I Could Not Sleep Until I Wrote Of My Experiences Yesterday

I went to bed and I could not fall asleep. Holy Spirit was prompting me to write about yesterday. So it is now 2:35 AM and I find myself up and writing. Of course I asked Him for a scripture verse. I then read Jonah 3: 2. This is at the point in Jonah's life when he went through what he had to go through to finally say OK I will go to Nineveh. At the start of the verse it says "Jonah immediately went to Nineveh as the Lord told him. At the end of the very same verse you see him prophesying "In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed."
As I left work yesterday I had a few errands to run. I needed to pick up a few things at the grocery store. I noticed a very large grocery store the other day when heading home from work. Today I was prompted to go into this store. It was huge and very busy with shoppers. The guard was telling someone that they do an incredible amount of business on the weekends. I collected what I needed and I debated between two cheeses, grated Parmesan and a fresh grated Locatelli cheese. As I was in the self-serve checkout line a store manager was walking by. I inquired what I should do with the Parmesan cheese that I did not want. He took it for me and told me that I made the right choice with keeping the other cheese. He then went on to tell me that they have a cheese spread they make daily and it was with Jarlsberg (not sure of the spelling) and horseradish and that I should try it sometime. The next thing I knew there was the manager with a sample for me to try. Wow! You just don't see service like that anymore. I will be back to shop at that store.
After that I needed to go to another store, I was hesitating and then last minute as I was approaching the exit I decided to go to the store. I entered the store and was browsing and really didn't find anything. I tried on a few things and as I was coming out of the dressing room I saw a woman entering it and the next thing I knew I found myself blurting out the words "Are you a Christian?" She looked at me a bit surprised and responded yes. I said to her I just knew she was because she had that look. The the next thing I know I am giving her a word of encouragement. She thanked me and said she needed to hear those words. I said to her to not thank me but thank Holy Spirit because it was His leading. We briefly shared that I was just trying on clothes and didn't really like anything and then she shared with me that she just came into the store to pay her bill and she was drawn to this department. Isn't God awesome?
There was another stop on the way home. This time to the nursing home. I shared all of that to encourage you to follow the prompting of Holy Spirit and He will use you. This is the first time that words just blurted out of my mouth like they did in the dressing room today. A lot of times there is a prompting inside of me and then they come forth. Today, it was as if there was no time to think about it and I found myself just speaking the words. I guess you would call that a holy spirit boldness and zeal that leaped out of me. Praise God. I will never know it but Jonah may have had the same type of experience if he would not have run from what God told him to do in the very beginning. As you read on in the story, in the end he still accomplished what the Lord told him to do from the beginning. After he completed the task you find him grumbling and upset with God. He questions why he had to leave his country to do this task when he already spoke the words of what was going to happen in his own country. He said he knew that God was merciful and compassionate, patient, and always ready to forgive and to reconsider his threats of destruction. God questions his anger. Jonah leaves the city and sat down. He made a shelter for himself and sat and waited to see what would happen to the city. The Lord God made a plant grow up beside Jonah to give him shade and to make him more comfortable. Jonah was happy with the plant. The next morning God sent a worm to attack the plant and it withered. God also made a hot east wind blow and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he was about to faint. God asked Jonah what right he had to be angry over the plant. He replied to God that he had every right to be angry. This is then what the Lord replied in verse 10-11: "The Lord replied, "This plant grew up overnight and died overnight. You didn't plant it or make it grow. Yet, you feel sorry for the plant. Shouldn't I feel sorry for this important city, Nineveh? It has more than 120,000 people in it as well as many animals. These people couldn't tell their right hand from their left."
I think that says a lot. Do not second guess God and why He sends you to do a task somewhere.