Read Jeremiah 1:1-19

¹⁷ ‘Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them. ¹⁸ Today I have made you a fortified city, an iron pillar and a bronze wall to stand against the whole land – against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests and the people of the land.¹⁹ They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,’ declares the Lord.

The Prophets were seventeen different people who had a message from God,  these were message to call people back to God; call people to act justly; call judgement on Israel and Judah; call judgement on other nations; call people rude names; call out to God. (See Nick Page’s The Bible Book)

The Prophets stood out and spoke out. They had a voice. They spoke into the culture and society around them. They pointed to the coming Saviour who would finally rescue not only Israel but put God’s rescue plan for the whole world into effect.

For more on the Prophets see below…

Have you ever felt that God has spoken to you or guided you?

Today, ask Him to speak to you. Ask Him to speak through you to others.

How will you speak out against injustice and suffering and call people to live lives of faith and compassion, mercy and justice, love and grace?

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The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cries for relief from their hard labor ascended to God:

God listened to their groanings. God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.God saw what was going on with Israel. God understood.  [Exodus 2:23-25 (The Message)]

The family are slaves in captivity. God’s mission and purpose will not be stopped. He begins a conversation with a man called Moses:

^7-8 God said, “I’ve taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I’ve heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey…

^9-10 “The Israelite cry for help has come to me, and I’ve seen for myself how cruelly they’re being treated by the Egyptians. It’s time for you to go back: I’m sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the People of Israel, out of Egypt.”

¹¹ Moses answered God, “But why me? What makes you think that I could ever go to Pharaoh and lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

¹² “I’ll be with you,” God said.

See Exodus3:1-17

“The Exodus reveals the name and character of God the King” – Derek Morphew

YHWH, “I am”, calls Moses.

“I Was Who I Was, I Am Who I Am, I Will Be Who I Will Be”

God enters the situation. God is present. God delivers, God brings salvations. God rescues. God invades History.

“I was, I am, and I will be , from generation to generation, the becoming present one, coming down into the situation of man, to deliver and transform, from bondage to liberty” [1]

What is your situation? Where do you need the divine deliver to rescue you?

Today, call out to Him,  the ‘ever-present-one’, to liberate you, to set you free, to transform you.

We pray: “Your Kingdom Come, Your Will be done” in my life, in my family, in my workplace, in my neighbourhood, in my city…

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