THE ELEVATOR PRINCIPLE

Bible Texts: Jonah 4:1-11, Gen.12:2, Jn.10:10, Gen.17:1-2, Gen.18:19, Jn.5:39, 2Tim.2:15, Acts 27:22-23

The Scriptural passage for today’s teaching is from the Book of Jonah chapter 4 and verses 1 to 11. It is quite a long reading so I will try to provide the gist of what the word of God says. It is the elevator principle.

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 in your leadership role as the head. You can lift your wife and children up or you can take them down. The choice is really yours but the perfect will of God for you is to life them up.

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).

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 and inspire them so that they become great and might vessels (Gen.18:19).

Therefore, seek to know the perfect plan of God for your life, and the lives of your wife and children and partner with God through the Person of the Holy Spirit to make it a reality.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me with grace to diligently study Your word.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to pursue Your perfect will for my wife and children.
• Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me to lift my wife and children up in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

FAITH CONFESSION

I search the Scriptures to know the perfect will of God for my life, wife and children and I teach them to my wife and children so that they can be a blessing to their world because that is what makes me the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.

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