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Today I have a question for you. Have you ever felt like you were

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the wrong person for the job,
Like, what did you get yourself into

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You didn't have the right experience or
the right skill set? Well, I

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know I have and you probably have
too. This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,

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the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick
Warren. Okay, today we're going

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to continue with the series the Manifestation
of Your Life mission. Rick is showing

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us that no matter how big the
thing is that God is calling us to

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do, we don't have to run
away from it. We can actually run

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toward it. This is such a
good message, and I hope you'll invite

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a friend to listen along with you
as we discover how to embrace God's calling

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on our lives and how we can
live according to the purpose and plan that

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He has for us. And now
here's Rick with the final part of a

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message called what to Do when it
feels Hopeless. Now there are two more

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more lessons we learn when you're feeling
hopeless. Number six, reject false fixes

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the solutions and accept God's grace.
Reject false fixes and accept God's grace.

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Now we've all seen people in big
trouble who turn to God only as a

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last resort. They try literally everything
else to solve their problem before they're finally

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in humility turn to God, and
they will try some of the stupidest,

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most worthless things instead of God.
When they're in deep trouble, instead of

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turning to God's grace, they turn
to everything but God. Their marriage is

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falling apart, their career is falling
apart, their body may be falling apart,

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their reputation is falling apart in shambles, and they're looking too everything else

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reject false fixes. Last summer,
I took my family on vacation to Canada.

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We went to Banff. I'm kind
of a rock and mineral kind of

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guy. I love looking at God's
creations and minerals. And I went into

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one of these great beautiful rock stores
up there, but there was one section

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that had a whole bunch of quartz
crystals in it for healing, and they

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were named so like, you know, if you got a poor sex life,

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you need this crystal. If you're
bald going bald, you need this

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crystal. If you got acid indigestion, you need that crystal. And you

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know, if you're depressed. You
need to put this crystal in your room.

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Now. I like crystals, but
they're not gonna keep my hair in

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place. Jonah two verse eight.
Here's the next thing. Jonah says,

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those who look to worthless idols forfeit
the grace that could be theirs. Joonah

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knows it's his own fault, but
he knows God is still the gracious God.

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Even though it's his fault. He
caused all this problem, Solf,

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those who look to worthless idols forfeit
the grace that could be there. Now

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today we don't car IDLs anymore.
Little idols of stick of mind we buy

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them. We all have idols.
Ours just look prettier. Some people idolize

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their car. Some people idolize their
home. Some people idolize their front on.

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Some people idolize the clothes they wear. We idolize fame today, we

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idolize fortune and wealth. Today,
we idolize pleasure. We idolize sex as

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if it's the most important thing in
life. We idolize popularity, we idolize

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power, We idolize all things.
We are just as idolatrous as previous generations.

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All right, Just our idols look
nicer What do you idolize? Anything

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you think about more than God is
your idol. Some people idolize their job.

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That's what they're living for. The
job is God. Some people idolize

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the next date. That's all they're
thinking about. What's going to be my

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next date. Some people idolize marriage. Getting married is the ultimate pinnacle of

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life. It's not. Anybody want
to give a testimony on that one.

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It's a good thing. I've been
married almost forty five years, but it's

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not God. What do you idolize? What do you idolize? Those who

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look to worthless idols. You're looking
for some other solution to your problem.

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Instead of turning to the grace of
God, you forfeit the grace of God.

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You know, when I saw those
crystals in that store and all the

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things that were promising to cure I
thought of this verse here on the screen

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Romans one twenty five. Instead of
believing the truth of God, many people

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choose to believe lies. They choose
to believe lies like this crystal is going

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to make me feel better worshiping and
serving created things rather than the creator and

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stuff who made those crystals? God
did? They can't talk, They can't

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listen. They can't give you advice. They're idols. They can't solve your

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problem. They people choose to believe
lies. We believe lies all the time.

