READ: JONAH
1:4-10
Many people
are hooked to curses because they have no knowledge of the practical steps to
be taken to get rid of the curses. For example, if the curses can be traced to
environmental factors you may have to get away from the environment. This
reminds me of the story of how Elisha dealt with the case of a city with bad
water, in 2 Kings 2:19-22. Questions have been asked on why Elisha asked for a
new cruse. Also why the need for the salt? Why was the salt applied at the
spring of the water? Is there any implication in the fact that the salt must
come in the new cruse? There was need for a new cruse that had not been
contaminated by the cursed water. The new cruse brought a change. Do you that
curses can come through contamination? If you get hooked to cursed persons,
before you know it, the curse will infect your own life too. For example, if
you keep eating and drinking with a friend who has tuberculosis, in the same
plates and cups, you should soon need some injections yourself. We discover
from the scriptures that one cursed person can contaminate a whole
organisation. We find a very good example in the story of Jonah who was sent on
an errand by God but he disobeyed. For his disobedience, God decided to deal
with by sending a storm to buffet the ship on which he was travelling. But
Jonah was not alone on the ship. His fellow travellers who feared a shipwreck
as the storm threw their ship hither and thither had to throw their goods
overboard, thus suffering great losses. While all these were happening, Jonah
was sleeping. While Jonah was eventually found to be the cause of their
trouble, they threw him overboard, as he suggested. Thereafter the storm
ceased. My prayer for you is that if there is any Jonah causing problem in your
organisation, may God quickly fish him out, in Jesus’ name. Are you a Jonah?
Ponder and make amends.
MEMORIZE:
JONAH 1:7 –And they said to one another, Come, let us cast lots, that we may
know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us. So they cast lots, and the
lot fell on Jonah.
