Devotional of the Week

God's Perfect Word says: “Now the word of the Lord came  unto Jonah the son of Amittai saying, arise, go to Nineveh that great city, and cry against it for their wickedness is come up before me.”  Jonah 1:1, 2

 But we know the story. Jonah tried to run in a completely different direction and hide from God. You and I know how wicked this world is, and we also know that we have been called to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to every man, woman, boy, and girl until the day God takes us home.

 Although it seems everything is against us, if God before us who can be against us. I pray to God today, that we would stand no matter where we are placed, and give the world a smile, knowing that whatsoever good thing we do. God will reward us someday.

 Now the Bible says Jonah went down to Tarshish, and when he got on the ship, he went down into the hollow of the ship and was asleep.  And then he went down to the belly of hell before he realized he could not run from God.  He graduated from Whale University.

 I pray to God today none of us go that far and besides, why would we not want to spread the good news?  My dad used to say he was just one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.  A witness in a court of law is only asked to tell what he has seen and heard. Isaiah says: “Have ye not known, have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?”  Isaiah 40:21

 We have been given so much to share, let us not be as Jonah the first time the word of the Lord came to him, but let us be as Jonah the second time and who knows, God may Just send revival through you and I and we just may see Great Revival in our Nations. 

 Have a good day and God bless you.

Bro. John Payne