Hi, I'm Leanne Friesman, and this is Restoring Word.
Wow, it's dark out there, but do you know God is the God of hope?
He is the God who will see us all through when we seek Him and we seek His face.
He's faithful.
I've been studying the book of Jeremiah and studying the prophet, getting ready to start
my Bible study back up again Thursday night, and there's so many things within this gem
of a book that I really love.
And it really coincides with an awesome Instagram channel that I want to encourage you to follow.
It's called My Beautiful Land of Israel.
I want you to go and I want you to just scroll through that content, and here's what I see.
Here is this nation of Israel, these Jewish people who are in shock, they're grieving.
They're not just grieving what happened October 7th.
They're really having to come to terms with what's happening worldwide.
The anti-Semitism is exploding worldwide.
They fight, they have to deal with all the issues that are going around about them, and
then they have to open their phone and see all of the protests that are happening against
the Jewish people worldwide.
And my heart hurts for them.
And yet when I look at this YouTube channel, I see a people that have made the decision
that they're going to live large in the middle of the mess.
They're going to love deeply.
They're going to live in the moment.
They're going to celebrate in the storm.
There's a couple things in here that have just hit me hard, like the soldiers praying
before they go, dedicating their child through FaceTime, you know, the baby is going through
that 8th day circumcision, and all the IDF join in and pray with the dad, or the beautiful
proposals in Army Green.
I don't know about you, but I think some of the most romantic stuff right now on the internet
is watching these amazing weddings and proposals and celebrations of life, specifically by
the IDF, in the middle of this horrific situation.
And it reminded me that no matter what's going on round about us, you and I need to
keep our eyes on Jesus.
Joshua 1.9, have I not commanded you?
Be strong and courageous.
Do not be frightened and dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
And it's really easy to get overwhelmed by the negativity.
Jeremiah had a ministry for over 40 years.
During that time, he prophesied some really hard to hear things.
He prophesied in an era where there was people that didn't want to hear him.
He prophesied to priests and prophets that persecuted him and basically wanted to throw
him in jail.
His ministry spans 40 years, 40 years, 40 years of staying by the stuff and not being
necessarily vindicated for what he said.
He was known as the weeping prophet.
He lived a couple miles outside of Jerusalem.
He did some pretty heavy things.
The good news is God provided for Jeremiah.
God gave him Baruch.
You say, wait a minute, I've never heard of Baruch.
Who is he?
Well, Baruch was the man who stood by Jeremiah's side all the way through his ministry and
faithfully recorded what Jeremiah prophesied.
It was very important that those prophetic words be written because there's no private
interpretation of prophecy even today.
If God gives someone a prophetic word, it's going to be tested by other prophetic people,
apostolic people, and by the body of Christ.
People are going to open it and they're going to say, wait a minute, does this line up with
not only just the word, but the character and the nature of God?
There's no such thing as private interpretation.
And yes, every word must be recorded, even though now a lot of us record it on our phones
and we then share it.
with people we love. There are prophetic words on the internet right now and a
lot of them are pretty dang heavy. But as I was studying all of all of this and
then looking at what the Jewish people are going through right now, I was
reminded of Jeremiah 31. Now let me set it up. Okay, he's a prophet living in a
time where he's being persecuted and attacked. He is warning Israel that
judgment is coming. He is telling people things they don't want to hear. He is
thrown in a cistern at one point, just thrown in a hole and told to just stay
there. Other prophets and other priests came against him because they didn't
like what he was saying. He lived in a time when people wanted to hear happy,
uplifting, encouraging things and didn't necessarily want to hear about impending
judgment. Well, who wants to hear about impending judgment, right? It's not fun.
