2) Our Daily Bread for 21 February 2026 Titled Remembering to

Forget by Bill Crowder



Psalm 42:1-8



1 As the deer pants after the water brooks,

so my soul pants after You, O God.

2 (Ps 63:1; 84:2 ) My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When will I come and appear before God?

3 (Ps 79:10; 80:5) My tears have been my food

day and night,

while they always say to me,

"Where is your God?"

4 (Isa 30:29; Ps 62:8) When I remember these things,

I pour out my soul within me.

For I would travel with the throng of people;

I proceeded with them to the house of God,

with the voice of joy and thanks,

with a multitude making a pilgrimage.

5 (Ps 42:11; 43:5) Why are you cast down, O my soul?

And why are you disquieted in me?

Hope in God,

for I will yet thank Him

for the help of His presence.

6 (2Sa 17:22; Dt 3:8-9) O my God, my soul is cast down within me;

therefore I will remember You

from the land of Jordan,

and of the Hermon, from the hill of Mizar.

7 (Ps 88:7; Jnh 2:3) Deep calls to deep

at the noise of Your waterfalls;

all Your waves and Your billows

passed over me.

8 (Job 35:10; Ps 63:6) Yet the Lord will command

His lovingkindness in the daytime,

and in the night His song will be with me,

a prayer to the God of my life.





[1] As the hart panteth after the water brooks,

So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

[2] My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:

When shall I come and appear before God?

[3] My tears have been my meat day and night,

While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

[4] When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me:

For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and praise,

With a multitude that kept holyday.

[5] Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why art thou disquieted in me?

Hope thou in God:

For I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.

[6] O my God, my soul is cast down within me:

Therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the

Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

[7] Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:

All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

[8] Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,

And in the night his song shall be with me,

and my prayer unto the God of my life.



Author Richard Mouw tells of a Black theologian from South Africa who

struggled with dark memories of life under apartheid. Mouw wrote, "He told a

story about an African child whose teacher asked her to define 'memory.'

After thinking about it, the child said, 'Memory is that thing that helps me

to forget.'" Out of the mouths of babes! Her past held much she didn't want

to recall, so she wanted to remember the good things.



Many carry the scars of terrible, seemingly unforgettable things. But that

child's wisdom offers hope. If we learn to remember better things, those

memories can strengthen us to move forward from our painful past. In Psalm 42,

the psalmist feels like a deer running for its life. However, he also says,

"These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house

of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise

among the festive throng" (v. 4).



The singer's memories of worshiping God encouraged him to praise,

even in the midst of pain. "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed

within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour a

nd my God" (v. 5). Remembering who our God is—and that we are His - can help

us move beyond the painful past we can't forget.

Reflect & Pray



What dark memories of struggles and pains haunt you?

How will you allow the God of all hope to move you beyond them?



Dear Father, You know my scars and wounds,

my anger and grief. Please wrap me in Your goodness and mercy;

give me healing from hurts long past but not forgotten.

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3) Daily verses taken from Billy Graham Evangelical Organisation



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Week 7 Promises of Grace - Day 7 Support System



Deut 33:27



27 (Ge 49:24; Ps 90:1-2) The eternal God is your refuge,

and underneath you are the everlasting arms;

He will drive out the enemy before you,

and will say, "Destroy them."



27 The eternal God is thy refuge,

And underneath are the everlasting arms:

And he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee;

And shall say, Destroy them.



Misty was only 4 when her parents divorced. Her dad moved away,

and the following summer she went with her grandparents to visit him

in his new apartment. In the swimming pool one afternoon, Grandpa stood

Misty on the side of the pool, held out his arm, and called, "Jump!"

But Misty, normally a little fish, suddenly seemed afraid of the water,

and stood trembling on the sidewalk shaking her head.

"Jump, Misty - I'll catch you!"

"Are you sure, Grandpa?"

"Of course I'm sure! Jump!"

But Misty wouldn't jump. Finally Grandpa, a bit irritated, said, "Misty, do

you think I Won't catch you? Do you think I'll just walk away?"

The tears spilled over, and Misty sobbed. "Daddy did!"

Human support systems often fail us. We disappoint those we love, and

are disappointed by them. People simply aren't there for us

when we need them most.

But God promises that with him things are different. He's always there,

always listening, always caring, always ready to support us.

"Underneath his everlasting arms".

Sometimes those arms reach out clothed in flesh, in the warm embrace

of a loved one. Sometimes they support us through the Word, sometimes through

the quiet peace that comes in prayer. Sometimes we are not aware of them

at all, but they still hold us up, supporting, surrounding, loving.

Underneath us are the everlasting arms.



Application



a) Have I ever felt abandoned by someone I loved and depended upon?



b) How have I experienced the faithfulness of God's "Everlasting arms"?



c) Now can this verse help me in times when I feel my supports have given way?





4) From Prosperity Promises - Kenneth Copeland



Mark 4:23-29



23 (Mk 4:9; Mt 11:15) "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

24 (Mt 7:2) He said to them, "Take heed what you hear.

The measure you give will be measured for you,

and to you who hear will more be given.

25 (Mt 13:12; Lk 8:18) For to him who has will more be given.

And from him who has not will be taken, even what he has."



The Parable of the Growing Seed



26 (Mt 13:24) He said, "The kingdom of God is like a man

who scatters seed on the ground.

27 (Ecc 11:5) He sleeps and rises night and day,

and the seed sprouts and grows; he does not know how.

28 For the earth bears fruit by itself: first the blade,

then the head, then the full seed in the head.

29 (Joel 3:13) But when the grain is ripe,

immediately he applies the sickle because the harvest has come."



23 "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. "

24 And he said unto them, "Take heed what ye hear:

with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you:

and unto you that hear shall more be given.

25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not,

from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should

cast seed into the ground;

27 and should sleep, and rise night and day,

and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade,

then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

29 But when the fruit is brought forth,

immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come."