DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 4 April 2025: The Wind of God
KEY VERSE: Jonah 1:4
But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
READ: Jonah 1:4-10 (KJV)
But the Lord sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.
5 Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.
6 So the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God; perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
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. 8 Then they said to him, “Please tell us! For whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”
9 So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
A pastor had a cycling accident that landed him in the hospital with fractures to his hip. When the doctors ordered a CT scan to check for a concussion, they noticed a large malignant tumour on the front of his brain. The discovery led to treatment that included bone marrow and stem cell transplants before the man became cancer-free.
Speaking on his experience, the pastor said, “God allowed the accident for my brain tumour to be found.” God sometimes makes use of unusual situations to correct serious problems.
Prophet Jonah had been sent by God to Nineveh but decided to go instead to Tarshish. God’s response was to send a storm to hinder his ship’s progress. After several efforts of battling the storm, the mariners discovered that Jonah was the albatross hindering their progress. Although Jonah was a prophet, he was a disobedient one at best. He knew the assignment God wanted him to carry out, but he balked.
While others prayed fervently to their gods, he chose to sleep. And when he was challenged about his identity, he was not remorseful at the awful steps he had taken. But for the wind of God that caused the storm, Jonah would have stubbornly headed on to Tarshish against the plan and purpose of God.
Today, God still sends winds and storms to stop the swift descent that many are making to the places He did not send them. The storm was a divinely inspired move to stop Jonah’s physical progress. In (2 Chronicles 20:37), Eliezer “prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.” While God does not delight in hindering the progress of His children, we know that “… all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). Whenever you encounter a raging storm in your journey in life, check up to ensure that you are not heading in the wrong direction.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: If God blocks your path, it is in your best interest.
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Daily Manna 4 April 2025
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