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Live Free with Josh Howerton

Prayers from the Depths | Ep. 188 | Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

What do your prayers sound like when you feel like you are in the depths? Jonah cried out to God from the belly of the fish because he knew that salvation belonged only to the Lord. Listen in today to learn how to write your own prayer thanking God for how He has rescued you. For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

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Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

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When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

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For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

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For more digital content to

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feed your faith, visit lakepoint.church slash daily drive. And now let's dive in to today's

0:29.0

devotional. Hey, thanks for tuning in to the Daily Drive. My name is Bro, and we have been doing some

0:34.0

binge watching of a reality series. It involves this guy named Jonah as the

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principal character, and we've already seen him board a boat and try to run from God, and God runs

0:44.2

after him. He does that with all of us. Well, Jonah eventually gets thrown into the sea, and as he is

0:50.4

drowning, God supernaturally rescues him. We read yesterday that Jonah was inside the fish

0:57.6

for three days. The common Jewish measurement of time means part of one day, a full day, and then a part of

1:02.8

another day. But while he is there, he has some time to think and pray. And he writes this really cool

1:09.3

song of gratitude. It's kind of what I would call a rescue

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psalm. It says this in Jonah chapter 2. This is Jonah writing. I cried out to the Lord in my great

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trouble and he answered me. I called to you from the land of the dead and Lord, you heard me. You threw me

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into the ocean depths and as I sank to the heart of the sea,

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the mighty waters engulfed me, I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves. I sank beneath

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the waves and the waters closed over me. Seaweed wrapped itself around my head. I sank down to the

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very roots of the mountains. I was imprisoned in the earth whose gates locked shut forever.

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But you, O Lord, my God, you snatched me from the jaws of death.

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My salvation comes from the Lord alone.

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Man, how many of us could write something like that from our own life experience?

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