✨ Know Your Rights — What Did God Say?

✨ Know Your Rights — What Did God Say?

There are seasons in our walk with God when the battle gets so heavy that we start believing the worst about ourselves. Testing will whisper, “This is it.” Failure will say, “God is finished with you.” And the enemy will echo, “You messed up too bad this time.”

I know that feeling — because I’ve lived it.

I’ve walked through a season where I was convinced my story was over. As I grew older, I looked at the years I’d lost, the opportunities I mishandled, and the assignments I ran from. I said within myself, “Maybe it’s too late now. Maybe all I can do is live quietly before God and at least make it into heaven.”

When ministry dried up…

When Heaven felt silent…

When I couldn’t hear God’s voice or receive a prophetic word…

When I watched others in the faith move forward while I stood still…

I honestly believed God had closed the chapter on me.

Yet even in my doubt, mercy came looking for me. God would visit me in dreams, gently reminding me, “I am not finished with you.” But my faith was so wounded, so small, that I struggled to believe Him. I thought my mistakes disqualified me. I thought my disobedience was too deep to be repaired. I believed every “no” I ever gave God had canceled my calling.

But God had other plans.

So let me ask you, blog reader:

Do you know your rights?

Do you remember what God said about you?

Maybe life has made you forget.

Maybe guilt has made you silent.

Maybe disappointment has made you question every promise spoken over your life.

But let this introduction serve as a reminder. Before we go any further, let me echo Heaven’s declarations over you:

✨ You shall live and not die.

✨ You are the head and not the tail.

✨ You shall have life — and life more abundantly.

✨ Blessings shall be pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

✨ You shall have more than enough.

These are not suggestions.

These are not wishes.

These are your rights as a child of God.

And it’s time to stand on what He said.

✨ Know Your Rights — What Did God Say?

There are times in our Christian walk when God allows us to enter a season of discipline, pruning, or testing — not because He hates us, but because He is redirecting us back to His purpose. Israel learned this firsthand.

Jeremiah was raised up as a prophet in a dark, rebellious time. The nation had turned from God, ignored His warnings, and followed their own desires. So Jeremiah prophesied a hard truth:

Captivity was coming.

Not for a moment.

Not for a week.

But for 70 years.

It was not the message they wanted, but it was the message they needed. Yet even in judgment, God’s heart was not to destroy — His heart was to restore.

And right in the middle of the consequences of their own disobedience, God released a word of hopethrough Jeremiah:

“For I know the plans I have for you… plans to give you a future and a hope.”

— Jeremiah 29:11

God was telling Israel:

“Even though you have fallen, My purpose for you has not changed. Captivity is not your end — restoration is.”

And that is where many of us struggle today.

Like Israel, we have moments when we think our failures have canceled our future. We assume our mistakes have voided God’s promises. I’ve been in that place. I’ve walked through seasons where Heaven felt silent and ministry dried up, and I believed God was finished with me.

But just like Israel, God kept speaking hope over me, even when I didn’t believe it.

He reminded me:

“My plans for you didn’t die because you stumbled. My purpose didn’t disappear because you disobeyed. I am still the God who restores.”

So let me ask you, blog reader:

Do you know your rights as a child of God?

Do you remember what God has spoken over your life?

Before we move further, let me remind you of Heaven’s declarations:

✨ You shall live and not die.

✨ You are the head and not the tail.

✨ You shall have life, and life more abundantly.

✨ Blessings shall be pressed down, shaken together, and running over.

✨ You shall have more than enough.

Jeremiah 29:11 was God saying to Israel — and to you today:

“Even in captivity, I still have a plan for your future.”

This blog will show you how to reclaim that promise, stand on God’s Word, and boldly declare:

I know my rights!

I know what God said!

✨ Now — Let’s Connect This to Israel’s Captivity & Jeremiah 29:11

Just like many of us, Israel had reached a point where they believed it was over. They ignored God’s warnings, resisted correction, and refused to surrender their idols. So God allowed something they never thought would happen:

Seventy years of captivity in Babylon.

It wasn’t punishment to destroy them — it was discipline to restore them.

Jeremiah, God’s prophet, delivered the hardest truth:

“You will go into captivity.”

