Oftentimes we expect damage to come from our own unfortunate experiences, decisions we’ve made, or situations that harmed us. However, sometimes our damage can come from the backside of a blessing. In Week 8 of the Damaged but Not Destroyed series, Dr. Dharius Daniel masterfully expounds upon the story of Jonah. While Jonah was blessed to be a Prophet, trusted to carry God’s messages, he found himself running from an assignment. He got himself into a problem that only God could get him out of. In God’s grace, He used Jonah’s mistake as transportation into his future. If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a problem or been in a space of intentional disobedience, we pray this message guides you toward God’s redemption! Scripture References: Jonah 4:1-3 NIV Jonah 3:1 NIV Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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hi my name is Amberly and I have the
privilege of serving as one of our
executive pastors here at Transformation
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message come on transformation family I
think we can do better than
that let me hear Let me hear how great
you’re God Is by how great your praise
is
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[Music]
today come on let’s pray together father
for this incredible
privilege and it is a
privilege we see it that
way we are grateful for the
privilege of experiencing your
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presence our Greatest
Prize most valuable
asset it’s
you so in this moment we thank you for
you thank you that you’re in this
room moving in our
hearts strategically POS positioning
us for what you have
next we stand in great anticipation of
that thank you for this incredible house
this City you set on a
hill this spiritual family that you are
literally
using to shake
Nations and thank you for the the
privilege today to contribute to what
you’re doing in this
house so we know your word cannot be
taught or understood without the
assistance of your Holy Spirit I’ll help
her so would you help me to teach
today and would you you help your people
to
receive to the end that it said of us as
it was said of the early Church These
are they that have turned the world
upside down in Jesus name amen come on
transformation one more
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time man listen so first of all I’m
super excited to be here always an honor
to be in the house I kind of feel like
I’m not Uncle status yet I’m not
claiming that I’m not that old I’m not
uncle status but I’m I’m brother how
about that I’m brother I just feel like
a a um a brother of the house and really
really grateful uh to be here and man
just to just to see you and to and to
witness to worship with you and to
witness what God’s doing here and he’s
doing some incredible things I want to
know is there anybody in the building
anybody online that loves your
church
what so man we we celebrate this man and
and and I I just I celebrate your
pastors I’ve learned this God’s greatest
gifts never roll in your life on four
wheels they walk into your life on two
legs he put his greatest treasure in
people and um I was talking to Pastor
Mike early probably about a week ago and
I was just sharing with him how some
conversations that we had resulted in
some really significant important shifts
that I was making some in life and some
in leadership and one of the things I I
was sharing with him I was like Mike I
think you are so anointed so engaging so
charismatic so gifted in so many
different areas that we all can be
inspired by that blessed by that caught
up in that but one of the things that
I’ve been able to discern is not just
when you’re adding value using the gifts
that God’s given you you but when
something is shifted and now God’s
talking and each week that he stands on
this platform you’re not just getting
messages from God’s word you’re also
getting a word from God and how many
love your pastors
and and um so man so so grateful for
them and to to the captain and Mama Todd
I just want her to I would she just call
just voice memo me prayers every morning
that’s that’s it just send it to you boy
I I I need that such great gifts and
also honor to the bishop and uh the
incredible mantle that is on his life
and how God is and continues to use
him all right so I’m not Uncle I’m
brother so keep telling myself that so I
want to continue in the Stream of
sermons that have been released to the
house from this series damage not
destroyed and I want to read a few
verses from a book of the Bible named
after a prophet named Jonah I’m going to
be reading Jonah chapter 4 read a couple
of verses beginning at verse one and it
reads like this it says but to Jonah
this seemed very
wrong and he became
