Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

Jeremiah

Never Trust Yourself

JEREMIAH 17:9 – The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? THEME OF THE DAY. NEVER TRUST YOURSELF. The evidence is everywhere. The carnage stretches across many families and churches. The horrible results are not difficult to see. The pain is felt by many. I am referring to the damage that occurs when individuals rely upon…

It Isn’t About Us

JEREMIAH 14:7 – Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you. 1 JOHN 2:12 – I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake. THEME OF THE DAY. IT ISN’T ABOUT US. There is a verse that opens the one…

What Are We Drinking?

JEREMIAH 2:12-13 – Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the Lord, for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water. THEME OF THE DAY. WHERE ARE WE DRINKING? As a young boy, I remember those fond…

Having A Seeking Heart For God

JEREMIAH 29:11–13 – For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 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.…

How Do We Know?

JEREMIAH 22:16 – He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy; then it was well. Is not that what it means to know Me?” declares the Lord. 1 JOHN 3:14 – We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. THEME OF THE DAY. HOW DO…

It Is Costly

JEREMIAH 29:12-14a -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. I will be found by you, declares the Lord . . . THEME OF THE DAY. IT IS COSTLY. In today’s scripture, God is giving us the greatest…