LIKE JONAH, YOU ARE THE ELEVATOR
Bible Texts: Jonah 4:1-11, Gen.12:2, Jn.10:10, Jn.3:16, Gen.17:1-2, Gen.18:19, Jn.5:39, 2Tim.2:15, Acts 27:22-23, Gal.4:19
Today’s message is the last for the year 2024 and it is intended to help the husbandman reappraise his thought life and to help him know that he is an elevator to his wife and children. And that being an elevator does not make him less a man but a true representative of Jesus Christ, the perfect example of the good and godly husbandman. So we shall be looking at the life of Jonah and the lessons we can learn as we walk the pathway of the good and godly husbandman.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly and he was very angry…………Therefore now, O Lord, take, I, beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live……So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city….And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle? (Jonah 4:1-11)
God wanted the people of Nineveh to repent of their wicked ways and so He sent Jonah to go and minister to them. But rather than Jonah to go to Nineveh to let the people know that God was not happy with their conduct and the need for them to repent, he did not go. He went to Tarshish. While on his way to Tarshish, there was a great storm that threatened the lives of the people on board the ship and it was discovered that Jonah was the main reason. The people on board the ship threw Jonah into the water and he found his way into the belly of the fish. He prayed to God for mercy for disobeying God’s assignment to go to Nineveh, and God heard him and brought him out of the belly of the fish. He went back to Nineveh and preached to them. And the people repented and turned from their wicked ways. Jonah became the elevator that lifted the people of Nineveh from wickedness to righteousness and from destruction to safety.
That is who you are as the husbandman. You are the elevator. God has made you to lift up your wife and children onto goodness and godliness. You are the Jonah sent by God to be their joy and strength.
And I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless and make thy name great and shalt be a blessing (Gen.12:2)
The word of God says of Abraham that he shall be a blessing unto the people and not a burden or a curse. And because you are the seed of Abraham, you have the same promise God made to him. You are the elevator in the lives of your wife and children. You are a blessing to them. Like Jonah, God has sent you to them to teach, guide, motivate, protect, and inspire them so that they become great and might vessels (Gen.18:19).
Therefore, be God’s elevator in the lives of your wife and children. That is your heritage as the good and godly husbandman.
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE: 70 DAYS OF FASTING WITH PRAYERS
PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Gal.5:22, Gen.18:19, Ps.119:136, Matt.22:37, Matt.5:28, Ps.51:10, Jer.31:33, Ecc.12:13, Rev.12:17, Rom.13:10, Gal.3:10, Deut.27:26, Ps. 119:142, Rom.12:2, Rom.7:14, Ps.19:8, Lev.21:8, 2Cor.7:1
Day 18
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, let the wood of Your word burn continually in my life all through the year 2025
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, teach me how to order my word as I lift my voice in prayers in the year 2025.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, answer me when I call and hear me speedily in 2025
FAITH CONFESSION
I am the elevator God has sent to my wife and children, and by the grace of God at work in my life, I am a blessing to them and not a burden because that is what makes me the good and godly man, husband and father in Jesus name. Amen.
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