October 23 | Jonah 4:10-11 “So the Lord said, “You are compassionate for the plant for which you did not labor nor did you make it grow, which was started in a night and perished in a night. “Yet should I not have compassion for Nineveh, that great city, in…
October 22 | Jonah 4:1-3 “But it was surely a great evil to Jonah and his wrath was kindled. So he prayed to the Lord and said, “Is this not what I said when I was in my country? For this reason I anticipated it by fleeing to Tarshish, because…
October 21 | Jonah 3:4-5 “Then Jonah began to go into the city one day’s distance, and He cried out and said, “Only forty days, and Nineveh will be overturned!” Now the people of Nineveh believed in God and they called for a fast and they put on sackcloth from…
October 20 | Jonah 1:17 “But the Lord appointed a great fish and it happened that Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” (Jonah 1:17) There’s a reason the phrase, “It smells fishy in here,” exists. If you’ve ever seen Grumpy Old Men you…
October 19 | Jonah 1:14-16 “Finally they called out to the Lord and said, “Please Lord, please don’t let us perish because of this man’s life and don’t put on us innocent blood, for You, Lord, have done just as you pleased.” Then they raised up Jonah and hurled him…
October 18 | Jonah 1:3 “But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish away from the presence of the Lord and he went down to Joppa and discovered a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and descended into it to go to Tarshish, away from the presence of…
October 17 | Jonah 1:1-2 “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, son of Amittai, saying, “Arise! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against them because their evil has come up before Me.”” (Jonah 1:1–2) Has someone ever told you to do something you didn’t…
June 13 | Genesis 12:1-3; Hebrews 11:8 “Then the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your homeland and your relatives and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great,…
June 12 | 1 Peter 4:12-14 “Beloved, do not be astonished at your fiery test when it comes, as though something strange were happening to you. But insofar as you share in Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that you may also rejoice and exult in the revelation of His glory. If…
June 5 | Jonah 4:6 “Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah to be shade for his head, to save him from his misery. So Jonah rejoiced because of the plant, greatly rejoicing.” (Jonah 4:6) I don’t get angry very often, especially against…