Let God Correct You

Today’s episode is a powerful milestone—we’re closing out the book of Jeremiah and celebrating nearly 88 episodes exploring every prayer in the Bible. Joining us is the incredible Alysha Owens, diving deep into a bold prayer of faith found in Jeremiah 32:16–25. While imprisoned, Jeremiah makes a daring act of obedience by purchasing land—a prophetic symbol of God's promise to restore Israel. As he prays, he recalls God’s unmatched power and past faithfulness, even in the face of disobedience and judgment.

God’s response? “Is there anything too hard for Me?” He affirms both judgment and redemption—yes, consequences are coming, but so is hope. Just like a loving parent disciplines but still restores, God is reminding His people: I haven’t forgotten you, but let me correct you.

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Transcript

Press means to apply force. When God said press, prayer reaches every single situation. He gave us permission to apply force to every situation that we will go through.

And in this podcast, we are going to learn to apply force to what's applying pressure to us. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the press movement.

Thank you for joining us today. We are so excited as we are closing out the book of Jeremiah today. We have been on this journey through the whole Bible of every prayer in the Bible.

And in studying that, we have gotten to like episode number 88, I think. We are doing quite the job here. Prayerfully, it's a good job, but it is the job.

And so we're excited to share with you from the book of Jeremiah. And in the studio slash green room today, I have with me somebody you've heard on podcasts before, but I'm so glad she's back. And that's Alysha Owens.

Hi, everyone. Welcome, welcome. Today, we'll be discussing a prayer of faith in God's promises.

And that can be found in Jeremiah 32, 16 through 25. So it starts off with 16 at now when I delivered the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch, the son of Neriah, I prayed unto the Lord saying, ah, Lord God, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. Thou showest loving kindness unto thousands and recompenses the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them.

The great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts is his name. So stopping right there, we just stopped before 19. You see here that Jeremiah is one starting off his prayer by just thanking God for being who he is number one, and reminding himself in a way of who God is.

And so he goes on in 19 to say great in counsel and mighty in work for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men to give everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. If we skip down, we'll start at 21 and it says, and have brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders and with a strong hand and with a stretched out arm and with great terror. It has given them this land, which thou didst swear unto their fathers to give them.

So stopping there right now in this story, Jeremiah has bought the land that was promised or purchased the land that was promised unto the Israelites. I believe during this time, he is also imprisoned. So he purchased the land while he, you know, was imprisoned, stepping out on faith while you're already in bondage and you're, you're already there.

Your God told him to purchase this land. He purchases this land and this is when he starts to pray. He's starting to remind himself, remind his soul of who God is, not just who God is, but what God has already done.

And the promises that he has already made to not just him, but to Israel as a whole, when he brought them out of Egypt. So if we go down to let's say verse 22, it says, and has given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey. And they came in and possessed it, but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law.

They have done nothing of all that thou has commanded of them to do. Therefore thou has caused all of this evil to come upon them. Behold, the mounts they are come unto the city to take it.

And the city has given the land unto the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence, and that thou has spoken it is to come to pass. And behold, thou seest it. And thou has said unto me, O Lord God, buy thee the field for money and take witnesses for the city is given into the land of the Chaldeans.

So here you see Jeremiah is praying and he is going to God, reminding God he did what he told him to do. And he's even letting him know like, God, you gave us this land. And even though you gave us this land, the Israelites have seemingly not did what you told them to do.

They didn't obey your commandment. They didn't obey your law. And you caused all of this because they did not obey you.

I think it's awesome how God uses symbolism by having Jeremiah buy his cousin's land. Yeah. And using that to just talk about Israel, you will have redemption.

I'm not going to forget, but I'm still mad at you. Yeah. Have you ever seen God take something simple in life and make a whole message out of it? Yeah.

Can you tell me about that? Seeing God take something simple. I will say the point that I'm in right now, as of right now, I sit with a fractured toe and a boot. Seeing, I genuinely feel like the Lord has been teaching me in this moment that needing to allow myself to receive help, because I think I'm much like other people, are so bent on trying to do for themselves, trying to make it happen for themselves, that we almost stop feeling like we need to rely on God.

And that is kind of where my heart has been. I've had to remind myself, I need him. Because I think a lot of times when you're independent, you just feel like you can just do it for yourself and you can just figure it out yourself.

And so it's reminding me I need help. And not only do I need the help of the sister I live with, I need help from God. I cannot do this by myself.

And so I would say that the symbolism is similar just because, you know, like I said, the Lord had already been dealing with me about kind of feeling like I could. And no man is an island. I think we all need the Lord.

But just reminding me, you need help. I think it's amazing how he uses symbolism to teach us, like you're saying, but he also used it to teach them. Making such a public example of, I'm buying this land back.

