When I apply this message to my family

and to Victory Presbyterian Church, which I serve ...

The amazing work of God is seen in how He led the disobedient prophet Jonah to pray from within the belly of a great fish.  When the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, God enabled him to obey.  Jonah proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown,” and the people of Nineveh believed God.  They fasted, even forbidding their livestock from drinking water.  Ultimately, from the king of Nineveh down to every person, they turned from their wicked ways and sincerely repented (Jonah 3).  When I apply this passage to my family and to Victory Presbyterian Church, which I serve, I deeply desire to experience God’s incredible work of repentance in my life first as the head of my household and as the pastor of the Lord’s church, Victory Presbyterian Church.  I pray that I may continually receive and hear God’s Word, which is the sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17) and like a hammer and fire (Jeremiah 23:29).  Through the powerful work of the indwelling Holy Spirit, I long to be continually convicted in my conscience (see 1 Samuel 24:5; 2 Samuel 24:10; Acts 2:37), to have my hardened heart broken, and my cold heart melted.  As a result, I hope to sincerely repent of my sins and lead my family and church to continually turn away from all sin.