Devotions

“Here is what Adonai says: ‘Water is rising out of the north; it will become a flooding stream, flooding the land and all that is in it, the city and its inhabitants. The people are crying out in alarm, everyone in the land is weeping.”
Jeremiah 47:2 CJB

We read in Jeremiah over and over how Adonai warns the people to repent and get it together, but still they wouldn’t listen! Now that the water is rising, the people are weeping and it’s too late, they start crying out! We need to be watching for and listening to Adonai! Don’t wait until it’s too late!

“Stay alert! Be on your guard! For you do not know when the time will come.”
Mark 13:33 CJB

Understand, only God knows the day and the hour, but He has given us signs and clues of His soon coming! We just need be alert and watching!

“My strength, I will watch for You, for God is my fortress.”
Psalm 59:9 CJB

Today, let’s be on guard and aware of what is going on around us! God isn’t slack. He is coming for His children. We just need to be ready!
Have a blessed day watching for God!

“Yet don’t be afraid, Yaakov(Jacob) my servant; don't be distressed, Israel. For I will save you from faraway places, and your offspring from the lands where they are held captive. Yaakov will return and be at peace, quiet, with no one to make him afraid.”
Jeremiah 46:27 CJB

God does let us be punished by our own foolishness and sin, but He never lets us be completely destroyed, He will save us!

“But if you will not do this, then you have sinned against Adonai, and you must understand that your sins will find you out.”
Numbers 32:23 CJB

Understand, even if we think we are getting away with something, we are not! But realize when we repent He forgives! So when you blow it, just simply confess and return to walking with Adonai!

“What, then does it say? The Word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart. -that is, the Word about trust which we proclaim, namely, that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is LORD and trust in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be delivered.”
Romans 10:8-9 CJB

Today, know if you blow it, God has His hand on you and all you have to do is confess, repent and He forgives!
Have a blessed day in Him!

“Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don’t! For I am bringing disaster on everything living, says Adonai. ‘But wherever you go, you will escape with your life.'”
Jeremiah 45:5 CJB

What God is saying is: no matter where you are, as long as you are seeking Me (God) and walking with Me, you will be safe! We can be in a prison, poverty or any other calamity, if we are seeking God, not our own greatness, we will be safe! The question is: are you seeking your own glory or His Glory?

“Seek Adonai and His strength; always seek His presence.”
1 Chronicles 16:11 CJB

We all need to be careful of seeking our own greatness, trying to be #1! We need to be seeking God in all things and glorifying Him in everything!

“Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples!”
1 Chronicles 16:24 CJB

Today, what we all need to be doing is declaring the greatness and glory of God! Don’t get caught up in self, realize God has it all covered!
Have a blessed day in Him!

“It is because you offered incense, sinned against Adonai, didn’t listen to what Adonai said, and didn’t live by His Torah, regulations and instructions that this disaster has befallen you, as it is today.”
Jeremiah 44:23 CJB

We see Jeremiah telling the people that their idols aren’t the source of their prosperity, but instead they are the source of their destruction!

“Salvation is far away from the wicked, because they don’t seek Your laws.”
Psalm 119:155 CJB

If we are truly saved, we will rely upon the Word of God and His precepts for how we are to walk through life!

“I take joy in Your promises, like someone who finds much booty.”
Psalm 119:162 CJB

Today let’s look at God’s promises of Salvation as priceless booty! Yeshua (Jesus), who laid down His life so we can be saved, is as priceless as it comes, which makes His Salvation priceless and perfect!
Have a blessed day walking in His ways!

“He will also break the standing-stones of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt and burn to the ground the temples of the gods of Egypt.”
Jeremiah 43:13 CJB

God is going to destroy all pagan places of worship and their idols! We need to realize false gods will never save us, they will only destroy us!

“Around noon Eliyahu began ridiculing them: Shout louder! After all, he’s a god, isn’t he? Maybe he’s daydreaming, or he’s on the potty, or he’s away on a trip. Maybe he’s asleep, and you have to wake him.”
1 Kings 18:27 CJB

This is always the deal with false gods they are made by human hands out of God–made materials and they will never answer you! Why? Because they are not real! But God, on the other, hand is living, breathing and in full control! We have nothing to be afraid of when we are looking to Him for all our needs!

“My help comes from Adonai, the maker of Heaven and Earth. He will not let your foot slip-your guardian is not asleep. No, the Guardian of Israel never slumbers or sleeps.”
Psalm 121:2-4 CJB

Realize, God never sleeps, but on the other hand, we are the ones slumbering and sleeping! So don’t look to false idols, but look to Adonai, who is in control of all things!
Have a blessed day!
Shabbat Shalom!