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“So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent...So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.” ‭‭Jonah‬ ‭3:3, 5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/jon.3.3,5.nkjv Without a privileged interaction with God, man cannot fathom the basis of the divine interest in man’s relationship. The depravity of sin brings total corruption to the expected response of man to God’s benevolence, irrespective of man’s understanding of God’s grace. Both Jonah the righteous and Nineveh the wicked have responded badly, and needed a re-awakened touch of heaven, in order to respond appropriately to the call from heaven. However, it is amazing to note that while it took Jonah to respond to God after the second call. Nineveh responded almost without a call to repentance: “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown”. Just the obedience of Jo...

“And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.” ‭‭Jonah‬ ‭3:4-5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ http://bible.com/114/jon.3.4-5.nkjv The phase of challenges and difficulties in life and ministry is often designed to a transient moment of useful character formation, rather than a perceived means for useless character deformation. Otherwise, divine partnership is mostly a call to celebration of success and breakthrough, especially for those who are called according to God's purpose. For example, what is spectacular in Jonah's message presentation "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!"? Obviously, the most significant part of the message is the partnership between God and Jonah, especially after a turbulent period of character formation in the belly of whale. Although ...