Anglican Daily Fountain 11 October 2023 (Devotional Today)
Welcome to Today’s Daily Fountain Devotional of the Anglican Church of Nigeria. Daily Fountain is a daily reading devotional for all Anglicans and Non-Anglicans to read, study, share and discuss the Word of God on a daily basis.
TOPIC: MESSAGE THAT BRINGS REPENTANCE!
TEXT: Jonah 3:1-10(KJV)
3:1. And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
3:2. Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3:3. So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
3:4. And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
3:5. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
3:6. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
3:7. And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
3:8. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
3:9. Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
3:10. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Anglican Daily Fountain 11th October 2023 STUDY:
God did send Jonah again to deliver the same message he was given earlier. Though Jonah disobeyed initially but this time, he delivered God’s message very raw to the people of Nineveh and gave them specific time the judgment of God would come upon them if they failed to repent(v.4). On hearing the message, the whole city repented and put on sack clothes and ashes.
Today, the church and entire nation needs a raw message from men of God. Enough of prosperity messages! Men of God should preach messages that will convict sinners; messages that will make sinners to be afraid to sin. Again, our repentance must be genuine. Nineveh’s repentance was very genuine and God heard their cry and had compassion on them. No wonder, Jesus made mention of Nineveh’s repentance in Matthew 12:41.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, give your people the heart of repentance as you did for the Nineveh, Amen.
