What Happened in the Stomach of the Fish

Bible passage: Jonah 2:1-4
“1. From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. 2. He said: "In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. From the depths of the grave I called for help, and you listened to my cry. 3. You hurled me into the deep, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers swept over me. 4. I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'”

There is a word called ‘hormesis’. This is a term coined by German pharmacologist Schultz after discovering ‘a phenomenon in which small amounts of poison paradoxically cause yeast to multiply.’ Even small amounts of harmful substances can have good effects. 

So, in a way, therapeutic drugs are called ‘microscopic amounts of poison’ and in fact, pharmacology is a study that deals with poisons. It is said that the word ‘hormesis’ began to be used in earnest after the results of a survey on the effects of space radiation exposure on Apollo astronauts were announced in 1970. It was expected that space radiation would cause great harm to the health of astronauts, but surprisingly, a new discovery was made that exposure to small amounts of radiation paradoxically enhances immunity and inhibits aging. 

Even though it is a toxic substance, it kills people if used in large quantities, but if used in small amounts, it can have good effects. Jonah, who appears in the scripture, encounters the most despairing moment in his life. After disobeying God, he encounters a storm, is thrown into the sea by sailors, and ends up in the ‘belly of a fish.’ If you think about it from a human perspective, it seems like God is doing too much. No? How does God throw living people into the stormy sea to become food for fish? However, in modern terms, this is called the ‘Hormesis’ effect. Although the suffering that Jonah went through was a tremendous suffering when seen through our human eyes, God allowed Jonah to undergo the minimal and most appropriate suffering that could truly change him and receive new blessings. 1 Corinthians 10:13 says, “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. 

And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” Today, focusing on the scripture, we will learn how God transformed Jonah, a man of great suffering, from the belly of the fish to a new man of blessing.

 1. God made ‘the belly of the fish’ a place where Jonah seriously sought God. Verse 2 of the scripture says, “and he said, “I called out of my distress to the LORD, And He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.” Jonah refers to the ‘belly of the fish’ as the ‘depth of Sheol.’ To the Jews, the word ‘Sheol’ means ‘a place where the dead go’ or ‘a dwelling place for dead spirits’ and is a word used to express the ‘state of death.’ So, when Jonah says that he is now in the ‘depth of Sheol’, he is in a ‘desperate state, almost as if he is dead.’

 From a human perspective, it is a completely hopeless situation in which there is no hope at all, but from God's perspective, the 'depth of Sheol' that Jonah suffered from is actually preventing the fall and deterioration of Jonah and preventing Jonah from becoming decayed. It has become a place of God's blessing that allows one's faith to grow several levels further. So, what was Jonah’s biggest flaw, which was the spiritual reason why he encountered a storm and ended up in the belly of a fish? That is, Jonah was a person who listened half-heartedly and did not listen seriously to the word of God. In Jonah 1:1, it is said that the Word of God came to Jonah. How much do we long for the Word of God to come to us? But the Word of God came to Jonah. And in verse 2, this is the moment when God’s plan for Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, the most powerful country at the time, is about to be realized through Jonah. 

What a happy and touching moment it was when God chose Jonah out of many people and gave him the word to carry out God’s incredible plan. However, Jonah ignores God's words and goes to Nineveh, which is the opposite direction of God's words, as he thought. Jonah 1:3 says, “But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port.” It means that he neglected the Word of God and did not listen carefully to it. If you talk to parents who are raising adolescent children, they say that the decisive bad attitude is that they listen to their parents half-heartedly and do not listen attentively. 

When they heard this, they tell him, “If you do that, you’ll be in big trouble,” but when he ended up doing it, he said, “So, Mom told me not to do it!” and he raised his face and said, “When did you do that? I have never heard anything like that from you. ” There are several symptoms of adolescence. Get angry and rebel over trivial things. Unlike in the past, children do not listen well to their parents and talk back to them. “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it,” they say, refusing to let their parents interfere. However, if you think about it carefully, there are believers who treat God the way adolescent children treat their parents. I think that the ‘Jonah’ that appears in the scripture is exactly like a believer who was in adolescence. 

Jonah, who had been listening to God’s words half-heartedly, went down to the bottom of the boat to sleep and was caught by casting of lots and the people on the boat asked, “What kind of person are you?” 3 Jonah’s answer to this is in Jonah 1:9 where he said, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD God of heaven who made the sea and the dry land.” I think even God was surprised to hear this. Is this really the attitude of someone who fears God?! He boarded a ship to Tarshish without listening to God's words, but now he said to people, “I fear the LORD, ” so how can this happen? There are people who are Christians only in appearance, saying, ‘I am a person who believes in God, I am a person who fears God’, but their actions are the same as Jonah in Chapter 1. Do you really listen to the Word of God? Do you really want God to speak to you? Let us check it briefly.

 1 Thessalonians Chapter 5 says, ‘Rejoice always.’ Are you always rejoicing? He told us to be thankful in all things, but are you really listening and always being thankful? He told us to pray without ceasing, but do you really value the Word of God and pray without ceasing? Or maybe, like Jonah, we are just listening to it in moderation and neglecting it. I heard that the Bible reading competition or campaign began last week. Are you listening carefully and reading the Bible? King Saul is a representative figure of adolescence in the Bible.

 In 1 Samuel Chapter 15, Samuel tells King Saul, “Hear what the LORD says,” and tells him to attack Amalek. He says this in 1 Samuel 15:3 by saying, “Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.”4 Although the Word of God was clearly preached and proclaimed, King Saul listened to it half-heartedly. 1 Samuel 15:9 says, “But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.” In the end, King Saul repeatedly neglected God's words, did not listen carefully, and acted according to his own thoughts, and was abandoned by God and ended up facing a miserable life. 

But, do you know why the ‘depth of Sheol’ was a blessing to Jonah? This is because Jonah’s attitude completely changed after experiencing the ‘depth of Sheol.’ Jonah 2:1 says, “From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God.” This is the first time the word ‘pray’ comes out. Verse 2 says, “He said: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the depth of Sheol I called for help, and You listened to my cry.”” Verse 4 is even more surprising: It says, “So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’” Here, the temple symbolically represents the place where God is present. What is Jonah’s attitude? Jonah, who ran away in the opposite direction and ignored God’s words, saying, ‘No matter what God says, I listen to it half-heartedly, and I don’t want to live by what He says,’ how has his attitude changed now? 

