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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.

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