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Today's Video Devotion

Wednesday 7/24/24

Prayer Can Move Mountains

๐Ÿ“บ๏ธ Lamentations 5 ๐Ÿ”Š


1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

 5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

 9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

 11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

 12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

 14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

 15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

 16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

 17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

 18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

 19Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

 20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

 21Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

 22But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Written By: God through Inspiration

Penned By: Jeremiah

Date Penned: (586-516 BC)

Overview: To Teach Disobedience Brings Disaster (c 1-5)

Theme: The Lord Speaks Through Lamentation (c 1-5)

Message: Jeremiah Pleads for Restoration (v 1-22)


Lamentations 5 Commentary


(5:1) Fervent Prayer - As we grieve deeply, we should pray fervently, seeking God's mercy and comfort. Here Jeremiah prayed for mercy for his people. At the end of his prayer, his deep grief caused him to wonder if God had "utterly rejected" his people in his great anger (5:22). But God would not stay angry with them forever--as Micah 7:18 states, "He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy." No matter how deep our grief or how far we have strayed from God, he will welcome us home when we turn to him. 


(5:14) The City Gates - During times of peace and prosperity, the leaders and elders of the city would sit at the city gate and talk over politics, theology, and philosophy, as well as conduct business. At their festivals, younger men would celebrate the blessings of peace with dancing and singing. As Jeremiah prayed, he saw no more of either the healthy interaction of the elders or the lighthearted dancing of youths common in their former lives under God's blessing. They had lost the joy of everyday events they had assumed would always be there. When we are broken and can no longer sense God's blessings in our lives, we need to realize that God is with us in our troubles even if we can't sense it--he remains the same forever. And when we no longer express gratefulness to God even when we are blessed, we are in danger of taking the goodness of this life he has given us for granted. 


(5:22) A Great Hope - When a high calling sinks into low living, deep suffering results. Lamentations gives us a portrait of the bitter suffering the people of Jerusalem experienced when sin caught up with them and God turned his back on them. Every material goal they had lived for collapsed. But although God turned away from them because of their sin, he did not abandon them--that was their great hope. Despite their sinful past, God would restore them if they returned to him. Real and lasting hope is found only in the Lord. No one else gives eternal life, perfect justice, renewed bodies, and a harmonious, loving community of believers. Thus, our grief should turn us toward him, not away from him.

Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today we continue in the Book of Lamentations Chapter 5. In our text today we see Jeremiah pleads for restoration for God's people through prayer. In making application we see the power of prayer as God did answer Jeremiah's prayer even when no one would listen to him. Today many of us face huge obstacles in our life that seem impossible but we can pray. Prayer can move the mountains in your life. How about you? Do you Pray? Let us learn from our text today and the example of Jeremiah to remember that Prayer can do the impossible towards the obstacles we face that are beyond our control. 

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๏ปฟSincerely,
Dr. Dave Burnette
Director, The United States Bible Society, Inc.
Closing Prayer

Father in the Name and through the Blood of Jesus we pray that we would Take Today's Reading of Your Word and Give Us Understanding of Its Text, that You Apply this Word to Our Lives, and that you would help us grow in You. Father, Finally we Pray for Your Kingdom to come, that Your Will to be Done here on Earth as it is in Heaven. That You would Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, The power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen

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