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05/31/2026

MEMORIZE THE WEEKLY VERSE

“The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭145‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.145.8.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597

05/30/2026

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. Jonah is not happy about the way the people responded. Why do you think Jonah is unhappy about the people repenting and turning to the Lord?

2. How do we sometimes act like Jonah in Chapter 4?

3. What lesson is Jonah supposed to learn from the plant (Jonah 4:5-11)? What can we learn about compassion from these verses?

4. Jesus died for us while we were still sinners. What attitude should we have towards unbelievers?

5. List the ways in which God is exceedingly gracious to sinners. How has He been gracious to you?

📖 “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭145‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.145.8.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597

05/29/2026

God is good to all

What a journey! Have you enjoyed these four weeks in the book of Jonah? Now that we have studied it in depth, I bet you already know that this book is not about a great fish, a repentant city, or even a disobedient prophet. This book is about God, His will, and how we respond to it.

We end this study having learned beautiful lessons about God´s character:

He is slow to anger.

His love endures forever.

He is all mercy and grace.

He doesn´t want anybody to perish.

He is patient.

He loves everybody.

And so much more!

In Psalm 145, David remembers the description of Yahweh in Exodus 34: “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth (Exodus 34:6).” He is good to all, not to Israel only, but to all mankind, whose hearts he fills with gladness

The God who created us shows mercy to His creation, to those who think they deserve it and to those who don´t. And because of His grace, He has brought salvation to all people. You don’t go out and get salvation; it comes to you and you can choose to receive it. All find salvation only by the grace of God.

How can you relate to Jonah and God´s treatment toward him? How can you live a life that displays, without a doubt, God´s grace and mercy toward you? How can you make a difference by pointing others to Jesus and the salvation they can find in Him?

Dear God, my heart is full of all what I´ve learned from You and Your love for me. Help me remember to live in a way that honors You and to obey Your commands always. Amen.

📖 “The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The Lord is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭145‬:‭8‬-‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.145.8-9.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597

05/28/2026

God is more concerned about mercy than wrath

We reach the end of Jonah´s story with today´s verses. In chapter 1, the prophet learned that you can’t run away from God. In chapter 2, he learned that God forgives those who call upon Him. In chapter 3, he saw a whole city humble itself before the Lord, repent and receive mercy. Now he learns that God has compassion for lost sinners like the Ninevites, and like himself.

Jonah had pity on the plant God had provided when it perished, but he didn´t have compassion for the people who would perish and live eternally apart from God. The book of Jonah reminds us that God is the God of all humanity, that Jesus died for every people in every nation.

I wish we had some more verses in the book of Jonah to see how the prophet responded to this final lesson. Did he repent? Did he understand that God loves and extends grace and mercy to everybody? Spurgeon said, “Let us hope that, during the rest of his life, he so lived as to rejoice in the sparing mercy of God.”

That´s my prayer for you too, that you can live as to rejoice in the sparing mercy of God as long as you live. That you can live according to God´s compassion, showing mercy and loving well - even the people who have hurt you or mistreated you. What has the book of Jonah taught you? What valuable lessons have you learned in these weeks?

Dear God, thank You for loving me while I was still weak. Thank You for showing Your love for me while I was still a sinner. It´s only because of Your love that I am free from condemnation. It´s only because of Your mercy that I have eternal life. I thank You from the bottom of my heart. Amen.

📖 “And the Lord said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?””
‭‭Jonah‬ ‭4‬:‭10‬-‭11‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jon.4.10-11.ESV

📖 “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭6‬-‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/rom.5.6-9.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597

05/27/2026

God is compassionate to us

I love how God shows what longsuffering is like when He deals with Jonah and his anger. Instead of lecturing him, He prepares an object lesson to help the prophet understand what has happened.

For the second time, Jonah abandoned his place of ministry and questioned God´s will. He could have taught the Ninevites so much about the true God of Israel but he preferred to have his own way. He missed his blessings!

Here we have our Jonah out of the city, only to see if the repentance of the people of Nineveh wasn´t enough to avoid destruction. He was waiting for something to happen. And while he was there, in the sun, God prepared a plant to shelter Jonah as he waited, hoping that the city would be destroyed.

Jonah was “a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8 NKJV). “One minute he’s preaching God’s Word, but the next minute he’s disobeying it and fleeing his post of duty. While inside the great fish, he prayed to be delivered, but now he asks the Lord to kill him. He called the city to repentance, but he wouldn’t repent himself! He was more concerned about creature comforts than he was about winning the lost.” - Wiersbe, Warren Be Amazed.

Have you ever wondered what makes you happy? What makes you angry? Do you feel good when God makes good things for you and only you? Jonah´s problem was trying to do things his way instead of following God´s will. When we ignore God´s will, we can never be happy.

