Jeremiah 18 ~ Praying God's Word

Please read Jeremiah 18.

Meditate on and memorize this phrase from verse 6.

Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand,

so are you in My hand.

God sent Jeremiah to the potter’s house for another sermon illustration.  Jeremiah watched the potter remake a spoiled vessel into a vessel that pleased him.  God told Jeremiah He would use calamity to reshape Judah into a nation pleasing to Him (Jeremiah 18:11). 

The people responded to God’s Word and invitation to repent was willful disobedience.

We are going to follow our own plans,

and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.

—Jeremiah 18:12b

God called them appalling (Jeremiah 18:13).  Their response to the LORD was audacious!  They forgot God and worshipped idols.  They devised evil against Jeremiah.   God promised calamity, and when it came they would only see God’s back and not His face (Jeremiah 18:13-20).

Hear and heed the Word of the LORD!  If you are a child of God, He will mold you into a vessel pleasing to Him.  You have a choice to make.  You can be a malleable vessel, easily molded by the Potter into exactly what He intends you to be.  Or you can be a stubborn vessel fighting His every touch.  It is a pathetic place to be when God fashions calamity against a person because they refuse to be fashioned by their Creator and Savior.

Pray Jeremiah 18:4 and 6 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, forgive _________ and me for being spoiled.

 Make us into the vessel that pleases You.

 We want to be clay in Your hands that You mold,

not clay that You have to deal with. 

In Your Name, Jesus~”