Today I have a question for you. Have you ever felt like you were the wrong person for the job?

Like what did you get yourself into? You didn't have the right experience or the right skill set?

Well, I know I have, and you probably have too. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick

Warren. Okay, today we're going to continue with the series, The Manifestation of Your Life

Mission. Rick is showing us that no matter how big the thing is that God is calling us to do,

we don't have to run away from it. We can actually run toward it. This is such a

good message, and I hope you'll invite a friend to listen along with you as we discover how to

embrace God's calling on our lives and how we can live according to the purpose and plan

that he has for us. Now, let's hear what Rick has to say today in part one of a message called

What to Do When It Feels Hopeless. Now in the first session, I told you that there are three

ways we learn. We learned by experience. We learned by explanation and we learned by example.

Without a doubt, the easiest way to learn is by example.

Then you don't have to make all the mistakes yourself.

You can learn from successful examples.

You can actually learn for failures.

You can learn from good examples and you can learn from bad examples.

We're going to take the book of Jonah and learn from a bad example, who later turned

around and actually eventually got it right, of a guy who was given a mission from God,

and he went the other way.

God said, go.

Jonah said no, and God said, oh.

And that's the whole story of Jonah

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