He confesses that he relies on and trusts God so much and wants to look at the place where God is present. 5 Jonah 2:7 says, “While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer came to You, Into Your holy temple. The most foolish person in the world would be the one who suffers all the hardships and cannot discover any of God's will there. I hope that if you go through suffering like Jonah's 'belly of the fish', you will discover God's will for you in it, and that you will abandon the attitude of half- heartedly listening to God's word and meet God seriously. 

2. The stomach of the fish became a place to experience the spiritual space. In verse 2, Jonah described the belly of the fish as ‘the depth of Sheol’, a hellish place where the dead go, but in fact as indicated in Jonah 1:17, the big fish was prepared by Jehovah God Himself. “And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.” It says that God did everything. If a large fish living in the sea happened to eat Jonah, he might be chewed by its sharp teeth, and even if he was just swallowed without being chewed and entered the fish's stomach, the sticky, dirty foreign substances in its stomach would clog his nose, eyes, and ears. His mouth would have been blocked, and moreover, there would have been no air. How could you have lived there without breathing for not even an hour, but three days? 

Martin Luther, who initiated the Reformation, also said that the story of Jonah, who went into the belly of a fish and came out alive, was a false and foolish fable and could only be viewed as a lie, and even said, ‘If it wasn’t written in the Bible, I wouldn’t believe it.’ However, the Bible does not deal with the stories of the physical world, but is a Book that deals with the words of the Spirit of God, who is spirit. Therefore, if you do not use physical thoughts, but think spiritually, you will believe everything that is said. The shepherd explained the spiritual world in detail through a sermon titled ‘Dimension and Space.’ God created at least four heavens, including the physical heaven and the spiritual heaven. Deuteronomy 10:14 says, “To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.” The sky is called space, and each sky, or space, has a different dimension. Therefore, things that are impossible in the low-dimensional physical space can be possible in the high-dimensional spiritual space. 

First Heaven is the sky, physical space in which we live and is a one-dimensional world. Second Heaven is a space in which there is the realm of darkness where the enemy devil resides, and the realm of light where the Garden of Eden is located. Although it belongs to the spirit, it is a space at an intermediate level between the spirit and the flesh, and thus belongs to the second dimension. Third Heaven is a space belonging to the third dimension where angels live and where we will go to live eternally after we die. Fourth Heaven is the space where God the Trinity resides. It is the fundamental space that existed from the beginning when God divided space into four, and is a space belonging to the fourth dimension or higher. This is a space where only God the Trinity can reside, where something can be created from nothing and where solid, liquid, and gas can be freely converted. 

It is a space filled with the supreme power of creation. We are currently living in the first heaven, the physical space, which is one- dimensional, but there is a way to experience two-, three-, and four-dimensional spaces that are higher than the first dimension. Like Peter, who walked on the water with Jesus, you can experience the spiritual space created by people of whole spirit. The reason Jesus was able to walk on water was because He was clothed with a spiritual space. When Peter also became one with Jesus in faith and obeyed His words, he was able to walk on water while also riding on the spiritual space created by Jesus. Although we are in a one-dimensional physical space, if we can utilize the three- dimensional spiritual space, we can experience amazing things that happen in the three-dimensional space. The problem then is how we can gain spiritual space and utilize it.

 If we enter into spirit and whole spirit, we will be able to utilize three-dimensional space. However, even if we have not yet entered into spirit and whole spirit, if we are filled with the Holy Spirit, who is God, we can wear three-dimensional space as long as we are filled with the Holy Spirit. Yes, you can. A deaconess from Headquarters church in Seoul, Korea was walking down the pedestrians’ sidewalk. But a truck was rushing towards the deaconess from the opposite direction. She didn't know if the truck broke down or the driver was asleep, but it happened so suddenly that the deaconess was so embarrassed that she only cried out to the Lord, “Lord! Lord!” In the meantime, the truck had to run over the deaconess and hit her, but miraculously, the truck stopped 1cm in front of her nose. It was a moment when a serious accident occurred without any movement, but a miracle happened.

 It is said that at that moment, the deaconess's spiritual eyes opened, and an angel was seen standing between the deaconess and the truck, spreading his wings. Although it was inevitable that a major accident would occur in the physical space, a three-dimensional space was instantly created and they were able to be protected safely. One deacon's appendicitis burst and he developed peritonitis. The doctor said he needed to have surgery right away, but the deacon put off the surgery with faith and received the shepherd's prayer. His appendix had burst in his stomach, so it was a major surgery that required removing all of his internal organs, washing them, and putting them back in. After receiving the shepherd's prayer, he was cured with all the debris in his stomach disappearing. The deacon didn't vomit or pass out through feces, so where did the waste go? 

The shepherd saw it with his spiritual eyes and explained it to us, saying that when he received the prayer of power, the door to the third heavenly space was opened and all the debris escaped there and disappeared. In the case of Jonah in the scripture, a four-dimensional space was applied. The four-dimensional space where something is created from nothing was put on the physical space called the 'belly of the fish', and the supreme power of God's creation was revealed. He was not harmed by the evil conditions in the stomach of the fish, and even if there were no air, it can create water in the stomach of the fish. He was able to survive for 3 days. 

So, how was Jonah able to experience the fourth dimension in the hellish depth of Sheol? In verse 2, we can see that Jonah truly recognized the sovereignty of God and changed into a person who was conscious of God. So he says in Verse 2, “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.” He cried out and prayed, and the belly of the fish was filled with the Holy Spirit. This is my first time seeing someone full of the Holy Spirit even in the belly of a fish. Looking at verse 9, the belly of the fish was full of gratitude. It says, “But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving, That which I have vowed I will pay. I will say, ‘Salvation is from the Lord.’” And in verse 4, we can see that he thoroughly repented. Verse 4 says, “So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’” And he focused all his heart and thoughts on God and prayed. Verse 7 says, “While I was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, And my prayer rose to You, Into Your holy temple.” The saying that prayers reached the temple means that he thought of the ‘belly of the fish’ as a temple and prayed fervently. Just as Jonah was deep in the sea, in the belly of a fish, but prayed there while thinking of the temple in Jerusalem, the members of Nairobi Manmin Church also do not pray because they are too far away from home or because the situation is bad. Instead, they pray online wherever they are. 