angry he prayed to the Lord isn’t this
what I said Lord when I was still at
home this is what I tried to Forstall by
fleeing naras I
knew that you a gracious and
compassionate God slow to anger and
abounding in love a God who relents from
sending Calamity listen to what Jonah
says family listen Jonah the prophet
says now Lord take away my
life for it is better for me to die than
to
live I want to stop the reading your
scripture right there and talk from this
subject in our time together three words
the breaking
point the breaking point clap your hands
if you’re ready for God’s word today the
the breaking
point so family I want to ease into this
introduction by offering
an axiom that I came across several
years ago that’s going to be the
foundation of our time of teaching and
for my not us the aim is the following
more of
anything means more of
everything more of
anything means more of everything more
of something in one area means more of
something else in another one here’s the
way Jesus from framed it he said to whom
much is
given much will be required you rarely
get more of what you do
want without getting more of what you
don’t
want this is what I’ve affectionately
entitled the backside of every
blessing the backside of the blessing is
the burden you don’t
see that come comes with the blessing
you do
see the backside of the blessing is the
burden we don’t
want that comes with the blessing that
we do want this is in part what I
believe the Apostle Paul is capturing in
2 Corinthians chapter 12 when he says
that because of the abundance of
Revelation I receive that was given to
me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of
Satan to Buffet me he says concerning
this thing I sought the Lord three times
that it might be removed from me and on
the third time God said my grace is
sufficient notice what he says he says
because of the abundance of Revelation
that I got I also receive not just
Revelation I receive
Warfare the Revelation is the front side
of the blessing are y’all following me
the Warfare is the backside of the
blessing more responsibility is the
front side more stress is the
backside more notoriety is the front
side more criticism is the backside more
influence is the front side more attacks
are the backside more square footage is
the front side more expenses are the
backside more locations are the front
side more agitation is the backside more
promotion is the front side more
pressure is the backside you do not get
more of what you do want without getting
more of what you don’t want and this is
why it’s essential that we trust God’s
timetables for delays because sometimes
we’re upset agitated frustrated
irritated because we’re waiting on God
to send the front side and God’s like
I’m not holding up the front side cuz
you’re not ready for the front side I’m
holding up the front side because you’re
not ready for the back side
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you’re gifted for the front side
anointed for the front side called to
the front side chosen for the front side
capable to handle the front side but I’m
not delaying you because you’re not
ready on the front side I’m delaying you
because you got to get ready for what
comes on the
backside David when I put you in the
palace you got a Dodge Spears and not
throw them back and you not cut like
that yet you still got a little
throwback in you so I got to delay some
things in your life so I can work some
things out of you so you can handle not
only the front side but the back side I
feel like preaching in transformation
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today if I get the front
side without being prepared for the back
side then what was intended to be a
blessing ends up feeling like a
curse so a key listen to me please to
the blessed life is backside
management the front side side brings
the
light but if I’m not
prepared if I’m not
equipped then the backside will bring
damage this is the
damage that we don’t talk about
enough yeah yeah we talk about the
damage that comes when we’re stuck and
when we’re stalled and when we’re
plateauing and things aren’t moving and
things aren’t progressing and it doesn’t
seem like the windows of Heaven that are
open are open over our life I want to
tell you there’s another type of damage
and there’s a damage that that can come
when the opportunities are coming so
fast you can’t wrap your head around
them there’s a damage that can come when
you got so many people around you that
are keeping you company but because you
don’t know their motives you still feel
lonely there’s some damage that can come
when you are greatly used by God watch
this cuz you can cannot be greatly used
by God and not periodically exploited by
people it can’t happen that that’s the
backside so in our time together
today your
