Jeremiah 36 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 36.

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Meditate on verse 7.

 

Perhaps their supplication will come before the LORD,

and everyone will turn from his evil way,

for great is the anger and the wrath

that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

 

After preaching 23 years, God told Jeremiah to write His Words on a scroll.  Jeremiah spent a year dictating God’s messages to his scribe, Baruch.  Afterward Baruch read all the Words to the people at the LORD’s house (vs. 1-9).

Notice the various responses to God’s Word.  When the people heard the Words, one of the men, Micaiah, went to the palace and declared to the king’s officials all that he had heard.  When the officials heard God’s Words, they were afraid and told the king all of the Words.  When the king heard the Words, he took a knife, cut off sections of the scroll, and threw them into the fire.

What is your response to the Word of God?  Do you tell others what God’s Word says?  Do His Words cause you to fear and honor Him?  Or, do you treat the Bible with contempt, cutting out the parts you do not like or think apply to you?

As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), pray to have a Jeremiah 36:7 response to God’s Word and not a Jeremiah 36:24 reaction.

 

“LORD, may the supplication of _________ and me

come before You.  We want to turn from our evil way,

 so You do not have to pronounce Your anger

 and wrath against us.  In fear of Your Word, we rend

 our garments in mourning for our sins against You.

Because of Your name, Jesus~”

 

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

Jeremiah 35 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 35.

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Meditate on verse 13b.

 

“Will you not receive instruction by

listening to My words?” declares the LORD.

 

God told Jeremiah to take the Rechabite boys to the temple and offer them wine to drink.  They immediately refused because their father had commanded them not to ever drink wine (vs. 5-6).

These men were Jeremiah’s sermon illustration as he spoke this Word from the LORD:

The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab,

which he commanded his sons not

to drink wine, are observed.

 So they do not drink wine to this day,

for they have obeyed their father’s command.

 But I have spoken to you again and again,

yet you have not listened to Me.

—Jeremiah 35:14

 

The Rechabite boys obeyed their father completely.  Why did the people treat God the Father with less respect?  The LORD rewarded the Rechabites for their obedience; they would not lack a man to stand before Him always (vs. 19).

There are valuable lessons from this sermon.  God rewards those who honor and obey their parents.  God rewards those who honor and obey Him.

Pray Jeremiah 35:16 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, help ________ and me observe

the commands of our father

Help us listen and obey You, Father.

For the sake of Your name, Jesus~”

 

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

Jeremiah 34 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 34.

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Meditate on verses 15b-16a.

 

You had made a covenant before Me in

the house which is called by My name. 

Yet you turned and profaned My name…

 

King Zedekiah, his officials, and some of the people made a covenant to free their Hebrew servants.  They cut a calf in half and passed between the pieces.  Vows were made saying if they did not keep the promises, may what happened to the animal or worse happen to them.  They freed the servants as promised but then took them back.  They wanted their servants more than they wanted to keep their covenant vows.

God was mad!  Because of their broken covenant promises, worse would happen to them—their dead bodies would become bird and animal food (vs. 17-20).

Do not think for a moment that God takes cutting covenant lightly.  When a married couple says, “I promise to love, honor, and cherish you until death,” what is ringing in the ears of Almighty God is, “If I do not love, honor, and cherish you, may what happened to this sacrificed animal or worse happen to me.”  Covenants are made to NEVER be broken (The Covenant Maker by Marsha Harvell).

As a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), use Jeremiah 34:14-16 to pray for yourself and those you love to keep your covenant promises.

 

“LORD, let ________ and me obey You

 and incline our ear to You.

Help us turn and do what is right in Your sight.

Let us keep the covenants we have made before You;

do not let us turn from those covenants and profane Your name.

For Your name's sake, Jesus~”

 

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

Jeremiah 33 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 33.

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Meditate verse 3.

 

“Call to Me and I will answer you,

 and I will tell you great and mighty things,

 which you do not know.”

 

Jeremiah 33 tells about another impossible situation that only God could remedy. Jerusalem was filled with the corpses of people slain by the Chaldeans (Babylonians) because God, in His anger and wrath, punished them for their wickedness (v. 5). Then God said the impossible would happen; He would bring healing, peace, truth, restoration, and cleansing to His people (vs. 6-8).

God wants to do the same in your life and in the lives of those you love. Only God can cleanse and pardon you. Only God can restore and rebuild you. Only God can bring health and healing and give you an abundance of peace and truth.

Bring to the LORD the “corpse-filled situations” you are praying over as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).  Pray Jeremiah 33:6-11.

 

“LORD, bring health and healing to ________ and me.

Reveal to us an abundance of peace and truth. 

Restore and rebuild us.  Cleanse us from all iniquity

 by which we have sinned against You.

