Unbreakable Hope | Jonah and the Whale | Pastor Steve Andres

<p>What is God teaching you through your troubles? After Jonah’s experience in the fish, he was a changed man. </p><p><br></p><p>Jonah 3:1-2</p><p>Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time: “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”</p><p><br></p><p>God uses disappointments, failures and suffering to bring change to our hearts and lives. What did Jonah learn in the school of suffering?</p><p><br></p><p>1) Suffering teaches us how to be humble.</p><p><br></p><p>When we deny our brokenness, we delay our healing. Suffering shines a light on our need for God, not just to help our suffering, but to heal our sin.</p><p><br></p><p>2) Suffering teaches us how to help.</p><p><br></p><p>Your greatest gift will often come from the place of your deepest wound. In failure and pain we learn to be compassionate and sensitive to others.</p><p><br></p><p>3) Suffering teaches us how to hope.</p><p><br></p><p>A rugged hope in God’s redemption gives us strength to endure, even when circumstances are unresolved. </p><p><br></p><p>Don’t let the dark nights go to waste! Because Jesus paid the penalty for our sin, God can redeem every failure and every disappointment! </p>