This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope.  Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.  They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3: 21-23, NKJV Dear Lord, what would life be without You?  It is You who give meaning to our lives.  Please be close to us as we look into Your word today, for Christ's sake.  Amen In two of our previous devotionals we dealt with remembering and forgetting.  And we will be going over this topic from time to time; because what goes on in our minds, rule our lives,...

I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive. Jeremiah 29: 14, NKJV Heavenly Father, we have tasted and seen that you are a God that can be trusted to keep Your Word, this gives us hope, and for this we give You thanks.  Amen After God declares His thoughts toward His...

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29: 13, NKJV  Dear Father, thank You for being there all along, and revealing Yourself when we seek You with all our hearts.  Amen The little boy was playing in the sand.  Suddenly, he looked up and saw a monk approaching.  He thought, "Surely, he will be able to answer my question."  For days he had been thinking about a conversation he had overheard between his dad and a neighbor.  They were discussing about what is truth.  Somehow they could not agree on...

Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. Jeremiah 29: 12, NKJV Dear Lord, what a blessed assurance that You listen to us when we pray to You.  Hallelujah! Amen Yesterday we ended on the note that it was essential that we recognize the seasons.  We need to recognize when our captivity has come to an end.  In making this point Jesus had the following to say, "If you had known, especially you, in this your day, the things that make for your peace!  But now they are hidden from your eyes. ...

For I know the thoughts that I think toward You, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29: 11, NKJV  Gracious God, how it warms our heart to know that we can trust You and depend on You to bring Your plans for our lives to past, regardless of the circumstances.  In Christ's name; Amen This is our third day on this promise, and I am just loving the messages the Lord is sending us as we look at this promise from different perspectives!  Seventy years in captivity...

For I know the thoughts that I think toward You, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29: 11, NKJV  Dear Lord, we are so grateful that nothing can interrupt Your plans for our lives, if we remain within that plan. Amen We will continue where we left off yesterday; considering God's plans for our lives.  Let us look at this text in its context.  God's people were in captivity.  Because of their sins they had been taken captive to Babylon.  The message from God to His people was rather...

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29: 11, NKJV Blessed Lord, we thank You that there is a future planned for those who trust in You, a good future.  Amen If we could only remember this promise when things are not working out for us, we would have peace.  When we have prayed, and prayed, and done everything in our power, and it seems as if nothing is happening, if we could only remember that we are...

For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again Proverbs 24: 16a, NKJV  Heavenly Father, how we rejoice in the knowledge that underneath us are the everlasting arms to lift us when we fall.  Thank You Lord!  Amen This is such an encouraging promise!  Those who love the Lord, though we fall, we do not stay down.  For the LORD Himself lifts us up!  There are many rehabilitation programs.  A really effective program is expected to lift up the person who has fallen; it is expected to put him or her back on his or her feet, and help them, to once again, find their place...

The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. Psalm 34: 7, NKJV Father, thank You so much for caring for Your children.  In Jesus' name.  Amen When I was a little girl, there was a beautiful painting hanging on the wall in our bedroom.  It was of two small children standing close to the edge of a body of water.  It seems that the little boy was holding his boat by a string when the string slipped from his hand into the water.  The boat was being washed away.  The little boy was leaning so close to the edge...

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1: 9, NKJV Dear God, Thank You so much for not only forgiving us, but also for cleansing us from all wrong-doing.  Amen How wonderful it feels to be forgiven; really forgiven.  Not like the fellow who lay on his deathbed and was visited by a former friend, from whom he had withheld his speech for many years.  What was so sad is that their dispute was over something very insignificant.  His friend, had tried to make peace with him on...