“Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.”

Jonah 1:1-3 ESV

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This stands out because the writer of Jonah says, “So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.” Jonah didn’t want to follow the “nudge” God gave him to say the least. When it became so intense he tried to leave the presence of the Lord. Do we ever just try to ignore God’s nudges? Do they get more intense? When we look back at our best moments, are they born out of adverse conditions that we didn’t want to deal with? Please pray that we and our friends “obey God and leave all the consequences to Him”(Charles Stanley). Please pray for Joe’s group as it’s forming.