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Prayer Life Gone Bad
The Comiss Fish
Prayer Part I:
God saves us, but we don’t realize what we need to be saved from!
God
He is saved from drowning, but he’s still stuck in a pickle!
Happiest in the Fish
Need for Total Healing
saves us from a problem but then stuck in sin.
Thank you for saving me… But he’s not saved yet!
Still a lot of saving to go.
Ongoing sanctification.
Criticizes those whom God used to save him
Caution in
God is the God of Salvation, as long as it’s Israel
Prayer Life Gone Bad
Thankful for the Wrong things?
Introduction:
Introduction:
Prayer Life Gone Bad
Jonah is a prophet, he seems to say some good things in this prayer, but I’m going to just suggest to you at the beginning that this prayer is filled with:
backhanded compliments,
selfish and self-righteous pros.
“Your kids are so beautiful, your husband must be really good looking.”
“Your kids are so beautiful, your husband must be really good looking.”
“Your kids are so beautiful, your husband must be really good looking.”
“I hate to exaggerate, but I must say, you look fairly presentable.”
Context:
Jonah- more than a reluctant prophet.
Seems to be everything God wouldn’t want in a prophet.
Scene 1: God calls him to Nineveh, but he leaves to Tarshish (Show map)
Scene #2: He sleeps during a storm God hurls at the boat and is eventually tossed over the side.
Foreigners fight for his life while Jonah tries to preserve it, but at the end of the day Jonah knows what’s going on and is tossed overboard.
Chapter 1 ends with the Foreign sailers worshipping God and giving their lives over to the one true God.
Remarkable instance of foreign conversion…
And then Jonah drowns… OR DOES HE?
Dramatic turn of event, a whale swoops in and gobbles him up like the Millenium Falcon swoops into to save Luke from flying into outer space in the Empire Strikes Back.
There’s hope!
READ PRAYER
1. Prayer Pronouns Matter
I prayed and you answered me
2. Self-Centered Prayer
‘I’, ‘me’, or ‘mine’ is used 26 times in 8 verses.
Pronouns teach us something about the nature of the prayer
Pronouns teach us something about the nature of the prayer
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
Lord’s Prayer:
Those who are part and parcel of your plan (those who saved me), please withhold hope in your love.
Hallowed be thy name!
Your kingdom come.
Paint picture of Sailers worshipping the LORD!
Offering sacrifice and made a confession of faith right there on the boat!
Your will be done.
Jesus teaches us how to pray this way for a reason:
Keep prayers Theocentric or Christocentric: Big words that keeps our focus on God.
You don’t know how the Lord works in other people!
You don’t know how the Lord will show His sovereignty will work for you!
Give Jonah a little credit!
He’s in a whale, so perhaps we don’t need to be too critical of his prayer yet?
How orthodox would your prayers be if you were squished between two massive gills?
2. Prayer Verbs Matter
Vs. 3: Look what you did to me!
You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, flood surrounded me.
Your waves and Your billows.
Jonah’s like: Your ocean and all it’s wildness, you sent me down, your waves pummeled me.
Your billows blew me down!
Vs. 2, 4: Look what I’ve been doing: Not just about pronouns, it’s about the verbs too!
Into the heart of the seas
I called out
I called out
I cried
I cried
I am driven away
I shall again look upon your holy temple
Vs. 5-6
Doubles down at how he’s doing.
Vs. 7: When I was fainting away, I remembered the Lord.
My prayer came to you into your holy temple.”
Though the Lord commissioned the fish, Jonah takes credit for it!
I called out!
I looked to you!
I remembered you!
Remember grace!
Take time in your prayer thanking the Lord for your position and God’s grace!
We are sinners, in need of grace.
Who am I? Who are you?
Humbly approach the throne of grace.
3. Avoid Holy Roller Prayers
3. Holy Roller Prayers Stink
One of the greatest ironies in the prayer are verse 8-9
Verse 8: Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.
Those who are part and parcel of your plan (those who saved me), please withhold hope in your love.
Those who are part and parcel of your plan (those who saved me), please withhold hope in your love.
Paint picture of Sailers worshipping the LORD!
Offering sacrifice and made a confession of faith right there on the boat!
You don’t know how the Lord works in other people!
You don’t know how the Lord will show His sovereignty will work for you!
Paint picture of Sailers worshipping the LORD!
4. Saving vs. Resurrection
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