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

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 21--Verses 1-2This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah, asking, “Inquire of the Lord on our behalf, since King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will perform for us something like all his past wondrous works so that Nebu...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 20--Verse 14Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!God gave Jeremiah a tough ministry road to follow. He is sometimes known as the “Weeping Prophet” because his prophecies often included death and destruction to God’s chosen people and the  Promised Land. He also wrote another book in the Bible - named Lamentation...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 17--Verse 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?Wow, talk about a countercultural proclamation! Oprah, arguably the most successful woman of all time, says this on her website:"...When faced with a decision or conflict, your mind may come up with numerous, different and quite logical reasons why you should act as it adv...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Jeremiah 15--Verse 16Your words were found, and I ate them, and you words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart. It’s interesting that Jeremiah should liken reading the Bible to eating your food. If you think about it, there’s nothing more intimate than eating a meal. You are taking food and making it a part of who you are. You are chewing it, ingesting it, and assim...  Read More