IS IT RIGHT?
Jonah was not expecting that God would change His mind. It was bad enough that he never wanted to go there in the first place but God put Him through all that only to forgive them. Those wicked people? Nah!
Jonah was not expecting that God would change His mind. It was bad enough that he never wanted to go there in the first place but God put Him through all that only to forgive them. Those wicked people? Nah!
As humans we fail. We make mistakes and do stuff that we know we have no business doing. We disobey when we shouldn’t, we run away when we should obey and we find ourselves not doing the good we ought to do.
Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep. So the captain came to him, and…
But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up. Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights….
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa, and found a…
And the LORD restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. There was this wonderful laptop that I once had that was so emotional, it would start deleting things the moment it started up, especially when you opened a document. In addition…
If you’re going to get friends, please don’t get friends like that of Job. They are miserable mourners and comforters, terrible companions. All through the trouble of Job they blamed him most of the time. Imagine being at the worst point in your life and having to deal with people who will kick you while you’re down. That’s the kind of friends they were.
A lot of people are worried about what is going to happen when we leave this earth, what is going to happen when we leave this side of eternity?
Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. If I were Job and I had been in this terrible life situation this long, I probably would be struggling with depression by now. I don’t think I’m gonna want anything to do with God because this pain is just too much for one person to…
When the enemy got ready to attack Job, he gained access through his fears. He looked for that one area in his life where he had a manifestation of fear and that one fear was enough to destroy his life.