brother not
Uncle your brother wants to
use the Book of
Jonah as a teaching tool to help us get
ready for the backside let me tell you
why we should be
excited because as
soon as you let
God fix what needs to be fixed for the
backside he’s getting ready to blow your
mind with the front side I don’t know
who feels me in transformation Nation
but I just need a few people to give him
a prophetic praise praise for what he’s
getting ready to
do while you’re working on me for the
backside I’mma praise you for the front
side I’m not where I’m going but I’m not
where I used to be so I’mma Praise You
In The
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Hallway yeah the
text today offers us some
insight because of we don’t learn to
manage the backside the damage from the
backside might not destroy me but it can
destroy my
destiny here it is family it’s it’s in
the text we we picked up this story in
Jonah chapter 4 but we can’t grasp the
content in Jonah chapter 4 without
getting some context in Jonah chapter 1
and In Jonah chapter 1 we introduce to
Jonah receiving an assignment from God
he should be honored by this assignment
he’s not new to this he True to this
he’s not a novice Prophet he’s
experienced he’s trusted by God to
deliver with surgical Precision the
prophetic Proclamation for the people in
Nineveh God says you got the personality
you got the temperament Jonah’s probably
wondering why me and God’s probably
saying Jonah you asking why me cuz you
don’t know who you are Jonah don’t you
know that I told Jeremiah before I form
you in your mother’s womb I knew you
don’t miss it he said Jeremiah I form
you your parents made you but I form you
that that that the only thing your
parents could do was engage in the ACT
to conceive you and once they engaged in
the ACT to conceive you they lost all
control everything from that moment on
was up to me your gifts that’s me your
temperament that’s me your personality
that’s me your strength that’s me I made
you the way you are cuz I made you with
your calling in
mine and Jonah I know you probably don’t
want to go to
Nineveh because you’re
agitated by
Nineveh but your agitation is often
Jonah an indication of your
assignment did you hear what I just said
I said your agitation is often an
indication of your assignment I call
this unique agitation why Darius your
purpose is always an answer to a
problem but you will be uniquely
agitated by the problems you’ve been
called to
solve
so both of us can walk in a room both of
us see something wrong it bother you and
it not bother me and because it doesn’t
bother me doesn’t mean I don’t have a
standard it may mean that not that’s not
the Goliath I’ve been called to knock
down did you hear what I just said and I
don’t know who this is for but when you
get a revelation of your real purpose
you start saying stuff to the enemy like
I’m a
problem yeah I’m a problem for the
problems that you don’t want me to solve
I’m a problem for the problems that you
want to keep people tied up in I’m a
problem for the problems that you want
to use to destroy and to detour and to
discourage people but am I talking to
anybody that’s sick of not walking in a
full revelation of who you actually are
I need some people in the room today
that will unashamedly say I’m a
problem
that’s why the enem is after me because
I’m a problem that’s why he won’t leave
me alone because I’m a problem that’s
why I can’t seem to get a break because
I’m a problem because he wants me so
consumed with my own problems that I
can’t focus on the problems that he’s
called me to solve but you know how to
give him a nervous breakdown you know
how to make him agitated is that you
start solving problems for others when
you can’t solve problems for
yourself
God tells Jonah there’s a
problem in
Nineveh you’ve been born to address
it I’m getting ready to introduce you to
Jonah one of the reasons you were
born I want you to go down to Nineveh
and I want you to declare my message and
Jonah being the
anointed
articulate Faith filled
faithful fearless leader that he was
goes in the opposite
direction no no no the TCH the text says
God says go to
Nineveh and the Bible says Jonah
arises and text says first of all he
goes down to japa everybody say down
come on say it better than that say down
yeah he goes down because anytime I’m
going in the opposite direction of my
assignment it always leads to
down Tex says he goes down and he goes
to this port and he pays a fair and gets
on this ship H in the tarus so wait a
minute he could have went to Nineveh for
free
but he has to pay a
fair to go in the wrong
direction because whenever I’m going in
the direction that is opposite the
direction of my assignment it’s
expensive it costs me it’s going to cost
me time it’s going to cost me energy
