Word for the Week

Week beginning: 10th November, 2013

By Fiona Mahendran | Peterborough

"...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 will prosper."

Jeremiah 29:7 (NIV)

I wonder whether you have ever reflected on these verses before as part of you christian calling? To seek the peace and the prosperity (or as the ESV translates this phrase, the welfare) of the city in which The Lord has placed you?

The prophet Jerem