A Divine Memory

Genesis 28:12-15

 Between Genesis 28:12-15 and Genesis 31:3 the life of Jacob was characterized by struggle, hard work and suffering. 

For 14yrs Jacob operated in the house of Laban, Laban was Jacob’s uncle consequently Jacob was supposedly a father-figure in the life of Jacob where Isaac the biological father of Jacob was not. 

Unfortunately Laban did not play the role of father –figure in the life of Jacob as he should have.

 Laban treated Jacob with total resentment. 

Laban treated Jacob as a second class citizen even though Jacob was faithful to Laban all the time. 

However the more Jacob served Laban faithfully the more Laban down played the efforts of Jacob. 

Laban changed Jacob’s wages on numerous occasions to the extent that Jacob almost got used to it to a place of no offense. 

And Jacob did not lose strength, he did not lose hope because he kept on remembering that God had appeared unto him inform of a dream at Bethel and in the dream God promised Jacob divine protection. 

Throughout the 14yrs of his stay in Laban’s quarters, Jacob remembered the promises of God, the God of his forefathers (Abraham and Isaac).

 He remembered the promises of God and as a result all the injustices that he suffered under Laban for 14yrs did not deter his faith and hope in the Lord God Almighty. 

Never at any one time did Jacob try to avenge Laban or get even with Laban and this was enabled by the divine memory that was constituted into Jacob’s life by God the first time that God appeared unto Jacob at Bethel. 

Consequently the first time God appeared unto you, he left you with a divine memory, a memory that holds the promises of God. 

The natural memory of man can’t hold unto the promises of God.

 It only takes a divine memory from God to hold onto the promises of the Lord God Almighty. 

A divine memory is essential to the one whom God has promised because it will without a doubt sustain you when times look gloom. 

There will always be a time frame between when the promise is given and when the promise is fulfilled. 

And that time frame is a time frame that is full of many challenges against the promise and you can only overcome with a divine memory. 
It’s a divine memory that allows you to understand that the God who promised will also fulfill.

 Have you ever considered that the reason why some people have nothing nice to say to you and all they have to say is negative is based off the fact that they are jealousy. 

They are envious of you because you have got what they want but they can’t even work hard enough to attain the status that you have got, What you have is a divine memory that allows you to recall everything that happened in eternity (before time) and everything that is about to happen (after time). 

Yom Shabbat (the day of Sabbath) is essentially the day of rest, it’s the day of rest where we virtually pause out of breath to remember that God created the universe six days and rested on the seventh day. 

 To create is to imagine, in other wards God imagined the universe in six days and on the seventh day he paused out of his breath, remembered everything he set in motion by imagination and then he was delighted and pleased. 

We can only delight and be pleased in God by was of a divine memory that triggers a celebration. 

Sometimes life is so miserable until you remember that even though the world is diabolical, God is good.

 And when we meditate on the goodness on God Almighty then we can be in a position to rejoice amidst tremendous opposition and turmoil.

 It’s easy to be caught up in your present circumstantial experience and then you forget who you really are in the presence of God. 

Every individual upon the face of the earth has got an identity. 

A special identity that has got the propensity to blow the minds of your contemporaries, If your contemporaries got to know who you really are in the presence of God each one of them would be treating you differently.

 In other wards if you really want to find out who you really are all you need to go is in the presence of the Lord God.

 Each star has a special rank that humans do not know of but the God who set the star in motion, he calls each star by its very own rank.

 Conversely they is a special identity and a rank for the life of you and all you need is the presence of God to trigger your divine memory in order for you to find out the purpose for your life in this exact time and season. 

According to your divine memory it’s utterly impossible for you to be in a position to die before your dreams come to pass after everything that you have been through and survived. 

The promises of God for the life of you are coming to town.