Topic:True Leadership READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 22:1-23:8 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. Jeremiah 22:3 Jeremiah stands before king Zedekiah with a message that the …
Read More »Topic:God’s Faithfulness READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 20:11-18 But the Lord is with me like a mighty warrior; so my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will fail and be thoroughly disgraced; their dishonor will never be forgotten. Lord Almighty, you who examine the righteous and probe the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for to …
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Topic:Jeremiah’s Complaint READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 20:1-10 You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I cry out proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the Lord has brought me insult and reproach all day long. But if I say, I will …
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Topic:Break the Jar READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 19:1-15 Then break the jar while those who go with you are watching, and say to them, This is what the Lord Almighty says: I will smash this nation and this city just as this potter’s jar is smashed and cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is …
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Topic:The Potter and the Clay READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 18:1-23 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message. So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay …
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Topic:The True Sabbath READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 17:19-27 But if you are careful to obey me, declares the Lord, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it, then kings who sit on David’s throne will come through the gates of this city …
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Topic:The Truth About Our Heart READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 17:1-18 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17:9) Jeremiah 17:9 In those two lines you have the explanation of all the misery and heartache and injustice and evil of life. It all stems from that. The heart, the natural life into which …
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Topic:He Does Not Budge READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 14:1-22 Then the Lord said to me, Do not pray for the well-being of this people. Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague. But I …
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Topic:Can You Compete With Horses? READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 12:1-17 How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? … If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by …
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Topic:Our Protection is in God READ THE SCRIPTURE: JEREMIAH 11:1-20 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause. Jeremiah 11:20 Perhaps the central lesson of this book is what happened to Jeremiah as God prepared him to minister …
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