I urge you to please connect and participate in the daily Daniel Prayer Meeting at this church. If Jonah had a smart phone and an online connection at that time, he would have probably connected to the temple in Jerusalem and prayed while in the fish's stomach. However, since there was no Wi-Fi or a smart phone, he connected to the temple with his mind and prayed in the ‘belly of the fish.’ We love it because we can connect to the temple online. Lugari and Bumula Online local sanctuaries believers! Right now, you are worshiping as if you were worshiping in a temple that you are watching on YouTube, right? Although we live in a one-dimensional physical world ruled by the enemy devil, we should not live like people in this physical world, but like the people of heaven, a three-dimensional spiritual space. Do not live like the people of the first-dimensional world, being jealous, greedy, fighting, falling into trials and tribulations, getting sick, and not being able to do anything.

 Instead, like the people of the third-dimensional heaven, like angels, love and serve one another, rejoice and be thankful. I hope that by praying, evangelizing, and living like this, you will fully enjoy the blessings, healing, and happiness that occur in the three-dimensional heavenly space that cannot be found in this world. Let's live on a higher level and say hello to the people next to us. Let's live on a high level. Let’s not live in one dimension, but in three dimensions. Americans and Europeans say they have a lot of money and live well, but they live one-dimensionally in the world of the flesh. Even after death, those people will either go to hell or, if they believe in Jesus, to paradise, or if they do well, they will go to the first kingdom of heaven. But what about us? 

If we live spiritually without looking at the world on this earth and without compromising with the world, wouldn't we be able to go to the higher levels of the 2nd Kingdom and 3rd Kingdoms of heaven and even New Jerusalem? I hope that we all live on a high level and become high-level people who can freely experience the healing, blessings, and answers that occur in three-dimensional space. 3. The belly of fish became a place of blessing that brought Jonah back to a better place than before. The ‘belly of the fish’ that Jonah experienced in today’s scripture was, as Jonah said, ‘the depth of Sheol’. However, through the experience in the ‘belly of the fish,’ Jonah was able to return transformed into a better ‘Jonah’ than before. Verse 10 of the scripture says, “And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.” God did not allow Jonah to remain in the ‘belly of the fish,’ but commanded the fish to vomit him out. Jonah, who had been in the stomach of the fish for three days, was completely transformed into a spiritual person. 

No matter how strong the digestive power of a large fish was, it could not digest Jonah, so it had no choice but to vomit him out on land. In Hebrews 11:38, we find the phrase ‘men of whom the world was not worthy’ appears. This is an expression used to refer to people who were tested by the enemy, the devil, who rules the world, by giving them unimaginable hardships and pain and making them betray their faith, but they did not abandon their faith and love for God until the end and were victorious. Jonah was able to come out alive after becoming a person that the ‘belly of the fish’ could not bear and was not worthy, and he became a better person than he was, and was able to successfully carry out his mission as a prophet of God. Job was also subjected to a tremendous test by the enemy devil. Even though he had sores all over his body, his children all died at once when his house collapsed, and his friends came to criticize and rebuke him without any basis instead of comforting me, and he eventually threw away the evil in his heart and trusted in God, so he was able to become a person whom the trials and pain could not handle. By becoming a person that the enemy devil cannot handle, and a disease cannot handle, he was able to return to the position of a better person of 'Double Blessing', receiving double the blessings. 

A woman named Ruth in the Book of Ruth lost her husband at a young age and became a lonely, unhappy woman without children. However, when Ruth continued to believe in God and served her mother-in-law Naomi until the end, she became a woman whom loneliness and misery was not worthy and couldn’t bear her, and she was blessed to become an ancestor of Jesus, a much better person than she originally was. Are there any of you who are experiencing hardships like those in the belly of Jonah's fish? Like Jonah did in the ‘belly of the fish,’ we must recognize God’s sovereignty and change into people who are conscious of God. Like Jonah, we must cry out in prayer from the ‘belly of the fish’ and be filled with the Holy Spirit. Like Jonah, we too must be filled with gratitude even in the ‘belly of the fish.’ So, I hope that you will become a person that the belly of the fish cannot handle, a person that the world cannot handle, a person that trials and pain cannot handle, and a person that the enemy the devil cannot handle, and return to a better position of blessing than before. God leading Jonah into the belly of Sheol was not because he wanted to kill Jonah.

 So, because the stomach of the fish could not kill Jonah, it was a harsh hardship, but the ‘belly of the fish’ actually made Jonah stronger. If we can overcome the trials and training that come our way, we will become stronger through trials and suffering. So, Apostle Paul, who successfully overcame numerous trials and refinements, says the following to the suffering believers in the Corinthian church. 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, “we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” Who persecutes me? Who is trying to knock me down? Who brings me down? Are you being bullied from all directions right now? But we must remember; If I do not be discouraged, I will not be abandoned; if I do not knock myself down, I will not be destroyed; if I do not discourage myself, there will be no one to discourage me; even if I am pushed around on all sides, if I do not knock myself down, I will not fall.

 Rather than becoming discouraged or falling down, you can actually stand up stronger than before. Psalm 119:71 says, “It is good for me that I was afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.” Joseph’s brothers tried to overthrow him in Genesis by selling him as a slave, and General Potiphar's wife framed him and tried to kill him, but rather than falling, Joseph became the prime minister of Egypt and emerged as a stronger person. If we are in the power of Christ, everything makes us strong. Conclusion ‘Jonah’ in the scripture experienced a tremendous misfortune called ‘the belly of a fish, the hellish depth of Sheol’ that he would never forget.

 If it were like the rest of the world, this would have become a lifelong stress disorder and trauma, causing convulsions at the sight of water, being unable to sleep due to nightmares, and being unable to lead a normal life due to fear and anxiety. However, even though Jonah encountered tremendous hardships called ‘the belly of the fish.’ 

First, it became a place to abandon the attitude of casually listening to the Word of God and neglecting it, to seriously seek God again, and to absolutely obey the Word of God. 

