The Flood Subsides
Gen 8:1  And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided. 
Gen 8:2  Also the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and rain from heaven was restrained. 
Gen 8:3  And the waters returned from off the earth continually. And after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters had gone down. 
Gen 8:4  And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. 
Gen 8:5  And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. And the tops of the mountains were seen in the tenth month on the first day of the month. 
Gen 8:6  And it happened, at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 
Gen 8:7  And he sent forth a raven, and it went out, going out and returning until the waters were dried up from off the earth. 
Gen 8:8  He also sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had gone down from off the face of the earth. 
Gen 8:9  But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. And she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and pulled her in to him into the ark. 
Gen 8:10  And he waited yet another seven days. And again he sent forth the dove out of the ark. 
Gen 8:11  And the dove came in to him in the evening. And, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters had gone down from off the earth. 
Gen 8:12  And he waited yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove. And she did not return again to him any more. 
Gen 8:13  And it happened in the six hundred and first year, at the beginning, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And, behold, the face of the earth was dried! 
Gen 8:14  And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 
Gen 8:15  And God spoke to Noah, saying, 
Gen 8:16  Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 
Gen 8:17  Bring out with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, of fowl, of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, so that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. 
Gen 8:18  And Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 
Gen 8:19  Every animal, every fowl, and every creeping thing, all which creeps upon the earth after their families, went forth out of the ark. 
God’s Covenant with Noah
Gen 8:20  And Noah built an altar to Jehovah. And he took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 
Gen 8:21  And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done. 
Gen 8:22  While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Prayer – Remembrance

God, You remembered Noah…and the waters subsided.
God, You remembered Abraham…and Lot was spared.
God, You remembered Rachel…and opened her womb.
God, You remembered Hannah…and she conceived and bore a son.

Remember me Lord…(tell the Lord in your own words what he needs to remember, what are you trusting Him for…)

In Jesus’ name

Amen

Die vloedwaters sak
1Maar God het gedink aan Noag en al die mense en diere by hom in die ark. Hy het ’n sterk wind oor die water laat waai en die watervloed het begin afneem. 2Die onderaardse waterbronne het opgehou om uit te borrel en die stortreën het bedaar. 3Geleidelik het die vloedwaters gesak. Na 150 dae het die watervlak só gesak 4dat die ark op die Araratberge vasgesit het, vyf maande nadat dit begin reën het. 5Twee en ’n halwe maande later het ander bergspitse sigbaar geword namate die water gesak het.
640 dae later het Noag die venster wat hy in die ark gemaak het, oopgemaak 7en ’n kraai uitgelaat. Die kraai het heen en weer gevlieg totdat die aarde droog was. 8Daarna het hy ’n duif uitgelaat om te kyk of daar enige droë grond was. 9Maar die duif kon nêrens gaan sit nie omdat die water nog te hoog was. Daarom het dit na die ark toe teruggekom. Noag het sy hand uitgesteek, die duif gevang en dit weer in die ark ingebring. 10Sewe dae later het Noag weer die duif uitgelaat. 11Teen die aand was die duif weer daar met ’n vars olyfblaar in die bek. Noag het besef dat die water nou al heelwat gesak het. 12’n Week later het hy nog ’n keer die duif uitgelaat, maar hierdie keer het dit nie na hom toe teruggekom nie.
13Toe Noag 601 jaar oud was, tien en ’n half maande nadat die vloed begin het, het Noag die luik van die ark oopgemaak en gesien dat die aarde besig was om droog te word. 14Nog twee maande het verbygegaan en uiteindelik was die aarde droog genoeg. 15Toe sê God vir Noag: 16“Gaan nou uit die ark, jy en jou gesin. 17Laat al die diere en voëls uit sodat hulle kan vermeerder en oor die aarde versprei.”
18Noag en sy vrou, sy seuns en hulle vroue het toe uit die ark gegaan, 19asook al die verskillende soorte diere en voëls.
God se verbond met Noag
20Noag bou toe ’n altaar vir die Here en offer daarop van die diere en voëls wat vir hierdie doel bestem was. 21Die Here het die offer aanvaar en vir Homself gesê: “Ek sal nooit weer die aarde vervloek weens die mens se oortredings nie. Immers, die mens se gedagtes is boos van sy jeug af. Ek sal nooit weer al die lewende wesens so vernietig nie. 22So lank as die aarde bestaan, só lank sal saaityd en oestyd, koue en hitte, winter en somer, dag en nag bly voortbestaan.”

Gebed – Onthou

God, U het aan Noag gedink…en die water het gesak.
God, U het aan Abraham gedink…en Lot is gespaar.
God, U het aan Ragel gedink…en haar skoot oopgemaak.
God, U het aan Hanna gedink…en sy het swanger geword en ‘n seun gebaar.

Dink aan my Here…(sê vir die Here in jou eie woorde wat Hy moet onthou, waarvoor vertrou jy Hom…)

In Jesus Naam

Amen