April 29 - Prayer - Verses - Questions
Oh Father,
I read the first verse in this chapter
today and that one verse says everything about You.
“But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the
livestock that were with him in the ark”
Genesis
8:1a
It actually only takes the first three words. “But God remembered.” You always remember us. Even when it seems like we are alone, and no
one cares, You remember. Even when we
are disobedient, You remember. Even when
we are hiding from You, You remember.
You always have a plan, and You always love us and remember
us. You don’t go back to what You were
doing and forget about us. You don’t
turn Your back and decide we aren’t worth Your time. You are always there. Sometimes You want us to work a little bit to
hear Your voice, but You are always there.
Thank You Father for always being there and loving me so.
In Jesus’ name.
Amen!
I think of us ready to get out and back to living our lives after
COVID when I think of something even close to what Noah’s family had been
through. Of course, we could go outdoors
and seek medical attention, and some of us still went to work. Noah and his family were not only shut up
together when they were in the ark, but there was no “normal life” to get back
to living. No one else was alive. How do you think that impacted their
relationship with each other?
Why do you think Noah sent out the dove at different times and
then waited to open the doors? What
lesson do you learn from this you can implement in your own life?
But
God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were
with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the
waters subsided. 2 The fountains of the deep
and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was
restrained, 3 and the waters receded from the earth
continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated, 4 and
in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest
on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters
continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day
of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
6 At
the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and
sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the
earth. 8 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see
if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground. 9 But
the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark,
for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his
hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him. 10 He
waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the
ark. 11 And the dove came back to him in the
evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah
knew that the waters had subsided from the earth. 12 Then
he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to
him anymore.
13 In
the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month,
the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the
ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry. 14 In
the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried
out. 15 Then God said to Noah, 16 “Go
out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives
with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing
that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and
multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and
his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him. 19 Every
beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the
earth, went out by families from the ark.
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