Hi, friends, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I pray you through the Bible verse by verse.

I know you're super busy this time of year, but I am humbled and grateful that you take time to listen to pray every day.

And welcome to all of you who are new as well, really grateful to have you here.

Some of you know that I am an author as well, and I've written about 52, 53 books now.

And you can find out more about the things that I write if you just go to mary demuth.com

or you search my name on Amazon and find my books there.

One of the books right now that might be a really fun Christmas gift is called The Freedom

of Surrender 40 Devotions be a really fun Christmas gift is called The Freedom of Surrender

Forty Devotions for a Joyful Life in Christ. I just gave one to the person who does my workout,

my coach, and she leafed through it. She said, who did these illustrations are really good?

And I'm like, I did. So that was exciting. Anyway, today we're reading from Jeremiah chapter 30 versus 1 through 14 in the World

English Bible.

And this is what it says.

The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh saying, Yahweh the God of Israel says, write all the

words that I have spoken to you in a book.

For behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will reverse the

captivity of my people, Israel and Judah, says Yahweh. I will cause them to return to the land

that I gave them to their fathers, and they will possess it. These are the words that Yahweh spoke

concerning Israel and concerning Judah. For Yahweh says, we have heard a voice

of trembling, a voice of fear and not of peace. Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child,

why do I see every man with his hands on his waist as a woman in travail? And all faces are

turned pale. Alas, for that day is great so that none

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