by Tanya Salter | Aug 14, 2023 | Jonah, Prayer
I have to admit Jonah 2:3 does make me chuckle a little bit as I read it (take a second to read it and see if you catch it). Jonah is definitely stating fact here that God was the agent that cast him into the seas. Remember how God caused the sea to rage so this...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 12, 2023 | Jonah, Prayer
Did you know that when you are out of options you can talk to God? When you and I are out of options is not the time to hide from God, rather understand there is nowhere you can go that God the Father cannot hear your cry for Him. Read Jonah 2:2 closely, and see that...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 11, 2023 | Jonah, Prayer
Continuing in the book of Jonah, we are at chapter two. Now might be a good time to dust off that Bible and read Jonah 2 before continuing with this little devotion. Have you read it? Ok, let’s begin. I would dare to say that none of us has been in the belly of...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 10, 2023 | Jonah
By way of recap lets look at what we covered so far. This might also help those of us who are more visual. Here is a chart: Running from God is serious business with consequences as we have seen so far in this study. Please take a moment or two to examine where you...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 9, 2023 | Jonah
Jonah, like us, was so into doing what he wanted to do he would end up getting the full experience of his rebellion. Running from God can lead to quite the smelly affair. Here we see Jonah end up in the belly of a fish three days and three nights only to get vomited...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 8, 2023 | Jonah
Jonah in controlling his destiny, ended up going where he did not intend to go… into the wet raging sea. Jonah 1:15 gives us the account of this. Yes, he told the mariners that casting him into the sea would calm the sea (v12) but this was not his original...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 7, 2023 | Jonah
Did you know that our running can cause more work for others? It is a lie from the devil that our disobedience only affects us alone! It is true, Look at Jonah 1:13. Here we see the mariners rowing hard. This is not an easy task against the raging waves of the sea....
by Tanya Salter | Aug 5, 2023 | Jonah
We are so funny in our rebellion! Jonah was running from God because he did not want to testify to Nineveh the very thing that God told him to. Yet we see in Jonah 1:9-10 and Jonah 3:3, that running did not make it so Jonah did not have to testify. In fact he ends up...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 4, 2023 | Jonah
We have seen that running from God brought a storm, cost Jonah, and cost the mariners. Yet that is not the scariest part of the story to me. Read Jonah 1:5 carefully. Running from God can make us oblivious to the danger around us. Jonah was not on alert at all, and...
by Tanya Salter | Aug 3, 2023 | Jonah
When we run from God we sometimes cause a storm for others. Look at Jonah 1:4-5. Jonah was running and God sent a storm. Did you notice who was in the storm with Jonah? The mariners. Not only did it affect them it also cost them the precious cargo, cutting into their...
