Daily Bible Verse: Luke 1:13
The angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid; your prayer has been heard.’
- What a wonderful moment, to be visited by an angel.
- But even a greater wonder was the message: ‘Your prayer has been heard!’
- May we also experience God in a real and tangible way.
- Don’t be afraid, HE has heard your prayer and the cry of your heart.
Prayer: Lord, thank You that I do not need to be fearful about anything. You have got everything in the palm of Your hand, and You hear me when I call. Amen.
Daily Bible Verse: Luke 1:13
The angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid; your prayer has been heard.’
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God's Response
April 5, 2019
GOD'S RESPONSE
God responds to Jeremiah in his discouragement. God gives him some advice to help him out of the hole that he had found himself in.
Jeremiah 15:19 'Therefore thus says the Lord (to Jeremiah): 'If you return (and give up this mistaken tone of distrust and despair), then I will give you again a settled place of quite and safety, and you will be My minister; and if you separate the precious from the vile (cleansing your own heart from unworthy and unwanted suspicions concerning God's faithfulness you shall be My mouthpiece. (But do not yield to them). Let them return to you - not you to (the people).'
Let's look at God's response:
a. RETURN TO GOD
The first thing that God does is to offer him the option of returning. Oftentimes when we are discouraged we become self-focused and self-orientated. We begin to feel sorry for ourselves. This self-orientation needs to be replaced with a returning to God and becoming God-orientated. We need to become God-conscious and remind ourselves that God is all-powerful and limitless. We must stop limiting God and return to a pace of faith in God.
Jeremiah 15:19 Therefore thus says the Lord (to Jeremiah): 'If you return'
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