Jeremiah 38 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 38.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/jer/38/1/s_783001

Meditate on verse 20b.

 

Please obey the LORD in what I am saying to you,

that it may go well with you, and you may live.

 

Jeremiah again became a living sermon illustration for the Word he preached.  He was thrown into a cistern for declaring God’s truth.  After Jeremiah was pulled out of the miry mud, King Zedekiah summoned him to proclaim a Word from the LORD. Jeremiah told the king he was being misled and overpowered by his close friends, and his feet were sinking in the mire (v. 22).

Like Jeremiah’s feet sank into the muddy cistern, Zedekiah and the people of Judah were sinking into the mire of their sin-filled lives.  They were stuck.  Like Jeremiah, they needed help getting out.  God wanted to help them; they simply had to obey Him.

This sermon is for you.  Are you stuck in the mire of sin?  A slave named Ebed-melech rescued Jeremiah from the muddy cistern.  Jesus Christ took the form of a bond-servant and died on a cross to save you from life mired in sin (Philippians 2:5-11).  Jeremiah had to put the ropes offered by Ebed under his armpits to be pulled out of the mud.  You must choose to accept the salvation offered by Jesus Christ to be pulled out of your sin.

Pray Jeremiah 38:20 and 22 over those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).  You may need to insert your own name into the blank.

 

“LORD, __________’s close friends have

 misled and overpowered them. 

Their feet have sunk into the mire.

 Please cause them to obey You in what You say,

 that it may go well with them, and they may live.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL 2 ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell