06/09/2026
EAGLE EYE OF CHRIST BIBLE MINISTRIES (PENTECOSTAL)
DUDUYEMI RD KOKUNNESERE QUARTERS ODOMOGUN IJEBU IMUSIN OGUN STATE NIGERIA
1ST SUNDAY SERVICE IN THE MONTH OF COVENANT OF KINDNESS (SUN.6, SEPT. 2026)
*SERMON TOPIC:- GOD WHO REMEMBERS*
Text: 2 Samuel 9:1–7; Genesis 8:1; Exodus 2:23–25; Isaiah 49:15–16; Psalm 113:7–8
Glory be to God in the highest!!! We appreciate God almighty, the keeper of our Israel, sustainer of our souls and the help of the helpless, for bringing us this far, may His holy name be praised for ever. Amen
There is a moment recorded in 2 Samuel chapter 9 that many readers rush past, yet it carries one of the most powerful pictures of covenant memory in all of Scripture. David is now fully established on the throne. The wars that made his early reign turbulent have quietened. He has palaces, victories, and peace on every side. It is in that season of comfort — a season when most men forget the promises of their difficult years — that David asks a question that changes another man's destiny forever: 2 Samuel 9:1. David's mind travels back to a covenant sealed in a field, years earlier, with a friend named Jonathan (1 Samuel 20:14–17). Nothing forced David to remember. No one reminded him. Yet something in him — something covenantal — would not let the memory die. This is the pattern of our God. Human memory is selective, convenient, and often self-serving; we forget the very people and promises that inconvenience our present comfort. But the memory of God is covenantal, complete, and never triggered by our performance. He remembers because He is bound by His own Word, not by our worthiness.
Today, What looks forgotten by men can be remembered by God.
*1: REMEMBRANCE — When God Remembers Your Name*
Remembrance, in the Kingdom, is never sentimental nostalgia. It is a legal, covenantal act. When God remembers, something moves in the unseen realm before anything changes in the seen realm.
1. The Flood Generation: One Verse Changed Everything
Noah and his family had been shut inside the ark for months, drifting on water with no visible shoreline, no sound of birds, no assurance that the world would ever be dry again. Then Scripture records the turning point of the entire flood narrative in a single, quiet sentence: Genesis 8:1 (KJV)
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.
Nothing changed in the ark. What changed was that God remembered. And the moment He remembered, the wind began to move, the waters began to recede, and a process of restoration began that no human hand could have started.
2. A Groaning Nation: Four Divine Verbs
Four hundred years is a long time to wait. Long enough for a promise to sound like a myth told to comfort dying old men. Yet in the furnace of Egyptian bo***ge, four verbs describe what God was doing while Israel thought He was silent:
Exodus 2:23–25 (KJV)
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bo***ge, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bo***ge. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. Heard. Remembered. Looked. Had respect. Four movements of a God who had never actually left the room, even when four centuries of silence made it feel that way.
3. David and the Covenant with Jonathan — David's remembering was itself patterned after God's remembering. He did not simply feel nostalgic; he acted:. 2 Samuel 9:2–3 (KJV)
Notice the phrase — "the kindness of God." David understood that covenant kindness shown to a forgotten man was, in fact, a demonstration of the very character of God Himself.
*2: RESTORATION — The Day Your Forgotten Story Changes*
1. Introducing Lo-Debar - David's search leads him to a name and a place: 2 Samuel 9:4–5 (KJV) Lo-Debar means, literally, "a place of no pasture" — a place with no word, no bread, no promise. It is not merely a location; it is a picture of every hidden season in which a person has learned to survive without expecting to be found.
2. Why Mephibosheth Was There - We meet the backstory earlier in the book: when news came that Saul and Jonathan had fallen in battle, Mephibosheth's nurse fled with him in panic, and in her haste he fell and became lame in both feet (2 Samuel 4:4). He did not choose Lo-Debar. A tragedy he had no part in shaped the address at which he was found. Many reading this message today are in a Lo-Debar they did not personally choose — the residue of another person's crisis, another generation's tragedy, another season's fall.
3. The Contrast: Human Forgetting vs. Divine Engraving. Isaiah 49:15–16 (KJV)
Human memory, even at its most devoted — a nursing mother's memory of her child — can still fail. But God's remembrance of you is not written o