IF YOU CAN BELIEVE

GOING DOWN TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: “Jesus said to him, 'If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes" (Mark 9:23). DAILY FIRE! My constant assurance is that with God, all things are possible!  When we read about Jonah, note the way that his flight is described. Jonah chapter 1 says he went down to Joppa…then he went down into the ship…and then went down into the ship’s hold.  Then when a storm came, the sailors threw Jonah down into the sea, and a great fish swallowed him up, and he went down into the belly of the big fish. He then prayed, saying to the Lord, “You cast me into the deep….  I went down to the moorings of the mountains” (Jonah 2:3, 6). After the fish had vomited Jonah onto dry land, the Lord spoke a second time, and the text says, “Jonah arose” (Jonah 3:3). Going to preach when God sends us is elevating—we arise!  Let us have a little sympathy for Jonah: Nineveh really did have a fearsome reputation! One or two of their kings were decidedly brutal, some of the worst to ever walk the earth.  They took pleasure in atrocities and cruelties so monstrous that they shock us even today. Jonah certainly did not relish the thought of a confrontation with men like that. How could a foreigner hope to preach against them and come out alive?  Sometimes you and I feel like God is calling us to impossible tasks— but take heart: God is the God of the impossible!  Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com

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