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Writer's pictureJoni

Day 4: God's Will


It took FAITH

to build an ark where there was no water,

but FAITH knew water was coming

so NOAH built the ark.

Case Closed.

But it took FAITHLESSNESS

to run the other way,

because where GOD asked Jonah to go

there was no way "that" was the way he was going to take,

so instead Jonah's FAITHLESSNESS

took him into a belly of a big fish,

because that is exactly where GOD brought him,

because GOD'S plan was to use Jonah

to do what GOD's WILL was for Jonah.

So GOD was persistent,

even though Jonah was persistently against GOD'S WILL,

but GOD'S WILL always wins.

Oh when GOD'S persistence conquers your own persistence

you have no choice but to cry out to HIM,

but then again do you?

Can you be swallowed up by a big fish

for three days and not cry out to GOD?

I wonder if Jonah never cried out to GOD

in that lonely place and space

would GOD have called someone else to do what HE called Jonah to do?

I wonder if there is something in my life

that GOD is asking me to surrender or to do that takes a bold step of courage,

yet I am running the other way.

Do you wonder if there is something in your life

that GOD is asking you to surrender or to do that takes a bold step of courage,

yet you are running the other way?.

Has HE provided a big fish to swallow you up

and is HE just waiting for you to respond to HIM?

Think about it.

"If GOD is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)

For GOD would never ask anyone

to do something

that would take anyone to the wrong place,

because that is not GOD'S WILL.

So where is GOD when your FAITH is running in the other direction.

Oh HE is still in the same place

waiting for you

and may be chasing you down

and has even provided the big fish to swallow you.

"From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his GOD.

He said: 'In my distress I called to the LORD, and HE answered me' (Jonah 2:1)".

In the quiet place.

Where there is no one but you and GOD.

“When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, LORD,

and my prayer rose to YOU,

to YOUR holy temple...

What I have vowed I will make good.

I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD' (Jonah 2:7;9)"

Hmm.

"And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land" (Jonah 2:10).

Hmm.

The same fish~

"Now the LORD provided a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights" (Jonah 1:17)

From

FAITHFULNESS to FAITH

because of GOD'S PERSISTENT PATIENT FAITHFULNESS

that never gives up~

"The LORD is not slow to fulfill HIS promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance" (2 Peter 3:9)

Oh how our GOD is so very personal

that HE goes to great lengths to get our attention,

just so we look up to HIM.

For Jonah it was a big fish.

For Moses it was a burning bush.

For Noah it was an ark.

For JESUS it was the Cross.

For us it is the tomb,

where JESUS was silent

for three days

before HE was released.

FAITH to believe it.

FAITH to receive it.

FAITH to see that

JESUS is no longer on the Cross

or in the tomb

so we don't have to be in the tomb.

The FAITH of FAITHLESSNESS

because

JESUS said he would~

"and after three days HE will rise” (Mark 9:31).

Why would anyone run the other way and not believe

GOD'S BIGGEST PROMISE?

Maybe because it was too big to believe~

"But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it" (Mark 9:32)

Oh the fear of FAITH to BELIEVE the unbelievable.

But if GOD said it.

But if JESUS not only said it but did it,

how much more does GOD and JESUS have to do

to get me & you & everyone else

to just be STILL IN FAITH

and BELIEVE

before a big fish comes to swallow us up.

Are you in a fish right now?

What if you

FASTED

from

UNBELIEVING FAITH

and instead

of looking at

the

BIG FISH

as the end,

look at it as

THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD,

because

GOD never stops being GOD

no matter where you are.

Even if you are in the belly,

you are not alone

because your

ABBA FATHER is right there with you

just wanting more of you

to just

BELIEVE

that

HE is FAITHFUL

as HE will never tell you to go or to do something

that does not lead to HIS PERFECT WILL for your life

because where HE leads you

HE is already there

as HE is also with you on your way to get there.

The will of GOD will not take us where the grace of GOD cannot sustain us(Billy Graham)

Thank YOU GOD for

"THY WILL"

(listen to the song below)







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