A Look at Jeremiah 33:3
Before we get started, I liked for us to read Jeremiah 33:3 in three different translations: New Living Translation, Amplified, and Message.
ASK ME and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.” - Jeremiah 33:3, NLT
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CALL TO ME and I will answer you and tell you [and even show you] great and mighty things [things which have been confined and hidden], which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish.” - Jeremiah 33:3, AMP
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CALL TO ME and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.” - Jeremiah 33:3, MSG
Each version makes it clear that we must call onto God, ask Him questions pertaining our lives and He will answer us. He’ll even show us and tell us things we were not aware of and therefore didn’t even think to ask.
This also magnifies the glory and power of God, He can show us and explain to us things we wouldn’t understand without Him. Thanks to the Holy Spirit, we have a connection to God, and we just need to open up ourselves to receive from God.
In the right situation or time, God will reveal to us things we didn’t know and open our eyes to see things differently.
With me, for example, on August 3rd, 2018, God opened my mind to the knowledge that I am here on earth for His purpose. Jesus told me that He placed me in my mother’s womb while she was on birth control. He was there throughout her pregnancy, and most importantly, He was there the night I was born.
God revealed to me how the enemy has been trying to get rid of me since before I was conceived - he didn’t want me to be conceived at all! Because he knew what a key factor I’d play in my world.
God revealed to me how H has been in my life for all the moments the enemy tried to take it. Starting with the day I was conceived.
I had gone most of my late teens and early twenties thinking I was a mistake. That not only was I not planned, but I wasn’t even supposed to be conceived had the birth control worked.
Had it not been for my great-grandmother, I would’ve died at birth, but God also revealed His mighty hand on that, showing me that He was the one that brought my great-grandmother to my parent’s room so that she could catch me before I hit the ground.
God showed me the memory of me getting hit by a motorbike at age four; I should’ve died then too, but God’s hand was there and I was saved.
During my years of depression, it was the negative sides of these stories that the enemy used to put suicidal thoughts in my head in addition to feelings of unworthiness.
That night of August 3rd, God revealed to me that He was the one who whispered to me words of hope. I admit that I was aware of that, and I held Him accountable to His promises.
Unlike the Israelites, I will not look back and cry out that I wish I’d stayed in Egypt. It will not be an easy journey, but I will not cause an 11 days journey to become 40 years by living in the past.
Praying Constantly has given me a connection to God in which He has revealed to me bits and pieces of the overall puzzle my life has been and little by little, He is revealing to me the steps I must take.
As per Jeremiah 33:3, as I continue to call onto Him, God will reveal to me the plans He has for me and will continue to guide me in the journey to accomplish them.