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Our culture is filled with lies that
we believe. If it feels right,

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it must be right. That's a
lie. It may feel right to

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you. That doesn't make it right. If it feels right, it must

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be that's a lie. It's just
not true. I am the master of

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my fate. That's a lie.
You were not the master of your fate.

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That's easily disprovable. It's easily proven
wrong. You didn't choose most of

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the major things that made you you. You didn't choose where you were born.

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You didn't choose when you were born. You didn't choose who your parents

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were. You didn't choose your race, you didn't choose your natural gifts and

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aptudes. You're not the master of
your fate. Most of the things that

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made you you had no control over. It's a lie. It's trying to

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say I'm God. God is not
God. I'm God. He who dies

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with the most toys wins, that's
a lie. He who dies with the

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most toys still dies. And we're
not keeping count because you're not taking any

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of it into the eternity. God
helps those who who help themselves. That's

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a lie. It's just not true. It's not in the Bible. God

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helps those who trust Him, not
who help themselves. If it's to be,

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it's up to me. That's a
lie. If it's to be,

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it's up to God. You're not
God. God is God. People choose

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to believe lies, and they forfeit
the grace of God. Look at this

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verse on the screen Philippians three to
three. We put no confidence in human

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effort. Instead, we boast about
what Christ has done already for us.

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That's the grace of God. That's
how you're going to get out of your

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hopelessness, not by pulling yourself up
by your own bootstraps. We depend on

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the grace of God. Jonah didn't
try to save himself when he's at the

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bottom of the ocean in this big
fish. He's not going now. Can

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I remember my lifeguard Red Cross training. I'll hold my deep, I'll swim

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to the top, and then I'll
tread water until a Mediterranean cruise ship comes

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by and picks me up. He's
not trying to save himself. Stop trying

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to save yourself and forfeit the grace
of God. Jonah says this, Jonah

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two to six, You, oh
Lord, saved me, and you brought

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my life back up from the pit. That's some euphanism for death. You

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brought my life back up. I
was dying. He may have died.

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I was dying. Now here's the
seventh thing you do when life seems hopeless.

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Number seven. Do what Jonah did. Express gratitude to God in advance.

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Express gratitude to God in advance before
you're out of the situation, while

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you're in the belly of the while
you're at rock bottom, while things are

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swirling around. Now, I need
to explain the difference between gratitude before and

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gratitude after. If I wait until
after God solves my problem to thank him,

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that's gratitude. That's thankfulness, Thank
you God for solving my problem.

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That's gratitude. If I thank God
in advance before the problem has been solved,

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that's faith. Does that makes sense? I am in faith saying thank

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you God in advance for solving this
problem, for answering this prayer. If

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I wait till after God has solved
the problem, this is gratitude, thanksgiving

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that's a good thing. But if
I thank God in advance, now I

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have expressed faith. Thank you God
for solving this problem. While I'm depressed.

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I don't feel like the problem solved. But I'm thanking you in advance.

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That's faith, and God always always
responds to faith. How do I

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show gratitude to God in advance?
Well noticed three ways. Jonah did three

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things, and these are the three
things you need to do when you are

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feeling hopeless showing gratitude to God in
advance. Verse nine, Jonah says,

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I will sing a song of thanksgiving, and I will sacrifice to you,

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and I will do what I have
promised you to do, because why because

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salvation comes from the Lord. Now, notice he says, I will,

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I will, I will. This
is in advance. He's promising. He's

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valing I will do this, I
will do this, I will do this.

