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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hello, and thank you for listening to your

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Speaker 1: Daily Bible Verse, the podcast that examines one verse each

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Speaker 1: day to learn more about God and his will for us.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Jessica Finrokel, and after this short word

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Speaker 1: from our sponsor, we'll dive into today's Bible verse Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: chapter thirty three, Verse three. Jeremiah chapter thirty three, Verse three.

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Speaker 1: Call to me, and I will answer you and will

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Speaker 1: tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a long, hard season. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you've prayed the same prayer every day in your ill

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Speaker 1: waiting for an answer, raising my hand over here. Or

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Speaker 1: maybe you've spent far too much time in a hospital

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Speaker 1: waiting room, watching for the doctors to walk through the

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Speaker 1: door to give you an update. We go through this

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Speaker 1: life and experience its thorns as well as its beauty.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the beauty of a forest giving way to a

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Speaker 1: great lake makes my heart ache in a good way,

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Speaker 1: and other times, the hardships of a long season makes

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Speaker 1: my heart quake with fear and confusion. I want to

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Speaker 1: cry out, Lord, don't you see me? Don't you hear me?

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Speaker 1: Because frankly, sometimes it feels like he doesn't, and yet

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Speaker 1: we can be assured that he does. He sees our

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Speaker 1: heartbreak and the burdens that feel too heavy, and the

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Speaker 1: steps that seem too steep. Today's verse assures us that

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Speaker 1: he does, in fact, hear our cries. Jeremiah received this

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Speaker 1: word of encouragement during the final siege by the Babylonians

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Speaker 1: against Jerusalem while he was in prison. You see, the

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Speaker 1: Israelites had chosen other gods to worship and to sacrifice too.

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Speaker 1: They made unbelieve in the One True God, a habit

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Speaker 1: they refused to break. This resulted in losing their land

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Speaker 1: being conquered. First with the Southern Kingdom of Israel conquered,

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Speaker 1: and now with the Northern Kingdom of Judah under siege.

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Speaker 1: Time and again, God used Jeremiah to urge the people

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Speaker 1: to repentance, and when they refused, two things happened. One,

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah began prophesying that they would be conquered and carted

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Speaker 1: off to the Babylonian Empire. And two kings Atekiah not

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Speaker 1: only refused to listen to it Jeremiah, but put him

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Speaker 1: in prison. While he was in prison, and while the

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Speaker 1: city was under siege, Jeremiah spoke about Israel and Judah's

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Speaker 1: future returned to peace, prosperity, and spiritual wholeness. It was

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Speaker 1: a near future prophecy and a far future prophecy, and

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Speaker 1: eventually the people did return to their land and experienced

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Speaker 1: peace and prosperity, and someday Jesus will return to make

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Speaker 1: all things right and establish his kingdom. Jeremiah's words in

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Speaker 1: Today's verse are a great reminder that what is won't

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Speaker 1: always be. In Jeremiah Chapter thirty three, he places a

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Speaker 1: strong emphasis on God's name Yahweh. In using this name

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Speaker 1: for God, Jeremiah reminds the people of God's covenant relationship.

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Speaker 1: He is a faithful, covenant keeping God. We can be

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Speaker 1: encouraged that all who come to Him with faith filled

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Speaker 1: prayer confident he will answer, even in the middle of

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Speaker 1: terrifying circumstances. The prophet speaks to a city under siege

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Speaker 1: as a captive. His chains and the city's walls testify

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Speaker 1: to Judah's spiritual bondage, and yet confinement cannot confine God's voice.

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Speaker 1: God plants hope in the lowest points of our lives

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Speaker 1: so that it rests on His credibility and not on circumstances.

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Speaker 1: The first verse in this chapter uses words like made, formed, established,

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Speaker 1: which harkens us back to Genesis. This choice of language

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Speaker 1: re reminds the people of Judah that God can reform

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Speaker 1: a city. God is a creator, and he can recreate

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Speaker 1: lives and hopes and dreams. And into siege and misery

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Speaker 1: comes an invitation to call on his name. Not only

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Speaker 1: are we invited to call on his name, but we

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Speaker 1: are assured that He will answer and share mighty things

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Speaker 1: with us. The New Living Translation calls this these remarkable

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Speaker 1: secrets you do not know about. The ESV calls them

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Speaker 1: great and hidden things. The CSB says great and incomprehensible things,

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Speaker 1: and the Amplified version rights tell and show confined and

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Speaker 1: hidden things. The original Hebrew defines mighty things as inaccessible secrets.

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Speaker 1: One scholar stated it refers to matters so far beyond

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Speaker 1: human insight that they require divine intervention. God invited Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: to ask to receive revelation that only God can disclose,

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Speaker 1: and if we fast forward to New Testament times, we

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Speaker 1: see this invitation again when Jesus said in Matthew chapter seven,

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Speaker 1: verse seven, to ask, seek and knock, and again in

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Speaker 1: John chapter sixteen, verse thirteen. But when he the spirit

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Speaker 1: of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth.

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Speaker 1: He will not speak on his own. He will speak

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Speaker 1: only what he hears, and he will tell you what

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Speaker 1: is yet to come. God invites us to call on him,

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Speaker 1: knowing he will answer. So often we get in our

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Speaker 1: own way, don't we. We think we need to know

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Speaker 1: what we can do in our strength, or tragically, we

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Speaker 1: accuse God of not caring for us because he's not

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Speaker 1: performing the way we think he should. And I understand.

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Speaker 1: I've been confused by God's choice of actions or inactions

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Speaker 1: throughout my life. But I've learned God's ways are higher

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Speaker 1: than mine, his thoughts are deeper and greater than mine,

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Speaker 1: and I want to encourage you to trust Him more

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Speaker 1: for your actionable step that I want to encourage you

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Speaker 1: to do, call on His name. Simply say Jesus or

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Speaker 1: Yahweh or Lord or Holy God. Today. Quiet the frantic

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Speaker 1: wondering and trust that He is there and say, Lord,

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Speaker 1: I need you. Let's pray Heavenly Father, thank you so

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Speaker 1: very much that you are with us. Lord, that you say,

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Speaker 1: call on me and I will answer you. So often, Lord,

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Speaker 1: we don't call on you because either we think we

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Speaker 1: can do it on our own strength, or we believe

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Speaker 1: that you don't hear us, or that you won't answer us. Lord,

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Speaker 1: renew our faith today that you do hear and you

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Speaker 1: do answer. So Lord, we're going to call on you

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Speaker 1: by faith and say, Holy God, I need you. Lord,

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Speaker 1: Come and Lord, we're going to receive you. In Jesus name.

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Speaker 1: We pray Amen