I am going through the Beth Moore Bible Study, Believing God (albeit very slowly). One of the topics she covered is that God acts on what he remembers. In the Bible, it often says, "God remembered...." Well, I thought that God remembers everything all the time. Does he forget about people? NO!! When the Bible says this, it shows that God is going to act on that persons behalf, or against that person, if it is necessary. And, Beth makes the point that we act on what we remember also. Our pasts are always a part of us, but the parts of the past that are on our minds, the beliefs about our selves that have become a product of our pasts are the things that we act on. So we need to be deliberate about what we remember and what we think about, so that we act upon those thoughts and not just the random thoughts and memories that pop into our heads.
Beth says, "Beloved, both freedom and faith emerge from deliberate acts of the will to shift our focus from all that begs to differ to the great and glorious truth of the living God. Remember his goodness, we are far more inclined to believe him in our present and future. Be deliberate, Dear One. Remember, we're going to act on that which we remember most." p. 155.
God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Genesis 8:1
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