ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY (3 OF 4)
by Duane Bemis
Scripture: Jonah 3:1-10
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Series: Jonah
Duane Bemis
Jonah 3
Let us open our Bibles and continue in our story about Jonah. This story is not just history, but how a perfect God moves in the heart of an ordinary man's life. This is how the Lord gets our undivided attention to do the Lord's will.
In the story of Jonah, the Lord also reveals His heart to us all. Ready? Let us pray, ''Father God Almighty, open our hearts to see Your heart, to see how you move in us imperfect lives. Help us see how You want to reach the lost. Help us to see how You find ordinary men and women pushing them to become extraordinary men and women of God. In the name of Jesus amen and amen.''
Jonah 3:1-2
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, ''Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.''
We read the Lord did not throw Jonah away, but Jonah learned in his big-fish time to answer the call of God this time.
This time Jonah quieted his heart as the Lord never changed the channel. The word of the Lord came to him again, or for a second time. Our God is a God of second chances. This is clearly seen in the story of Jonah.
The Lord could have thrown Jonah away because of his rebellion; but God did not throw Jonah, or me away. The Lord 's desire is we do not waste our big-fish time. My big-fish time was to go through a divorce as a Christian. What is your big-fish time called?
The Lord wants to reach those in Nineveh. The Lord's message is for Jonah to get up, arise, and tell everyone the message the Lord gives him to preach.
Jonah was not to preach his own ideas but to preach the Lord's words. This is how the Lord takes and ordinary man, with all his faults, and uses them to reach a great city full of wickedness and violence.
Story time again: In the early days of my walk with the Lord the Lord called me to the streets of Lompoc, California. Even with all my faults the Lord continued t ...
Series: Jonah
Duane Bemis
Jonah 3
Let us open our Bibles and continue in our story about Jonah. This story is not just history, but how a perfect God moves in the heart of an ordinary man's life. This is how the Lord gets our undivided attention to do the Lord's will.
In the story of Jonah, the Lord also reveals His heart to us all. Ready? Let us pray, ''Father God Almighty, open our hearts to see Your heart, to see how you move in us imperfect lives. Help us see how You want to reach the lost. Help us to see how You find ordinary men and women pushing them to become extraordinary men and women of God. In the name of Jesus amen and amen.''
Jonah 3:1-2
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time, saying, ''Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.''
We read the Lord did not throw Jonah away, but Jonah learned in his big-fish time to answer the call of God this time.
This time Jonah quieted his heart as the Lord never changed the channel. The word of the Lord came to him again, or for a second time. Our God is a God of second chances. This is clearly seen in the story of Jonah.
The Lord could have thrown Jonah away because of his rebellion; but God did not throw Jonah, or me away. The Lord 's desire is we do not waste our big-fish time. My big-fish time was to go through a divorce as a Christian. What is your big-fish time called?
The Lord wants to reach those in Nineveh. The Lord's message is for Jonah to get up, arise, and tell everyone the message the Lord gives him to preach.
Jonah was not to preach his own ideas but to preach the Lord's words. This is how the Lord takes and ordinary man, with all his faults, and uses them to reach a great city full of wickedness and violence.
Story time again: In the early days of my walk with the Lord the Lord called me to the streets of Lompoc, California. Even with all my faults the Lord continued t ...
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