JEREMIAH 36:4 : Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him. A first-grade girl was sitting next to her grandmother during the morning worship...
JEREMIAH 33:3 : “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Years ago there was a great drought in Connecticut. The water disappeared from the hills, and the farmers drove their cattle into the valleys. Streams there began...
JEREMIAH 32:27 : “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” A rather sickly woman had been deserted by her husband. He left her with three preschool children, a mangy dog, a broken-down, second-floor flat and many bills. One morning she...
JEREMIAH 31:34 : “No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” says the Lord. “For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will...
JEREMIAH 31:3 : The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.” In his book, Make Your Life Worthwhile, Richard Armstrong shares the story of a man in Wales who sought to win the...
JEREMIAH 30:7: Alas! For that day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. Society is filled with offers for deliverance. If you have a toothache, a dentist can take care of it. If...
JEREMIAH 29:13 : And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. A 911 operator received a call one evening but heard nothing on the line. Fearing the worst, she called back. A little boy answered the phone in a barely audibly...
JEREMIAH 24:7 : “Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart.” A few years ago Kelly Perkins could hardly walk around...
JEREMIAH 23:29 : “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” Hammers come in all shapes and sizes. There are jackhammers, sledgehammers, claw hammers and ball peen hammers, to name a few. Each one is designed with a...
JEREMIAH 21:8 : “Now you shall say to this people, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.”‘” According to Aesop’s fables, a long time ago when the world was young, the birds and the beasts were engaged in a...