# 232 - Jonah & The Beast P. 1 - In this episode of The Chosen People, Jonah runs hard from God’s call to show mercy to Nineveh—straight into a storm, a casting of lots, and the belly of a great fish, where rebellion finally turns into prayer. This episode dives into Jonah 1–2 to show how the “belly of the beast” becomes a womb of grace, where teshuvah (return) begins and salvation belongs to the Lord.
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Episode 232 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Proverbs 3:31-32, Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways. For the Lord detests the perverse, but takes the upright into his confidence.
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# 231 - Jehu: The Butcher King - In this episode of The Chosen People, Jehu returns in 2 Kings 10 with blazing zeal—toppling Baal yet leaving the golden calves—forcing us to ask whether our “justice” looks anything like God’s. This episode wrestles with zeal without surrender, and why true reform must be aligned with mercy, humility, and obedience.
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Episode 231 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Jeremiah 9:24, Let the one who boasts, boast in this: that they have the understanding to know Me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight.
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# 230 - Jehu: The Kingslayer - In this episode of The Chosen People, A prophet’s oil crowns a warrior and unleashes a firestorm: Jehu rides hard into 2 Kings 9, toppling Ahab’s house and forcing us to confront the razor’s edge between divine justice and human vengeance. In this episode, we wrestle with anointing without holiness—and why Jesus’ way of the cross tells a different story.
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Episode 230 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Habakkuk 1:3–4, Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
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# 229 - King Joram & The Boiled Babies - In this episode of The Chosen People, Samaria collapses under siege—famine ravages the city, the king unravels, and despair blames the prophet—until Elisha declares a shocking promise of overnight deliverance. This episode wrestles with judgment and mercy, the silence of God, and the unexpected ways He saves when hope seems impossible.
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Episode 229 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Hosea 4:10, They will eat, but not have their fill; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves to prostitution.
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# 228 - Elisha & The Floating Axe - In this episode of The Chosen People, a borrowed axe sinks in the Jordan and an army surrounds the city—but Elisha shows that God cares for both the smallest loss and the greatest threat. This is a story of trust, vision, and the unseen power that lifts what we thought was gone.
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Episode 228 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Job 5:9, He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
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# 227 - Naaman the Leper - In this episode of The Chosen People, Naaman the warrior arrives with gold, power, and pride—only to discover that healing cannot be bought, only received through humble obedience. But when Gehazi grasps for gain, the story turns, reminding us that God’s mercy is never for sale—it is a gift that reshapes the heart.
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Episode 227 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Isaiah 2:11, The haughty eyes of man will be humbled, and the lofty pride of men brought low; and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
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# 226 - Elisha & The Shunammite - In this episode of The Chosen People, an unnamed woman from Shunem makes a simple room for Elisha—and finds herself face to face with God’s power to give life where hope had died. Her story reminds us that sometimes the greatest miracles begin in the quiet spaces of ordinary faith.
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Episode 226 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Psalm 113:9, He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!
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# 225 - Elijah: The Chariot of Fire - In this episode of The Chosen People, Elisha walks the road of grief and inheritance as his mentor is carried into heaven by a whirlwind of flame. Left with nothing but a mantle and a promise, he learns that God’s power rests not on greatness, but on faithfulness—and even in silence, the river still parts.
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Episode 225 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Isaiah 40:29, He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
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# 224 - Elijah: Fire From Heaven - In this episode of The Chosen People, When King Ahaziah falls and faces death, he seeks answers from a false god instead of the living God. In 2 Kings 1, Elijah delivers a fiery warning that exposes the danger of misplaced trust and the mercy hidden even in judgment.
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Episode 224 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Psalm 115:4–5,8, "Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them."
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# 223 - Elijah: Ahab & The Dogs - In this episode of The Chosen People, King Ahab’s thirst for false prophecy leads him to the battlefield where God’s word proves unshakable. In this episode on 1 Kings 22, Elijah’s warning echoes as deception, pride, and judgment collide—reminding us that silencing the truth never spares us from it.
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Episode 223 of The Chosen People is inspired by the Book of Joshua.Today's opening prayer is inspired by Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter."
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