A partial set of notes and Scriptures: 

 

Sometimes there is a bit of a disconnect between our dreams and the reality that we encounter in our life as time goes on... 

In Scripture a man who had mismatched expectations in his life.

Baruch, like Barack, means blessed.

Who was Baruch?

Jer 45:2  "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: 
Jer 45:3  'You said, "Woe is me now! For the LORD has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest." ' 
Jer 45:4  "Thus you shall say to him, 'Thus says the LORD: "Behold, what I have built I will break down, and what I have planted I will pluck up, that is, this whole land. 
Jer 45:5  And do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them; for behold, I will bring adversity on all flesh," says the LORD. "But I will give your life to you as a prize in all places, wherever you go." ' " 

II Chro 44:8 ? 

(Jer 51:59)  The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And Seraiah was the quartermaster.

The 4th year of Jehoiachim was a tumultuous year in the Kingdom of Judah... 

Jer 36:1  Now it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying: 
Jer 36:2  "Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day. 
Jer 36:3  It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the adversities which I purpose to bring upon them, that everyone may turn from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin." 
Jer 36:4  Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of the LORD which He had spoken to him. 
Jer 36:5  And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, "I am confined, I cannot go into the house of the LORD. 
Jer 36:6  You go, therefore, and read from the scroll which you have written at my instruction, the words of the LORD, in the hearing of the people in the LORD's house on the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities. 

Jeremiah and Josiah were contemporaries. Josiah 21 years old. Jeremiah had been called to preach 24 years before this.  He has been commanded to write down all these profecies from the previous decades.

Jer 36:7  It may be that they will present their supplication before the LORD, and everyone will turn from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people." 
Jer 36:8  And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading from the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house. 

Jer 36:9  Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem. 

Jer 36:11  When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the book, 
Jer 36:12  he then went down to the king's house, into the scribe's chamber; and there all the princes were sitting—Elishama the scribe, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes. 
Jer 36:13  Then Michaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard when Baruch read the book in the hearing of the people. 
Jer 36:14  Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read in the hearing of the people, and come." So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them. 
Jer 36:15  And they said to him, "Sit down now, and read it in our hearing." So Baruch read it in their hearing. 
Jer 36:16  Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, that they looked in fear from one to another, and said to Baruch, "We will surely tell the king of all these words." 
Jer 36:17  And they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us now, how did you write all these words—at his instruction?" 
Jer 36:18  So Baruch answered them, "He proclaimed with his mouth all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink in the book." 
Jer 36:19  Then the princes said to Baruch, "Go and hide, you and Jeremiah; and let no one know where you are." 

Jer 36:20  And they went to the king, into the court; but they stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the hearing of the king. 
Jer 36:21  So the king sent Jehudi to bring the scroll, and he took it from Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king. 
Jer 36:22  Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with a fire burning on the hearth before him. 
Jer 36:23  And it happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the king cut it with the scribe's knife and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth. 
Jer 36:24  Yet they were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments, the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words. 
Jer 36:25  Nevertheless Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the king not to burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them. 
Jer 36:26  And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them. 

(Jer 45:3)  'You said, "Woe is me now! For the LORD has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest." '

Do we also say WOE IS ME Lord ??? 
Are our plans just about US and OUR desires?  God said: DO NOT SEEK THEM [ implied, I have GREATER things for you... ]

So, what are GOD's PLANS for your life? What is driving your decision making?
Are you asking for the right job at the right time, right salary and right place?
U staying in the job cuz afraid of change?
Marriage, taking it to a higher level of understanding and cooperation... or settled in your "life as it is"?
Are we asking GOD to reveal to us what WE must change [ not the other person ] ?

God was showing this man the reality of his life and the future planned for him.

(Jer 42:11)  Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid; do not be afraid of him,' says the LORD, 'for I am with you, to save you and deliver you from his hand.
(Jer 42:13)  "But if you say, 'We will not dwell in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God,
(Jer 42:14)  saying, 'No, but we will go to the land of Egypt where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor be hungry for bread, and there we will dwell'—

(Jer 43:1)  Now it happened, when Jeremiah had stopped speaking to all the people all the words of the LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, all these words,
(Jer 43:2)  that Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You speak falsely! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, 'Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.'
(Jer 43:3)  But Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death or carry us away captive to Babylon."

(Jdg 21:25)  In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Baruch did not DO what was "right in his own eyes"...  He stepped out in faith, put his life at risk and did what GOD expected.

There is time now in God's Church to do what GOD expects.

(Luk 11:2)  So He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
(Luk 11:3)  Give us day by day our daily bread.
(Luk 11:4)  And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one."

WHEN DO WE get to ask for WHAT WE WANT.... ??? 
NOT THERE !!!

42' ... PRAYER STATEMENT 

Jer 41:10

GOD had different plans for Baruch...