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Jonah 2:1-9

Jonah 2:1-9 (MSG)
Then Jonah prayed to his God from the belly of the fish. He prayed: "In trouble, deep trouble, I prayed to God. He answered me. From the belly of the grave I cried, 'Help!' You heard my cry. You threw me into ocean's depths, into a watery grave, With ocean waves, ocean breakers crashing over me. I said, 'I've been thrown away, thrown out, out of your sight. I'll never again lay eyes on your Holy Temple.' Ocean gripped me by the throat. The ancient Abyss grabbed me and held tight. My head was all tangled in seaweed at the bottom of the sea where the mountains take root. I was as far down as a body can go, and the gates were slamming shut behind me forever— Yet you pulled me up from that grave alive, O God, my God! When my life was slipping away, I remembered God, And my prayer got through to you, made it all the way to your Holy Temple. Those who worship hollow gods, god-frauds, walk away from their only true love. But I'm worshiping you, God, calling out in thanksgiving! And I'll do what I promised I'd do! Salvation belongs to God!"

Memorize

Proverbs 10:32 (MSG)
The speech of a good person clears the air; the words of the wicked pollute it.

Memorize

Proverbs 10:21 (MSG)
The talk of a good person is rich fare for many, but chatterboxes die of an empty heart.

Proverbs 10:21

Proverbs 10:21 (MSG)
The talk of a good person is rich fare for many, but chatterboxes die of an empty heart.

Wisdom and career

Proverbs 8:10-11 (MSG)
Prefer my life-disciplines over chasing after money, and God-knowledge over a lucrative career.

Wisdom

Proverbs 1:31-33 (MSG)
Well, you've made your bed-now lie in it; you wanted your own way-now, how do you like it?

God's Provision

Psalm 84:10-12 (ESV)
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Psalm 69:30

Psalm 69:30 (ESV)
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalm 59:16-17

Psalm 59:16-17 (ESV)
But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalm 59:16-17

Psalm 59:16-17 (ESV)
But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

God Desires Thanks

Psalm 56:12 (ESV)
I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you.

Psalm 55:22

Psalm 55:22 (ESV)
Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 51:16-17

Psalm 51:16-17 (ESV)
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

Psalm 42:11

Psalm 42:11 (ESV)
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Bottomless compassion

Nehemiah 9:27 (MSG)
You turned them over to their enemies, who made life rough for them. But when they called out for help in their troubles you listened from heaven; And in keeping with your bottomless compassion you gave them saviors: Saviors who saved them from the cruel abuse of their enemies.

Amazing grace

Nehemiah 9:19 (MSG)
You in your amazing compassion didn't walk off and leave them in the desert. The Pillar of Cloud didn't leave them; daily it continued to show them their route; The Pillar of Fire did the same by night, showed them the right way to go.

Awesome God praise

Nehemiah 9:6 (MSG)
Blessed be your glorious name, exalted above all blessing and praise! You're the one, god, you alone; You made the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all angels; The earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them; You keep them all alive; heaven's angels worship you!

Occult Practices

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 (MSG)
When you enter the land that god, your God, is giving you, don't take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there. Don't you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don't practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery, casting spells, holding séances, or channeling with the dead. People who do these things are an abomination to god. It's because of just such abominable practices that god, your God, is driving these nations out before you.

Deuteronomy 4:39

Deuteronomy 4:39 (MSG)
Know this well, then. Take it to heart right now: god is in Heaven above; god is on Earth below. He's the only God there is. Obediently live by his rules and commands which I'm giving you today so that you'll live well and your children after you—oh, you'll live a long time in the land that god, your God, is giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:32-33

Deuteronomy 4:32-33 (MSG)
Ask questions. Find out what has been going on all these years before you were born. From the day God created man and woman on this Earth, and from the horizon in the east to the horizon in the west—as far back as you can imagine and as far away as you can imagine—has as great a thing as this ever happened? Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? Has a people ever heard, as you did, a god speaking out of the middle of the fire and lived to tell the story?

Exodus 14:31

Exodus 14:31 (MSG)
and realized the tremendous power that God brought against the Egyptians. The people were in reverent awe before God and trusted in God and his servant Moses.

God's Mercy

Genesis 19:16 (MSG)
Lot was dragging his feet. The men grabbed Lot's arm, and the arms of his wife and daughters—god was so merciful to them!—and dragged them to safety outside the city. When they had them outside, Lot was told, "Now run for your life! Don't look back! Don't stop anywhere on the plain—run for the hills or you'll be swept away."

Nimrod built Nineveh

Genesis 10:11 (MSG)
From there he went up to Asshur and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,