Jeremiah 29:11-14

The other night I was privilaged enough to be able to be apart of an amazing time with the Lord. He spoke, He moved, and He changed us. I am just so blessed to be apart of something greater than myself. I was reading my bible today and the verses that kept coming to me were Jeremiah 29: 11-14 "For I know the plans I have for you," Declares the Lord. "Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart." Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I have to do nothing for Him to have planned my future and given me hope. All that is Him, what I am required to do is seek Him, and seek him ernestly. I love that. Well the rest of that says, "I will be found by you," Declares the Lord, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the Lord. "And will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile." So then I was reminded that when I was carried off into exile I was also brought back to that same place. In God's words to me he said, " I brought you back to the middle of the place that hurt you the most to change you." He wanted to rewrite my story in a new way. See when God broke those awful chains of mine He spoke those words to me but I truly was sitting in the very place that had actually hurt me the most. I was in the middle of the sanctuary of my old church. The place inwhich I was carried off into exile God truly brought me back. I was just so blessed with this today that I felt the need to share it. Thank you Jesus for breaking off those chains there. That was closure.

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Sarah Markley said…
Tamara, your heart is so amazing! I love all the things God brings to your mind to say!
August 11, 2007 at 8:10 PM
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