Whether it's a broken relationship, a financial crisis, or perhaps a dire medical condition,

no one is exempt from unexpected storms.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindal explains how God's most remarkable rescues arrive

in the most surprising ways.

He's teaching from Jonah Chapter 1, telling the story of Jonah's plunge into the high seas.

Who would imagine that Jonah's rescue would come through a great fish?

Whatever storm you're enduring right now, don't dismiss the possibility of a surprise

rescue. God specializes in divine interventions that no human could orchestrate. And we begin with prayer.

Our Father, we have spent so many of our days

learning not to be who we are,

learning how to put up a front,

learning how to play a role,

learning how to appear something or someone other than ourselves. Enable us to stop this bad habit.

To come to terms with the truth, even the truth, that we need you.

And we cannot make it on our own, just as the sailors couldn't get that ship to the

shore on their own.

We can't make it from earth to heaven by ourselves.

We need help from above, help that has been provided.

And so we are not surprised that when you tell us to come to you, you tell us to come just as we are.

Without one plea, but simply remembering that your blood has made the way possible.

Thank you in advance, Father, for those who this very day

will acknowledge their need for you

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