Psalm 106:3-4 (ESV)
Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!
Remember me, O LORD, when you show favour to your people; help me when you save them,
Does the Lord forget us? Forget anything? No!
The Lord does not process time and events as we do, His remembrance is a demonstrated action rather than a mental process; when God remembers you, it means it is time for Him to act mercifully and favourably to save and deliver you from circumstances plaguing you.
Genesis 8:1 says, God remembered Noah—The divine purpose for which Noah had been spared had now been accomplished, and the world had undergone the changes necessary to fit it for becoming the residence of man that God wants it to be, but the Lord didn’t just remember Noah, He remembered every living thing in the ark, animals, and all. `
When we cry out to the Lord to remember us, He touches on everything, including those we’ve forgotten or ignored. The Lord can remember your children, business, job, family and much more.
For the Lord to remember you, every process must be completed. Noah’s process was completed by the wind passing over the earth to subdue the waters. Genesis 1: tells us the Holy Spirit brooded over the chaos of the earth and recreated it- He’s doing the same thing for you in your process, moving over every chaos, blowing them away to see where you need to be remembered.
God is not a man, He does not forget what He has promised, He is faithful, He remembers, and He relents because of His covenant. God won’t remember you because He forgot but because it’s the appointed time to remember you.
Sometimes, people, circumstances and events may conspire to stop us from being remembered-some on the surface and others working underground to delay us.
Life storms become thick, challenges of pain so overwhelming that we fail to see the word of God and His hand at work because we are so focused on what we’re experiencing. We must learn to see beyond ourselves to others that need to be remembered like Abraham. Lot was delivered because God remembered the intercessions of Abraham in Genesis 19:29. Even if you forget to ask the Lord to remember you, someone may just be interceding for you to be remembered.
Do you need to open your heart to the Lord and word? Don’t block your ears to His voice or close your hands to His work.
Where and what do you need the Lord to remember you?
“He will add” (meaning of Joseph), shows us that God’s faithfulness when He remembers us is so that He can add to us because of His covenant.
Even when life drags us down, gets too slow, or too low, psalm 136:23 says God will still remember us, the Lord will remember us, and rescue us from our foes.
The Father does not need us to work for Him to remember us, if He promised, He would do it. Sarah waited for the Lord and Genesis 21:1 said the Lord remembered and visited her as promised.
Genesis 30:22–24 says God remembered Rachel in her barrenness.
When the Bible says that God remembers someone or that he remembers his covenant with someone, it means He is about to act for that person’s welfare to renew everything that concerns them. It doesn’t matter where you are, or how far you’ve gone, the Lord is about to remember you.
Shalom
