06.10.24 Arise, Call Upon Your God. Ps. Geoff Broekman

Arise, Call Upon Your God

The prophet Jonah, running from his divine mission to bring a warning of judgment to the city of Nineveh, fled. He went down to Joppa, then down into a ship. He further went down to the lowest part of the ship and went to sleep. Having been thrown overboard, he then went down into the belly of a fish, which took him down to the very depths of the ocean floor.

When our lives knowingly rage against God, our only path seems to be down, and we always seem to run into a wilderness. But Jonah called out and prayed to God from the depths. Not only did God preserve his life, but a whole city repented, and God relented from judgment.

God is calling you and I, not just to a season of prayer, but to a life of prayer on behalf of a perishing world that is sinking.