So, why can’t I likewise change what I feel about Nineveh from anger to pleasure, this big city of more than a hundred and twenty thousand childlike people who don’t yet know right from wrong, to say nothing of all the innocent animals?” Jonah 4:11 REFERENCE Jonah 4:1-11 Our hearts are like soil samples in […]

Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly.  And he said: “I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice.” Jonah 2:1-2   REFERENCE Jonah 2:1-10 God is always working within and around our clumsiness  and accomplishing His purposes through them. Just […]

But the Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up. Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Jonah had […]

But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Jonah 1:3 REFERENCE Jonah 1:1-17 God called Jonah to go to Nineveh and […]

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” Jonah 1:1-2   REFERENCE Jonah 1:1-3   Jonah got a call from God that was as clear and as specific as possible. It was directed to a place (Nineveh) […]

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So, Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. Job 1:12 REFERENCE JOB 1:1-22 Reading through job’s sufferings you get to understand that the devil is the author of evil; he ravished Job’s properties and the lives […]

In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty. Proverbs 14:23   REFERENCE Proverbs 14:23   Labor in the context of today’s study refers to any physical or mental work that people engage in, either to get a wage or voluntarily. Work is a creation of God; He Himself is a worker, showing us how […]

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ… Romans 8:16-17 REFERENCE Romans 8:14-17 An heir is the Legal inheritor who holds the right to receive a property, position, or title of somebody else when that person dies. As believers, […]

And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31   REFERENCE Mark 8:27-33   Jesus was as persuaded about His resurrection as He was of His rejection by […]

So David inquired of the LORD, saying, ‘Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?’ And He answered him, ‘Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.’ ~ I Samuel 30:8 REFERENCE I Samuel 30:1-8 Many fear and hate the word ‘failure,’ they misunderstand it and don’t talk about it; […]