Second, by making the ‘belly of the fish’ a place to experience the space of spirit.

 Third, the ‘belly of the fish’ became a place of blessing that brought Jonah back to a better place than his original state. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Even if you are in a situation like 'Jonah's belly of the fish', do not neglect God's Words, but listen to Him seriously and experience the space of the spirit. And I pray in the name of the Lord that you will enter a much better place of blessing than before. - END -

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Yaliyotokea Tumboni mwa Samaki

Andiko la Biblia: Yona 2:1–4
“1. Ndipo Yona akamwomba BWANA, Mungu wake, katika tumbo la yule samaki. 2. Akasema, Nalimlingana BWANA katika dhiki yangu, naye akanijibu; katika tumbo la kuzimu naliomba msaada, nawe ukasikia sauti yangu. 3. Maana ulinitupa vilindini, ndani ya moyo wa bahari; na mafuriko yakanizunguka; mawimbi yako yote na mapigo yako yote yamepita juu yangu. 4. Nami nikasema, Nimetupwa mbali na macho yako; lakini nitatazama tena kuelekea hekalu lako takatifu.”

Kuna neno linaloitwa “hormesis.” Neno hili lilianzishwa na mfamasia Mjerumani Schultz baada ya kugundua jambo ambalo kiasi kidogo cha sumu husababisha chachu kuongezeka kinyume na matarajio. Hata kiasi kidogo cha vitu vyenye madhara kinaweza kuwa na matokeo mazuri.

Kwa namna fulani, dawa za tiba huitwa “kiasi kidogo sana cha sumu,” na kwa kweli famasia ni somo linalohusu sumu. Inasemekana kwamba neno hormesis lilianza kutumiwa kwa dhati baada ya matokeo ya uchunguzi kuhusu athari za mionzi ya angani kwa wanaanga wa Apollo kutangazwa mwaka 1970. Ilitarajiwa kwamba mionzi ya angani ingeathiri sana afya ya wanaanga, lakini kwa mshangao iligunduliwa kwamba kukabiliwa na kiasi kidogo cha mionzi huimarisha kinga ya mwili na kupunguza kasi ya kuzeeka.

Kitu chenye sumu kinaweza kuua kikitumiwa kwa wingi, lakini kikitumiwa kwa kiasi kidogo kinaweza kuwa na matokeo mazuri. Yona, anayetajwa katika andiko, anakabili wakati wa kukata tamaa zaidi maishani mwake. Baada ya kutomtii Mungu, anakumbwa na dhoruba, anatupwa baharini na mabaharia, kisha anaishia “tumboni mwa samaki.” Tukitazama kwa mawazo ya kibinadamu, huenda ikaonekana kana kwamba Mungu amezidisha. Kwa nini Mungu amtupe mtu aliye hai katika bahari yenye dhoruba awe chakula cha samaki? Hata hivyo, kwa maneno ya kisasa jambo hili linaweza kulinganishwa na athari ya hormesis. Mateso aliyopitia Yona yalikuwa makubwa sana kwa mtazamo wa kibinadamu, lakini Mungu alimruhusu apitie mateso madogo zaidi na yanayofaa kabisa, ambayo yangeweza kumbadilisha kweli na kumwezesha kupokea baraka mpya. 1 Wakorintho 10:13 inasema, “Jaribu halikuwapata ninyi, isipokuwa lililo kawaida ya wanadamu; ila Mungu ni mwaminifu; ambaye hatawaacha mjaribiwe kupita mwezavyo; lakini pamoja na lile jaribu atafanya na mlango wa kutokea, ili mweze kustahimili.” Leo, kwa kuzingatia andiko hili, tutajifunza jinsi Mungu alivyombadilisha Yona, aliyeteseka sana, kutoka tumboni mwa samaki na kumfanya mtu mpya aliyebarikiwa.

1. Mungu alifanya tumbo la samaki kuwa mahali ambapo Yona alimtafuta kwa bidii. Mstari wa 2 wa andiko unasema: “Nalimlingana BWANA katika dhiki yangu, naye akanijibu; katika tumbo la kuzimu naliomba msaada, nawe ukasikia sauti yangu.” Yona analiita tumbo la samaki “tumbo la kuzimu.” Kwa Wayahudi, neno “kuzimu” humaanisha mahali wanakoenda wafu, makao ya roho za wafu, au hali ya kufa. Kwa hiyo Yona anaposema yuko katika tumbo la kuzimu, anamaanisha kwamba yuko katika hali ya kukata tamaa kabisa, kana kwamba amekufa.

Kwa mtazamo wa kibinadamu, hii ni hali isiyo na tumaini lolote. Lakini kwa mtazamo wa Mungu, “tumbo la kuzimu” ambalo Yona alipitia lilimzuia asianguke na kuharibika; likawa mahali pa baraka ambapo imani yake ingeweza kukua kwa viwango kadhaa. Basi, kasoro kubwa ya Yona, iliyokuwa sababu ya kiroho iliyomfanya akumbwe na dhoruba na kuishia tumboni mwa samaki, ilikuwa nini? Yona alikuwa mtu aliyelisikiliza Neno la Mungu kijuujuu tu na hakulichukulia kwa uzito. Yona 1:1 inasema Neno la Mungu lilimjia Yona. Tunatamani kiasi gani Neno la Mungu litujie! Lakini Neno la Mungu lilimjia Yona. Katika mstari wa 2, Mungu alikuwa karibu kutimiza mpango wake kwa Ninawi, mji mkuu wa Ashuru, taifa lenye nguvu zaidi wakati huo, kupitia Yona.

Lilikuwa jambo la furaha na la kugusa moyo jinsi gani Mungu alivyomchagua Yona kati ya watu wengi na kumpa ujumbe wa kutekeleza mpango wake wa ajabu! Hata hivyo, Yona alipuuza maneno ya Mungu na kuelekea upande mwingine, mbali na Ninawi. Yona 1:3 inasema, “Lakini Yona akaondoka akimbilie Tarshishi, apate kuikimbia BWANA.” Alishuka mpaka Yafa na kupata meli iliyokuwa ikielekea huko. Hii inaonyesha kwamba alipuuza Neno la Mungu na hakulisikiliza kwa makini. Ukiwauliza wazazi wanaolea watoto wa umri wa balehe, husema kwamba tabia mbaya inayowasumbua zaidi ni watoto kusikiliza maneno yao kwa juu juu na kutowasikiliza kwa makini.

