Just as we need daily food to sustain us physically, we also need daily food from God’s Word to sustain us spiritually. Daily Bites are shorter, devotional-style episodes meant to be a great start to your morning or a nice study after a long day.

1 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying— 2 thus says Yahweh to me—“Make for yourself bonds and the bars of a yoke and put them on your neck, 3 and you shall send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon by the hand of messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah. 4 And you shall command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, thus you shall say to your masters, 5 “I have made the earth, the men, and the animals which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is right in My eyes. 6 So now, I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him even the wild beasts of the field to serve him. 7 All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will [c]make him their servant.

8 “And it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and which will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,” declares Yahweh, “until I have brought it to an end by his hand. 9 But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ 10 For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will banish you, and you will perish. 11 But the nation which will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave it on its land,” declares Yahweh, “and they will serve it and inhabit it.”’”

Just as we need daily food to sustain us physically, we also need daily food from God’s Word to sustain us spiritually. Daily Bites are shorter, devotional-style episodes meant to be a great start to your morning or a nice study after a long day.

41 “Coastlands, listen to Me in silence, And let the peoples gain new power; Let them come forward, then let them speak; Let us draw near together for judgment. 2 Who has awakened one from the east Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet? He gives up nations before him And has dominion over kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, As the wind-driven chaff with his bow. 3 He pursues them, passing on in peace, By a way he had not come with his feet. 4 Who has worked and done it, Calling forth the generations from the beginning? ‘I, Yahweh, am the first; and with the last, I am He.’”

(Isaiah 41:1-4 LSB)

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Just as we need daily food to sustain us physically, we also need daily food from God’s Word to sustain us spiritually. Daily Bites are shorter, devotional-style episodes meant to be a great start to your morning or a nice study after a long day.

13 From on high He sent fire into my bones, And it dominated them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me desolate, Faint all day long.

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound; By His hand they are knit together. They have come upon my neck; He has made my strength stumble. The Lord has given me into the hands Of those against whom I am not able to stand.

15 The Lord has rejected all my mighty men In my midst; He has called an appointed time against me To break my young men; The Lord has trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah.

(Lamentations 1:13-15 LSB)

Just as we need daily food to sustain us physically, we also need daily food from God’s Word to sustain us spiritually. Daily Bites are shorter, devotional-style episodes meant to be a great start to your morning or a nice study after a long day.

8 Jerusalem sinned greatly; Therefore she has become an impure thing. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself sighs and turns away.

9 Her uncleanness was in her skirts; She did not remember her future. Therefore she has gone down astonishingly; She has no comforter. “See, O Yahweh, my affliction, For the enemy has magnified himself!”

10 The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her desirable things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom You commanded That they should not enter into Your assembly.

11 All her people are sighing, seeking bread; They have given their desirable things for food To restore their souls. “See, O Yahweh, and look, For I am despised.”

12 “Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my [j]pain Which was dealt severely to me, Which Yahweh grieved me with on the day of His burning anger.

(Lamentations 1:8-12 LSB)

This message was preached on Sunday, November 26, 2023, at Seaboard Baptist Church in Seaboard, North Carolina.

Andy Cain is a Bible teacher for the Kingdom of Christ. He preached his first sermon on January 4, 2009, and resides with his family in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

Just as we need daily food to sustain us physically, we also need daily food from God’s Word to sustain us spiritually. Daily Bites are shorter, devotional-style episodes meant to be a great start to your morning or a nice study after a long day.

7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her; They laughed at her ruin.

(Lamentations 1:7 LSB)

Just as we need daily food to sustain us physically, we also need daily food from God’s Word to sustain us spiritually. Daily Bites are shorter, devotional-style episodes meant to be a great start to your morning or a nice study after a long day.

4 “Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; And do not feel dishonored, for you will not be humiliated; But you will forget the shame of your virginity, And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. 5 For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is Yahweh of hosts; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, Who is called the God of all the earth. 6 For Yahweh has called you, Like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, Even like a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” Says your God. 7 “For a brief moment I forsook you, But with great compassion I will gather you. 8 In a flood of fury I hid My face from you for a moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” Says Yahweh your Redeemer.

(Isaiah 54:4-8 LSB)