Amend Your Ways

    Jeremiah 7:3 KJV - Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

    If you want the blessings of God to be with you, then you must meet the requirements.  The Lord told Jeremiah to tell Judah that if they wanted to dwell in the place where they were, then they must live up to seven conditions.  The conditions were:
                       1) amend your ways and doing
                       2) trust not in lying words
                       3) thoroughly amend your ways and doing
                       4) thoroughly execute Judgement
                       5) do not oppress strangers/orphans and widows
                       6) do not shed innocent blood and 
                       7) neither walk after other gods to your hurt
    If Judah would keep these commands then God would give them the land that He gave their fathers.  The church world today is going through the motions, shaking and lacking in power.  We must stabilize our relationship with God, and ask God to take us back to the place where we first believed.  The Lord will be somewhere listening for your prayers of repentance and the amending of your ways.  All God asks us to do is to repent, forsake our ways and wrong doings.  He is waiting for us to walk through the open door of His love.

              excerpt from the book "By the Foolishness of Preaching" by the Reverend Dr. Grace Ruth Batten, DD