Key Verses: Jeremiah 17:9, 14
The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
…Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me and I shall be saved, for You are my praise!

Heart disease is our #1 killer physically. Same thing spiritually! Many of us are doing The Daniel Plan, which will help heal and strengthen that blood pump inside (click here for information), and for spiritual healing there is this blog! “He sent His Word and healed them” (Psalm 107:20a). There’s healing both for the body as well as the soul and spirit in daily, daily, daily reading and meditating on God’s Word!!! For potential new 100words.ca readers, you can start any time and in two years (compared to one-year plans there’s shorter readings and extra time for meditating) soak in God’s Word and experience physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing!!!

Jeremiah diagnosed the human heart as deceitful and desperately wicked. Is there a guaranteed healing prescription? Can this terminal heart condition be healed?

The ultimate heart healing treatment is this…Romans 10:8-10. The word “heart” is repeated 3 times in that passage.?It’s an oral medication. You take it by mouth! Speak these words out loud or even whisper them. That gets God’s Word down into our hearts. Healing and wholeness follows. Now, having ingested God’s healing medicine, let’s do as the last words of our key verses instruct us: “You,” Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, “are [our] praise”!!!

PRAYER FOR TODAY:
Lord God, Your Word declares that You “inhabit the praises of [Your people!] Israel!” (Psalm 22:3b). I pray that I will learn more and more to use Scripture in my praise of You! As I do this I know that I am inhabiting the realm of Your Presence! I’m singing now the glorious hymn of praise, “I Will Praise Him!” (click here for the Messianic Jewish family (believers in Jesus), the Isaacs, singing this hymn). Let us praise God together!!! Amen!!!

100 PERSONAL WORDS:
I’m looking forward to hearing the Isaacs in person here in Lakeland, Florida, on Sunday February 9th, at Victory Church. To any of my fellow bloggers in the area, I’ll spend time in the lobby of the church after the concert. Please say, “Hello,” and if you are a hugger, let’s have a hug!

It can be discouraging to read Jeremiah because of his prophecies of woe. I heard a preacher on the local Christian radio station say, “When God says, ‘Woe,’ it means, Whoa!” That’s horse language for STOP!!!” Good advice?

I debated whether or not to quote the Jewish historian Josephus in his description of the next destruction of Jerusalem after the one prophesied by Jeremiah. There are probably similarities in both destructions of the city which the religious and political leaders brought on themselves. When God is not wanted and when He withdraws as a result, all hell breaks loose. This quote is from 70 A.D., after thousands of Christian Jews had left Jerusalem, as they were warned in a prophecy to escape. In case you don’t want to read of such horror, I’ll put it in a post script.

Yours for ingesting God’s Word and inhabiting, as God does, the PRAISE SPACE!!!

David