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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.com slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

Hey, thanks for joining us on the Daily Drive. So grateful for you all. My name is Mike, and we spend a few

minutes each weekday just trying to get to know God better.

And to do that, this week we've been binge watching a reality series together.

No, it's not on Netflix or Hulu or Prime.

It's found in the pages of the Old Testament of the Bible.

It's all about this dude named Jonah.

So let me get my announcer voice on and say,

Previously on Jonah.

We've seen this guy who was called to be a spokesperson for God,

receive an assignment from God that he refuses to do.

God tells him to go to Israel's arch enemy, the city of Nineveh and warn the people of impending doom if they don't turn from their extremely wicked ways.

Well, Jonah is a patriotic prophet, and he tells God, don't mind

working with your own people, but there's no way I'm going to go to those people. By the way,

you've got to need those people in your way of thinking? Jonah hates him, and he runs from his

assignment by sailing in the opposite direction, and he soon learns that running from God is

futile, because God loves

all of us enough to pursue us with relentless love. Well, Jonah ends up thrown overboard, and as he's

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