Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Genesis 8:1

“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;”

Genesis 8:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Genesis 8:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Genesis 8. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;

2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Genesis 30:22And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
  • Genesis 19:29And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dw…
  • Psalms 136:23Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:
  • Exodus 2:24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
  • 1 Samuel 1:19And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
  • Psalms 106:4Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
  • Amos 8:7The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
  • Psalms 132:1Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
  • Exodus 14:21And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
  • Nehemiah 13:22And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and s…
  • Nehemiah 13:14Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.
  • Nehemiah 13:31And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
  • Habakkuk 3:2O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
  • Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

More to meet God in Genesis

Genesis 1:1Genesis 50:20Genesis 1:27Genesis 28:15Genesis 35:2Genesis 15:1Genesis 3:15Genesis 49:10Genesis 49:24Genesis 8:21Genesis 2:17Genesis 15:18Genesis 1:14Genesis 48:16

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.