Don’t forget

​Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:..(Genesis 41:9).

It is important that we remember to pray for those we have vowed to pray for. Perhaps our response to a person in distress is, “I will remember you in prayer.” If so, we must make time to do it. We must be a woman or man of our word. Someone is counting on it, just as Joseph took the chief butler at his word when he promised to remember him after he was released from prison. For some reason the Butler delayed and was long in doing but he finally remembers and acts. We must be mindful not to allow worldly cares to quench our prayers, reading the Word of God, and spending time with Him. 

Spurgeon wrote, “It is very possible that the butler was so busy with his work and his gains, and looking after his fellow-servants and all that, that he forgot poor Joseph. Is it not very possible that this may be the case with us? We forget the Lord Jesus to whom we are bound by such ties, because our business is so large, our family so numerous, our cares so pressing, our bills and bonds so urgent, and even because perhaps our gains are so large…It is a pity he forgot Joseph, but it is a great blessing that he remembered him. It is a sad thing that you and I should have done so little; it is a mercy that there is time left for us to do more.”

The Lord is waiting to release someone from bondage and is waiting for us to keep our word and pray.

GiGi❤️