It's not pleasant. But here's Baruch. Baruch is faithful and back then they
would have taken out a piece of skin and it would have been hard and
laborious to write down a prophetic word. But he recorded it on these skins and
then these skins were rolled up in scrolls and then they were sent to other
nations. He was called a prophet to other nations, though he really never left
Israel. Isn't that interesting? He prophesied things that really nobody
wanted to hear. But in the end, because the word was recorded, somehow or another,
it got into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar. And Nebuchadnezzar said, oh, wait a
minute. When you go into the land of Israel and you destroy it, I want you to
bring me Jeremiah. And he does. And he says, Jeremiah, because of your words, I'm
going to preserve you. Now, it's interesting to me when you go through
his entire lifetime that he was the guy that was mocked and made fun of and
torn down and, you know, belittled and, you know, ridiculed. But in the end,
because he was obedient to God, he was preserved. And you know the most
incredible part of it? I got to tell you this. This is so cool. The most incredible
part of it was, let me scroll down here, let me find it. Here it is.
It's in Jeremiah 31. Okay. And it runs all the way through Jeremiah 33 and starts
here. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Now, all 30 chapters or
so beforehand, okay, we've got the setup of the call of God and then we've got
all these judgments and it's against each individual nation. But in 31, I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not
according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I
took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which
they broke. I was husband to them, said the Lord, but this is the covenant that I
will make with the house of Israel after those days. I will put my law in their
minds and I will write it in their hearts. Okay, it's not it's not gonna be a
thing where people act all religious but it's not in their heart. No, he's gonna
put something deep in their heart. And I will be their God and they shall be my
people. No more shall every man teach his neighbor and every man his brother
saying, know the Lord, for they all shall know me from the least until the
greatest of them, says the Lord. I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I
will remember no more. And then you know what he does? He tells them to go out and
buy a vineyard. Why? Because in the Old Testament prophets would speak in
parables, they would speak in illustrations, but he also was
demonstrating the point to Jeremiah that even after this horrific invasion comes
and Jerusalem burns, I have a plan.
plan, and that plan is for good.
That plan is not for evil.
He's going to give you a future and a hope.
And he established inside of Jeremiah that when all this is done, not only am I going
to see you through it, but I'm going to prosper you, provide for you, and there will be a
place for you.
I think it's hard right now to be a young person who's been raised in the Word, and
they know all of these Bible prophecies.
They know what's coming.
The latest and most disturbing thing, without a doubt, is artificial intelligence, quantum
computing, and the reality that someone wants to create a digital dollar, which actually
would fulfill the potential for Revelation chapters 13 and the mark and the beast.
I mean, it's like the technology now really exists, right?
That's really depressing if you're a young person.
Are we there yet?
No.
Are there things that could happen that could slow that down?
Sure.
You know, God is patient.
He's patient with you.
He's patient with me.
And He is faithful, even when we don't necessarily see it the way or, you know, it doesn't happen
the way that we want it.
I want to encourage you today, if you're discouraged by all of these prophecies that are out there
for 2024, and yeah, I'm going to listen to them after this message today, and yeah, a
lot of them are probably pretty somber and pretty heavy, but I've got good news for you.
Even if we do go through the seven-year tribulation, guess what?
There's life on earth after that.
So don't be discouraged.
If we're going to go through a tough season, guess what?
He's faithful to provide.
He knows His remnant.
He knows those that are faithful to Him.
And He is a good God who will provide, who will make a way.
Keep your eyes on Him.
Don't be fooled by the fake that you see on social media.
Read the Word, because the Word is life, and the Holy Spirit is in the Word.
And when you hear things, you've got to be very discerning in this season.
You've got to make sure that it's the Holy Spirit speaking, that it's not some sort of
fake propaganda, because we're going to be bombarded by all of that.
Did you know that Iran right now is sending out a lot of fake propaganda out on social
media?
Yeah, the Israelis caught them.
You have to have discernment in this hour.
Back then when Jeremiah was alive, there was the fake and there was the real.
We've got to keep our eyes on that, too.
God is a good God.
And no matter what we face in 2024, God is bigger than the economy.
We live on God's economy.
He's bigger than politics.
He's bigger than Democrat and Republican.
He's bigger than any, you know, the one world order.
He's just bigger than all of that.
And He's got a plan.
And He'll make a way for you and for me.
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was recorded.
It's from Him.
It's going to resonate in someone's heart and in someone's life.
2024 is going to be a great year.
I'm looking forward to it.
And I hope you are, too.
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