. We're off. There is no team.
It's just me.
Not because they weren't there, but because that's. That's how I was. It's all me. I'm cutting this, I'm frying this, and, oh, do you need help? I've got a brother.
I'll defy that. I'll blanch this. I'll cut that. And I keep going, and I keep going. And I've sliced my hand, pissing out of blood.
Any normal person will go for the first aid kit. I'm Samoan. We're wired different. We finished to the end. So what I did was I got some tape, taped it up, put the glove on, washed everything down, and I went again.
Cut this, blanched this, all that. And then I started to feel a bit dizzy. You know when it's like, okay, game over. When it's a health and safety thing and stuff? Right.
Well, being we care about you more than what you do. That speech. And all of a sudden, you know, I left. I was gutted. I was gutted.
I was discouraged because I didn't finish it. I didn't. I wasn't even there. Afterwards, I found that the other two chefs actually finished all three dishes in time. And we all passed together.
I forgot about the team. And in your blessings, in your blessings, in your lives, when things are flourishing, when life is good, sometimes we can forget the Lord.
In your blessings and your hardships, do not forget the one who has been faithful to you through all seasons. I've titled this morning's message, remember God, not the blessing. I'm going to give you three things to remember. And how do we stay reliant on God in all seasons? Here's number one.
Remember his provision. Remember his provision. God is your provider. He is your provider, your only source that sustains you. Through every season, in your abundance, in your brokenness, and in your hardships, he never fails.
His provision never runs out. God provided for his people for 40 years. For 40 years, he provided for his people in times of need. Every morning he has been faithful. Verse 14.
This is what verse 1417 gives us, a strong detail of his provision. Do not become proud at that time and forget the Lord, your God, who rescues you from slavery. I'm sorry, man. I'm spitting everywhere. I knew I should have bought Baby's bib.
Where's Baby's bib?
Who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt? Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with his poisonous snakes and scorpions where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock. He fed you with manna and the wilderness. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good.
He did all this so you would never say to yourself, I've achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy. What I love about God's provision is two things and two things that I've learned in my life. He has provided. Regardless of the season, he has provided. Would you agree?
Our goodness. Yeah. Our good times, our brokenness, our hardships, our confused times. He provides. Even when you don't ask for it, he still provides.
And what I've learned over the years is, number one, he never just provides once. I've never met a God that says, hey, I'm gonna step into the situation for you and I'm gonna provide something for you. And then I'm heading off. It's Christmas time. Going holidays with that guy, right?
It's not that. Right. Second thing is, there is always a reason for his provision. When he provides you, what's he saying?
Are you sitting with the thing that he's provided and the blessing? Are you sitting with Him? When you sit with him during the times that he's provided for you, he tends to throw something at you that he wants you to see. Purpose, reason. You're not just stepping into this relationship just for that moment.
What are you showing me that I didn't see before? See, for the people here, water came when they needed it. Moses strikes a rock. If you don't know the story, basically all the Israelites were like, hey, brother, we're thirsty men. Thirsty.
And they started. The people, they're getting unpatient, right? They're getting restless. They're thirsty. Moses speaks to the Lord and Moses grabs his stick and smashes the rock, gushes out water.
The purpose and the reason in verse 15, where it was so hot and dry, what did he do? He provided. He gave you water from a rock. Doesn't just say water from a rock randomly because it was so hot and dry. Manna fed them.
Fed them every morning, more than once. Reason and verse 16. To humble you and test you for your own good. To humble you. There's no KFC or Big Macs over there.
Manna. Right. A cloud. Cloud guided them by day, fire by night. God's provision wasn't just for one time event.
Each time he provided he had a purpose. And each time he provides for you. There is a greater purpose behind that blessing. But the only way you're going to grab a hold of that truth is that you would remember the Lord, not the blessing.
Nehemiah 9:19 says this.
But in your great mercy, you did not abandon them to die in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still led them forward by day, and the pillar of fire showed them the way through the night. You sent your good servant to instruct them and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst. For 40 years you sustained them in the wilderness and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Provision. He is our provider.
What have you learned through his provision? In your life, what have you learned? What has he shown you? What's he speaking to you about?
