Jeremiah 33:1-3 – While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him a second time: 2 “This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it—the Lord is his name: 3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ NIV
Jeremiah 33:1-3 – While Jeremiah was still locked up in jail, a second Message from God was given to him: 2-3 “This is God’s Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting, known everywhere as God: ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.’ The Message
When the prophet Jeremiah was in prison, the Lord came and spoke to Him. When we are in prisons, when we are in tough times, we seek the Lord. We call out for His help. The Lord desires for us to stop what we are doing, He desires for us to stop worrying, He wants us to just stop and turn to Him. He always wants us to first and always seek Him. As we are getting out of bed, before our feet hit the floor, we should begin to fellowship with God. In spite of popular opinion, the first thing we need in the morning is not coffee, but to fellowship with God. Fellowshipping with God means to put our attention on Him, to talk to Him, to truly expect Him to communicate to us. We turn our faces first to God (Psalm 59:16). God moves when we seek Him.
Acts 16:22-30 tells us of a time when Paul and Silas were wrongly sentenced to be beaten with rods. They were severely flogged and then put into an inner cell in the prison. At midnight, after a day that most of us would call a truly horrendous day, what were they doing? They were praying and singing hymns to God. Their faith in God was not altered. It grew. They sang out their praise and lifted them up to God. God heard and He sent a big earthquake. Paul and Silas could have fled (the prison doors had flown open), but instead they stayed in the circumstances that God had them in. They wanted to be where God wanted them to be, even if that meant they were to be in prison. Because of their faith, because they continued to pray and praise God, their prison guard came to know Jesus as his Lord and Savior and so did His family. Being in a hard spot, of any kind, does not mean that God is angry with us or we are out of His will. They were right where God wanted them and their faith was strong. God used them to bring people into the kingdom of God. You know that even though their bodies hurt, their spirits and souls soared. God hears our prayers. God moves when we seek Him.
God desires for us to have our attention on Him and our will yielded to Him. As we seek Him He will reveal to us great wonders that are beyond our ability to know unless He reveals them to us. The least of the wisdom of God is infinitely beyond the greatest wisdom of man (1 Corinthians 1:25). To those who are His own, when we ask for His wisdom He will give it to us (James 1:5). At all times, in every place, let us be quiet before the Lord and hear what He would say to us. Let’s sit before His throne and have Him bless us with His Wisdom. He has already given us His Word and He has given us His Spirit. In His Word is more knowledge than we can, in this lifetime, fully know. His Word reveals His will for us and more importantly, His Word leads us to Him and reveals Him to us. Family, do we truly want to know eternal mysteries. God wants to expand our minds. He wants to blow open the prison cells of our natural abilities and pour into us wisdom and knowledge that the natural mind does not know and cannot conceive. God wants us to learn eternal knowledge. Like children laying under a sky filled with majestic and twinkling stars, and wondering and staring in awe, so let us be in awe and let God tell us the story of creation, and of undying love, and of the One who provides for and protects all who love Him. Let God amaze us! Praise God! Lord God, let it be so, amaze us as only You can. You, oh God, are truly amazing. Lord You move when we seek You. Praise you God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.