Jeremiah 29:10-14 (AMP)
10 For thus says the Lord, When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you and keep My good promise to you, causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
12 Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you.
13 Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and all the places to which I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.
So often Jeremiah 29:11 is used without it being in its proper context. The scripture actually says that when the seventy years are complete, God will keep HIs promise and restore what was lost due to Israel's disobedience! This scripture is talking to the Israelite's while they ARE IN CAPTIVITY. God is saying "I know the plans that I promised and because I am not a Man that I shall lie, nor the Son of Man that I shall repent, the promises are yours after you are released from captivity! THEN which means after you have suffered which is the consequences due to your disobedience, THEN you will call upon Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you. Aren't you glad we serve a God that is Faithful even when we mess up? Aren't you glad we serve a God who is Faithful, even when we are faithless? Even though God is Faithful and the Promise remains; do we take grace for granted and continue to disobey? Do we unknowingly delay our destiny due to disobedience? Has God asked you to do something and you keep putting it off? The moral to this passage: "He is Faithful to His Word; However, Your Destiny may be delayed due to your Disobedience"
10 For thus says the Lord, When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you and keep My good promise to you, causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.
12 Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you.
13 Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and all the places to which I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be carried away captive.
So often Jeremiah 29:11 is used without it being in its proper context. The scripture actually says that when the seventy years are complete, God will keep HIs promise and restore what was lost due to Israel's disobedience! This scripture is talking to the Israelite's while they ARE IN CAPTIVITY. God is saying "I know the plans that I promised and because I am not a Man that I shall lie, nor the Son of Man that I shall repent, the promises are yours after you are released from captivity! THEN which means after you have suffered which is the consequences due to your disobedience, THEN you will call upon Me and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you. Aren't you glad we serve a God that is Faithful even when we mess up? Aren't you glad we serve a God who is Faithful, even when we are faithless? Even though God is Faithful and the Promise remains; do we take grace for granted and continue to disobey? Do we unknowingly delay our destiny due to disobedience? Has God asked you to do something and you keep putting it off? The moral to this passage: "He is Faithful to His Word; However, Your Destiny may be delayed due to your Disobedience"