Wazazi wanapomwonya, “Ukifanya hivyo, utapata matatizo makubwa,” mtoto akifanya jambo hilo kisha akapatwa na shida, husema, “Kwa hiyo, mama aliniambia nisifanye!” Lakini mzazi akijibu, “Nilikuambia lini? Sijawahi kukusikia ukisema hivyo,” mtoto hujifanya hajui. Kuna dalili kadhaa za umri wa balehe: kukasirika na kuasi kwa mambo madogo, kutowasikiliza wazazi vizuri kama zamani na kuwajibu kwa ukaidi. Husema, “Usijali, nitajishughulikia mwenyewe,” na kukataa wazazi kuingilia. Tukifikiria kwa makini, kuna waumini wanaomtendea Mungu kama vile watoto wa balehe wanavyowatendea wazazi wao. Nadhani Yona wa andiko hili anafanana kabisa na mwamini aliye katika hali hiyo ya uasi.

Yona, aliyekuwa amesikiliza maneno ya Mungu kijuujuu, alishuka sehemu ya chini ya meli na kulala. Kura ilipompata, watu wa meli wakamwuliza, “Wewe ni mtu wa aina gani?” Jibu lake linapatikana katika Yona 1:9: “Mimi ni Mwebrania; nami namcha BWANA, Mungu wa mbinguni, aliyezifanya bahari na nchi kavu.” Hata Mungu angeweza kushangazwa kusikia hivyo. Je, kweli hii ndiyo tabia ya mtu anayemcha Mungu? Alipanda meli kwenda Tarshishi bila kulisikiliza Neno la Mungu, lakini sasa anawaambia watu, “Ninamcha BWANA.” Kuna watu wanaoitwa Wakristo kwa sura tu na kusema, “Ninamwamini Mungu, ninamcha Mungu,” lakini matendo yao yanafanana na ya Yona katika sura ya kwanza. Je, kweli unasikiliza Neno la Mungu? Je, unataka kweli Mungu aseme nawe? Tujichunguze kwa kifupi.

1 Wathesalonike sura ya 5 inasema, “Furahini siku zote.” Je, unafurahi daima? Mungu ametuambia tushukuru kwa kila jambo; je, unalisikiliza Neno hilo na kushukuru siku zote? Ametuambia tuombe bila kukoma; je, unathamini Neno la Mungu na kuomba bila kukoma? Au, kama Yona, tunalisikiliza kiasi tu na kulipuuza? Nimesikia kwamba mashindano au kampeni ya kusoma Biblia ilianza wiki iliyopita. Je, unasikiliza kwa makini na kuisoma Biblia? Mfalme Sauli ni mfano mwingine mkuu wa tabia ya kutosikiliza kwa uzito katika Biblia.

Katika 1 Samweli sura ya 15, Samweli alimwambia Mfalme Sauli, “Sikiliza maneno ya BWANA,” kisha akamwamuru ashambulie Waamaleki. 1 Samweli 15:3 inasema: “Basi sasa, nenda ukawapige Amaleki, ukawaangamize kabisa vyote walivyo navyo, wala usiwahurumie; bali uwaue mwanamume na mwanamke, mtoto na mtoto anyonyaye, ng’ombe na kondoo, ngamia na punda.” Ingawa Neno la Mungu lilihubiriwa na kutangazwa waziwazi, Sauli alilisikiliza kijuujuu. Mstari wa 9 unasema Sauli na watu waliwahurumia Agagi na wanyama bora, wakakataa kuwaangamiza kabisa, lakini wakaharibu vitu vilivyodharauliwa na visivyofaa. Sauli aliendelea kupuuza maneno ya Mungu, hakuyasikiliza kwa makini na akatenda kulingana na mawazo yake mwenyewe. Mungu akamkataa, naye akakabili maisha ya huzuni.

Je, unajua kwa nini “tumbo la kuzimu” lilikuwa baraka kwa Yona? Ni kwa sababu mtazamo wake ulibadilika kabisa baada ya kupitia hali hiyo. Yona 2:1 inasema, “Yona akamwomba BWANA, Mungu wake, katika tumbo la yule samaki.” Hapa ndipo neno “kuomba” linapotokea kwa mara ya kwanza katika simulizi lake. Mstari wa 2 unasema, “Nalimlingana BWANA katika dhiki yangu, naye akanijibu; katika tumbo la kuzimu naliomba msaada, nawe ukasikia sauti yangu.” Mstari wa 4 unashangaza zaidi: “Nikasema, Nimetupwa mbali na macho yako; lakini nitatazama tena kuelekea hekalu lako takatifu.” Hekalu linaashiria mahali ambapo Mungu yupo. Mtazamo wa Yona umebadilikaje? Yule aliyekimbilia upande mwingine, akapuuza Neno na kusema kwa matendo, “Hata Mungu akisema nini, nitasikiliza tu kiasi na sitaishi kulingana na Neno lake,” sasa anasema nini?

Anakiri kwamba anamtegemea Mungu na kumwamini sana, na anatamani kulitazama mahali alipo Mungu. Yona 2:7 inasema, “Nafsi yangu ilipozimia ndani yangu, nalimkumbuka BWANA; maombi yangu yakakufikia, hata hekaluni mwako takatifu.” Mtu mpumbavu zaidi duniani ni yule anayepitia mateso yote lakini asitambue mapenzi yoyote ya Mungu ndani yake. Natumaini ukipitia mateso kama ya Yona tumboni mwa samaki, utatambua mapenzi ya Mungu kwako na kuacha tabia ya kusikiliza Neno lake kijuujuu, kisha umtafute Mungu kwa dhati.

