Jeremiah 19 ~ Praying God's Word

Please read Jeremiah 19.

Meditate on and memorize this phrase from verse 15.

They have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My Words.

While Jeremiah was at the potter’s house, God told him to buy an earthenware jar.  He took the jar along with some of the elders and senior priests to the valley of Ben-Hinnom, the valley where the people sacrificed their children by fire as part of their Baal worship.  The elders and senior priests should have taught and upheld truth to the people; rather they allowed heinous atrocities to take place.  God promised calamity.  Jeremiah spoke the Word of the LORD to the men then broke the jar in front of them to represent the irreparable breaking God would do to the people.

Jeremiah then walked to the court of the LORD’s house, which was not far from the valley of Slaughter, and spoke to all the people.  His sermon was simple; God promised to bring on the city of Jerusalem and all its towns the entire calamity because the people had stiffened their necks so as not to heed His Words (Jeremiah 19:15).

“Oh generation, heed the Word of the LORD (Jeremiah 2:31)!”  If you are a teacher/preacher of God’s Word, do not be afraid to speak the Word of Truth!  People are perishing for lack of knowledge of the Truth of God’s Word (Hosea 4:6).  If you are a hearer of the Word of God, heed and obey what God tells you to do. 

Pray Jeremiah 19:11 and 15 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

“LORD, let _________ and me live to please You,

 so You do not have to break us like one breaking a potter’s vessel,

which cannot again be repaired.  

Do not let us stiffen our necks.  May we heed Your Words.

In Your name, Jesus~”