SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 23 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in my council, they would have proclaimed my words to my people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their…
Month: January 2011
what it means to know God
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 22 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. For if you are careful…
can I pray this prayer?
“I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for you or laid aside for you, exalted for you or brought low for you; let me be full, let me be empty;…
what a choice
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 21 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Furthermore, tell the people, ‘This is what the LORD says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death. Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine or plague. But whoever goes out and surrenders to the Babylonians who are besieging you will…
pushmi-pullyu
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 20 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: You deceived me, LORD, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. [Jeremiah 20:7] But the LORD is with me like a mighty warrior; so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. [Jeremiah 20:11] Why did I ever come out of the womb to…
‘don’t mess with My kids!’
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 19 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign gods; they have burned incense in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. They have built the high places…
which message do I need?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 18 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a…
heart problems
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 17 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? [Jeremiah 17:9] Can anyone say that they really know themselves – who they are, what makes them tick, or why they do the foolish things they do? Especially this last part – why do we do the stupid things…
loving discipline
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 16 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: For this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Before your eyes and in your days I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in this place. [Jeremiah 16:9] This sounds very harsh; how can God decree such…
my food?
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 15 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, LORD God Almighty. [Jeremiah 15:16] Jeremiah describes how he first responded to God’s calling – he accepted God’s message as if it were food, he willingly received it! His frustration is that by…