Pray that the Lord your God will show us what to do and where to go. Jer. 42:3

This is the prayer we pray when we have no idea what to do next. God really does know the way through everything we face. Too often we have to reach the point of complete frustration before we are willing to let go of what we think is security and throw our yielded hands into the air.

 OK, Lord, what now?

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord, “they are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jer. 29:11

God loves us and his intentions toward us are for good. Because God is good we have hope through  life’s hard, painful, disappointing moments. God does not aim disaster at us but he does aim restoration and redemption at us when we face disaster.

Lord, my hope is in You.

I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. And I will forgive their wickedness, and I will never again remember their sins. Jer 31:33

When we ask for Christ’s forgiveness whatever we’ve done or thought, no matter how often, no matter how awful, comes with voluntary amnesia on God’s part. Not only does he wipe it from His own memory but he wants to delete it and rewrite his own message on our hearts as well. No follower of Christ has to be defined or marked by past failures, not in the way we see ourselves nor in the way we see one another.

Lord, thanks for forgiving and forgetting.

They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit. Jer. 17:8

God’s presence is like a spiritual cool front that blows in when our lives seem to be experiencing record drought and heat. He nourishes and refreshes us. He produces an environment of blessing through us and for us.

Lord, thank you for spiritual and physical breezes.