2. Tumbo la samaki likawa mahali pa kupata uzoefu wa ulimwengu wa roho. Katika mstari wa 2, Yona aliliita tumbo la samaki “tumbo la kuzimu,” mahali pa kutisha wanakokwenda wafu. Lakini Yona 1:17 inasema Mungu mwenyewe alikuwa amemwandalia samaki mkubwa: “BWANA akaweka tayari samaki mkubwa ammeze Yona; naye Yona akawa katika tumbo la samaki yule muda wa siku tatu mchana na usiku.” Mungu ndiye aliyefanya yote. Kama samaki mkubwa wa baharini angemmeza Yona kwa bahati tu, meno yake makali yangeweza kumtafuna. Hata kama angemmeza bila kumtafuna, uchafu wenye kunata tumboni ungeweza kuziba pua, macho na masikio yake; mdomo wake ungefunikwa na zaidi ya hayo kusingekuwa na hewa. Mtu angewezaje kuishi humo bila kupumua hata kwa saa moja, sembuse siku tatu?

Martin Luther, aliyeanzisha Matengenezo ya Kanisa, naye alisema simulizi la Yona kuingia tumboni mwa samaki na kutoka akiwa hai lilikuwa hadithi ya uongo na ya kipumbavu, na lingeweza tu kuchukuliwa kuwa uwongo. Hata alisema, “Kama lisingeandikwa katika Biblia, nisingeliamini.” Hata hivyo, Biblia haishughulikii hadithi za ulimwengu wa kimwili pekee; ni kitabu kinachohusu maneno ya Mungu wa roho. Kwa hiyo, usipotumia mawazo ya kimwili pekee bali ukafikiri kiroho, utaamini yote yaliyoandikwa. Mchungaji alieleza ulimwengu wa roho kwa undani katika mahubiri yenye kichwa “Vipimo na Nafasi.” Mungu aliumba angalau mbingu nne, kutia ndani mbingu ya kimwili na mbingu ya kiroho. Kumbukumbu la Torati 10:14 inasema: “Tazama, mbingu ni za BWANA, Mungu wako, na mbingu za mbingu, na dunia, na vitu vyote vilivyomo.” Anga huitwa nafasi; kila anga au nafasi ina kipimo tofauti. Kwa hiyo jambo lisilowezekana katika nafasi ya kimwili yenye kipimo cha chini linaweza kuwezekana katika nafasi ya kiroho yenye kipimo cha juu.

Mbingu ya kwanza ni anga, nafasi ya kimwili tunamoishi, ulimwengu wenye kipimo kimoja. Mbingu ya pili ni nafasi yenye milki ya giza ambamo adui Ibilisi anaishi, na milki ya nuru ambamo Bustani ya Edeni iko. Ingawa ni ya kiroho, ni nafasi ya kati ya roho na mwili na ni ya kipimo cha pili. Mbingu ya tatu ni nafasi ya kipimo cha tatu, ambamo malaika huishi na ambamo sisi tutaishi milele baada ya kufa. Mbingu ya nne ni nafasi ambamo Mungu wa Utatu anaishi. Ni nafasi ya msingi iliyokuwapo tangu mwanzo, Mungu alipogawa nafasi katika sehemu nne, nayo ni ya kipimo cha nne au cha juu zaidi. Mungu wa Utatu pekee ndiye anayeweza kuishi humo; humo kitu kinaweza kuumbwa kutoka pasipo kitu na vitu vigumu, vimiminika na gesi vinaweza kubadilishwa kwa uhuru. Ni nafasi iliyojaa nguvu kuu ya uumbaji.

Sisi tunaishi sasa katika mbingu ya kwanza, nafasi ya kimwili yenye kipimo kimoja, lakini kuna njia ya kupata uzoefu wa nafasi za kipimo cha pili, cha tatu na cha nne zilizo juu zaidi. Kama Petro aliyetembea juu ya maji pamoja na Yesu, unaweza kupata uzoefu wa nafasi ya kiroho inayoundwa na watu walioingia katika roho kamili. Yesu aliweza kutembea juu ya maji kwa sababu alikuwa amevaa nafasi ya kiroho. Petro alipokuwa mmoja na Yesu kwa imani na kulitii Neno lake, naye aliweza kutembea juu ya maji huku akitumia nafasi ya kiroho ambayo Yesu aliumba. Ingawa tuko katika nafasi ya kimwili yenye kipimo kimoja, tukitumia nafasi ya kiroho yenye vipimo vitatu tunaweza kuona mambo ya ajabu yakitokea. Basi tunawezaje kupata na kutumia nafasi ya kiroho?

Tukiingia katika roho na roho kamili, tutaweza kutumia nafasi ya vipimo vitatu. Hata kama bado hatujaingia katika roho au roho kamili, tukijazwa Roho Mtakatifu, ambaye ni Mungu, tunaweza kuvaa nafasi hiyo ya vipimo vitatu maadamu tumejazwa na Roho Mtakatifu. Ndiyo, inawezekana. Shemasi mwanamke wa kanisa kuu la Seoul, Korea, alikuwa akitembea kwenye njia ya watembea kwa miguu. Lori lilikuwa likimjia kwa kasi kutoka upande wa pili. Hakujua kama lori lilikuwa limeharibika au dereva alikuwa amelala, lakini jambo hilo lilitokea ghafla sana. Shemasi akashtuka na kumlilia Bwana tu, “Bwana! Bwana!” Kwa kawaida lori lingempiga na kumkanyaga, lakini kimuujiza lilisimama sentimita moja tu mbele ya pua yake. Ajali kubwa ilionekana kutoweza kuepukika, lakini muujiza ulitokea.

Inasemekana kwamba wakati huo macho ya kiroho ya shemasi yalifunguka, naye akamwona malaika amesimama kati yake na lori, akieneza mabawa yake. Katika nafasi ya kimwili ajali kubwa ilionekana lazima itokee, lakini mara moja nafasi ya vipimo vitatu ikaundwa na shemasi akalindwa salama. Shemasi mmoja alipata kidole-tumbo kupasuka na ugonjwa ukaenea tumboni. Daktari alisema alipaswa kufanyiwa upasuaji mara moja, lakini kwa imani shemasi akauahirisha na kupokea maombi ya mchungaji. Kidole-tumbo kilikuwa kimepasuka ndani ya tumbo; upasuaji mkubwa ulihitajika, viungo vyote vya ndani vingetolewa, vioshwe na kurudishwa. Baada ya kupokea maombi ya mchungaji, aliponywa na uchafu wote ndani ya tumbo lake ukatoweka. Shemasi huyo hakutapika wala kutoa uchafu huo kwa choo; ulienda wapi?

