Episode 192

TODAY’S READING:

“Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.”

Jeremiah 33:6

 

I read this verse in a few different versions. In the ESV it says:6 Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them an abundance of prosperity and security.

 

I really liked how one version used peace while the other used the word prosperity. I think it’s because we associate peace with prosperity.

 

Only if I had the right job, then I will be at peace, then I will find security. So many of us think this way. If only I had a meal plan, then I would eat right and lose weight. If only I had time in my schedule, then I would pray more.

 

We have it all wrong. Nothing on this earth can bring us peace. Prosperity, or security than a life with Jesus in the center.

 

We have to remember that. When we look for the opportunity we must wait for him to open the doors, we must not force them open ourselves.

 

This verse also talks about healing, and a lot of us are on the search for that too. If you are sick in your body, I am going to stand with you in believing that you are healed. God is the father of healing, he is the God of miracles and this verse says I will heal my people. He will heal your bodies, your hearts, your brokenness.

 

He is a good good father, and I hope these devotionals allow you to hold onto the truth that life is much better when we start our mornings and surround our days with Him.

 

PRAYER

Jesus, we look to all of the wrong places when looking for peace and security when you are the giver of such things. We ask that you surround us with peace. Heal our bodies, heal our brokenness, protect our homes, let us cast our worries and anxieties to you. We want to be secured in you. We want to be engulfed by your love. Father we are all walking different paths and only you know them. We ask that you protect us and guide us, let us lean on you when times get tough. We thank you for this beautiful day ahead, it is with everything in us that we pray, Amen, and AMEN!