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. (Jeremiah.1.18 NIV)
Previously we saw how we can enter the true inheritance among the set-apart of God. Receiving an inheritance gives an establishment and authority to the heir. Today we are reading from a text in which God is establishing Jeremiah.
God said to Jeremiah: '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.' This is a perfect picture of establishment. But this did not come to be from the blue.
The conversation between God and Jeremiah did not start from verse 18, it started from verse 5. God helped Jeremiah to know what he was in God, then gave him an assured preservation. Yet all this was not sufficient enough to let God pronounce an establishment to Jeremiah.
The establishment is pronounced after God stretches His hand and touches his mouth.
Jeremiah .1.9 -10 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, 'Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.'
So when God declares that many at different levels were going to fight against Jeremiah yet never prevail, we understand that it is the word that God planted into Jeremiah that gave him the the authority and power above what they had.
What really gives us an upper hand in God's protection is His word in us. When God showed Jeremiah an almond tree, He said he was going to watch over His word. God would do anything to keep away anything that tries to stand against His word.
Now we don't have to pray for protection, we just have to have God's word in us to get absolute protection.
Every time God establishes a man, He does it in His word.
Hallelujah!
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