We Need To Pray!

Season 2 Episode 7 – We Need To Pray!

5:59 Jonah 2 1

• Jonah is safe?

• Now Jonah want to Pray

• Prayed to the LORD

• His God

• From the Belly of the fish

• Does Jonah know where his bread is buttered?

• Was his faith strengthened?

• Has his attitude changed? - Probably need to see the rest of the chapter

7:51 Jonah 2 2-4

• Prayer - What is it?

• This is a Psalm of Thanksgiving

• Parallels

• Jonah Called - Jonah Cried

• Jonah’s Distress - Out of the Belly of Sheol

• He answered - You Heard my Voice

• The LORD did it

• Your Waves

• Your Billows

• No more Presence due to death in Sheol

• No longer in presence (no worship or praise)

• No longer able to the holy temple (aligns with the other verses in this section of the Thanksgiving Psalm

Jonah 2 5-7 - Chris

• Locked Up - They Won’t Let me Out

• Metaphor for dying

• Water closing in on (engulfed) me (lack of air)

• Deep Surrounded Me (water everywhere)

• Weeds wrapped around my head (Entrapped)

• More Death Statements

• At the foot of mountains

• With bars that prevent me from returning

• But there’s hope

• Yet (adversative) - with all that I was expecting/experiencing

• The LORD brought me out of the pit

• O LORD my God

Jonah 2 8-9 - Jasmine

• True futility

• Regarding (devoting oneself to) Empty Things (vain idols)

• Separation from the Steadfast Love (Jonah has experienced this)

• What I Am Going to Do

• What is a voice of Thanksgiving

• The right person to give sacrifice

• I will  give it

• The LORD is the one who saves (evidenced above)

Jonah 2-10 - Moyo

• The LORD Speaks to the Fish Again

• This time to spit him out

• Back to the Land of the living (dry land)

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