But right alongside the judgment, God released hope:

“For I know the plans I have for you… plans to give you a future and a hope.”

— Jeremiah 29:11

God was saying:

“Even though you have fallen short, My covenant still stands. Even in captivity, your rights as My people have not been canceled.”

Israel felt forgotten — but God said,

“You still have a future. You still have hope. I’m not finished with you.”

And that is the bridge to your own story — and to every reader who feels they’ve disqualified themselves.

Because the truth is:

✨ Your failures do not cancel God’s promises.

✨ Your captivity does not erase your calling.

✨ Your silent season does not mean God has changed His mind.

Israel needed to be reminded of their covenant rights, and so do you.

Jeremiah 29:11 was God saying:

‘Remember what I promised you. Remember your rights as My child.’

And now, this blog will help every reader stand up again and boldly declare:

“I KNOW MY RIGHTS.

I KNOW WHAT GOD SAID ABOUT ME.”

✨Knowing Your Rights When Life Feels Like Captivity

Israel’s story is not far from ours. They found themselves in a season they never imagined — a season of captivity they walked into through their own disobedience. It wasn’t that God stopped loving them. It wasn’t that God canceled His covenant. It was that He loved them enough to correct them and bring them back to Himself.

But here is the part we often miss:

Even while they were in captivity, they still belonged to God.

Babylon held their bodies,

but God still held their future.

And the same is true for you.

You may have gone through seasons where you felt stuck — emotionally, spiritually, mentally, financially, or even because of your own choices. But your condition does not change your position. You are still God’s child, still chosen, still called, still marked, and still covered.

Israel lost their way, but they didn’t lose their rights as God’s people.

And right in the middle of their captivity, God sent a letter through the prophet Jeremiah — a message that started with discipline but ended with destiny.

God told them:

“I will visit you… I will perform My good word… I will bring you back… For I know the plans I have for you.”

— Jeremiah 29:10–11

This is important —

Jeremiah 29:11 wasn’t spoken to people who were doing everything right.

It was spoken to people who had failed, fallen, and drifted away.

Yet God still said:

“I have plans for you.”

He was teaching Israel the same thing He teaches us:

You are more than your mistakes.

You are more than your detours.

You are more than your silent seasons.

Your purpose doesn’t die because you stumbled.

Your calling doesn’t evaporate because you disobeyed.

You still have kingdom rights. You still have a God-given future.

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✨ REVELATION POINTS

What Jeremiah 29:11 Reveals About Your Rights

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1️⃣ Captivity Is Not Your Identity

Israel was in Babylon, but Babylon was NOT in them.

You may be in a hard place, but the hard place is not your destiny.

Your rights in God don’t disappear because of your situation.

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2️⃣ Discipline Is Not Rejection

God allowed captivity — not to destroy Israel,

but to deliver them from themselves.

He wasn’t ending their story; He was rewriting it.

Sometimes the season that feels like punishment

is actually the place where God is preparing your comeback.

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3️⃣ God Speaks Hope in the Middle of Hard Seasons

Jeremiah didn’t wait until Israel was restored to deliver Jeremiah 29:11.

He spoke it while they were still in chains.

God always releases a promise in the same season

the enemy wants you to give up.

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4️⃣ Your Rights Are Rooted in God’s Character, Not Your Performance

Israel disobeyed.

Israel rebelled.

Israel ignored God.

But God still said:

“I know the plans I have for you.”

Your rights — life, abundance, restoration, victory, peace —

are secured by His covenant, not your perfection.

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5️⃣ God’s Plan Works EVEN While You’re Waiting

Israel had to wait 70 years.

But God was working in the waiting.

Some seasons don’t end quickly,

not because God forgot

but because He’s preparing you for the promise.

God does not waste waiting seasons.

He uses them.

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6️⃣ Your Future Is Guaranteed Because God Spoke It

God didn’t say, “I’m thinking of making plans.”

He said, “I KNOW the plans.”

Your future is already written.

Your hope is already secured.

Your ending is already established.

When you know your rights,

you stop believing the lie that your story is over.

✨ CONCLUSION

Stand Up and Claim What God Already Spoke

When Israel sat in Babylon, they thought everything was over.

