Hey there, I am so glad that we get to serve you today through this podcast.

I pray God is going to speak to you.

Would you please turn with me to the Book of Jeremiah.

Now take all the time you need to to get there.

One of the most important pages in your Bible is your table of contents.

And so do not even hesitate to turn to it

and find out where we're gonna be.

We're gonna be way, way deep into your Old Testament.

And some of us are wondering what in the world,

that kind of archaic time in history

would have to say to us,

and we're about to have our eyes blown wide open because it's

going to speak in so many ways like today's news to us. Our title is Eat, Pray Love, One Woman's Search for Everything

Across Israel, Egypt, and exile. And before we get into those three categories, Eat Pray Love,

I want us to pour some foundation, and we're going to look right at

Jeremiah 1, 1 through 3. Jeremiah 1, 1 through 3. It says this is going to give us our time element it says the words of

Jeremiah son of hillkiah one of the priests of Anatoth in the territory of

Benjamin the word of the Lord came to him in the 13th year of the reign of Josiah.

Everybody say the 13th year of the reign of Josiah.

Now Josiah was the son of Ammon, King of Judah, and through the reign of Jehoichem, son of Josiah,

down to the fifth month of the 11th year of Zetakiah, son of Josiah King of Judah,

when the people of Jerusalem went into exile and then the word of the Lord came to him and we're going to see that a little later in our time together.

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