it’s going to cost me Focus it’s going
to cost me joy he paid a fair to go in
the wrong direction
and this is what’s
interesting what’s interesting is that
he’s not running from
ethics he’s running from an
assignment what’s what’s what’s what’s
interesting
is he’s running from a part of what God
has called him to do that he believes
puts him at risk
I’ll explain it later it is so he gets
on this ship he’s headed in the wrong
direction and the text says while he’s
on the ship the Lord sends a great
wind so the wind starts
blowing I’mma say that again because
very often when Jonah’s story is told
the first thing people talk about is the
whale
but when you read the
story what God sends
first was the wind somebody say Wind
come on say it again say wind yep he
uses natural
circumstances to try to get Jonah’s
attention he sends the wind before he
sends the
whale
but Jonah is so intoxicated with his
emotions his discernment is
impaired so now he’s missing wind
warnings so the wind is
blowing and Jonah doesn’t discern that
the wind is a warning so the Bible says
in verse
17 this storm gets so
great that the Mariners who are on the
ship start
throwing cargo
over to try to reduce the weight on the
ship so they can keep Jonah on
board now if they were responsible for
transport in cargo from one place to
another that cargo was valuable so they
had to throw their values overboard to
keep Jonah on because that’s what
happens when you Harbor a
fugitive yep Jonah is unaware of how his
unwillingness to align his life in this
season with God’s assignment for him is
having indirect implications on other
people
so the text
says all this is
happening and Jonah is in the ship
sleep because the
people that cause you
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problems are often very unlikely to take
responsibility
to help you fix
them they wake him up they engage in
this superstitious practice of casting
lots to see who is and what is the cause
of this storm the lot falls on Jonah
Jonah realizes and recognizes I’m the
problem and Jonah then says to the men
throw me overboard now wait a minute
Jonah you are a grown man asking other
grown men to throw you over we didn’t
help you get on the
ship come on
transformation you walked on this ship
why is it that you’re asking us to get
over because when I’m unaligned from my
assignment it creates unhealthy
codependency and I start asking other
people and expecting other people to do
things for me that I should be doing for
myself
and the text says they throw Jonah
over but verse
17 says these words it says but God had
prepared a
fish God had prepared a fish God had
prepared a fish God had prepared a fish
God in his
Providence had seen before what Jonah
would do and had made provision for
Jonah before he did it Pastor what are
you saying I’m saying what if the whale
was not
judgment what if the whale was actually
Grace y’all a’t talking to me because I
want you to see The Coincidence in all
of this it just so happens that at the
same time they throw Jonah overboard
that just happened to be the time that a
whale was in proximity of the ship I am
telling you that God speaks
well y’all missed it everything has ears
and God knows how to speak the language
of everything and I believe the God who
speaks
well spoke to the well and and said you
need to start moving in this direction
now and the whale just happened to is
there anybody in the room
today it that’s following what I’m
saying
here everything’s got got ears you
remember in in First Kings there was
this famine that hit this region and God
told his prophet he said I want you to
go to this Brook called cherith cuz I’ve
commanded
Ravens to feed you there don’t miss this
family people feed
birds birds don’t feed
people but when God is trying to get
provision to his people he will
temporarily change the nature of a thing
and make a raven which is normally a
taker become a giver because he speaks
Raven Come on talk to me
Church yep the he speaks well and the
whale the text says swallows Jonah
up what have we’ve been calling the
whale
judgment but the well is actually
Grace Pastor where do you get that from
listen I’m not an animal
expert but I’m an expert
googler and I did some
research and I discovered
something that whales please don’t miss
this family do have
teeth whales also have d digestive
enzymes that break down the food that
they
consume but
somehow Jonah don’t miss this is in the
belly of the
whale not Torn to Pieces by the
teeth and not decomposed by the
digestive enzymes he’s in the middle of
the well but he’s
whole I need to pause for just a second
and I want to know am I talking to any
anybody that can
testify Pastor he didn’t keep me from
everything but he kept me in everything
I might be in a well right now but I’m
not falling apart I’m not torn to pieces
