Remember
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Remember God’s covenant, His promise of relationship with His people
Gen. 9:15 “And I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 “When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
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Remember those who bless you with good deeds
Gen. 40:23 “Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
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Remember God’s deliverance
Ex. 13:3 “And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you went out from Egypt, from the house of slavery; for by a powerful hand the LORD brought you out from this place. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
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Remember the rest that God provided
Ex. 32:13 “Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy servants to whom Thou didst swear by Thyself, and didst say to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
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Remember God’s promised relationship and His provision for His people
Lev. 26:42 “Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.”
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Remember God’s covenant, His deliverance, protection, and provision
Lev. 26:45 “But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.’”
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Remember your Creator, and the perfection of His provision
Num. 11:4-6 “The sons of Israel wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat? 5 “We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic, 6 but now our appetite is gone.”
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Remember your participation in God’s covenant
(1John 2:1-17)
Num. 15:39 “And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot, 40 in order that you may remember to do all My commandments, and be holy to your God.”
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Remember to hear, fear, and teach the Lord and His words
Deut. 4:10 “Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’”
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Remember God delivered you to His rest
Deut. 5:15 “‘And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.”
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Remember God’s deliverance from what you feared
Deut. 7:18 “You shall not be afraid of them; you shall well remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.”
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Remember adversity is not punitive, rather a way to find God
Deut. 8:2 “And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.”