*🙏The Word Daily Devotion 🙏*
(Global Evangelical Church)
*📖LESSONS FROM THE PROPHET JONAH*
👉(Reading: Jonah 1:1-16)
🗓Thursday, October 1
📜The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amitta; ‘Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach it, because its wickedness has come before me. *Jonah 1:1-2 (NIV)*
📋The Lord’s commands are clear—he tells believers when to act, where to go, and what to do. He also provides the means for following his directions. The prophet Jonah was told to leave immediately for a certain city and cry out this warning: “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown” (Jonah 3:4). Instead, Jonah did something foolish. He ran away. Because he was a prophet, we can assume Jonah had studied the scriptures and knew God intimately. Even so, displeasure over his assignment clouded his judgment, and he became convinced he could flee from the Lord’s presence. Jonah was wrong. God sent a great storm and isolated him for three days inside a fish. Jonah learned that fleeing from the Lord doesn’t free us from his commands. Whether we refuse outright or quietly choose to pursue our own agenda, we simply cannot silence God’s call. Our Father will neither forget a directive nor change his mind about it, and so the Holy Spirit continues prompting us until we obey. People who run from divine assignments may attempt to silence the Holy Spirit to no avail. They know what God wants from them but are too proud or scared to comply. What we must understand is that God will pursue us until he gets our attention. Wise believers obey him promptly rather than ‘fleeing’.
_*🛐Meditation And Prayer:*_ Help me Lord, to heed your commands and not to disobey them
_*📚Further Reading:*_ Nehemiah 6:1-11; Isaiah 40:31
_*🔑Key Lesson:*_ We cannot flee from God
_*◼The Bible in one year:*_ Matthew 1-4
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