Even the process Jeremiah went through buying it, showing how he stealed the money and they're weighing it and everybody's watching and he's making sure they know, look, I'm doing this. I'm not going to forget you. But he's trying to drive home a point.

And in driving home the point, he really does teach them where he stands in it. And so as we look at Jeremiah's prayer, we get to see now how God responds. Yeah.

What could you tell me about that? So starting at 26, it says, then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah saying, Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? Therefore thus saith the Lord, behold, I will give this city unto the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and he shall take it. And the Chaldeans that fight against this city shall come and set a fire on this city and burn it with the houses upon whose roof they have offered incense unto Baal and poured out the drink offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger for the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth.

And for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the Lord. To me, what I hear in this one, that scripture, behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me? That's a standalone scripture, right? Yeah.

Some of them you can take and it just, it speaks by itself. It has a whole message, but in the context of what we're looking at, what do you think it means? To me, it means that, like you said, he's giving Jeremiah an opportunity to buy this lamb and buy the very same token. You will have to fight.

And I think it almost, to me, it almost like reminded me of how, you know, your children do something wrong and you punish them, but it's like, there's this, I still love you, but you're going to have to deal with the consequence of this action. And I, I feel like God is, he's saying enough is enough. I watched, I sat idly by and watched while you did this, you did this, you worshiped other gods.

I brought you out of Egypt and you worshiped other people. Imagine like helping somebody out. And then instead of thanking you, they go and thank somebody else and they go and prove their loyalty to this other person.

Like that would make any person upset. And imagine God who brought all of these plagues onto Egypt so that they could have a way of escape. And so it sounds like he is, he's kind of at the point where he's like, I'm going to make a way for this land to be purchased, but you will fight and you will have to deal with basically the consequences of those actions.

What do you think? I think though, I believe what you're saying and he's telling them they have to deal with the consequences of their actions. In fact, after he says, is there anything too hard for me? He says, you're going to be defeated. But he also, in the same response, lets them know that there is life after this defeat.

And that like, as I have brought all this great evil upon these people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. He's saying, I can do both. I can correct you and I can bring good out of the fight.

I can let the war happen and I can bring peace. He is explaining to us once again, how limitless he is and that he has a plan even when it looks like you're just in trouble. To me, that is just so powerful to know that he is the God of all flesh.

What he allows to happen, he adds purpose to it. And he has a way of making things work for your good, even when you're not in good. And I just love what I'm seeing in the scripture.

Do you have anything you would add to encourage the people concerning like their prayer lives or even from this passage particularly? Sometimes one of my favorite things to do in prayer is when I'm like having a moment where I'm struggling with where I am with God and all that. One of my favorite things to do is remind myself of what he's already done. It's something about that that just like encourages you.

It encourages you to keep going. Like it excites you in prayer. I would say that if you are in one of those spells, remind yourself of what he's already done.

And then that right there increases your faith to keep going and to keep doing what he told you to do. I think sometimes we get weary and obviously the word says to be not weary and well doing, but sometimes you can't just tell me not to be. It's hard.

Like things are hard. And so I would say encourage yourself by remembering what he's already done. When you go to God in prayer and you say, God, you said this, you said that, you're not reminding God of what he said because he forgot.

You're reminding yourself of what he said because sometimes you forgot. And so sometimes you have to remind yourself. And I don't really necessarily like that song, but you know, encourage yourself and remind yourself of what he's already done.

And in that, it gives you the strength that it takes like with Jeremiah to do what he said do, even if you don't all the way understand, it gives you the faith and the strength that you need to keep going. So I would say that. Definitely agreed.

I think I would add, let God correct you. Don't fight against his correction. Part of the reason this people stayed in trouble is because they couldn't hear when God was saying no.

And he has a way of letting us get back down and end up in a fight we can't handle, but still making good on everything he said he would be to us. I think letting God correct you is important because, you know, ultimately we can't run from correction and it's kind of unnecessary to even try. Like I remember when for some time, I had lost my job and I was struggling to get another job and I was talking to my mom about it and I was very frustrated.

And I remember her telling me sometimes when God doesn't give you what you want, he's trying to teach you something. He's trying to work something out. There's a reason that God won't let you get another opportunity.

And so in that moment, I had to let God correct me, let him work on me. And he eventually obviously brought me the right opportunity, but I had to let him work in what he was trying to work in. So you can't cheat yourself out of doing that.

You know, he's God. You can't cheat yourself out of the refining process. You have to let him do what he's trying to do.

And then once he's done, it'll work for your good. And I'm better for it. I'm better because he didn't let me get what I want when I wanted it.

And I'm better because he corrected me. Prayerfully today, they've been encouraged. Thank you, Alysha, for studying this and sharing with us.

And I'm praying for all of us who are out there listening, no matter what stage you're at in your prayer life, just know that God hears, God speaks, and God sees. And remember, prayer reaches every single situation. Join the movement.

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