After God has provided, what is your response? What is your heart posture? Is it one of those moments where, thanks for that, but I've got it from here? Or is it one of humility and the heart of gratitude that sits at his feet to say, thank you, we go again. I will never forget you.
When was the last time you intentionally paused through the busyness of life to thank God for what he has done in your life? We can sing songs about being grateful all you want. When have you come across moments in your life where you just stopped everything and said, thank you, Lord? In our struggles and that it's easy for us to be desperate. Lord, help me, Lord.
Fix this, Lord. What about that? What about that? But when your life is flourishing and all good and well, do we remember the Lord?
Remember him. Remember his provision. He will never fail you. That is the first thing. Church, you with me.
Second thing is this. Remember his power. His power. Verse 18. Remember the Lord your God.
He is the one who gives you power to be successful. He wants to be successful.
Just me. Just little old me.
True success only comes from God's power, not our own. We know that. Right. You can pump weights at the gym. More you want.
Without God's power, you ain't going to do but one rep. Every opportunity, every blessing, victory comes from God. And Moses warns that prosperity, blessings can deceive the heart.
When things go well, we naturally begin to believe we have earned everything ourselves. We have done nothing.
Doesn't matter how good I preach, doesn't matter how good I play. Doesn't matter how good the food I cook. Nah.
And what happens sometimes is the enemy, the devil, starts to seep into your life. Seep into your life.
And you start to drift. And it's a slow drift, right? It's a slow drift in that when the heart starts to become deceitful. And when the devil says this, you know, the devil sits there with you and he whispers these things. You did this.
You did it. No, you don't need the big fella. You did it. You did it all. I watched.
He worked hard, pumping all those weights and that, singing those songs. You did it, right. You worked hard. Not him.
That's what the devil whispers in you. Pride, comfort, stubbornness, hardened heart.
What's the use of knowledge of the Word if you don't know the Father himself?
But true success, the Lord's success. You know what the Lord whispers to? He says this, remember the Lord your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful. There is no success.
There is no shortcut. There is only one way, and that is through the father. In verse 17, he did all this so you would never say to yourself, I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy. Remember his power, his strength. He gives you that.
And then watch your life unfold. You want to know what real success is? It's a rich relationship with God. That's real success.
Remember power church? You know, back in the days, I used to be an athlete.
Yeah, you guys actually beat the Saturday night team, man. They laughed pretty. Some of them were like, hey, hey, I gotta get through the sermon, man. And they were laughing.
I used to be an athlete. Promising rugby league player, right? I was fortunate enough to make rep teams, different types of rep teams, and state teams equivalent to state teams, and Junior Kiwis was equivalent to Australian team and that, right? And the first time I told my wife all of this, that was her response just a little bit louder. And each year I like to go, you know what?
I like to revisit that dream again, right? And stuff, etc. Now I've got two daughters, so, okay, all right. I shared him the same story. Nothing Nothing.
Crickets. Nothing, Nothing like that. My daughter looks at me up and down, looks at my body up and down. And then she's like confused. Right, athlete?
Yeah, right. And for so many years I was going, you know what? One day I'm going to prove that I was an athlete.
Then I remember the Lord answered my prayers. Two weeks ago, the Lord sent a savior to my house in the form of my sister from Brisbane. And when she came, she held on to some things, held on to some things. And these things would change everything in my household. Everything in my household.
Gonna redeem the king of the castle after this one. And yeah, here we go. Hold on, hold on. This was a little bit heavy. Give me a sec.
Get a close up guys, if you can. I've got about seven or eight trophies at home. You know what I did? I laid them all out. I laid them all out.
Rounded up my family and said, you guys come and stayed right here, right here. And I went, take that.
I had him against the ropes, if you know boxing, you know what I mean? I had him. I had all three gears of the ropes. I took it even further. I said, what does this say?
What does it say? Hey, what does it say? Oh, oh, play of the year. Well, what about that one? Player of the year, Player of the year, Player of the year.
And Alex's jaw just went like that. My daughters were like, these trophies are not thank you for waking up in the morning. They weren't. These are thank you for catching the ball for trophy. So thank you for participating.
