What is your Nineveh?

Happy Tuesday!

I hope you are all doing well, staying disciplined, & enjoying life! I know I know life happens and we get caught up in our problems but I'm learning my attitude towards my problem is so very important. I'm also learning a little thing called obedience and my attitude towards obedience! ugh

I am a very rebellious human being and I'm certain I am not alone in this one! God laid something on my heart months ago and I ignored it. I shrugged it off made a million excuses, let my bitterness get in the way, and just plain pushed it from my mind. The thing is God gives sencond chances (and more). He keeps pursuing us giving us opportunites to obey. He is so cool and I just fall more and more in love with Him!

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I saw the production Jonah at Sight and Sound over the weekend and if you get a chance just go see it it is so good!! I keep thinking of Jonah and how the Ninevites killed his father. The pain and bitterness Jonah felt towards these awful people must have been unbearable at times. Then after years of hearing nothing from God feeling like God forgot him, God spoke to Jonah and told him to go save the Ninevites. SAVE THE NINEVITES! God wanted to save these awful awful people and he wanted to do it through Jonah. Of course Jonah didn't want to do it those people don't deserve God's grace! So instead of immediately obeying God Jonah ran away but let's fast forward through the story and God saves Jonah by having a whale swallow him otherwise he would've drowned. HOW CRAZY! God gave Jonah a second chance in the craziest way! Who gets swallowed by a whale I mean really? Ummm Jonah does!! So Jonah was obedient this time and went to Nineveh and preached and those people repented of their sins and were saved!

Friends do you have a Nineveh? Something God has laid on your heart and you haven't obeyed it yet? Just surrender and obey it will be so worth it! He has the best plans for you!

Here is today's devotional from Joyce Meyer's book 'Hearing from God each morning' I feel it ties in pretty well.

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Pray, Then Plan

Many plans are in a man's mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand. -Proverbs 19:21

God's Word shows us clearly that we need to listen for His voice and commit our ears to a covenant with Him, letting Him sanctify and circumcise our ears so we can hear Him. Many times God clearly shows us what to do, but we don't do it because we don't like His plan. We can even pretend spiritual deafness when we don't like what we clearly hear Him say. Our fleshly appetites and desires can hinder our acceptance of God's truth.

We can come face to face with truth and still not accept it. I admit that truth is often much easier to accept when it concerns other people and their lives than it is when it concerns me and my life. We have a plan for how we want our lives to go, and we have a way that we want to work out that plan. Most of the time we want God to listen to our plan and make it work instead of listening for His plan and asking Him to do what He needs to do to fulfill it through us. We always need to pray first and then make plans instead of making plans and praying for God to make them work. Listen for God's plan; follow it, and you will always succeed.

God's Word for you today: Get God's plan before making your own plans.