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I have been pondering Jeremiah 29:11-13 a lot lately. God keeps putting it in my mind. We have to read more of the story to understand the meaning of these verses and let me say IT IS POWERFUL. Read from verse 4 through verse 14. Here’s what I have discovered so far…
- I believe we live in a modern Babylon. Ancient Babylon represented all the excesses it was possible to have at that time. We have much the same in the US…money, stuff, sex, lack of morality, little regard for others, worship of all kinds of other gods…
- God tells the Israelites to do these things to model who He is: Build homes, plan to stay, plant gardens and eat the produce, marry, have children, find spouses for them, have grandchildren, multiply, work for peace and prosperity where you are, pray for the city, do not be tricked by other prophets or mediums – they lie
- God’s plan for me is His plan. No one else can interfere. He knows my future. He knows what He wants.
- He wants me to know His plan and even gives ways to discover it. He says if I earnestly seek Him I will find Him and He will listen.
- He promises to end my captivity in this modern Babylon and yes, restore my fortune.
- He promises to give me hope, a future, and will bring me home again.
God is who He says He is and He can do what He says He can do! What more could I want.
Ah, Lord God, Giver of all there is, was, and ever will be. Your plan for me is more awesome than anything I can imagine. I am claiming prosperity, a future, hope, and anything else You have for me. Make it so!!
A Satisfied Spirit 
Marie what a wonderful message so full of Truth and Faith in our God of the impossiable, my spirit was soaring as I read your words of Hope and yes we are indeed storing up Treasure for ourselves in Heaven as we focus on God with all our being.
He does indeed as you shared Marie also supply all our phyicial needs, often through our Brothers and Sisters in The Body of Christ, which is why we never need to beg or worry but for those who are weak in their faith, we don’t just say keep warm and be well fed and then let them starve and remain in the dark, cold and frightened, God is Loving and compassionate much more so then us..
Jeremiah 29 :11-12 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Psalm 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made Heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Christian Love from both of us – Anne
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