I don’t look like what I’m going through
because he’s keeping me together in the
middle of it
all family this is
Grace this is a personification of the
Gospel this wh is preaching the gospel
to us This is Gospel
personified because the the essence of
the Gospel is this truth that
God has the
ability and that God has made a
commitment to rescue Humanity from a
predicament Humanity got itself
into Y come on come on I know that I
know that shake that religious tree and
that upset that Pharisee Spirit that’s
why schl marker says the grace that
Grace is scandalous because it upsets
legalistic people but but the story of
the Gospel is one man Adam breaking
it and another man Jesus fixing it the
story of the Gospel is God saying you
are human enough to get yourself into it
but I’m God enough to get you out of
it I want to know is there anybody
grateful for the
gospel
y Jonah got himself in but he couldn’t
get himself
out he deserve to stay in
he earned his
stay come on some whales are whales we
earned but because
of because of a concept called
propitiation the satisfaction the
appeasement a price has been
paid Hallelujah
and now God
commits to get us out
of stuff we got oursel
into yeah text says Jonah is in the
belly of that
well it swallowed him but it swallowed
him
whole and when God is with you you can
be in it and still
whole
and the Bible says as he sits in that
well verse 9 says in Chapter 2 he sends
up a
praise then the text says also in
chapter nine in verse 9 excuse me he
sends up a
prayer and then the text says he makes a
promise he sends up praise he sends up
prayer and he makes a promise
he sends up praise sends up a prayer and
he makes a promise sends up praise sends
up prayer and he makes a promise he says
to God I’m going to pay what I
vowed I’m going to do what you told me
to do see this reveals to me one of the
reasons besides the prophetic
implications of Jonah being in the well
and Jesus being in the grave 3 days this
reveals to to me family this reveals to
me one of the reasons he was in in there
3 days cuz sometimes God’s got to let us
sit in it long
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enough he’s got to let us sit in it long
enough until we
keep the commitments outside the
well that we made when we were in the
well and the Bible says when Jonah says
I’ll do what you said the text says this
it
says and God spoke to the
fish catch the
order Jonah talked to
God God talked to the
fish catch the order Jonah talks to God
but then God talks to the
fish catch the
order Jonah talked to
God but then God talks to the fish so
Jonah talks to God about the
problem God didn’t talk back to
Jonah I don’t know about you but this
bothers me a little bit because when I
talk to God about the problem I want God
to talk back to me about the problem but
the Bible says he didn’t talk back to
Jonah while Jonah was talking to God God
was talking to the fish and just because
God isn’t talking to us about the
problem doesn’t mean God’s not working
on the
answer sometimes God isn’t talking to us
because God is talking to the whale and
the Bible says on that third day that
that whale spit Jonah out Jonah had no
inkling he had no idea he didn’t get a
prophetic word all he knew was one
moment he was in and the next moment he
was out and I’m believing God’s getting
ready to do something during this crazy
Faith season something crazy like that
for some of you that all you will know
is one moment I was in it and the next
moment I was out I want somebody to just
put this in the atmosphere say quick
yeah I don’t know what you’re believing
for but I’m just believing that he’s
going to do it quick that it’s going to
be suddenly that it’s going to be EXP
iously that it’s going to happen without
warning that one moment you’re in the
well and the next moment you’re
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out the text didn’t just say he spit
them out the text says he spit them out
on dry
land woo did you hear what I just said
he spit him out on dry land this is
another powerful picture of Grace he
used his mistake as transportation to
get him to a destination he couldn’t
have got to on his own it is the power
of redemption God will take the mistakes
of your past and use it as
transportation for your future he will
take what the enemy meant for evil and
he will work it for your good
[Applause]
quick
quick quick quick quick quick quick
quick that’s why I can’t sit down when I
come to transformation cuz he can do it
quick that’s why I can’t be quiet when I
come to transformation because he can do
it quick that’s why I’m so tapped in and
locked in when Pastor Mike preaches cuz
he can do it
quick he put him out on dry land he
didn’t have to swim
back whales don’t typically even come
that close to shore if you big enough to
