EAT PRAY LOVE

PRAY

A couple weeks ago I started posting my notes from the Beth Moore "Living Proof" Conference. I completed the EAT session. Here are my notes from the PRAY session:

Jeremiah 29:10 - 14

This is what the Lord says, "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. 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 hope and a future. 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. 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."

* All discipline from God is to bring us closer to Him!

* Nothing is to master us, except for the freedom of Christ!!

(Jeremiah 29:11) For I know the plans I have for you....

Greek word for know is "boule" which means: "I think about the plans I have for you..."!!! He THINKS about everything before it goes into action! Every little moment! HE NEVER MISSES!! ***If you are struggling, there is a greater joy that He has planned for you!!!

He is 100% pure, holy, and righteous! He knows the plans for you! "He knows what He's doin' !"

His plan is beautiful!!!

For instance... abuse. Satan uses it for destruction. God uses it for glory and for something beautiful!! Make Satan sorry for trying to destruct!!

Jeremiah 29:12 You will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

* Instead of instant healing, He wants us to KNOW the Healer. To truly seek Him, and to trust His plans for us. Jeremiah 29:13 Seek Me with all your heart. You cannot and will not be freed unless you seek Him with all your heart! Why with all your heart? Jeremiah 3:10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense, " declares the Lord. She did not learn from what the Northern Kingdom had just gone through.

**11,000 people attended this conference. What if 11,000 people let go of their game?!?!! STOP THE PRETENDING!!! STOP THE DECEPTION! LET GO! Any part of us that is "a show" is the part of us that is in bondage.

Jeremiah 17:7-9 But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heats come; it leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Be careful where your confidence is. Verse 9 is a warning: The heart is deceitful.

Deceitful: Hebrew word: aqab = torturous! The heart is torturous! The word aqab also means "crooked". How many times are we our own worst enemy? God's plan for us is to walk a straight line, but the heart is crooked. Our problem is NOT a knowledge problem, but an OBEDIENCE problem!

*Any part of your heart that is not given to God will lead to oppression and destruction. Give your desert to God!! Let Him in the area that you wouldn't allow Him to go!!

*You know your heart is deceitful by the words that are on your lips. This is a stronghold of deception.

*The heart is gravely ill and dangerously sick. It's what seeds our personality.

Jeremiah 7:9-10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, "we are safe" - safe to all these detestable things?

DON'T SAY YOU'RE DELIVERED IF YOU'RE NOT!!! The fastest way to get delivered is to admit that you're not delivered!!

Jeremiah 30:12-13; 30:17 This is what the Lord says: "Your wound is incurable, your injury beyond healing. There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you." ( Verse 17: "But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds, "declares the Lord, "because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares."

Back up to Verse 14: "All your allies have forgotten you; they care nothing for you. I have struck you as an enemy would and punished you as would the cruel, because your guilt is so great and your sins so many."

*The allies are our idols and false peace!!!! "But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds!!!!!!" (vs 17) On this day, let Jesus restore you to health and heal your wounds!!

Jeremiah 2:25 Do not run until your feet are bare and your throat is dry. But you said, "It's no use! I love foreign gods, and I must go after them."

Jeremiah 18:11 "Now therefore say to the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, "This is what the Lord says: Look! I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways, each one of you, and reform your ways and your actions."

In both of the above verses, the people have said, "It's no use!" They have accepted their bondage. - Give your desert to God! How comfortable are the words, "It's no use" on your lips?

Jeremiah 32:17 "Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you."

** NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR HIM!! YOU ARE THE MIRACLE HE WANTS TO USE!! Amen!! Thank You Jesus!!

Tell everyone about the pit that you have been in, so that JESUS CAN BE GLORIFIED AND CAN USE THE MIRACLE HE CREATED!!

God's phone number: Jeremiah 3:33 "Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

Do you want an adventure? Follow Jesus!