Running Back to God

Jonah 1:17 – 2:10

The book of Jonah is far more than a of a story.

And the Lord designated a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish for three days and three nights.
Jonah 1:17

The book is about !

The author makes it clear that a way of .

All the study we might do about the great fish brings us back to where we began – “God Jonah”.

We either take Jonah’s story as or .

We need to make sure God’s of Jonah does not become .

The survival of Jonah after he was overboard is .

We need to accept our belief that occur because God grants us .

We need to interpret Jonah 1:17 with our emphasis being on the .

We need to resist the involved in thinking we can preserve God’s or the of the Bible.

God saved Jonah so Ninevah could be saved from in .

Running to God in prayer!

Jonah had tried to away – now he toward God.

Jonah 2:1-9 is a that describes his prayer.

This prayer / psalm expresses Jonah’s of God’s omnipresence and His to all people.

This prayer shows us:

1^st how to pray in the midst of brought on by ourselves!

2^nd how to the Lord for calling us in our disobedience.

For You threw me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current flowed around me. All Your breakers and waves passed over me.
Jonah 2:3

Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?
Amos 3:3

God is not in the business – He is about .

So I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’
Jonah 2:4