A BURNING COMPELLING TO SPEAK  If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.” —Jeremiah 20:9 Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed! Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, “A son is born to you,” making him very glad. Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning…

FIRST PRIORITY— TRUST GOD, NOT MAN! Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “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…

GOD’S WORD IS FINAL AUTHORITY! And the LORD said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.” —Jeremiah 14:14             Beware of those who are lying, bringing worthless communication and speaking out of the deceit of their own minds.  They come in the Lord’s Name, but He did not send them and He is not speaking through them.  How can we tell who those deceitful liars are?  If they are not speaking the Word of God, adhering…

LIVING TO PLEASE OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY! But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. —Jeremiah 12:3 I know, my God, that you test the heart and are pleased with integrity. — Chronicles 29:17             Who are you?  Are you the same on the outside as you are on the inside?  Do you try to portray yourself on the outside as someone you really are not on the inside?  We are all in the process of transformation, but do we seek to be real, transparent?  Do people see the real you that God sees?             Yes, our Lord knows us better than anyone…

BOAST IN THE CREATOR, NOT IN SELF 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 It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens. —Jeremiah 10:12 I know, O LORD, that the…

BE LOVINGLY OBEDIENT But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ —Jeremiah 7:23 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the…

WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVE US— I JOHN 4:19 I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might…

HEART’S FOCUS And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. —Jeremiah 3:15 Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.” —Jeremiah 4:18 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ. —II Thessalonians 3:5             Shepherds, who are after the heart of our Lord, “will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”  They not only feed with knowledge alone, but they give understanding in how to use or apply that knowledge which brings transformation.  If people are…

NONE ARE “ON THE FENCE” “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.” —Jeremiah 1:5 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the…

THE COMING NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. —Isaiah 65:17 “The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the LORD. —Isaiah 65:25 For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain. —Isaiah 66:22 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence…