God’s Phone Number

Jeremiah 33:3: “’Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things which you do not know.’” Observation: The Lord was reviewing powerful promises He will restore to the people once they have been delivered from captivity in Babylon....

Belonging Together

Jeremiah 31:3: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.” Observation: The theme is the restoration of Israel as the people of God. In the natural world, their captivity would come to an end and they would be restored...

God’s “Heartedness” Scale

Jeremiah 29:11–13: “’For I know the plans that I have for You.’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek...

Resistance Is A Bad Idea

Jeremiah 27:6–11: “And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant. . . .  It will be that the nation or the kingdom which will not . . .  put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will...

Blessing and Fear

Psalm 67:6–7: “The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God blesses us.  God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth may fear Him.” Observation: This psalm of thanksgiving invokes God’s continued blessings upon Israel, that all the nations of the...