As Jonah ran from God, it was God who had sent the storm. When we reject God's calling or task in our lives, HE will send the storms and we will be putting others in danger. The storm was affecting not only Jonah but the people on the ship. They were at risk of being sunk and destroyed.
When judgments come onto the nations or people, God is actually trying to wake up His people. The unbelievers were in panic but Jonah was sleeping. Today, many Christians are sleeping as the storm is brewing in the horizon and as it is in our mist.
The captain of the ship saw Jonah fast asleep and he said, "What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your God!"
Many unbelievers are waiting for us to manifest God's power and to walk in His Word so they may believe. However, even though many Christians themselves do not realize they are sleeping, the unbelievers have the keen sense to know we are SLEEPING. Many of us are sleeping because we are refusing to do His Work as He has called us to do. Many of us are sleeping as the Power of God and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit is not evident in our lives. Many of us have decided to do our own work under our own terms using God as the servant and this is the reason why so many of us are in their storms and eventually in the belly of darkness.
Until we decide to OBEY God under His terms giving HIM thanksgiving, we will not be vomited out of our own darkness. And as the storm is sent, we will be putting our loved ones in the storm as it is sent for us. Our children, spouses, loved ones, friends, brethren, and even strangers may be affected as they are around us.
May you all step into your callings with HIS Courage and HIS Strength.
Jonah 1:1-6 Now the word of the Lord came to [a]Jonah son of Amittai, saying,2 Arise, go to [b]Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.
3 But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from being in the presence of the Lord [as His prophet] and went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish [the most remote of the Phoenician trading places then known]. So he paid the appointed fare and went down into the ship to go with them to Tarshish from being in the presence of the Lord [as His servant and minister].4 But the Lord sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a violent tempest on the sea so that the ship was about to be broken.
5 Then the mariners were afraid, and each man cried to his god; and they cast the goods that were in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.6 So the captain came and said to him, What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call upon your God! Perhaps your God will give a thought to us so that we shall not perish.
Fire of God Ministries
Steve Yong Kim
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