{"id":1215,"date":"2025-08-07T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:47:37","slug":"the-field-of-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"The Field of Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 10, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dreamstime_s_29647189.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dreamstime_s_29647189.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dreamstime_s_29647189.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dreamstime_s_29647189-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dreamstime_s_29647189-768x421.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Where were you when God gave you a promise? It is important to remember because you may have paid it little attention if you were in a time of trouble, or if you were feeling your self-worth to be lower than the trash in a land fill. It\u2019s hard to receive a promise when you are down in the dumps because you might just throw it in the dump. I wonder how many treasures could be found in the trash, how many seeds of prosperity lay in the wastelands of our doubts and fears?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bankrupt. Broken. Emptied. Exhausted. There seems to be nothing left. All options are drained. Desolation rules where forsaken empires of vegetation once dwelt. The gates are unhinged and crooked. The walls are crumbled into piles and scattered in charred debris. Empty sacks once filled with grain blow around in the abandoned streets. It doesn\u2019t look good. The future is mysterious and obscure. The nights seem longer and the days have little sun. Nothing is growing. There are mostly things that are rotted and peeling and wasted&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeremiah was instructed by God to make an illogical investment&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of this is that Redemption doesn\u2019t make sense. Why buy something that looks run down and forsaken? Why purchase something that can\u2019t give you anything in return? Why put value into property that is owned by another Master, for at the time Babylon possessed the land. Redemption doesn\u2019t see the present condition; it invests on the future possibility. Not what it is, but what it could be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are now in a field of answers. Growing from the thickets of trial and trauma are lovely leaves. Pushing through abandoned acreage are tenacious stalks of restoration and grace. Shames melts away in the blanketing revelation of roses and lilies and orchids and hope. Walk out there and tear one from its soil, pluck it from the fertile dirt. And know that for every pain there is a promise; for every ache there is an answer; for every heartbreaking setback there is a Sovereign plan; for every fragment of dreams stuck in the potter\u2019s field, there is a vessel of honor to be formed from the damage. As Romans 8:28 states, \u201cAll things work together.\u201d Listen now&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8063\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1215-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Field-of-Answers.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Field-of-Answers.mp3\">https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Field-of-Answers.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Field-of-Answers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/?powerpress_pinw=1215-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Field-of-Answers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"The-Field-of-Answers.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/?feed=podcast&amp;mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thejesusmessage.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 2025 Where were you when God gave you a promise? It is important to remember because you may have paid it little attention if you were in a time of trouble, or if you were feeling your self-worth to be lower than the trash in a land fill. 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