“To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.” – Germany Kent

There is a tremendous impact and benefit when we do what we are called to do and when we speak up.

Story of Jonah (Book of Jonah)

4 lessons we can learn from this story:

1. We all have an assignment from above.

Jonah 1:2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

We all have purpose.

You are called by God to do something very meaningful in life; never lose sight of that meaning.

2. Our disobedience will affect us and others.

Jonah 1:3 “But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed to Tarshish.”

You may be one choice away from a totally different life.

We need to overcome the fear of people.

3. God is a God of multiple chances.

Jonah 2:2 “I cried out to the Lord in my great trouble, and he answered me. I called to you from the land of the dead, and Lord, you heard me!”  10 Then the Lord ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.

What is your whale?

4. When we obey, miracles take place.

We are meant to be someone else’s miracle.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

We can reverse the curse.

Our voice is the voice of the Lord.

Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.”

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

There is a tremendous impact and benefit when we do what we are called to do and when we speak up.