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There are places in our lives where God has met us.

Places where He spoke.
Places where He gave dreams.
Places where He marked us with His presence.
Places where, for a moment, we knew we were touching something much bigger than ourselves.

Sometimes those places are easy to remember. They feel warm, holy, and full of life.

But sometimes remembering is painful.

Because when we return to the places where God met us, we may also have to face the questions that gathered around those places over time.

Did I fail?
Did I miss it?
Did I let something go?
Did I misunderstand what God was saying?
Did that word die somewhere along the way?

In this week’s message, “It’s Time to Remember: The Altars God Has Not Forgotten,” Leah Ramirez shared from a deeply personal place about prophetic memory, the supernatural Gospel, and the invitation to revisit the altars in our lives — not through shame, striving, or regret, but through the faithful love of God.

Because God has not forgotten what He said.

And He has not forgotten the places where He met us.

From Faithfulness to Being Full of Faith

There is a difference between being faithful and being full of faith.

Many of us know what it is to keep going. We know what it is to remain steady, to endure difficult seasons, to keep showing up, to keep loving, to keep serving, to keep believing in some quiet interior way.

There is beauty in faithfulness.

But sometimes, after long seasons of disappointment, delay, exposure, scandal, pain, or unanswered questions, something in us begins to pull back from the electric life of faith.

We may still be faithful, but we stop reaching for the place where our hearts come alive.

We settle into endurance, but we no longer expect the supernatural movement of God.

Leah described this honestly as the Lord confronting cynicism — not the kind we can point to “out there,” but the kind that quietly grows in our own hearts.

A prayer meeting gets called, and somewhere inside we think, Do I really want to drive across town, say some things, and go home the same?

But God is inviting His people back into a supernatural view of the Gospel.

Not a disconnected spirituality.
Not hype.
Not ambition.
Not striving to make something happen.

But a recovery of the truth that the Gospel is not merely an individual salvation message. It is the cosmic victory of Christ.

The Cross Is a Cosmic Victory

Colossians 2
13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

The cross is the forgiveness of sins.

But it is not only the forgiveness of sins.

The cross is also the public triumph of Christ over the rulers and authorities. It is the cosmic display of the wisdom, victory, and glory of God. It is the moment where the powers are disarmed, the accusation is answered, and the nations are gathered back into the Son.

This means our lives are not happening in a flat, merely natural storyline.

We are not only living inside political systems, economic systems, family systems, or personal histories. We are living inside the Gospel story of Christ’s victory filling all things.

And the Church is not an afterthought in that story.

God, in His wisdom, has chosen to display His glory through a people.

A people who know who He is.
A people who know who they are.
A people who become witnesses to His life moving through them.

This is why Romans 8 says creation itself is groaning for the revealing of the sons of God.

There are places in each of our lives where we have touched this larger story.

Maybe it happened in prayer.
Maybe in business.
Maybe in ministry.
Maybe in a dream.
Maybe in a moment of impossible obedience.
Maybe in a word God spoke that you have carried quietly for years.

And many of us have pushed those places aside for understandable reasons.

But the invitation of the Lord is coming again:

It is time to remember.

God Has Not Forgotten the Altars

In Scripture, altars were places of remembrance.

Abraham built altars where God met him. These places marked encounters, promises, covenant, and movement. They stood as physical reminders that God had spoken, God had appeared, and God was faithful.

This week’s message invited us to return to the altars in our own lives.

Not to idolize a past season.
Not to try to recreate what once was.
Not to force an old assignment back into motion.

But to remember rightly.

Sometimes the Lord has to heal our memory before He can renew our faith.

We may look back at a word, a dream, a calling, or a season and interpret it through disappointment. We may assume delay means failure. We may assume hardship means disqualification. We may assume lack of provision means lack of favor.

But the cross teaches us to reinterpret every season through the love of God.

God was not absent in the low places.

He was not ashamed of us in the hidden places.

He was not withdrawing His promise in the seasons that felt like contradiction.

He was forming something.

He was weaving something.

He was teaching us to carry His word without trying to perform it in our own strength.

The Word of the Lord Tests Us

Toward the end of the message, Hans read from Psalm 105, which tells the story of Joseph.

Psalm 105
17 He had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
18 His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron;
19 until what he had said came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him.

