Author	Thread: Jer 29:11
rbj66 View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 24 Aug, 2025 03:24 PM Well known verse. Today at church i heard vs 12-13 which are left out far too much. GOD has great plans, but with faith comes action. That goes for me too. I am glad i heard it today. It is very important to take a verse and put it into context. Here they are, ESV Jeremiah 29:11-13 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. Post Reply
WalkNTalk View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 25 Aug, 2025 08:17 AM Jeremiah also said, "Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?" (Jeremiah 20:18) He seemed to echo the words of Job. (Job 3:11) Yep! It is all life outside the Garden of Eden. Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 25 Aug, 2025 10:29 AM Get a right Relationship with Jesus LD and you can gain some Wisdom instead of trying to Control others Christian members Bible beliefs on this site. You the man in the Wrong. Unqualified!! Keep Bashing Christians and pastors and churches show ignorance. You need Deliverance from Prideful ignorance on this Dating site. God is not leading you anywhere on site. Keep Bashing me and others is what you do best. Many True Christians now Know you do not know how to teach Bible. Go seek help from God. Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 25 Aug, 2025 10:36 AM Jesus knows you not called to teach anyone ! Best be concerned about your own Salvation. LD Most True Christians leave posting including most Christian Women. No one is required to agree with your Ignorance in TRYing to teach. You not everyone's teacher on this Dating site. Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 25 Aug, 2025 10:38 AM Noting I believe is false so you can stop that Lie Repeated on here. LD you are a disturbed man not lead by God. Post Reply
homelesschristian View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 25 Aug, 2025 03:45 PM For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD: God knew His own thoughts toward these exiled Jews in Babylon. They did not know or did not remember His thoughts toward them, so God wanted to state them in writing through Jeremiah’s letter. i. God thinks about us. In Psalm 40, David pondered the thoughts of God upon His people: Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered (Psalm 40:5; see also Psalm 139:17-18). ii. “God’s thoughts run upon his children, the children of affliction especially, as a father’s do upon his dear children.” (Trapp) iii. Yet what God told the exiles through Jeremiah was even better. God does not only think of His people, His thoughts are toward them. “The Lord not only thinks of you, but towards you. His thoughts are all drifting your way.” (Spurgeon) Post Reply
IQDisciple View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 25 Aug, 2025 08:04 PM Thanks for adding some of the context. Greg Koukl (Stand to Reason - str.org) has a line "Never read a Bible verse" in which he illustrates the principle of never reading a single line out of context. Also implicit here is the context in which the verse was written and its audience. We tend to want to claim all the positive verses and neglect the negative ones. I think the overall principle is good given that we are actually seeking God with all our heart, etc. But, few of us actually even do that. Same goes for Dt. 6, etc. General principle applies, but may not happen in each godly life (see Jeremiah and his Lamentations, etc.). May God bless you as you seek his truth. (John 8:31-32). Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 26 Aug, 2025 03:36 PM Too many “nicer than thou” Christians treat the Bible like a chunk of wood. They seem to follow the lead of pagan idol worshipers who carve away all the “negative” wood shavings that obscure the self-glorifying positive image they want worship. CAUTION: Here’s a copy of the unabridged chapter of Jeremiah 29 (negative stuff included). Might be offensive to the modern high self-esteem “nicer than thou” Christian‼️‼️‼️ SPOILER ALERT: In addition to positive encouragements, this chapter also contains some very negative stuff‼️‼️ New International Version A Letter to the Exiles Jeremiah 29 This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2 (This was after King Jehoiachin[a] and the queen mother, the court officials and the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the skilled workers and the artisans had gone into exile from Jerusalem.) 3 He entrusted the letter to Elasah son of Shaphan and to Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon. It said: 4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” 8 Yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Do not let the prophets and diviners among you deceive you. Do not listen to the dreams you encourage them to have. 9 They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I have not sent them,” declares the Lord. 10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity.[b] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.” 15 You may say, “The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,” 16 but this is what the Lord says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your fellow citizens who did not go with you into exile— 17 yes, this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will send the sword, famine and plague against them and I will make them like figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten. 18 I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse[c] and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them. 19 For they have not listened to my words,” declares the Lord, “words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either,” declares the Lord. 20 Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. 21 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you in my name: “I will deliver them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your very eyes. 22 Because of them, all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the Lord treat you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned in the fire.’ 23 For they have done outrageous things in Israel; they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and in my name they have uttered lies—which I did not authorize. I know it and am a witness to it,” declares the Lord. Message to Shemaiah 24 Tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite, 25 “This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You sent letters in your own name to all the people in Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the other priests. You said to Zephaniah, 26 ‘The Lord has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada to be in charge of the house of the Lord; you should put any maniac who acts like a prophet into the stocks and neck-irons. 27 So why have you not reprimanded Jeremiah from Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you? 28 He has sent this message to us in Babylon: It will be a long time. Therefore build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.’” 29 Zephaniah the priest, however, read the letter to Jeremiah the prophet. 30 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 31 “Send this message to all the exiles: ‘This is what the Lord says about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, even though I did not send him, and has persuaded you to trust in lies, 32 this is what the Lord says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the Lord, because he has preached rebellion against me.’” Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 26 Aug, 2025 03:42 PM ASSIGNMENT: After reading the entire chapter of Jeremiah 29, see if you can answer the following question: Was the promise contained in Jeremiah 29:11 written for just O anybody or more specifically for a certain kind of people⁉️ Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 26 Aug, 2025 04:50 PM Why did God send the Israelites to Babylon for 70 years in the first place⁉️ Why 70 years⁉️ What about the prior promise made to Israel that they would be the first and not the last⁉️ That they would also dwell in the promised land forever⁉️ What happened⁉️ Did God break his word by sending the Israelites off to the land Babylon for 70 years ⁉️ Why is the great and gracious promise given to Israel in Jer 29:11 so significant⁉️ Post Reply
LittleDavid View Profile History	Jer 29:11 Posted : 26 Aug, 2025 04:52 PM Not all the above answers to the question in the last set are found in Jer 29? Post Reply

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