Kristi Burchfiel

The Weeping Prophet, Day 35 A legacy of obedience. Read Jeremiah chapter 35. God asks Jeremiah to bring in a specific family. When Jeremiah does this, God tells him to offer them wine. The family strictly refuses saying that they have kept the command to not drink wine for generations. Their forefathers had shared with them that was a command and they have strictly kept it and been obedient to that throughout multiple generations. God shows this as an example of what he was looking for from the people of Israel. God wanted the people of Israel to be obedient to him throughout multiple generations. It is truly amazing to…

The Weeping Prophet, Day 34 What is fair? Read Jeremiah chapter 34. The Lord had requested obedience on a certain command. The people had continued slavery, even though God had specifically told them to free their Hebrew brothers and sisters every 7 years. The people had refused to do that. However, God told them to free the people and so they had done it. Unfortunately, they decided they didn’t like that and so they had gone back and recaptured all of their slaves and forced them back into slavery. God was not happy. In a very sarcastic tone, and almost using air quotes, God tells the people that because they…

The Weeping Prophet, Day 33 Fulfillment of promise. Read Jeremiah chapter 33. As God continues to share with Jeremiah, we see the bigger picture of God’s ultimate plan. God helps Jeremiah to understand that there is a Savior coming. There is a plan for complete redemption. There is salvation to be found. When we look at the world around us, we understand the sin throughout the world, it’s important to know that God has victory in the end. God understands where we are at and he will judge the sin in the world. However, God will be the Victor. God will bring about victory and we can live in the…

The Weeping Prophet, Day 32 God can do it all. Read Jeremiah chapter 32. Interestingly, Jeremiah has to remind the people that God is more than capable of addressing the issues and concerns. But, he is still only going to address what is going to bring him glory. Do we acknowledge the glory that God is due? Do we seek his glory, even when the path to get there is more challenging than anything else we have ever faced?

The Weeping Prophet, Day 31 God loves us. Read Jeremiah chapter 31. God uses this chapter to remind Jeremiah and the people that he loves them. He will restore them. God’s love is everlasting and unfailing. We cannot truly understand what it means to be loved by God. And yet, we are. It is an amazing and unfathomable thing. Today, no matter what you are going through or experiencing, remember the depth of God’s love for you.

The Weeping Prophet, Day 30 Restoration. Read Jeremiah chapter 30. God had judged the people. Jeremiah had already shared and explained what was coming. They were going to experience judgment and they were going to be exiled. However, God shared to Jeremiah that that was not the end. God was not condemning the people forever. God had a plan and God was going to provide restoration. God knew that there would be a point that he would bring them back and restore them. This judgment was just for a time and a season. The challenges that we go through and difficulties that we face are for us to get closer…

The Weeping Prophet, Day 29 Seek God. Read Jeremiah chapter 23. The people were in the worst possible situation. They had been taken captive and yet Jeremiah is still prophesying to them. Jeremiah reminds them God still has a plan. Even in the midst of the darkest situation, God still wants us to seek him. God is still the one with the answers. Are we seeking after God? God promises that if we will seek him, then we will find him. God is not trying to hide from us. Are we seeking him today?

The Weeping Prophet, Day 28 “Liar, liar, pants on fire.” Jeremiah accuses the other prophet of lying. Read Jeremiah chapter 28. One of the other prophets keeps telling the people and the king that everything is going to be ok. He goes through the process of making a big show to demonstrate this. However, it doesn’t matter how much of a demonstration he makes, Jeremiah tells him that he is just a liar. He is not speaking the truth of God, but is lying to the people. Jeremiah wants the people to realize that even though this other prophet’s message is what they would want to hear. We need to…

The Weeping Prophet, Day 27 Options. Read Jeremiah chapter 27. God gave the people options. As God was delivering his message to Jeremiah, Jeremiah was to tell the people what was going to happen and then give them two options of how they could respond to that information. God shared with the people that he was going to allow the Babylonians to take over. Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon was going to be in charge of everything in that area because God was going to allow it. However, the people had a choice. They could either choose to serve Babylon, or they could resist and as a result God would…

The Weeping Prophet, Day 26 Angry about God’s message. Read Jeremiah chapter 26. Jeremiah has continued to share God’s message with people, and they don’t like it. People decide that Jeremiah must die. The king actually has already had another prophet killed who was sharing God’s message. They began to debate about whether or not killing Jeremiah would be OK. The kings are trying to avoid punishment at all costs and so the question becomes, will the judgment that Jeremiah describes come true, or will they experience more judgment and punishment by killing him? God works through the situation and saves Jeremiah, but we need to recognize the fact that…