swallow a man you don’t come that close
to shore but God will make something
break a rule to get you to where he’s
trying
[Applause]
to and all this
happens this not even my message all
this here’s the point I said all I was I
did all that to get to this he goes
through all of that and when he gets on
dry land Jonah 3 verse1 says these words
and the word of the Lord came to Jonah a
second
time you he says you
still have to
do what I
said we been been through all of
this but you still have to do what I
said we wasted three days but you still
have to do what I said and I know you
think you disqualified you but you
didn’t call yourself so you can’t uncal
yourself if I say you still have to do
it then you still have to do it because
you were born for this Jonah you were
surprised by the whale I wasn’t
so Jonah I’m done
Jonah
Jonah does three days worth of
work in one
day it should have took him three days
but he y’all y’all missing
this come on is that what the text said
it’s it’s it was a three it was a three
days journey Jonah did it in
one cuz he wasted
three in the
well but time wasted itn’t always time
lost I’m getting ready to run
[Applause]
yeah I said time wasted is always time
lost you see how God made that time up
he wasted three but it should have took
three to get to Nineveh and God did it
in one because God redeems time that’s
Joel
too he redeems time what does redeem
mean Pastor it means to buy back that’s
what it means so when God redeems time
he doesn’t give me more
time he take the time I got
left and he does so much I’m getting
ready to run he does so much in the time
I got left that it makes up for all the
time I wasted it means he says you may
have blown three years but what I’m
getting ready to do in the next 3
months is about to make up
for everything you wasted in 3 years and
if you’ve never wasted time if you’ve
never blown an opportunity if you’ve
never mismanaged a season then you be
quiet but if you’ve ever made some
mistakes and you need God to spin the
block and do it one more
time
[Applause]
[Music]
and the chapter 3 Jonah was ready for
what the chapter one Jonah
wasn’t oh we are upsetting the devil
today I said we are upsetting the
adversary today because he’s been
whispering in your ear he’s been telling
you because of what happened in your
chapter one that you will never get to
your chapter three but your God is
getting ready to make open show of the
enemy and what he meant for
evil so still going to get you to that
chapter
three still going Do
It Bad English good theology I’m still
going to do
it I’m still going to do
it and the text says here it
is
Jonah cuz this version of
Jonah could Steward the same commandment
y’all are missing
this this version of him this processed
version this broken
version could Steward with the chapter
one version of him
couldn’t are y’all ready for what I’m
getting ready to say I said are y’all
ready for what I’m getting ready to say
I
think we got to be careful how we label
things so one of the things I have to
remind myself of and remind others of
from time to time don’t label this so
fast don’t don’t label this so fast cuz
cuz if not you’ll be like the disciples
on the boat who see Jesus walking on
water and you’ll say it’s a
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ghost labeled it too fast and then when
he gets closer you’ll see and more time
passes you see oh no that’s
God y’all missed
it cuz what you call him one thing in
this season you going to be calling God
in the
next while you’re in it you’re like this
is heart break and God’s going to get
you to a season you’re going to look
back at you going to say that’s God you
while you’re in it you’re saying this is
failure God’s going to get you to your
chapter three you’re going to look back
and say that was God when you go through
the breakdown in your chapter one you’re
going to say this is a breakdown but
when you get to your chapter three
you’re going to look back at your
chapter one and say that was
God what I call failure was
school what I call failure was actually
school he was getting me to the chapter
three version of
me that can
handle the
assignment so Jonah Fai F fulfills this
assignment and this is where people
often and and that’s okay if they stop
depending on how God’s calling them and
use this passage but for me I want to be
faithful to what’s on my heart today and
I’m literally wrapping up this not a
preacher cloes I mean it this my last
one here it is here it
is he Faithfully carries out the
assignment so effectively that Nineveh
repents watch this so he’s
winning but but then when you read
chapter 4 he
losing I don’t know if you’ve ever been
here where you felt like I’m winning and
losing at the same time see this stuff
he was talking in chapter
4 where he’s saying he he’s at such a
