Why You Should Not End Like Jonah – Bro Gbile

Peace House team lead, Bro Gbile Akanni has challenged Christians everywhere to ensure that they put a positive end to the testimony they live on earth.

He spoke against the uncertainty and question that ended the career of one of the world’s greatest revivalists ever, Prophet Jonah Amittai.

Giving the closing charge at the end of the 2024 Ministers Leadership Retreat, MLR on Sunday night, Bro Gbile Akanni charged his audience to pursue the harvest of souls with surefootedness and not the dithering procrastination that envelopes many believers.

GWG.ng reports that Bro Gbile Akanni spoke to an audience of MLR attendees spread across centres in cities spread across  Africa, the Americas and Europe.

The theme of the four day gathering of disciples was ‘Put In The Sickle: The Harvest Has Come.’

Speaking against the background of the stalling that grips many in the valley of decision, Bro Gbile Akanni referenced the two brothers illustrated by Jesus one of whom said he would go forth to do the father’s will but never did and the other who initially refused but went on to do the will of the father.

He thus charged the brethren to leave the valley of procrastination or fake promises and to put in the sickle to harvest the souls that have been made ready.

“It is not the promise of ‘I will go’ that we will celebrate. Anything else from prompt obedience of going does not satisfy the demand of putting in the sickle,” the cleric said against the background of many who come out for altar calls but subsequently relent.

“There are many people we see who have been responding to Altar calls for 30 years but have not gone,” Bro Gbile Akanni said.

“We will not celebrate empty promise of ‘O Lord I will go, O Lord I will go,’ but in another one month has not gone.”

The bible teacher was quick to emphasise that going was not dependent on anyone preparing himself with theological or academic swag. According to him if God has directed anyone to go what was expected of him was to simply go as he observed that some who had gone even without the skill of preaching were able to do wonders.

Bro Gbile Akanni cited the example of the woman of Samaria who had married six husbands and yet living with another man at the time she met Jesus who was able to instigate a religious revolution in the city simply with her testimony of the Man who told her all she ever did!

Referencing Mark 16:20 “And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen,” Bro Gbile Akanni observed that it is those who went forth that the Lord worked with and confirmed the word they spoke. God confirmed His word on them simply because they went.

GWG.ng reports that as Bro Gbile Akanni navigated towards the conclusion of the message, he turned a focus on Jonah who was asked by God to go to save Nineveh, one of the greatest cities at that time with his message of repentance.

Noting the grace that came the way of Jonah in that he had the benefit of receiving the word of God directly and the action words in the mandate in Jonah 1:2, he, however, regretted that the prophet turned back on the mandate. He observed that instead of going to save Nineveh, that Jonah fled the other way culminating in the turbulence in the sea that forced the mariners to throw him into the

Despite his obstinacy, Bro Gbile Akanni observed that grace still found Jonah who was ferried by a fish to the sea shore.

Hesitantly, the cleric observed that Jonah went to Nineveh and preached the message of repentance leading to a massive revival that he claimed even involved animals who fasted in repentance.

Bro Gbile Akanni, however, observed that it appeared that Jonah was not pleased with the repentance given his assertion in Jonah 4:1. The anger of Jonah led to the response and question of God to him at the ending of the book.

GWG.ng reports that Bro Gbile Akanni ended his charge by contrasting the question at the end of the book of Jonah with the positive declaration and Amen that ended the book of Mark after the disciples went out doing the will of God.

He thus charged his audience to ensure that their lives ended on a positive note and not with the hanging question as seen at the end of Jonah.

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