IN EVIL TIMES, KEEP FOCUSED ON JESUS AND HIS DESIRES If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it, and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it. —Jeremiah 18:7-11 But they say, ‘That…

THE COMMITTED, FAITHFUL FOLLOWER OF JESUS Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! —-Jeremiah 15:1 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.” —Jeremiah 17:7-8 I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I…

WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. —Jeremiah 10:23 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. —Proverbs 16:9 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will. —Proverbs 21:1             Do we really think we are ultimately in control?  We cannot even control what is happening in our bodies.  Sickness comes and goes or for some/many, sickness comes and stays.  We have no control over when sickness will come upon…

THE WISE AND THE FOOL Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.” —Jeremiah 9:23-24 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.” —Psalm 14:1 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts…

BE NOT UNFAITHFUL, BUT FAITHFUL! An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes? —Jeremiah 5:30-31 For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.  Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. —Jeremiah 6:13-15 It is terrible, horrendous, horrible…

SEEKING, TRUSTING AND OBEYING OUR LORD “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”  ” Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the LORD.” —Jeremiah 1:5-8 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked,…

AS FOUNDATIONS ARE DESTROYED THE FAITHFUL FOLLOW JESUS! If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? —Psalm 11:3 The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. —Psalm 11:5 For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face. —Psalm 11:7             The very foundations of our nation, and the world, are being destroyed even further.  How? Sexual deviancy— This has become an “in your face” issue. The attack on a person’s identity as male and female are satanic.  Satan is against the family, the design of God.  He will seek to corrupt it any…

THE LOST ARE IN SATAN’S CLUTCHES TO DO HIS WILL In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” —Psalm 10:4 The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might. He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.” Psalm 10:10-11 Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”? —Psalm 10:13             It is a great question— Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?  The answer is because sinful man…

THANK GOD FOR HIS WONDERFUL WORKS! As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. —Ecclesiastes 11:5 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. —Psalm 9:1             We do not understand so much about God, nor His works.  Consider this— “Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are…

DEATH— THE FINAL ENEMY’S DEFEAT As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. —Ecclesiastes 5:15 No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. —Ecclesiastes 8:8 “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.” —Job 1:21 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the…