Jeremiah 33:6 English Standard Version (ESV) Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Jeremiah 33:6 King James Version (KJV) Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

It in both these cases is the dwelling place of mankind. It refers back to houses in the cities. This is where the Lord will do the healing and bring a cure to what ails us.

It is easy to fixate on the variations in translations, prosperity and security rather than peace and truth. It is important to recognize the pull of those words. Prosperity and security have a different audience than peace and truth. Different people are looking for different things and if our focus is on what we can get rather than what God is doing, then we will miss the will of God for us in our own home.

Does the revelation of prosperity and security mean that we possess either? Does seeing a thing give us the right to take it? Is it ours merely because God has shown it to us?

A proper understanding of the will of God will help us answer these questions but in order to have a proper understanding, we have to have a better relationship with our God. If our focus is on what God can do for us, we lose sight of what God is doing in us.

What is our sickness? Sin.

What is the cure? Jesus.

That is the simple answer but what about this dwelling place where all the prosperity, security, peace and truth will be seen? More important than that how does all that fit into God’s will for us?

John 14:23 English Standard Version (ESV) Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

This is the continuation of yesterday’s blog. That should be read first.

At what point does the human mind request help from men to understand the Word? Logic says it is because they have not learned to hear with the spiritual ears that have been given when receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Being baptized by water is a John the Baptist experience.

Acts 18:25 King James Version (KIV) This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John.

Apollos only knew of the baptism of John, Pricilla and Aquila taught him what Paul had brought to them.

What makes any doctrine sound doctrine?

First it must be the revealed mind of God confirmed by God in the third person, the Holy Spirit. If a believer has not become familiar with the sound of the Holy Spirit using their own spiritual ears, they will lean on the opinions of others. This will cause believers to be man followers rather than Christ followers.

God wants to restore that Garden of Eden relationship which He had with Adam and Eve. God would come to them and seek them out. Since sin entered the world the roles have been reversed and man goes about seeking God. Are we hearing God or someone else? We must come to know God in all His forms, not just the ones that we want.

John 4:24 King James Version (KJV) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Sound doctrine taught by men who know God, hear God and speak truth should bring new believers the healing required to get over being dead in their sins and become alive in Christ.

This is the will of the Father.