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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ever find yourself drowning in circumstances beyond your control? |
| 0:10.0 | We all do. |
| 0:12.0 | And it may be that God is attempting to get our attention. |
| 0:15.0 | Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall recounts an awkward moment in Jonah's life. |
| 0:20.0 | Out on the stormy sea with pagan sailors aboard, Jonah became resigned to defeat. |
| 0:25.6 | His response to a life-threatening crisis was shocking. |
| 0:29.6 | Even after his rescue, Jonah seemed to yawn at God's miraculous intervention. |
| 0:34.6 | So what are the lessons for us today? |
| 0:36.6 | From his biographical series on Jonah, |
| 0:39.9 | the reluctant prophet, Chuck titled his message, prayers on board, prophet overboard. |
| 0:49.3 | One of the beautiful things about true Christianity is spontaneity. |
| 1:00.2 | God loves it when we are simply who we are. |
| 1:08.2 | We call it being real, sometimes it's referred to as authentic, but it's a learned trait. |
| 1:21.2 | Because so many who, if I may use these words, are church people all their lives, |
| 1:30.5 | learn to have a church kind of front |
| 1:34.8 | that they put on. |
| 1:38.8 | And I don't know that there's anything |
| 1:41.9 | that so displeases the Lord more than being something |
| 1:47.1 | we're not. |
| 1:50.2 | I encourage you in your week and before us to simply be who you are who you are. |
| 2:00.0 | Take the time to listen better. |
| 2:04.3 | Walk just a little bit slower. |
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