They thought their failure disqualified them.

They thought their mistakes erased their destiny.

They thought captivity meant cancellation.

But God sent Jeremiah with a letter that broke the silence and shattered the lie:

“I still have plans for you.”

And today, God is sending that same letter to your heart.

Just like Israel, you may be standing in a place you never expected.

A place of regret.

A place of confusion.

A place of delay.

A place where you feel like you forfeited the promise.

But listen — captivity did not erase their covenant, and it has not erased yours.

Their mistakes did not void God’s mercy.

Their rebellion did not cancel His plans.

Their condition did not redefine their identity.

And neither does yours.

This is your moment to rise up and Know Your Rights.

Your right to live and not die.

Your right to walk in purpose.

Your right to be restored.

Your right to overflow.

Your right to peace.

Your right to joy.

Your right to an abundant, God-ordained future.

The enemy wants you to believe that what happened to you or what happened through you cost you your promise — but the Word of God says otherwise.

Your future is still intact. Your hope is still alive. Your purpose is still active.

Because God — not your past, not your age, not your failures, not your circumstances —

God is the One who wrote your story.

And when God writes a plan for your life,

no captivity can erase it,

no enemy can steal it,

and no season can stop it.

So today, square your shoulders, lift your head, and declare with authority:

“I KNOW MY RIGHTS.

I KNOW WHAT GOD SAID.

AND I REFUSE TO FORGET WHO I AM IN HIM.”

Your comeback is already written.

Your restoration is already set.

Your future is already secured.

For He knows the plans He has for you — and they are still good.

✨ Prayer

Father in the Name of Jesus,

We come before You today with open hearts, grateful that Your mercy always finds us, even when we have wandered far from where You called us to be. Thank You for reminding us that captivity is not the end of our story, and our failures do not disqualify us from Your purpose.

Lord, today we reclaim our spiritual rights.

We stand on what You have spoken — not what our feelings declare, not what the enemy whispers, and not what our circumstances try to convince us of. We choose to believe Your Word over our wounds, Your promise over our past, and Your plan over our fears.

Father, renew our faith where it has grown weak.

Restore our confidence where disappointment has drained us.

Revive our hope where delay has discouraged us.

And awaken our spirit to remember that You are still writing our story.

Just as You visited Israel in captivity and spoke a future filled with hope, visit us now. Breathe life into every dry place. Speak clarity where there has been confusion. Bring healing where there has been brokenness. And remind us daily that Your plans for us are still good.

God, break every lie that says “it’s too late.”

Break every thought that says “I messed up too much.”

Break every chain that says “my future is over.”

Right now, in Jesus’ name, we declare:

I shall live and not die.

I am the head and not the tail.

I am above only and not beneath.

I will walk in purpose.

I will walk in abundance.

I will fulfill the plans of God for my life.

Father, seal this word in our hearts.

Let it rise up when the enemy attacks.

Let it speak loudly when doubt tries to return.

And let it remind us daily that we have rights as Your children — rights rooted in Your covenant, secured by Your love, and guaranteed by Your Word.

Thank You, Lord, for not giving up on us.

Thank You for the future You have prepared.

Thank You for the hope that cannot be stolen.

We give You glory, honor, and praise.

In Jesus’ mighty Name, Amen.

✍️ About the Author

Lauretta L. Scott is a faith-driven storyteller, devotional writer, and founder of iPublishub-Books, a platform dedicated to inspiring hearts and strengthening believers through biblical truth, transparency, and hope. With a passion for restoring broken places and speaking life into weary souls, Lauretta writes from real-life experience — seasons of waiting, healing, warfare, obedience, and undeniable encounters with God.

A devoted mother, entrepreneur, and servant-leader, she is also the founder and CEO of iCaringHands Mobile Phlebotomy Service, LLC, where compassion and excellence meet in healthcare service. Whether she is drawing blood, writing a devotional, crafting a novel, or pouring encouragement into readers across the world, Lauretta’s mission remains the same:

To remind God’s people of who they are, what He promised, and the unstoppable future He has prepared for them.

Her blogs, books, and inspirational teachings continue to touch lives and point readers back to hope, healing, and the heart of God.