Trophy player of the year. Come on.
Where's Alex? Oh, yeah, she's hiding at the back. That's what I thought.
Here's what hit me. Those trophies didn't prove how strong I am today. They only proved what I did back then.
My strength now is nothing like my strength back then. And that's the difference between our power and God's. Our strength fades, our ability changes. Our trophies are temporary. But God, his power doesn't need trophies.
It's not limited by seasons. It doesn't wear out. When God works in your life, his power is strong. These here, there was a time when they meant something. Right now they don't mean very much.
And you're going to have trophies in your life. Where once you idled and that was a dream and that was a treasure and you were self reliant. You pursued that dream so much that you have forgotten the Lord chasing treasures of life and trophies and all these things and that you have forgotten the one they brought you through. The wilderness.
We need God's strength, don't we? Every single day. Man, I needed it. This morning, Alex had to come to rehearsal early in the morning. I woke up with three, four girls.
There's four kids in my house. I thought, no, sorry. Three of them. My daughters and their friends. And I'm stuck with them in the morning.
My dad was a different Holy Spirit then. That's like. If I rewrote this verse, it's like, give me all the power. Like now.
Your power. Mine doesn't work, doesn't last. A moment of happiness. No.
Psalm 15:5. Apart from me, you can do nothing without the Lord. You can do nothing in your achievements, church and your life. Successes. How many of those are centered in Christ?
When has God humbled you to show you that dependence on him is a source of real strength?
When you surrender and let his power flow through your life. Watch him take your life from strength to strength. Watch him take it. Watch him show you purpose. Watch him show you the gifts and talents that you never thought you had.
Give you the drive and the courage to step out. You know all those families up here. Courage, courage. I know Marcus was petrified because I was going to put him on the spot, but he did pretty well. Pretty well.
Marcus, When you're going through something difficult or living out the best days of your life, church, remember the Lord, the One who gives you power to be successful. That's my second point. So how do we stay reliant on God?
Remember his provision. He is the provider. Remember his power. Only through him we can do all things. And the third thing is this, and I believe it's the greatest thing out of all three is remember his grace.
Remember his grace.
Grace is God giving you what you could never earn, never deserve and never produce on your own. His faithfulness, his favour, his strength and his power to live the life. He's called you to his kindness, blessing and acceptance towards you, not because you earned it, but because he is good.
Verse 18. In order to fulfill the covenant confirmed to your ancestors with an oath. This brings us back to God's promise, the covenant of Israel to save them and prosper them. Not by works, but by his grace. A covenant originally established with Abraham reaffirmed Isaac and Jacob.
Israel's prosperity in the land is evidence of God keeping His promise. Israel's blessings of food, water, protection, guidance and prosperity was not based on their goodness, but the goodness of God. Manna, water from the rock, deliverance from Egypt, victory over enemies. The promised land was all grace.
Ephesians 2:8. God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this. It is a gift from God. The same grace is ours today.
Through Jesus Christ, we are saved, strengthened and equipped. Not because of our efforts, but because of his mercy and covenant and faithfulness.
Fu, you're doing so much. Look at you go. Great musician, preacher, rugby hall of fame.
You're cooking. You're here nearly every day. You might as well move your bed into the office. Well, he did it all. He did it all, did nothing.
I'm doing what each and every one of you are doing. Serving God. Just that the serving part looks a bit different, that's all. But the heart is still the same. It's the heart to say.
So hard to say. I remember the Lord.
We had baptisms last week, right? He was here. Amazing, wasn't it? Close to 30 people getting baptized. The power in their testimonies is the grace that God threaded through their lives.
And I took snippets of some of the testimonies from some of the people from last week. Three of them. This is what one person said.
But even in those dark moments, God was there. Meeting Jesus changed everything. He didn't just comfort, offer comfort. He showed me I'm loved, accepted and valuable just as I am. I brought hope into my life.
He brought hope into my life. When I thought there was none, there was one person. The next person says this. Surrendering myself to God has brought so much grace into my life. And being baptized today is my declaration that my life is his, that I trust him, that I'm ready to fulfill.
I'm ready to follow him fully and that I know he has never left my side. Even in the moments when I feel so lost.
