Do you ever feel like you've blown it so badly that God couldn't possibly use you?

Maybe, just maybe, he's preparing you for something great.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall shares the stunning story of history's most reluctant preacher.

Jonah delivered a five-word sermon to his worst enemies and witnessed the impossible.

An entire city known for violence and brutality experienced complete transformation overnight.

This biblical account reveals how your failures,

fears, and flaws might be exactly what God wants to use. Teaching from Jonah chapter

3, Chuck titled today's message, Proclamation, Transformation, Compassion. You observe that Jonah didn't hold back when he declared his extremely confrontive message

to a city that was known for violence.

He doesn't mince words.

Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed.

Any messenger who delivers this kind of bold message

has no concern for winning a lot of friends and being liked by his

audience. He doesn't tell them what they want to hear. He tells them what they must hear,

what they need to hear. It occurred to me that what we want from a trusted

physician is the truth. Hard as it may be to hear if it's cancer, we want the person to tell us

we have cancer.

Not to do so is malpractice.

If we're having an attorney, give us advice, we want advice that is legal,

trustworthy, not something that sounds good to our ears.

We trust professionals to tell us the truth.

Now we're about to witness the single most significant revival

...