Free - 3 Day Stay in Giant Whale - a podcast by Ben

Imagine you were searching for an air BnB or hotel and you came across an Ad that said

“Exclusive 3 days, 3 night stay Inside of a Whale.”

So you scroll down to see what unfathomable description could follow a title like that.

“Hey everyone, I have an extremely rare opportunity for you to spend your weekend getaway inside the belly of a giant fish! Comes equipped with a completely cushioned living room and sleeping area. There is a complimentary breakfast in bed consisting of half-eaten, locally grown fish! This is seriously a once in a lifetime experience! Please note: We are not responsible for any skin bleaching, or permanent mental scarring.”

I mean honestly at first glance I would be super intrigued!

The Ad did say it was a once in a lifetime opportunity...

But realistically, could you truly imagine being swallowed by a whale and then living to tell the tale?

Our friend in the bible Jonah sure did!

If you unfamiliar with this story then here's the recap,

God asked Jonah to go to a large hub of a city and proclaim to the people there that they need to repent for their ways are evil. Instead, Jonah got really scared of God, travelled the opposite direction of the city and jumped onto a ship!

While on the ship God hurled a bunch of wind towards the ship causing the crew to panic and throw Jonah overboard because they found out he was the problem. God then scooped up Jonah in a whale!

Jonah then from prayed to the Lord from within the giant fish with a renewed heart and so the whale then upchucked Jonah back onto the shore. Jonah then went to the city he was supposed to and proclaimed God's message and the people there listened to his message!

How does this apply to our lives today?

Well...

Now I don’t know about you but we have had our fair share of Jonah moments in our lives….

Thankfully, not literally, but figuratively…

Moments where we know God is calling us to do one thing and we are scared so we do another…

Even on our Journey in creating this business to help others achieve their successful lifestyle,

We knew we needed to make the Lord our foundation…

We knew that the only true way for us to find success in our lives and in our business we needed to surrender to God...

It’s easy to write on paper, but it takes courage to actually be open about that…

Shamefully just like Jonah we failed at doing that so many times, we tried to find ways around it…

We thought “I know Gods telling us this, but… I think we will just do our own thing over here because it's less intimidating.”

Inevitably we ended up getting swallowed up by a “Whale” ...

We spent thousands of dollars trying different eating plans, different exercise regimes…

We started and ended so many businesses, programs, courses…

We spiralled into a dark place of unhealthiness, of doubt, of darkness…

But then we tried something, we started praying and remembering just how amazing our God is…

We stopped focussing on the fear of what God wanted us to do and instead started to surrender to him instead…

Do you know what he did?

He brought us back to shore, he made our whale get rid of us…

We are here today to proclaim the amazing news of our God!

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