Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 46--Verse 47aBut don’t be afraid, my servant Judah; don’t lose heart, Israel. I will deliver you from a faraway place and your children from the land of their exile.Israel and Judah were about to be swallowed by Babylon and Assyria. There was no way around it anymore. The opportunity for repentance was coming to a close. They were going into exile.Yet, with all of th...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 44--Verse 18But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.Apparently, some Judean exiles in Egypt  half-heartedly listened to Jeremiah’s warnings and temporarily gave up worshiping false idols. They expected life to improve immediately, ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 42—Verse 10If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.While it’s true that God’s gifts are free, and we can do nothing to earn forgiveness or salvation, our relationship with God is conditional. Meaning, He’s given us some significant “If…then…...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 39--Verse 12Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm. Talk about bittersweet. Nebuchadnezzar just plundered Jeremiah’s homeland, devastating everything he’s ever known. And he could’ve made it much worse for the old prophet, but, instead, ensures that Jeremiah would be well cared for. Things were bad, but not as bad as they could’ve been if it weren’t for th...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 38--Verse 18But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.The people of Judah would not hear Jeremiah, even after he had been right about everything else. They would be protected if they surrendered and accept...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 36--Verse 7It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the Lord, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.At a glance, the prophets may seem like people who went around and proclaimed the Lord’s judgment. But if you look a little deeper their message was always to tell t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 33--Verse 8 (CSB)I will purify them from all the iniquity they have committed against me, and I will forgive all the iniquities they have committed against me, rebelling against me.God is such a merciful and loving God.Israel had been moving farther away from God with each generation. Israel was looking so much like all the other groups around them, falling into gree...  Read More

Daily Devotional from ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭31--Verses 33-34For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 29—Verse 7But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.Sometimes we find ourselves in a place, situation, or circumstance where we’d really rather not be. It might be a city, a job, a school, a community…Sometimes God gives us the ‘go-ahead’ to leave that place and...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 28--Verse 13You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron.Be careful. What you can easily do today may be nearly impossible to do tomorrow. Grace has a way of making things difficult. Hananiah had defied the Lord in his pride by breaking a yoke of wood, only to have iron formed in its place. We can defy the Lord Jesus today if we choose, ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 26--Verse 3It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.God gave the people of Judah so many chances to turn from the evil that they were doing. Even though their hearts were hard, He still gave them a chance to repent. They were wrong, but He still wanted t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 23--Verse 29Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?It’s something about God’s Word when you hear it, it just burns in you. I remember when I got baptized at 19 it took me 4 more years to fully give my life to Christ but during that time the sermons I heard and the scripture I’ve read gnawed at me, the knowledge I...  Read More