Remembering how God has helped us in the past can strengthen our faith that He will help us in the future.
After encouraging his son Helaman to remember the captivity and deliverance of their ancestors, Alma testified that God had also sustained him through difficult experiences:
I have been supported under trials and troubles of every kind, yea, and in all manner of afflictions; yea, God has delivered me from prison, and from bonds, and from death; yea, and I do put my trust in him, and he will still deliver me.
Alma 36:27
Later in the same interview, he applied the same principle directly to his son:
He will fulfil all his promises which he shall make unto you, for he has fulfilled his promises which he has made unto our fathers.
Alma 37:17
If we recognize that God has blessed us in the past, then we can have confidence that He will continue to bless us in the future. President Howard W. Hunter testified, "He will bless us as a people because he always has blessed us as a people. He will bless us as individuals because he always has blessed us as individuals" ("An Anchor to the Souls of Men," Brigham Young University Devotional Address, 7 February 1993).
Elder Dale G. Renlund explained, "Alma understood that by remembering deliverance from bondage and support during 'trials and troubles of every kind,' we come to know God and the surety of His promises" ("Consider the Goodness and Greatness of God," General Conference, April 2020).
Today, I will remember how God has blessed me, sustained me, and delivered me throughout my life. On the basis of those memories, I will trust Him to bless me, sustain me, and deliver me today.
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