 Pardon all our iniquities by which we have

sinned and transgressed against You.

 Let us be to You a name of joy, praise, and glory.

 Let everyone hear of the good You have done for us,

 so they will fear and tremble before You, God. 

In our lives that have become a desolate waste,

 let the voice of joy, the voice of gladness,

 the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride be heard.

 We give You thanks, LORD of hosts, for You are good;

 Your lovingkindess is everlasting.

 Thank You for restoring our fortunes as they were at first.

For Your name’s sake, Jesus~”

 

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

Jeremiah 32 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 32.

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Meditate on verse 17.

 

“Ah LORD God! 

Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by

Your great power and by Your outstretched arm!

 Nothing is too difficult for You.

 

Impossible! Jeremiah was imprisoned; Jerusalem was under the control of the Chaldeans (Babylonians), and Jeremiah’s cousin, Hanamel, asked him to buy some local land conquered by Babylon.  Who, in their right mind, would buy land controlled by another nation?  But when Jeremiah heard the offer, he knew it “was the word of the LORD” (v. 8).  He bought the land and made the transaction public, so everyone knew what crazy Preacher Jeremiah had done.

The rest of the story is Babylon ceased to exist, being conquered by the Medes and Persians (Daniel 5:30-31).  Cyrus, king of Persia, allowed the Jews to return to their land of Israel (2 Chronicles 36:22-23).  And if you research the price of land in Israel today, Jeremiah was wise to obey God!

What has God told you to do that does not make sense in the eyes of the world and requires total dependence on Him?  Trust and obey the LORD; rich blessings await your obedience.

Pray Jeremiah 32:17-19 over yourself and others who are in impossible situations as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“Ah LORD God!  Behold You have

made the heavens and the earth

 by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! 

Nothing is too difficult for You! 

Show lovingkindness to ________ and me. 

Forgive us of our iniquity, so it is not repaid

 into the bosom of our children, O great and mighty God! 

LORD of hosts, counsel us with Your great counsel;

show us your mighty deeds. 

Keep Your eyes on our ways. 

Let the fruit of our deeds please You.

For the sake of Your name, Jesus~”

 

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

 

 

Jeremiah 31 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 31.

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Meditate on verse 4a.

 

Again I will build you,

 and you will be rebuilt, O virgin Israel!

 

God told Jeremiah to preach sermons about impossible situations. In Jeremiah 30, the topic was: “Your Wound Is Incurable; God Will Heal Your Wounds” (vs. 12, 17). Today’s sermon could be titled: “Virgin Again.”

Before Jeremiah 31, God often referred to Israel as a harlot, an adulteress who left God for man-made idols (Jeremiah 3:6-8). You would think God would be done with Israel, but then He called her a “virgin”—after He called her a harlot! Impossible! How can someone become a virgin again?

 

And looking at them Jesus said to them,

“With people this is impossible,

but with God all things are possible.”

—Matthew 19:26

 

Be encouraged that despite past sins, confessing those sins and accepting God’s forgiveness covers you and cleans you of sin, guilt, and shame. God’s forgiveness is so complete that in His eyes, you can be a virgin again; you can be made holy because God is holy. Let God turn your impossible situation into an opportunity to glorify Him.

Pray Jeremiah 31:3-4a and 34 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, You have loved ________ and me with an everlasting love

and drawn us with lovingkindness.

 Build us, and we will be rebuilt; make us virgins again!

LORD, we want to know You.

 Forgive our iniquity and remember our sin no more.

For the sake of Your name, Jesus~”

 

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

Jeremiah 30 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Jeremiah 30.

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Meditate on verse 22.

 

You shall be My people, and I will be your God.

 

God described a hopeless situation for Israel.  Her wound was incurable, and her injury was serious because her iniquity was great and her sins numerous (vs. 12, 15).  Israel was desperately sick, and a cure was impossible, yet God said in verse 17, “I will restore you to health, and I will heal you of your wounds.”

Imagine a doctor telling you that you are going to die and then saying, “I will restore you to health.”  That is what the LORD told Israel.

And that is what the LORD tells you.  Without Christ, you are terminal, deadly sick in sin.  But God, in His love and compassion, died for you, so you don’t have to die from sin sickness.  Jesus is the cure for the hopeless situation caused by sin.  Have you let Him heal you?

Pray Jeremiah 30:12-13, 15, 17, and 22 over those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7), who need to be spiritually healed by the LORD.

 

“LORD, _________ have an incurable wound;

their injury is serious. 

They need You to plead their cause.

They need healing and recovery

 because their iniquity is great,

and their sins are numerous.

LORD, restore them to health; heal their wounds.

Let them be Your people and You their God.

For the sake of Your name, Jesus~”

 

 

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