Date: Friday, 5thJanuary, 2024
Text: Jonah 3:1-10.
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
It could be very dangerous to be wrongly positioned. Many are going through very rough times and passing through untold hardships because of wrong positioning. They find themselves being bombarded left, right and centre by storms; the Heaven over their heads seem to be closed. I pray for you that this New Year you will be at the right place at the right time in Jesus name.
The Lord sent prophet Jonah to Nineveh so that he may preach against the evil going on there. But he headed for Tarshish. He almost lost his life, if not for a last-minute deliverance from God.
If you realize that you are wrongly positioned, what do you do? The answer is in today’s text.
When Jonah realized his wrong position, he repented and cried to God for mercy. When the Lord gave him a second chance, he obeyed Him and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to walk through it. He went back to the correct position where God originally assigned for him.
Jonah started through the city, and after walking a whole day, he proclaimed, “In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed!” The people of Nineveh believed God’s message. They too realized that they were wrongly positioned in disobedience, and judgement was looming. So they decided that everyone should fast, and all the people, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth to show that they had repented.
All persons and animals wore sackcloth. Everyone prayed earnestly to God and gave up their wicked behavior and their evil actions. God saw what they did; he saw that they had given up their wicked behavior. So he changed his mind and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened-Jonah 3:1-10.
Prayer Nugget: Spirit of wrong positioning, depart from my life in Jesus name.