Day 5 -Thursday- August 10, 2023-- Prayer Focus - Freedom From Captivity
Jeremiah 29:10-14 (NKJV)
10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 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. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 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 cause you to be carried away captive.
A message to people who are in captivity. They are in tough circumstances.
Yet God is aware and letting them know of His love for them.
We may be in a tough situation - this may be for you today, to build your confidence. When we pray, He hears and He responds.
God has a good word for you no matter your situation.
We need then to break off any negative thoughts and focus on the good word He has for us.
God’s good word is driven by His good thoughts. God not only loves you but He also likes you. He thinks good thoughts about you and not just when you are doing good.
What do his good thoughts and words have to do with prayer?
There are 3 promises
God hears us - God joins us - God fees us
God hears us.
No word or prayer is wasted. When we seek Him He will listen to us.
God joins us.
When we seek Him we will find Him. We need His presence to go before us wherever we go. We can all experience His presence. Our testimony will be great, God will be with us.
God Frees Us.
God can free us from captivity. God can bring freedom and healing. God can bring miracles.
God can also bring freedom in captivity. He’s giving Israel an experience of freedom even while they are in captivity. The situation may not change, but He can give us freedom from right where we are.
Stay encouraged and confident.
In the text it is all about God will do this. But we are on the New Testament side of this and God has already done all of this for us.
