Don't Get Comfortable In Your Captivity

(Sermon By: James White)

Jer 29:10-14

10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

Don?t Get Comfortable In Captivity

(You?re Coming Out)

Tonight I hope to help someone remember that there is hope in your life. It?s hope that only can come through a power that is not of this world or of yourself, or of any person in this building, but it is a power that comes from only Christ Jesus. This message is to give hope to you who just feel like giving up on God. I am here to preach that if you will just turn to him with a made up mind, God will bring you out because that is the expected plan for you. This message is to give hope to you who hasn?t allowed God to take complete control of your life. I?m here to preach that if you will just surrender then God will make you into a man or woman that is coming out. This message is to give hope to you who hasn?t opened up and allowed God to fill you with the Holy Ghost. I?m here to preach that if you will just open up and allow the Holy Ghost to come upon you, then your coming out.

Tonight is a night of deliverence for somebody who is bound by sin. Tonight is a night of deliverence for somebody who is bound by depression. Tonight is a night of deliverance for somebody who is bound by the endless battle. God wants somebody to know that you need to live in expectation because the end is not yet, but get ready because he is bring you out.....

Tonight somebody is living in an unexpected ending when God is wanting you to live with an expected ending. Without God, you don?t know what?s ahead and how your going to make it through. All you?ve got is an unexpected ending, but you hear this preacher tonight, God is saying to this church and to the individuals that are struggling, you need to expect a good ending, and all you have to do is allow Him to show you the way. You better get ready, because something good is about to happen in this place.

The Israelites were in bondage for close to 70 years. This was different from their bondage in Egypt, it wasn?t as hard, but the problem was, they were not in the land that God had promised them. God did not intend for His people to stay couped up in a place that wasn?t their own. It?s time that somebody starts thinking about where they are going because God is getting ready to bring you out of the trial into a blessing that only he can give.

God sent Jeremiah to tell his people something. The first thing he said in Jer 29:10 was,

?For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.? God was telling the children of Isreal, there was about to be a visitation.

Webster defines Visitation as a special dispensation of divine favor or retribution. To plainly put it, it is the process of going to see somebody at their house, but as it pertains to the children of Isreal it was more than just coming to their house.

In webster?s definition of visitation there are two big words. That is dispensation and retribution. I looked these words up and come up with this definition. It is a special distribution of divine favor and rewards for those who will invite the visitation. I believe God is getting ready to have a visitation in this place today. There is somebody that he wants to distribute some divine favor and rewards to. You have been away too long and he is wants you to know that the day of your visitation has come.