Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.(Jeremiah 3:3)
The spiritual reason rain is stopped is because of the sin of the people staying on the land.
4 Will you not from this time cry to Me,
‘My Father, You are the guide of my youth?
5 Will He remain angry forever?
Will He keep it to the end?’ (Jeremiah 3:4-5)
But intercession can change the history of a particular place.
that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. (Jeremiah 3:9)
Idolatry is spiritual adultery
spiritually adultery is analogous to the unfaithfulness of one’s spouse: “‘But like a woman faithless to her lover, even so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel,’ says the LORD” (Jeremiah 3:20)
The Bible tells us that people who choose to be friends with the world are an “adulterous people” having “enmity against God” (James 4:4–5).
Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God (Jeremiah 3:13)
God is not against confession. All He wants is an acknowledgement. For all our theology, we forget that God is a Father and we are His children.
15 And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 “Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days, (Jeremiah 3:15-16)
Good shepherds will always cause multiplication and increase of the flock