point where he’s like take my
life he’s that angry he’s talking
emotionally it’s because Nineveh
repented come on family we read it he
said in chapter 4 he said I he said to
God I knew you were going to do
that fresh out the
whale fresh out of the
whale he’s still smelling like
Grace but upset about the grace that God
shown to
others
now if we stop here it’s lazy ex of
Jesus because we could just say Jonah’s
angry but anger is a secondary
emotion you don’t feel it first you feel
it second you feel something and then
you feel anger you feel misused then you
feel angry you feel cheated then you
feel angry you feel betrayed then you
feel angry you feel hurt and wounded
then you feel
angry this
man wasn’t just
angry he was hurt because
Nineveh here’s why he didn’t want to go
Nineveh was the capital of
Assyria the Assyrians had an adversarial
relationship with Israel so much so they
had a history of decapitating Israelites
and placing their heads on fences as a
warning to
others so Jonah’s like I know you want
to be good to some people but I got some
recommendations for some people on the
other side of town you can be good
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to so let’s wrap up with this what’s
happening
Pastor there is unhealed
pain based on Israel’s history with
Nineveh and Israel’s history with the
Assyrians that is
unaddressed in
Jonah and doesn’t show its
head until Jonah’s
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winning there’s some
damage that didn’t destroy his
gift but it was destroying his Joy
because some damage doesn’t stop me from
doing but it stops me from
being and what’s crazy is Jonah probably
didn’t even
know that he was feeling this until it
got
triggered by God’s graciousness
to Nineveh see because just because I’m
not in pain doesn’t mean I’m not
hurting did you hear what I just
said just cuz I’m not in pain doesn’t
mean I’m not
hurting if you would see my father he’s
he’s his pink pinky finger on the right
hand won’t extend fully and the reason
it won’t extend ful is because years ago
when I was growing up we were playing
basketball in the backyard and I hit his
finger and his finger broke and my dad
old school so he didn’t go to the doctor
he didn’t let a doctor deal with it and
so what happened was it healed but it
didn’t heal
right so he’s no longer in
pain but he can’t make full use of his
pinky and some of our hearts look like
my dad’s
hands I’m not in
pain but I don’t have full
use of it
and I came today I’m done I came today
for
people that are at a Breaking
Point people that are at a point in your
journey where you saying Pastor
Darius I’ve had some chapter 3
victories but if I’m honest I’m dealing
with some chapter 4
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emotions as as blessed as I
am I should be happier than I
am as blessed as I
am I should have more peace than I
have I’m
used I’m blessed and I’m winning but I’m
conflicted and church I want you to see
God’s Providence in selecting
Jonah are y’all following this y’all
following this FL
because Nineveh needed
Jonah but Jonah obviously needed
Nineveh cuz these unaddressed areas in
the cracks and crevices of his heart
don’t get exposed unless he gets
triggered by what’s happening in Nineveh
come
on and God’s like I Jonah I’m not just
using you to fix something in
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Nineveh I’m using
Nineveh to fix something in you I want
to show you that chapter 4 is still in
you but you weren’t born for chapter 4
chapter 4 is not my destiny for you and
chapter four listen to me what you see
in chapter 4 is not
Kingdom
it’s not the King’s
Way it’s three ways you can do anything
culture’s way Church’s way and the
King’s Way aren’t Church’s way and the
King’s Way the same not all the
time sometimes those that claim to know
him best misrepresent him the
most this is the distinction that Jesus
made turning over tables in church
saying it is written that my father’s
house should be a House of Prayer you
have made it into a den of Thieves you
like it God
doesn’t
but not being rich here isn’t
Kingdom Paul says it specifically the
kingdom of God is Not meat or
drink but
righteousness
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peace
joy in the Holy
Ghost
Joy makes the rich man
jealous
Joy would make zakus climb a
tree Joy will make Nicodemus come to you
at night and say I got everything except
for what you have and I’m tired of
living without that and I want to know
am I talking to any people that are
tired of singing about peace tired of
quoting scriptures about peace tired of
singing about Joy tired of quoting
scriptures about Joy but is there
anybody at a Breaking Point in your
journey with Jesus where you say I don’t
want to sing about what I’m not
