Jeremiah 2 ~ Praying God's Word

Please read Jeremiah 2.

Meditate on and memorize these phrases from verses 4 and 31.

Hear the Word of the LORD.

O generation, heed the Word of the LORD.

The book of Jeremiah contains the Words of the LORD.  God put His Words into Jeremiah’s mouth (Jeremiah 1:9).  Jeremiah spoke all the Words of the LORD, and his scribe, Baruch, recorded them (Jeremiah 36:4).  2600 years later, you have the privilege of holding God’s Words in your hand and reading them.   Amazing!

God issued a command in Jeremiah 2:31, “O generation, heed the Word of the LORD.”  His command is timeless because it is addressed to the generation.  Your current generation is commanded by God to heed His Word.  Heed means to give attention to and observe carefully. 

What do you pay attention to?  Is any part of your day spent hearing and heeding things that are offensive to God?  Or do you hear and heed God’s Word?  The Israelites were steeped in sin and so deluded by it they claimed to be innocent and thought they had not sinned (Jeremiah 2:35).  God would judge them severely for their wickedness, but He first had Jeremiah “go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the LORD’” (Jeremiah 2:2).

God is talking to you.  He is speaking in your ears, and He expects you to hear and heed what He says.  Reread Jeremiah 2 and ask the LORD to give you ears to hear what He is proclaiming to you.

Pray Jeremiah 2:5, 9, 13, and 31 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, help ______ and me not go far from You.

 Let us not walk after emptiness and become empty. 

LORD, we do not want You to have to contend with us or with our children’s children.  Help us to never forsake You, the fountain of living waters. 

Do not let us hew for ourselves broken cisterns that can hold no water. 

Make us the generation that heeds Your Word, LORD.

In Your name, Jesus~”