Are you cutting off the wrong head: Speak the name of the Lord!

Cutting off the Lord as head is so ironic isn't it?? Whenever a snake attacked my yard as a little girl, my mother would go after the slimy serpent! In particular was her aim at the reptile's head!! Yes, that's right, she cut off the head of the snake!! That's right friends, "Stick that sword into that snake"! The devil is so good at flip flopping the truth on us isn't he? How sad that we actually listen! We are afraid of God, because we don't fear him as good! We are mad at God, because we blame him! We are playing God, because we don't believe that He lives! In each instance, we are not afraid of Satan!! We are not blaming Satan! We are however, cutting off the Head and Lordship of our God, the only God, while leaving the serpent to slither into our minds and live! 

Let's look at Jonah! It's windy today and I began to think of the sea, the unpredictable ocean!

Jonah 1:6-12 reads, 

6 The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep?  ( notice that Jonah was sleeping well in his poor choice) emphasis mine. Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”

7 Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.” They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah. 8 So they asked him, “Tell us, who is responsible for making all this trouble for us? What kind of work do you do? Where do you come from? What is your country? From what people are you?”(notice the questions, those thought provoking questions that beg the question, "have you forgotten who you are and who is your God) emphasis mine.

9 He answered, “I am a Hebrew and I worship the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”

10 This terrified them and they asked, “What have you done?” (They knew he was running away from the Lord, because he had already told them so.)

11 The sea was getting rougher and rougher. So they asked him, “What should we do to you to make the sea calm down for us?”

12 “Pick me up and throw me into the sea,” he replied, “and it will become calm. I know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you.”

Sometimes we need to wake up and call God, "God" and let the rest be liars, don't we?? Out loud with me and Jonah, "I worship the Lord, the God of Heaven, who made the sea and the dry land." Jonah 1:9

We become so deceived don't we?? We know about God, and perhaps even have known Him personally, but then we forget who He is, that He is good and that He alone saves! How do we wake up!! Speak the truth over your situation, you know? Whichever situation has persuaded you to choose another way other than God's way is in need of the truth talk!! "I worship the Lord, the God of Heaven, who made ________insert your storm (not because God made your problem, but because only He can calm it down)!! All Jonah needed to do was say it, My God is just bigger than all of this!! When we forget the Lord's way, His  truth is all we have to say: We must speak His name!! 

Let Jesus speak peace to your situation and watch the wind die down!! Listen to the following gospel song and let today be a day that you give the Lord Headship once again!