Father, help me remember that You don´t deal with me according to my sins and You don´t repay me according to my iniquities. Even when I want to do life apart from You, You always find a loving and compassionate way of bringing me back. I praise You for Your mercy. Amen.

📖 “Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. Now the Lord God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant. But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered. When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.” But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.””
‭‭Jonah‬ ‭4‬:‭5‬-‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jon.4.5-9.ESV

📖 “Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭116‬:‭5‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/psa.116.5.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597

05/26/2026

God holds the right to be angry, not us

Yesterday, we saw a very angry Jonah. He was angry to see the people of Nineveh receive God´s mercy – something that had been extended not only to the people of Nineveh, but also to Jonah.

I imagine God, in the most loving way, asking Jonah, “Oh, Jonah, really? Do you get angry because I´m doing with the Ninevites the same that I did and still do for you? Do you really think you do well to be angry? It´s me who should be upset!”

Do you do well to be angry? This Scripture comes to my mind often when I listen to myself speaking in a loud, harsh voice. Or when I overreact to something that is not done to my expectations.

God is the only one who holds the right to be angry. He is the one who sees all my failures, my sins, my transgressions. And still, He decides to love me. But I think I have the right to be mad at others when they do things wrong or when they don´t meet my standards.

Romans 3:23 states that all of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All of us. And still He forgives us every single day. Have you paid attention to God´s mercy lately? Have you seen the many ways He is gracious to you? Let’s start extending grace to others, too.

Heavenly Father, help me always do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with You. I don´t want to be judgmental or angry toward others when things don´t go as I´ve envisioned them. Help me show Your love and mercy to the people You’ve placed in my life. Amen.

📖 “And the Lord said, “Do you do well to be angry?””
‭‭Jonah‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jon.4.4.ESV

📖 “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
‭‭Micah‬ ‭6‬:‭8‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/mic.6.8.ESV

05/26/2026

God is gracious to us

Normally a preacher is pleased when the people he is preaching to repent, but Jonah wasn´t. He was displeased with the repentance of the people of Nineveh and got angry for God´s mercy toward them. Think about it for a minute. He was not only displeased, he was angry!

Then, he starts arguing with God and justifying his previous actions – “You see? That´s why I didn´t want to obey You, because I knew Your love is big and You are merciful!”

The repentance and salvation of the people of Nineveh was so painful to Jonah that he would rather die than think about it; this was the reason he fled the call - not out of fear that he would be ineffective, but fear that he would be effective!

But Jonah himself called on the mercy of God and enjoyed the mercy of God when it was extended to him. Now he resents it when it is extended to others. What if God treated Jonah the way Jonah wanted God to treat the Ninevites?

Does it happen to you, too? Do you cry mercy for yourself but deny it to others? Do you get angry when good things happen to people who, according to you, don´t deserve it? Let´s replicate God´s mercy and love in every occasion and confess our sin of judging others if we struggle with that.

Dear God, thank You for Your love and mercy. I thank You for the opportunities You give me to repent from my sin. Remind me that You are the only Judge and that I´m not called to judge others. Help me love and offer mercy like You do. Amen.

📖 “But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.””
‭‭Jonah‬ ‭4‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/jon.4.1-3.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597

Regardless if we are an outsider, like the people of Nineveh, or an insider, like Jonah, to the Kingdom of God, the book of Jonah is a reminder that God goes to great lengths to demonstrate His grace and mercy to all. Be encouraged as you read this powerful story of God’s relentless grace and merc...

05/25/2026

Today we pause to honor and remember the brave men and women who gave everything for our freedom. 🇺🇸

Their sacrifice reminds us that true love is often shown through service, courage, and selflessness. As we gather with family and friends this Memorial Day, may we also take time to reflect, give thanks, and pray for the families carrying the legacy of those who never came home.

“Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” — John 15:13

From all of us at His House Foundation, we remember with grateful hearts. ❤️🤍💙

05/25/2026

MEMORIZE THE WEEKLY VERSE

“Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭28‬:‭13‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/pro.28.13.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597

05/23/2026

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. God´s love never ceases. His mercy never comes to an end. In which areas of your life do you need to feel His love and mercy?

2. Think about all the people around you who don´t know Jesus. Pray for their repentance and think of ways to share Jesus with them.

3. What sins do you need to confess in order to obtain God´s mercy?

4. How does God respond to Nineveh’s repentance?

5. Why did God send His Son into the world?

📖 “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭28‬:‭13‬ ‭ESV‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/59/pro.28.13.ESV

Love God Greatly - Jonah
https://www.bible.com/en/reading-plans/12597