The Eyes of My Heart

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Don’t be your own god. But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their evil or stop burning incense to other gods. Jeremiah 44:5 The patience of God is incomprehensible. Again and again he warned His people through the prophet Jeremiah that He was about to bring disaster against them…

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Don’t be afraid. ‘Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon whom you now fear; don’t be afraid of him’—this is the Lord’s declaration—’because I am with you to save you and rescue you from him.‘ Jeremiah 42:11 Jerusalem fell into the hands of the surrounding enemies because they failed to remain loyal to God….

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Restoration. Yet I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them. I will let them experience the abundance of true peace. Jeremiah 33:6 The beautiful thing about God’s discipline is the peaceful outcome of abundant healing. God wants to give us health, but it sometimes comes through the process of…

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Lamentation. Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame? Jeremiah 20:18 Jeremiah is one of the people of the Bible that experienced grief, just like you and me. God called Him to prophesy in vain, so to speak, because the people he spoke…

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Don’t trust your heart. The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable—who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 The world tells us to trust our heart but the heart is a very unreliable guide. Up one day, down another- the heart is nothing but deceitful. In fact, this verse says that the heart is…

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Our hope. Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of distress, why are you like a resident alien in the land, like a traveler stopping only for the night? Jeremiah 14:8 God is our hope in the midst of distress. No one can help us the way He does. He is ever watchful and present…