Category: Daily Devotion

  Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. Jeremiah 34:17 – God is saying they didn’t…

  Thus says the Lord: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again 11 the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom…

  Yet you, O Lord God, have said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 32:25 – Jeremiah was given a truly odd command from the Lord. While in the royal prison, God commanded Jeremiah to buy the property of his cousin. While odd in…

  Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. Jeremiah 31:13 – Wherever the posture of your soul is today, know God can bring the change that…

  And you shall be my people, and I will be your God. Jeremiah 30:22 – To understand the fullness of this chapter, one must realize that the words of the Lord through the prophet weren’t just speaking about Judah’s current struggle. Yes, at the time this prophecy was given Judah was being besieged by…

  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:12-13 – Jeremiah is sending word to the people of Judah who are now existing in exile within Babylon. They have…

  Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon. Jeremiah 28:3 – Imagine with me two churches. One church gives the message that God is all love, you never have to change anything about…

  So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out,…

  Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard. 13 Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you. Jeremiah 26:12-13…

  Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, making the land an everlasting waste. Jeremiah 25:12 – The fact that judgement was coming upon Judah’s sins is no surprise to us this far into reading this book. Repeatedly the prophet…