JONAH

The book of Jonah is very popular because of the fact that Prophet Jonah is associated with "sleeping".  Prophet Jonah disobeyed God but God had a way of making him do what he was sent to do.

DAY 150. JONAH TRIES TO RUN AWAY FROM GOD

Bible Reading Jonah 1:1-6

No one can run away from God. God caused the storm in the sea so that the ship could not sail to Tarshish which was in the opposite direction to Nineveh, where God wanted Jonah to go.

TODAY'S ACTION

Think of times when you have been told to do something and stubbornly, you did the opposite.  Was the punishment pleasant?  Pray against the spirit of stubborness.

Draw Jonah being thrown into the sea, with a big fish ready to swallow Jonah

BIBLE QUIZ FOR ALL AGES

32.1     God told Jonah, son of --- to go and speak against the city of ---

32.2     Instead of going where God sent him, Jonah headed for ----

32.3     When the ship that Jonah boarded in --- was almost breaking up because of a ---, the sailors threw their --- overboard

32.4     While the sailors were terrified and calling out to their gods, Jonah was asleep below the --- of the ship

32.5     The sailors decided to --- to determine who was responsible for the danger they were in and it was ---

32.6     Jonah told the sailors that he was running away from---

ANSWERS TO YESTERDAY’S QUIZ ON THE BOOK OF JONAH

32.1     Amittai, Nineveh    Jonah 1:1

32.2     Tarshish                                                        1:3

32.3     Joppa, storm, cargo             1:3-5

32.4     deck                                                                1:5

32.5     cast lots, Jonah                                 1:7 32.6     God                                                                1:9