Mchungaji aliona jambo hilo kwa macho ya kiroho na kueleza kwamba alipopokea maombi yenye nguvu, mlango wa nafasi ya mbingu ya tatu ulifunguka, uchafu wote ukatoka huko na kutoweka. Katika kisa cha Yona, nafasi ya vipimo vinne ilitumika. Nafasi ya vipimo vinne, ambamo kitu kinaweza kuumbwa kutoka pasipo kitu, iliwekwa juu ya nafasi ya kimwili ya tumbo la samaki na nguvu kuu ya uumbaji wa Mungu ikadhihirishwa. Yona hakudhuriwa na hali mbaya tumboni mwa samaki; hata kama hakukuwa na hewa, Mungu angeweza kuumba maji tumboni humo. Hivyo aliweza kuishi siku tatu.

Basi Yona aliwezaje kupata uzoefu wa kipimo cha nne akiwa katika tumbo la kuzimu lenye kutisha? Katika mstari wa 2 tunaona kwamba alitambua kweli enzi kuu ya Mungu na akawa mtu anayemfikiria Mungu. Akasema: “Nalimlingana BWANA katika dhiki yangu, naye akanijibu; katika tumbo la kuzimu naliomba msaada, nawe ukasikia sauti yangu.” Alimlilia Mungu na kuomba, naye tumbo la samaki likajazwa na Roho Mtakatifu. Hii ndiyo mara ya kwanza kusikia kuhusu mtu aliyejazwa Roho Mtakatifu hata akiwa tumboni mwa samaki! Mstari wa 9 unaonyesha kwamba tumbo hilo lilijaa shukrani: “Lakini mimi nitakutolea dhabihu kwa sauti ya shukrani; nitalipa nilichoahidi. Wokovu una BWANA.” Katika mstari wa 4 tunaona kwamba alitubu kabisa: alisema ametupwa mbali na macho ya Mungu, lakini bado atatazama kuelekea hekalu takatifu. Aliuelekeza moyo na mawazo yake yote kwa Mungu na kuomba. Mstari wa 7 unasema alipokuwa akizimia alimkumbuka BWANA na maombi yake yakafika hekaluni takatifu. Kusema maombi yalifika hekaluni kunamaanisha kwamba alilichukulia tumbo la samaki kuwa hekalu na akaomba kwa bidii. Kama vile Yona, akiwa ndani ya samaki baharini, alivyoliwaza hekalu la Yerusalemu na kuomba, washiriki wa Kanisa la Nairobi Manmin hawaachi kuomba kwa sababu tu wako mbali na nyumbani au hali si nzuri. Wanaweza kuomba mtandaoni popote walipo.

Nawasihi muungane na kushiriki Mkutano wa Maombi ya Danieli wa kila siku wa kanisa hili. Kama Yona angekuwa na simu janja na muunganisho wa intaneti wakati huo, huenda angeungana na hekalu la Yerusalemu na kuomba akiwa tumboni mwa samaki. Lakini hakukuwa na Wi-Fi wala simu janja, kwa hiyo aliungana na hekalu kwa mawazo yake na kuomba humo tumboni mwa samaki. Tunafurahi kwamba sisi tunaweza kuungana na hekalu mtandaoni. Waumini wa makanisa ya mahali Lugari na Bumula wanaoungana mtandaoni! Sasa mnaabudu kana kwamba mko katika hekalu mnalolitazama kupitia YouTube, sivyo? Ingawa tunaishi katika ulimwengu wa kimwili wenye kipimo kimoja, unaotawaliwa na adui Ibilisi, tusiishi kama watu wa ulimwengu huu wa kimwili, bali kama watu wa mbinguni, katika nafasi ya kiroho yenye vipimo vitatu. Msiishi kama watu wa ulimwengu wa kipimo cha kwanza, wenye wivu na uchoyo, wanaopigana, kuanguka katika majaribu na dhiki, kuugua na kushindwa kufanya lolote.

Badala yake, kama watu wa mbingu ya kipimo cha tatu na kama malaika, tupendane na kutumikiana, tufurahi na kushukuru. Natumaini kwa kuomba, kuhubiri Injili na kuishi namna hii, mtafurahia kikamilifu baraka, uponyaji na furaha za nafasi ya mbinguni yenye vipimo vitatu, ambazo hazipatikani katika ulimwengu huu. Tuishi katika kiwango cha juu na kuwasalimu walio karibu nasi. Tuishi kwa kiwango cha juu; tusiishi katika kipimo kimoja tu, bali katika vipimo vitatu. Wamarekani na Wazungu husema wana fedha nyingi na wanaishi vizuri, lakini wanaishi katika kipimo kimoja tu, ulimwengu wa mwili. Baada ya kufa, watu hao wataenda kuzimu, au wakimwamini Yesu wataenda paradiso, au wakiishi vizuri wataenda katika ufalme wa kwanza wa mbinguni. Lakini sisi je?

Tukiishi kiroho bila kuutazama ulimwengu huu na bila kuafikiana nao, je, hatuwezi kwenda katika viwango vya juu vya ufalme wa pili na wa tatu wa mbinguni, hata kufika Yerusalemu Mpya? Natumaini sote tutaishi katika kiwango cha juu na kuwa watu wanaoweza kupata kwa uhuru uponyaji, baraka na majibu yanayotokea katika nafasi ya vipimo vitatu. 3. Tumbo la samaki likawa mahali pa baraka palipomrudisha Yona katika hali bora zaidi kuliko hapo awali. Tumbo la samaki alilopitia Yona katika andiko la leo lilikuwa, kama alivyosema, tumbo la kuzimu. Hata hivyo, kutokana na uzoefu huo, Yona aliweza kurudi akiwa amebadilika na kuwa bora zaidi kuliko hapo awali. Mstari wa 10 unasema, “BWANA akamwamuru yule samaki, naye akamtapika Yona nchi kavu.” Mungu hakumwacha Yona aendelee kubaki tumboni mwa samaki, bali alimwamuru amtapike. Baada ya kukaa humo siku tatu, Yona alikuwa amebadilika kabisa na kuwa mtu wa kiroho.