Here's another one here. It wasn't enough to rely on the faith of my parents. I had to know him for myself. These are all just snippet testimonies from last week.
If your faith is reliant on the person that you live with, it's not enough. You have to grab a hold of your own faith. You have to cement yourself in a rich relationship with the Father for yourself. People are going to let you down. People are going to let you down.
That's part and parcel of it. That's what happens. No one's perfect. Your pastors, myself, Trevor, everyone here, we are going to let you down somewhere. We are not perfect.
But what we can do is be reminded that we serve a perfect God. Perfect God.
These are the reminders that every testimony is a story of someone who couldn't save themselves. Yet God's grace found him, carried them, healed them and made them new. That same grace carried Israel through the desert. Their story wasn't a celebration of their strength. It was a spotlight on God's faithfulness.
In Luke 1:68,75, it says this. I'll get the team up. Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed his people. He has sent us a mighty savior from the royal line of his servant David, just as he promised through his holy prophets long ago. Now we will be saved from our enemies and from all who hate us.
He has been merciful to our ancestors by redeeming his sacred covenant, the covenant he swore with an oath to our ancestors, Abraham. We have been rescued from our enemies so we can serve God without fear and holiness and righteousness for as long as we live.
He is a good, good father. He is a good, good father.
For me, for myself and my wife, Alex. And there were many years in how we serve in this church. And even in our relationships, the one thing that drives us is being reminded of the good, good Father. In our moments of need, we're reminded good, good Father and our blessings. We are reminded of good, good Father.
And we make sure we get that part right so we don't swerve, so we don't drift and get caught up in the blessings and everything God has given us. And life is great and we don't get caught up on this end to go. My situation, my hardship, my brokenness, I'm just stuck in there. And years and years and years, I'm still stuck there.
How has God's grace carried you in ways you couldn't carry yourself?
How does Jesus sacrifice and the new covenant change the way you see your accomplishments and daily life?
Great thing about remembering the Lord is that it doesn't always have to be a deep, reflective moment. Joy, joy. Hey, how many of you guys have found joy in the Lord? Hey. Amen.
Yeah, opportunity to worship him and praise Him. Hey, how many of you guys have found Jesus there, right? How good is he there and worship? I was up here and I was doing harmonies with Justin and stuff and. Or I could hear you guys, man.
I could hear your voices.
The good, good Father knows his flock. The flock knows his voice.
So I want to encourage you, church, remember the Lord. We're never going to be perfect. Don't be too hard on yourself, but remember him. Don't forget Him. Celebrate Christmas with your families and, and friends, go on holidays, do whatever it is.
But Remember the lord. And I've asked this team to sing this song. We haven't done it in a while, and I think it'd be a great time to just reflect on that for a moment. We serve a good, good father. God is good.
And all the time live that out.
Related Bible Verses
Deuteronomy 8:10–18 (NLT)
'When you have eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. “But that is the time to be careful! Beware that in your plenty you do not forget the Lord your God and disobey his commands, regulations, and decrees that I am giving you today. For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in, and when your flocks and herds have become very large and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else, be careful! Do not become proud at that time and forget the Lord your God, who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt. Do not forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry. He gave you water from the rock! He fed you with manna in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good. He did all this so you would never say to yourself, ‘I have achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy.’ Remember the Lord your God. He is the one who gives you power to be successful, in order to fulfill the covenant he confirmed to your ancestors with an oath. '
Click here to read Deuteronomy 8:10–18 on Bible.com
Nehemiah 9:19–21 (NLT)
'“But in your great mercy you did not abandon them to die in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud still led them forward by day, and the pillar of fire showed them the way through the night. You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst. For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell! '
Click here to read Nehemiah 9:19–21 on Bible.com
Luke 1:68–75 (NLT)
'“Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited and redeemed his people. He has sent us a mighty Savior from the royal line of his servant David, just as he promised through his holy prophets long ago. Now we will be saved from our enemies and from all who hate us. He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant— the covenant he swore with an oath to our ancestor Abraham. We have been rescued from our enemies so we can serve God without fear, in holiness and righteousness for as long as we live. '