SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 27 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Give them a message for their masters and say, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters: With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone…
innocent blood
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 26 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing. [Jeremiah 26:15] Jeremiah has…
ready or not, here I come
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 25 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: Weep and wail, you shepherds; roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. For your time to be slaughtered has come; you will fall like the best of the rams. The shepherds will have nowhere to flee, the leaders of the flock no place to escape. Hear the cry of the…
change my heart Lord!
SCRIPTURE: Jeremiah 24 OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them. I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD. They will…
whose message am I sharing?
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…
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…