Jonah Chapter 2 Discussion Page 2

Jonah 2 thought us when GOD say something to do he will do it no matter your reason and he hears our prayer even though we offend he

Jonah understands now he can 't hide or run away from Elohim- and can 't kill himself if Elohim wants Him to live! Psalm 139:7-10 He repents and Elohim causes the fish to vomit up Jonah. Obedience is better than a sacrifice!!!

i think it is giving attention to symptoms and circumstances, instead of believing God 's Word alone.

Jonah 2 8 lying vanities is looking at the situation around you. Jonah was in a deep sheet and he refused to look at the circumstance surrounding him rather he make God his focus and contemplation.

Jonah although erred, he still confesses his sin. His reason for running from the divine errand may sound potent in ears he was afraid to go to Nineveh because they kill some of the prophets of Israel . For fear death, he turned the direction. The book of proverbs says that there is a way that seem right before man but the end there off is death. God had Mercy on him even while in the fishes belly.

Jonah accepted his fault and God granted him mercy. If he had lied God won 't have pardoned him.

A steadfast look at the crucified One will never look in vain at the great physician. Jesus Christ is the great physician. There is never a disease HE can not heal, there is never a problem HE can not solve and there is never a burden HE can not bear. Jesus Christ is the SOLUTION to all fundamental issues of life. Now observing lying vanities means the Christian is looking else where for help. In other words, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is lacking. The Christian is dwelling on the flesh thereby focuses on material help. The resultant effect is to miss Grace from the Lord for the pain in question.

It is very hard to obey God to love and minister to our enemies. Hence, God will allow trials and afflictions for us to realize that it is our sacred duty to obey God even if we do 't understand Him. While passing through the storm of our life, we remember the goodness and mercy of God in spite of what we are. Then we understood His will.

Lying vanities are those things that we observe When we walk by sight ....We should focus on God but not on what we see or the circumstances around us. Just because you feel pain in your body it doesn 't mean that you are sick Isaiah 33 24, Isaiah 3 4 5 . Or just because you don 't have money in your bank account, it doesn 't mean that you are poor or broke 2 Cor 8 9 . We should walk by faith and not by sight. Believe on God 's word.

If one run away from God He will use other means to bring him back to Him

That is confirmation Minister Jeff Davis's, My Brother Apostle Robert Atkins ministered on Jonah Chapter 2 and his concept of Jonah, and he said that God Truley protect Jonah by having the Great Fish(whale) swallow him, although Jonah thought he was in prison, he was saved by Gods amazing Grace and mercy.

Johnah. Was on the run when God called him, e figured well he could slide, just the same wen God called some of his children, they ain't ready, sin walks in, an God will have his way, He made us in his likeness, his DNA sin us from, God says I will never leave u nor forsake u even to the very end,,,so Jonah ad to c all that excuse, didn't make sense, repent, but God only but God,,,

Funny how Jonah went West when told to go East to Assyria. Gets swallowed by a great fish (Whale) and gets spit out on the shore of Assyria maybe in front of fisherman. The god of Assyria was Dagon Assur the fish god. Surely their god has sent them a prophet they must have thought. So they listened to Jonah and repented.

when GOD speaks we must obey or he will put us in a place that we have to trust & obey in GOD not in self Jonah came to the end of himself he had no hope in saving his self it was the end when we come to that place in our lives we then are a candidate to be saved when we turn to GOD with a hole hart GOD use me don't refuse me

You could think Jonah has repented if you did not read on. Chapter 2 is all about Jonah and what he has to say to stop God from "afflicting" him.

@ Sandie, when Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, He started off with: Our father which art in heaven... Luke11:2. So yes our prayers do go to heaven. Isaiah 61:1
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool: where is the
house that ye build unto me? and where is the
place of my rest?

But, God is everywhere, so would we say our prayers go up to heaven?

Jonah came to his sense and repented

God knew the whole time that Jonah would run from his calling. Yet and still God gave Jonah another chance to get it right. God had a tailored made fish to save Jonah's life. Many people look at the fish as a prison, but I saw it as a safe haven for Jonah. Jonah would have died in the depths of the deep, but God spared him. God could have disciplined Jonah by allowing him to die, but instead God's grace and mercy kept him.

Jonah 2:8 can mean, those who trust or have hope in the things of this world instead of God, reject and loose their own portion of mercy from God.

Jonah sacrificed unto the Lord with the voice of thanksgiving, and payed the vow that he made, for salvation is only from the Lord. There is no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved, and it is Jesus. When we vow to preach the Word, we must go where ever the Lord will send us, and preach the gospel which is able to save souls. Thank God that He gives us a second chance to do what He told us to do, and many of us have been given many chances.

Looking for help where there is no help put us in more danger.

I think lying vanities are everything in this world that will leave and depart from us and help us on our path to hell. But our mercy is our savior who gave his life for us that we can have eternal life. If we take our eyes off him and focus on things around us or our circumstances we have a tendency to fall away from Him and His will for our life.

They that obserue lying vanities, forsake their owne mercy.

Exodus 20:3 YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE ME
Anything that goes before attention to God subjects a soul to the misery of sin and addiction in the absence of His Divine Love.

2 Corinthians 5:7 says that we walk by faith not by sight. To 'observe' means to look at. If we are walking by faith, we are not focused on the circumstances, we are focused on the Word of God.

I have never heard of it before. It is used in a healing school I attend

God is faithful even though we fail to heed (obey) what He saith to us. There's no hiding place because the word says, “The earth and the fullness there are His. This world belongs to God, he's The Creator.

"Lying vanities" can also be our feelings, .. intellect and emotions.

Wherever we are, God Almighty is there. We cannot hide from him. No matter how high and mighty we claim to be. He is our creator. We owe him a duty. What duty to obey him when He commands us to work for Him.

We should rely on God and not on things that promise more than they can deliver. God's mercy prevents the worst outcome of a situation, but because mercy is not tangible we often times forfiet mercy for things that we can touch right now, but if we rely upon mercy which we can only see in the aftermath; which only tells truth, we won't go wrong. Have faith in God and the things of God only and you can never go wrong.