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He's doing it in advance. He's
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be grateful. Now write these down. Here are the three ways you express

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gratitude to God in advance. Number
one through singing. Through singing, I

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will sing a song of thanksgiving.
Some of you don't don't think singing is

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important. It is I don't have
time to go in. It's good for

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your health. It's a depression reliever, study psychological studies. It's good for

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your health. Now I see you
out this, I mean you think you're

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too cool, saying, oh,
I'm just cool. Everybody else singing,

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but I'm too manly to sing.
I'm too cool. Or some of you

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just think you don't know my voice, Rick, I can't sing. The

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Bible doesn't say you have to have
a good voice. It says make a

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joyful noise. Even pigs can do
that when they eat. You know,

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that's a joyful noise. Okay.
And in a crowd this size, you

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could be a prison singer. You're
always behind a few bars and never have

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the right key, but it's still
a joyful noise. Okay. But you

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need to learn to sing to God. And you sing to God in advance,

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and you say, I will remain
confident of this, I will see

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the goodness of the Lord in the
land of the living. I will remain

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the Lord is my light in salvation. Whom will I fear? Whom will

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I be afraid? You need to
sing that, You need to sing every

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song every week. It's thanking God
in advance. It's good for your health.

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Number two. Second way, he
says through giving back to God.

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Through giving back to God, he
says, I will sacrifice to you.

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I'm not only going to sing to
you. I'm going to sacrifice to you.

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Do you give any of the income
that God has given to you back

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to Him in recognition that it all
came from Him in the first place.

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That's a sacrifice. I'm going to
give an offering. I'm going to sacrifice

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giving back to God. Number three
through recommitting to my mission. Through recommitting

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to my mission, he says,
I will do God what I've promised you

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to do. Well you and you
said go, and I said no,

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I'm taking that back. I am
recommitting to my mission. I will do

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what you promised me to do.
You See, Jonah messed up royally,

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and we've all done that too.
We're all Jonas, we're all Jonahs.

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We've all messed up royally. But
that does not stop God's life mission for

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you. God still had a life
mission for Jonah, even though he had

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rejected done everything he could do to
exactly go the opposite direction. Look at

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this one verse Romans Chapter eleven,
verse twenty nine. For God's gifts,

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his gifts to you, the gifts
He's given to you. You're gifted,

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You're talented in certain areas. God's
gift in his call. God has a

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calling on your life. He has
a life mission for you. God's gifts

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and his call are irrevocable, lookable. It's still in force in your life.

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I don't care what you've done.
I don't care how old you are.

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You may have missed God's mission for
your entire life. It's still in

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force. Would you write this down? God has no Plan B for my

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life. God has no Plan B
for my life. But Rick, you

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don't know what's happened. You don't
know my failure. God has no Plan

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B. But God, you don't
know about the affair I had. God

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has no Plan B, but you
don't know about my divorce. God has

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no Plan B. But you don't
know about my bankruptcy. God has no

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Plan B, but you don't know
about my embarrassing failure where I fell flat

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on my face. God has no
Plan B for your life. God's mission

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in your life is still in force. You say, but I've you only

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got three years left. Then you
better use those three years. I didn't

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pull back the mission because Jonah went
the exact opposite way for most of his

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life. No, God says,
it's still in force the gifts that God

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has given you. He hasn't pulled
back. Even with all your mistakes and

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the calling God has on your life, He's never pulled back. It is

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irrevocable. I've only got a little
time left. It doesn't matter, doesn't

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matter. I don't care how old
you are, and I don't care what

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you've done. God's gift and call
in your life is irrevocable. You better

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get at it whatever's left in your
life. Now. When did Jonah decide

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to do these three expressions of gratitude
after he's out on dry land? No,

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while he's still in the situation,
while he's still feeling hopeless. Not

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after his ordeal is over. This
is how he gets out of the ordeal.

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And when he does these three things, I will, I will,

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and I will when he does these
three things. Here's the last verse in

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the chapter, verse ten. So
the Lord ordered a great fish, the

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great fish, to vomit Jonah onto
a beach. Can you imagine if you

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were sun tanning on that beach?
What a freaky thing that would be.

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Here comes a big fish spits out
a man. He comes out the stomach

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acids, and the fishes probably bleached
him albino. He's got fish vomiting,

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seaweed mangled in his long hair,
and he probably hit the ground running to

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Nineveh. I don't think he took
his time cozily johnn Lee walking along,

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skipping the feels and picking daisies.
No, he hits the ground running because

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God loves to give a second chance. And a third, and a fourth,

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and tenth and a twentieth. We're
gonna look at that next week.