Joseph had a word from God.

But before the word came to pass, the word tested him.

The dream did not immediately produce the throne. It led through misunderstanding, betrayal, slavery, imprisonment, hiddenness, and delay.

And yet none of those seasons meant the dream had failed.

They were part of the formation.

This matters for us because prophetic words often unfold over decades, not days.

We cannot “make” the word happen. We cannot force fulfillment. We cannot manufacture fruit.

But we can hold the word.
We can steward it.
We can keep saying yes.
We can refuse to let suffering reinterpret God’s faithfulness.
We can refuse to let disappointment become our theology.

The word of the Lord may test us, but it does not abandon us.

He Does Not Need Your Know-How. He Wants Your Yes.

One of the strongest threads in Leah’s testimony was the repeated realization that God was not asking her to know how to fulfill what He had spoken.

He was asking for her yes.

When God began opening doors connected to stadium gatherings, evangelism, prayer, and the nations, the invitation was not based on confidence, credentials, or capacity.

It was based on surrender.

Again and again, the story came back to this: God was moving, and Leah was learning to witness His movement.

That is the nature of true humility.

Humility is not shrinking back from what God has spoken.
Humility is recognizing that we are not the central actor in the story.

Jesus is.

We are His witnesses.

Acts 1
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses…

A witness is not the source of the story.

A witness testifies to what Another has done.

This is the place God is inviting us into as a community. Not striving. Not self-importance. Not pressure to perform. But a renewed yes to the life of Christ flowing through us in ways we could never manufacture.

The Seasons of Lack Were Not Disqualifiers

Many of us have been taught, directly or indirectly, to interpret lack as failure.

If there is no visible provision, maybe God is not in it.
If there is no platform, maybe the word was wrong.
If there is no obvious fruit, maybe we missed the moment.
If the season was hard, maybe we were somehow disqualified.

But this is not the way of the cross.

Jesus learned obedience through what He suffered.

And because we are in Him, our suffering is not meaningless. Our hiddenness is not wasted. Our waiting is not abandonment. Our smallness is not proof that God has changed His mind.

The cross reinterprets every season through the lens of covenant love.

“I will never leave you.”
“I will never forsake you.”
“You belong to Me.”
“My word over your life is not forgotten.”

This is why remembering matters.

When God calls us back to the altars, He is not calling us back to shame. He is calling us back to agreement.

Agreement with His word.
Agreement with His love.
Agreement with His interpretation of our lives.
Agreement with the supernatural Gospel of Christ in us.

A Community That Remembers Together

At The Gathering, we believe God is forming a people who behold Him, love one another deeply, and learn to recognize His life among us.

This message was not just personal. It was corporate.

There are things God has spoken over individuals, families, businesses, ministries, cities, and nations. There are dreams and words that have been carried quietly, sometimes painfully, for years.

And the Lord is inviting us to remember together.

Not so we can hype ourselves into action.

But so we can say yes again.

Yes to the dreams of God.
Yes to the word of the Lord.
Yes to the supernatural Gospel.
Yes to being witnesses.
Yes to the life of Christ flowing through us.
Yes to His purposes in Colorado Springs, in the nation, and in the nations.

We are not trying to squeeze out fruit.

We are abiding in the Vine.

And as we abide, His life flows.

Reflection Questions

1. What are the “altars” in your life — places where God met you, spoke to you, gave you a dream, or marked you with His presence?
2. Are there any God-stories you have stopped telling because they became painful to remember?
3. Have you interpreted a season of delay, lack, suffering, or hiddenness as failure or disqualification?
4. What would it look like to allow the cross to reinterpret that season through the love and faithfulness of God?
5. Where have you settled for faithfulness while pulling back from being full of faith?
6. Is there a word, dream, calling, or promise God is inviting you to touch again?
7. What is one simple way you can say yes again — without striving, performing, or needing to know how it will happen?

Watch the Full Message

You can watch the full message here:

It’s Time to Remember: The Altars God Has Not Forgotten | Leah Ramirez
https://www.youtube.com/live/oBDO6k_CQnI?si=RNPR5adQ8bQfjDhG

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Re-Found Devotional

If you are longing to rediscover the Gospel through the finished work of Christ and the reality of union with Him, you can learn more about Leah’s devotional here:

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