Nguvu za mmeng’enyo wa samaki mkubwa hazikuweza kumeng’enya Yona, kwa hiyo ilimbidi amtapike nchi kavu. Waebrania 11:38 ina maneno, “ambao ulimwengu haukustahili.” Maneno haya yanawahusu watu ambao adui Ibilisi, mtawala wa ulimwengu, aliwajaribu kwa mateso na maumivu yasiyowazika ili waikane imani yao; lakini hawakuiacha imani wala upendo wao kwa Mungu hadi mwisho, wakashinda. Yona aliweza kutoka akiwa hai kwa sababu tumbo la samaki halikuweza kumvumilia; akawa mtu bora zaidi na akatimiza kwa mafanikio utume wake kama nabii wa Mungu. Ayubu naye alijaribiwa sana na adui Ibilisi. Mwili wake wote ulijaa vidonda, watoto wake wote wakafa mara moja nyumba ilipoanguka, na marafiki zake wakaja kumkosoa na kumkemea bila sababu badala ya kumfariji. Hatimaye aliondoa uovu moyoni mwake na kumtegemea Mungu, akawa mtu ambaye majaribu na maumivu hayangeweza kumshinda. Kwa kuwa Ibilisi na ugonjwa hawakuweza kumshinda, alirudishwa katika hali bora na kupokea baraka maradufu.

Ruthu katika Kitabu cha Ruthu alimpoteza mumewe akiwa mchanga, akawa mwanamke mpweke na asiye na furaha, bila watoto. Hata hivyo, aliendelea kumwamini Mungu na kumtumikia Naomi, mama mkwe wake, hadi mwisho. Akawa mtu ambaye upweke na huzuni havikuweza kumshinda, akabarikiwa kuwa mmoja wa mababu wa Yesu, akiwa mtu bora zaidi kuliko hapo awali. Je, kuna yeyote kati yenu anayepitia shida kama zile za Yona tumboni mwa samaki? Kama Yona alivyofanya humo, tutambue enzi kuu ya Mungu na kuwa watu wanaomfikiria Mungu. Kama Yona, tulilie kwa maombi tukiwa tumboni mwa samaki na tujazwe Roho Mtakatifu. Kama Yona, tujazwe shukrani hata katikati ya jaribu. Natumaini mtakuwa watu ambao tumbo la samaki haliwezi kuwashinda, ambao ulimwengu hauwezi kuwashinda, ambao majaribu na maumivu hayawezi kuwashinda, na ambao adui Ibilisi hawezi kuwashinda; mrudi katika nafasi ya baraka iliyo bora zaidi kuliko ya awali. Mungu alipompeleka Yona katika tumbo la kuzimu, hakufanya hivyo kwa sababu alitaka kumuua.

Kwa kuwa tumbo la samaki halikuweza kumuua Yona, shida hiyo kali kwa kweli ilimfanya awe na nguvu zaidi. Tukishinda majaribu na mafunzo yanayotujia, tutaimarika kupitia majaribu na mateso. Mtume Paulo, aliyeshinda majaribu na kusafishwa mara nyingi, aliwaandikia waumini waliokuwa wakiteseka katika kanisa la Korintho katika 2 Wakorintho 4:8–10: “Pande zote twadhikika, bali hatusongwi; twaona shaka, bali hatukati tamaa; twaudhiwa, bali hatuachwi; twatupwa chini, bali hatuangamizwi; sikuzote tukichukua katika mwili kuuawa kwake Yesu, ili uzima wa Yesu nao udhihirishwe katika miili yetu.” Nani anayekutesa? Nani anajaribu kukuangusha? Nani anakushusha chini? Je, unasumbuliwa kutoka pande zote sasa hivi? Kumbuka: nisipokata tamaa, sitaachwa; nisipojiangusha mwenyewe, sitaangamizwa; nisipojikata moyo, hakuna atakayekata moyo wangu; hata nikisukumwa kutoka pande zote, nisipojiangusha mwenyewe sitaanguka.

Badala ya kukata tamaa au kuanguka, unaweza kusimama tena ukiwa na nguvu zaidi kuliko awali. Zaburi 119:71 inasema, “Ilikuwa vema kwangu kuwa naliteswa, nipate kujifunza amri zako.” Ndugu zake Yusufu walijaribu kumwangusha kwa kumuuza utumwani, na mke wa mkuu wa jeshi Potifa akamzushia mashtaka na kujaribu kumwangamiza; lakini badala ya kuanguka, Yusufu akawa waziri mkuu wa Misri na akawa imara zaidi. Tukiwa katika nguvu za Kristo, kila jambo linaweza kutuimarisha. Hitimisho. Yona wa andiko alipata msiba mkubwa ambao asingeweza kuusahau, “tumbo la samaki, tumbo la kuzimu lenye kutisha.”

Kama ingekuwa kama kwa watu wengine wa ulimwengu, tukio hili lingeweza kuwa msongo wa mawazo na kiwewe cha maisha yote: Yona angeweza kutetemeka kila alipoona maji, ashindwe kulala kwa sababu ya ndoto za kutisha, na asiweze kuishi maisha ya kawaida kwa sababu ya hofu na wasiwasi. Hata hivyo, ingawa Yona alipitia mateso makubwa tumboni mwa samaki, kwanza, hali hiyo ikawa mahali pa kuacha tabia ya kusikiliza Neno la Mungu kijuujuu na kulipuuza, kumtafuta Mungu tena kwa dhati na kulitii kabisa Neno lake.

Pili, tumbo la samaki likawa mahali pa kupata uzoefu wa nafasi ya roho.

Tatu, tumbo la samaki likawa mahali pa baraka palipomrudisha Yona katika hali bora zaidi kuliko ya awali. Ndugu wapendwa katika Kristo, hata kama mko katika hali inayofanana na tumbo la samaki la Yona, msipuuze Neno la Mungu; msikilizeni kwa dhati na mpate uzoefu wa nafasi ya roho. Ninaomba katika jina la Bwana kwamba muingie katika nafasi ya baraka iliyo bora zaidi kuliko hapo awali. - MWISHO

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