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Lessons from the Story of Jonah in the Bible

Jonah 1 vs. 1-6:

Jonah’s Disobedience

1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.

4 The LORD hurled a great wind on the sea and there was a great storm on the sea so that the ship was about to break up. 5 Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep.

 6 So the captain approached him and said, “How is it that you are sleeping? Get up, call on your god. Perhaps your god will be concerned about us so that we will not perish.”

Jonah was snoring and fast asleep while the Ship was sinking.

The problem with some Christians is that we are snoring and sleeping while we are supposed to be crying to God in prayer.

The days of trouble are not times to sleep.

 Take over the night from today. Wake up at 12 mid night and cry to heavens.