This is GAC 238, a podcast ministry of the Greater Apostolic Church of Chatham, Louisiana. Coming up is information and information for the community of Chatham, Louisiana, Jackson Parish and the world. Now for GAC 238. Praise the Lord.
Ben Bittrelli here for GAC 238, the podcast ministry of the Greater Apostolic Church of Chatham, Louisiana. So glad you could join us today and I'm so thankful for all that are listening and then checking us out. We also have a Facebook page that you could link to. And if you want to help this podcast grow, our goal really is to connect locally.
Residents of Jackson Parish, southern part of Washita Parish, maybe the southern part of Lincoln Parish and administer to the folks in this immediate area. The best way to do that is probably if you are local, look up the Greater Apostolic Church Facebook page and like that page so that your local friends can connect to it as well. Another way is to look us up at our podcast site. You would look for GAC 238.PodBean.com and you could find our website there and listen to all the podcasts.
Like and share these things and that's how this will grow. Of course, we want to reach whoever wants to listen but our focus really is to minister to this community. Give information, give hope and encouragement. I want to let you know coming up, April 19th, we are having just a spring-tacular celebration and we are inviting everybody to come out.
We're going to have some inflatables, some events for the children, a candy rain. We'll be serving hot dogs and it's just going to be a good time of fellowship for the community and everybody's invited to come out. And so look for that Saturday, April 19th from 11 to 3. We'll be right there.
And so look for you to be there. Right now we want to play a song that I recorded years ago. It's called Marvel At Your Love. Enjoy.
Praise the Lord, we're back. I was thinking just the other day I mentioned it to the church on Sunday, I believe. We were talking about Jonah and how Jonah had heard the will of God, heard the voice of God and purposely directed in his heart to go the opposite direction. He got on a ship going towards Tarsus and was purposed to not go to Nineveh.
We find that Jonah finds himself in a storm, finds himself drawing the short straw and they realize that he was the reason for the troubles that God had sent upon them. And Jonah resigns himself to death by saying throw me overboard and he realized that he can't run from God. And that is so true, you really just can't run from God when God's calling you and when God's reaching to you. You'll make yourself miserable if you try to run from the Lord.
And Jonah had just all but given up and just said cast me overboard. And where Jonah thought that it was the ultimate judgment on his life for his disobedience, God had prepared for him a great fish to swallow him. Now we often look at the fish as the trial and surely it was a trial. It wasn't a pleasant place to be.
It wasn't a fun place to be. But if you're in the middle of the ocean having a great fish prepared for you, it kept him. It protected him from himself. When Jonah would have allowed himself to drown and go to the bottom of the sea, God had another plan.
And when Jonah would have hurt himself, God protected Jonah and kept him in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights. And finally when Jonah come to himself and simply repented and apologized to God and sought the mercy and the will of God, the fish spit Jonah up on dry land. Now the story goes on and there's a lot of other details about that story. But the fact is God had mercy on Jonah just as God had mercy on the Nine of I's.
God didn't give up. God didn't withdraw his hand, but kept his hand extended even when the men thought that there was no hope. And I want to tell you that today, even if you feel like there's no hope for you, no hope for your situation, God's not done with you. God's not finished with your story.
It's not over yet. You need to hold on. You need to pray. You need to seek God and you need to let the Lord restore you to that place where He wants you to be.
The call of God does not, does not diminish. It doesn't go away, but God will always be there reaching, calling, beckoning for you because His desire is to have relationship with you. God bless you. Thank you for listening.
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