experiencing I don’t want to have
chapter three victories and chapter four
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emotions and this is what Pastor Mike’s
trying to get us to this is why he took
a Sunday morning to have a conversation
about
therapy because some of the great here’s
the miracle everybody can get on this
side the miracle everybody can get on
this side is an emotional
one he heals the
Brokenhearted and he binds up their
wounds I know what it’s like to have
chapter three
victories and chapter four
emotions but I also know what it’s
like to let God use your chapter
two to get you to a breaking
point where you no longer settle and
accept abundance in every other
area except for the area that actually
matters the
most and I’m talking to some people I
know to say Pastor darus I want
that I’m at a Breaking Point
I’m done that is my third clothes in it
I’m
done but that only
happens when you
forgive what happened in
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Assyria that is the prerequisite to
Healing because when I don’t forgive I
become worthy of the same correction I
want God to extend to others
and the Bible says when your obedience
is fulfilled then God will avenge all
Disobedience Assyria hurt me you got to
let it go not because you like Assyria
but because you love
you you have to Pardon it what they took
from you they can never
pay an apology can’t pay it
back if they took money they can give
you money back but you can’t give me
back the time in the bad days I had
because of it they can’t give you what
they took so you have to write it off as
bad debt you have to Pardon and say I
accept the blood of Jesus as full and
satisfactory payment for what you did to
me you owe me
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nothing and I believe that for you and I
speak that over your
life Lord I pray for emotional
Miracles
grudges
bitterness resentment
cynicism that didn’t go away with a book
didn’t go away with a
sermon would you work a miracle in our
heart would you help me to release what
I could not release on my own I’m at a
breaking point and I Want to Be
Free healed my broken
heart and bind up my
wounds and if you the son makes me
free I’m free
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indeed this Freedom comes not just from
preaching it comes when you come in
relationship with a
person and if you are tapped in
transformation Nation or if you’re in
this room and you’ve never made the
decision to move from a creature creat
relationship with God to a father son
father daughter if you’ve never made the
decision I’m going to get out of the
drive a seat of my life get on the
passenger side and from this day forward
I want Jesus to be the leader of my life
and the forgiver of my sin my Lord my
savior I realize I am incapable of
saving myself and I’m incapable of
leading my own life I need the one who
knows all things to have all control I
want to surrender I want to be
saved and if you’ve never made that
decision in this room online
would you allow me the privilege of
leading you into a prayer the most
important prayer you’ll ever
pray to bring Heaven’s resources into
your heart here on
Earth every head about every eye closed
dear God I’ve I’m pray out loud you pray
in your heart dear God I ADM I’ve made
mistakes I admit I need a
savior and I ask that you change my
heart
heart that you change my
motives that you come into my
heart that you change me from the inside
out I believe you lived you died you
Rose again just for me so change me
renew me transform for me transform me
I’m
yours and for the rest of my life I will
live for you as as you show me how in
Jesus
name amen if you prayed that prayer for
the first time or you prayed it for the
first time and meant
it there’s a QR code that’s going to be
on the screen or you can visit our
website just to let us know you made
this decision this is the first step
it’s not the only step but we’re
grateful and we’re thankful and we
believe that heaven is popular ated and
your future is bright because of what
he’s done in your life today I want
everybody in the room and everybody
online to give him the best praise you
got left come
on and if if you have a need and you
want to receive prayer there’ll be
intercessors at the front who can pray
for you everybody who wants prayer will
get prayer can I do it’s not my church
but can I do it like it’s my church
church I’m old
school I pray
benedictions I want you to receive this
by faith may the Lord bless you and keep
you may he cause his face a favor to
shine upon you may he be gracious to you
may he protect you may he provide for
you and above all else may he Grant you
peace this is my prayer for your life in
Jesus name amen now go live a
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