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God loves to give a second chance. Jonah Chapter one, we see Jonah

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running from God. Jonah chapter two, we see running Jonah running to God

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and his grace. Jonah chapter three. We're gonna see Jonah running with God.

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And that's where it gets exciting.
Where are you? That's power heads

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Father. There are people here listening
right now who are feeling hopeless. There

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are some people here in over their
head and they know it. And I'm

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in deep weeds deep welcome, Holy, I'm in deep, I'm in over

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my head and some feel they've hit
bottom. Help them to look up.

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There's some here who feel out of
control, feel powerless to change anything,

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And there are others who feel rejected. Then there's some who just feel lonely.

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I feel alone. There are others
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maybe guilt. And some are feeling
crushed by fear and anxiety and worry,

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choked. And I'm sure a lot
of people feel trapped, trapped in a

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job, trapped in a relationship that
can't get on with, can't get out

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of, trapped in a habit,
trapped in a memory. Help them to

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do what Jonah did to take these
seven steps. Help them to pray with

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passion, not fake, phony,
perfunctory, memorized prayers. Help them to

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pray with passion. Help them to
pray persistently, and help them to pray

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your word back to you, the
complaints, the truths, the promises.

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Now you pray, say in your
heart, God, I'm feeling a little,

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a little helpless or hopeless. I'm
feeling a little helpless or hopeless.

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I'm looking to you. I want
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on your goodness, not my problems. You love me, Say that in

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your heart you love me, You
really love me. You will never stop

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loving me. You have always loved
me. Help me to never forget that

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or doubt that, even when I
feel swallowed up by my circumstances. Father,

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I want to reject all the phony
and fake and human fixes to my

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problems, and I want to depend
on your grace instead, and so in

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faith in the middle of my storm, regardless of how I'm feeling right now,

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I'm going to thank you in advance
for rescuing me. And I want

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to express my trust and my gratitude
to you by singing, by giving an

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offering, by recommitting to whatever mission
you made me for. Thank you that

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you are the God of second chances. Thank you that you have no Plan

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B for my life, and thank
you that you will use it all for

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my good. Jesus Christ, I
want you to be the manager of my

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life. Come in and do some
house cleaning in my heart, change my

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values and my priorities. I want
to become a person of love, loving

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you and loving others, and I
ask you to change me and save me.

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In your name. I pray Amen. Hi everybody, This is Rick,

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and I hope you enjoyed today's broadcast. You know if you just prayed

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that prayer for the very first time, or you just recommitted your life to

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Jesus again today. Would you let
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about sharing your commitment. So write
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Rick, I prayed that prayer of
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Christ. And I'll send you some
material that will help you on your journey

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with Jesus. And I'll also pray
for you. God bless you. Thank

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you for listening to Pastor Rick's Daily
Hope. You know, I know that

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you would love to live a life
of significance. But have you ever wondered

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if you could make a contribution so
unique that no one else in all the

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world could do what you've accomplished.
Well, you need to stop wondering,

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because God created you to make a
difference in the world. He created you

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to fulfill a mission that only you
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thinking that God couldn't use you like
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And not only can he, but
he will. It really doesn't matter

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what you've done or what you've failed
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or how old you are. It
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start on the mission that God has
planned for you. And that's why I'm

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so excited to let you know about
a brand new Bible study from Pastor Rick

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called Rising to God's Call a Journey
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is going to show you how God
had an incredible mission for Jonah and it

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went well beyond being swallowed by a
big fish. Jonah's story is really about

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second chances and redemption and the rescue
of an entire nation. And more importantly,

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it's the story of God, the
one who shows grace to everyone he

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created. You know, the story
of Jonah is really like a blueprint from

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God. It shows all of us
how He can use you to do significant

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things no matter where you are in
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you're going to find that pursuing God's
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