Date: Sunday, 3rd November, 2024
Text: Jonah 1:1-16
Author: Pastor Adedeji Fadehan
Exhortation:
There was a story told of a man that got a job in PortHarcourt South South, Nigeria. It wasn’t long after joining the company that it became bankrupt and folded up. The company apologized to the employees for their failure and retrenched them.
However, this new employee confessed to a Pastor that he was the reason for the calamity that befell the company. The pastor was surprised and asked him to explain how. And he explained that he had a spiritual problem and the problem was that whenever he joined any organization, no matter how well the company was doing before he joined them, it would eventually come down. He said the PortHacourt company was not the first one to suffer from his misfortune.
According to today’s text, Jonah was the cause for the storm that almost destroyed the ship he boarded. As the storm grew rougher and rougher they were forced to throw their cargo into the sea with their own hand. They lost a lot. But the sea refused to grow calm until Jonah, the disobedient prophet was cast into the sea.
You need to be prayerful, watchful, be spiritually sensitive and discerning. Not everybody can work with you. Every Jonah in your boat must be cast out so that you will not suffer avoidable losses.
Prayer Nugget: Father, help my spiritual sensitivity. I disengage from any relationship bringing calamity to my life in Jesus name.