PrayerBits for Thursday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Thursday

Scripture lesson: Jonah 3:1-5, 10 The Sign of Jonah

Time to reflect: Jonah was opposed to this whole project of getting Ninevah to repent and therefore not be destroyed by God. He finally carried out his responsibility, but just barely. He walked into the city, spoke his sentence of a message and then went outside the city to watch them be destroyed. But the Ninevans repented!!!!

Moving through the day: Think about times when you disagreed with God's will (perhaps having to forgive someone or give a hard message). Would you (did you) fight it like Jonah or buy into God's program?

Scripture:

Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."

 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city—a visit required three days. On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned." The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.