Jonah's Mission

Abide Bible Sleep Meditation

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.2 • 776 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Sleep better and Stress Less— with Abide, a Christian meditation app that provides a biblically grounded place to experience peace and progress in your relationship with Christ. We hope this biblical sleep meditation, narrated by John Fornof, helps your body relax and your mind rest on the truth found in scripture. Fall asleep to Scripture as John Fornof reads about the mission God gave Jonah, that reveals His relentless love and abundant mercy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Abide's Sleep Meditations. I'm Tyler Boss. Today's meditation is brought to by
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0:22.9	commercial free. Just text Abide to 22433 for 25% off the app. Now, relax your mind and body
0:31.8	as we hear tonight's sleep story. Hello, and welcome to this sleep story.
0:41.3	Hello, and welcome to this sleep story from Abide.
0:43.5	I'm John Fornoff.
0:46.4	Thanks for joining me tonight for Sleep Scriptures,
0:49.3	as we look at the book of Jonah, an unusual story from the Bible,
0:52.3	in the new international version.
0:56.8	This book tells about the rebellious prophet Jonah, supposedly a man of God, who seems to despise God.
1:08.4	Everything is the opposite of what you'd expect in this story.
1:13.1	It points out the self-righteousness of our hero, Jonah,
1:18.3	to whom we can all regrettably relate.
1:24.5	Jonah is given a mission from God to go preach against the evil in Nineveh, the enemy of Israel, and therefore Jonah's enemy too.
1:37.3	Instead of following God's instruction, Jonah boards a ship going as far away from Nineveh as possible.
1:48.6	God answers Jonah's defiance by sending a huge storm.
1:54.7	And the sailors, fearing God, reluctantly throw Jonah overboard.
2:03.6	God provides unimaginable refuge in the belly of a whale.
2:09.6	Jonah prays, promising to obey God, and God responds. Extraordinarily, the fish spews Jonah out under dry land.
2:27.8	Finally, Jonah goes to Nineveh and tells the Ninevites that the city will be overturned.
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