God's Promise

vs 9 The Lord reached out and touched Jeremiah’s mouth, much as the angel with the coal form off the Temple’s altar touched the lips of Isaiah. God did this to show Jeremaiah that It was God's word that would give him voice.

And then in vs 10 He was given God’s promise and throughout his harsh, hard ministry it would be God's promise that would give him courage.

God’s Word Is Still Our Voice and His Promise Our Courage

God's Word

Matthew 10:19  But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

It is not our words that have power but the word of God. Let God speak through you by taking His word and sharing it with those who have never heard. It is His word that is fire and in the bones. It is his word that is like a hammer. It is His word that is the sword cutting to the care of sinner heart.

God's Promises

Acts 1:8  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

2 Tim. 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Those are our promises as the New Testament, new Covenant people of God and the church of Jesus Christ. And they are as sure and powerful as those given to any Old Testament prophet.  

We simply  must take God at his word. It is true of all but especially true or the Christian, that “Courage is not the absence of fear it is the mastery of fear." We master our fear by the word and promises of our Master Jesus Christ.

Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)

A pastor and author during the civil war and wrote for the cause of freedom for the slaves. He wrote a famous saying that was used by the abolitionists and fits us today as we fight for freedom for the slaves of sin.

I am only one, but I am one.
I can't do everything, but I can do something.
And what I can do, I ought to do.
And what I ought to do, by the Grace of God, I shall do. - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)