Jonah 1:1-16
The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”
But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.
Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violent storm arose that the ship threatened to break up. All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.
But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep. The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”
Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”
He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.)
The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”
“Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”
Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before. Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man, for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.” Then they took Jonah and threw him overboard, and the raging sea grew calm. At this the men greatly feared the Lord, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord and made vows to him.
- Anybody who doesn't know God and tells you to pray to your God, you might wanna listen. They went from other gods to praying to Jonah's God.
- Which one are you throwing overboard? Your cargo or your Jonah?
- Ever since you have arrived, turbulence have arrived. You've got to go.
- I cannot take destiny steps with toxic people. We will experience soul poisoning when we try to consume what God has deliberately left out this season for your life.
- God sees the conversations behind your back and your loyalty should not require your presence.
- Stop asking heaven to bless what hell sent.
- Everytime you've decided to follow Jesus wholeheartedly, it requires a breakup and a life change.
- When your relationship with God changes, your relationship with sin changes.
- Life change terrifies hell.
- The closer I get to purpose, the further I get from distractions. The further I get from distractions, the closer I get to focus.
- Jonah - symbolic of somebody living in rebellion. If you can identify him or her, at the dock, bay, marina, if you could pray, seek His face at the dock, you won't have to experience the collateral damage of their rebellion.
- Never feel guilty for severing a connection when it was God who handed you the scissors.
- When you have discernment, you'll live a life wherein you'll never be bit by the same snake twice.
PROJECT . PAWN . PARASITE . PARTNER .
PROJECT - You're not looking to do life / bond with this. The reason is just to place bricks / assignment / mission
ex. The only reason you met her, is she just needs to see that kings still do exist. She doesn't believe that godly men still roam around, and God wants you to be able to show her that godly men still exist. She's not your wife, you're just an example of what godly men looks like, because she's been discouraged that kingdom men don't exist anymore. So God allowing her to discover you not because you are bae, but just to remind her God never runs out of kingdom men. If you don't understand this, you'll confuse assignment as an alignment.
PAWN - Always sent by the enemy to always disturb your inner me / inner peace / joy. Pawns always show up when we are exiting something or about to enter into something. They usually come when you're right on the verge of breakthrough, or when you got out of bondage.
The problem - pawns always come in preference form. It's hard to identify because it comes as what you want.
PARASITES - They drain you. They take the life out of you. Parasites live off a host. When they're no longer with you, they're dying, because you gave them life. They were surviving off of your welfare. Be careful. When you have a parasitic nature, you can't let go of people who try to let you go. You attach to them because you view them as giving you value / worth.
They hate to see you change because everytime you change, you remove what you have in common. They hate to see you evolve. The more you evolve, the more we separate.
PARTNERS - Assistance to your evolution. Ever since he/she has come into your life, you evolve even more. It's not as thought you're not evolving. You were already evolving, but they're just an assistant to your evolving. You're already doing it on your own, but God just wanna add oil to your life. There's levels to this. You serve a God of levels. If you look back a year ago, and we don't see any massive difference, you have to ask yourself, how much have you really submitted to the King of glory. He never lets you stay in a level longer than you have to unless He's doing maintenance. He's the God of progression, forward motion, He specializes in advancement. 1) God will do what we can't do, not what we won't do. Because He's a leader, and not a dragger. This is the massive difference between the Lord and the enemy. The Lord knocks and the enemy bursts in. The Lord comes in by invitation only, the enemy comes in whenever there's an open door. This is how we experience heaven in one area of our life and hell in another area beauce we're selective with what room we allow the Lord to enter in.
2) We let people determine / dictate what level we go to. There's levels to this. You can't be without first being crossed.
- God always gives red flags in the form of turbulence.
HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY A JONAH IN YOUR LIFE?
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