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ment. Perhaps God has brought you to a position where you need to “burn the boats.”As the old hymn says, “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.” Meditate on these words to the Jews exiled in Babylon as this chapter concludes: “‘For I know the plan that I have for you,’ declares the Lord,‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope’” (Jeremiah 29:11). God won’t lead you into an assignment without equipping you with the means to carry it out. Is now the time to answer His call?

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