God remembered his people throughout the generations (Psalm 105:8) and continues to remember us each and every day. No matter what we are going through – the calm or the storm – the Lord sees and remembers us. He loves us and cares for us.
In just the first Bible book of Genesis you can find recorded three times when “God remembered” (Genesis 8:1; 19:29; 30:22). Those verses speak of God's remembering Noah, Abraham, and Rachel. They are the first of many times God's Word says he remembered something or someone.
When God remembers you, your tears will be turned to joy. When God remembers you, the unimaginable, unexpected, uncommon miracles will happen. SARAH – in Genesis 21:1 And God visited Sarah as He said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
Because God remembers his promise to rescue humanity, he saves Noah from a murderous culture, Abraham's family from unspeakable injustice, and millions of Israelites from slavery.
Genesis 30:22-26 New Living Translation (NLT)
Then God remembered Rachel's plight and answered her prayers by enabling her to have children. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
God remembered Rachel (Genesis 20:22). And in Scripture, when it says that God “remembers” someone, it means that He is going to intervene and help. When God remembers, He takes action (Genesis 9:15, 19:29, 30:22; Exodus 2:24, 32:13; Psalms 25:6–7, 74:2).
After the biblical period, “Mother Rachel” continued to be celebrated as a powerful intercessor for the people of Israel. The younger daughter of Laban and wife of Jacob, Rachel is the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, who become two of the twelve tribes of Israel (Gen 35:24; Gen 46:15–18).
Zechariah, with many variant forms and spellings such as Zachariah and Zacharias, is a theophoric masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "God remembers". It comes from the Hebrew word zakar, meaning to remember, and yah, one of the names of the God of Israel.
Genesis 30:22, “And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.” He remembers the troubled. He remembers the barren among his people. He remembers your pain. He remembers your problems; he remembers what you are going through and he will soon bring you out.
Remembering God's goodness moves us to respond to our world in hope rather than fear. Remembering God's love for us fuels our love for others. The discipline of remembering inspires us to act. Throughout the Bible, God's people are exhorted to place their trust in him and join him as he restores and redeems our world.
This gift is memory. Thurman defines memory as, “one of God's great gifts to the human spirit without which neither life nor experience could have any meaning.” What Thurman urges in his book is to use your memory now, today and often. Think what a priceless gift it is.
God remembers, yet we forget our limitations. Two, another thing: He remembers, but we forget our weaknesses.
Luke 23:42-43 King James Version (KJV)
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Moses saw God face-to-face upon an unknown mountain sometime after he spoke to the Lord in the burning bush but before he went to free the children of Israel from Egypt (see Moses 1:1–2, 17, 25–26, 42; see also Exodus 3:1–10).
Moses (Deuteronomy 33:1; Joshua 14:6; Psalm 90:1; Ezra 3:2; 1 Chronicles 23:14; 2 Chronicles 30:16). Moses is the only person called “man of God” in the Torah.
Jesus memorized Scripture.
Jesus, the Word incarnate, knew the written Word, and quoted it all the time. He quoted twenty-four books of the Old Testament almost 180 times in the New Testament.
We face an important question in asking ourselves what Jesus wanted us to remember. He said, "This is my body, broken for you. This is my blood that is shed for you." He wants us to remember his body and his blood.
We'll recognize our Christian relatives, yes, and we'll also know the Disciples, Apostles and leaders in the Kingdom of God. These men and women are considered “the great cloud of witnesses” spoken of in detail by Paul (Hebrews; chapters 11 and 12.)
Remember is used 352 times in the scriptures. When its variants are counted, that number jumps to more than 550. The root of remember is to keep in mind or to be mindful.
The Greek name Jesus is a translation of the Hebrew name Joshua, which can mean "the Lord is salvation," "the Lord saves," or "the Lord is my help." (The Lord also refers to God's special covenant name Yahweh, meaning "I am Who I am," signifying that God keeps his promises.)
Joshua. This is the sixth book of the Old Testament. Joshua means "God is my salvation."
Batya: Hebrew girl name meaning “daughter of God”
Fearing that Laban would deter him, he fled with his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and twelve children without informing his father-in-law. Laban pursued him and accused him of stealing his idols. Indeed, Rachel had taken her father's idols, hidden them inside her camel's seat cushion, and sat upon them.
Buber], Vayeshev 19). In another midrashic tradition, however, Jacob did not initially favor Rachel over Leah. He asked for Rachel's hand because he thought that Leah was intended for Esau (Tanhuma [ed. Buber], Vayeze 12).
Soon after his arrival in Harran, Jacob fell in love with the “beautiful and lovely” Rachel, daughter of his cousin Laban (Genesis 29:17). Laban warmly welcomed him to his family, but asked a steep price for Rachel's hand in marriage: Jacob would first have to work as a shepherd for seven years, tending Laban's flocks.