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Jeremiah 29 paints a picture of how God asks His people to respond to living in uncertain times. Bill Clark opens our series, In God We Trust, with a look at this vital chapter of Jeremiah and how the Israelites had to endure a lot of pain prior to the promise of Jeremiah 29:11. Time Out In God We Trust | Week 1 October 30, 2016 | Bill Clark In God We Trust Jeremiah 29:11 (NLT) 11 For I know the plans I have for you...to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:1 (NIV) 1 This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. God’s people had done this to themselves. Jeremiah 29:4-7 (NIV) 4 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 “Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce. 6 Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease. 7 Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” Jeremiah 29:10 (NIV) 10 This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future. 1 Peter 2:11-12 (NIV) 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires which war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.