
From Furnace to Faith
MELTDOWN
When You Don’t Get What You Want
Scriptures:
Jonah 4:1-11, Matthew 6:25-27 & 2 Corinthians 4:18
SUMMARY OF THE BOOK
01 Running from God
Rebelling
02 Running to God
Repenting
03 Running with God
Restarting
04 Running ahead of God
Regretting
MISTAKES Christians MAKE
01 Ignore God’s mission
02 Prejudiced against people God created and loved
03 Reluctantly fulfill your mission with a bad attitude
04 Care more about politics than people’s salvation
05 Interested in your country, not God’s world
Main Problem We want forgiveness for ourselves and justice for everyone else.
PRINCIPLE 1
Resenting God’s
plan when it doesn’t fit my plan.
Jonah 3:10 – 4:2
PRINCIPLE 2
Resenting God’s
mercy and goodness to other people.
Jonah 4:2
MISTAKES Jonah MADE
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE RESENTFUL
5 Emotions
1 Frustration
v.1
2 Anger
v.1
3 Self-Pity
v.2
4 Depression
v.3
5 Suicidal
v.3
PRE-DECISIONS & GUIDING PRINCIPLES
When God’s Plans are Different Than Your Plans
1 God can see things that I cannot.
Jonah 4:4-5
2 God grows his people actively and passively.
Johan 4:4
3 Suffering speeds up the application of truth.
Jonah 4:6-8
4 God uses great and small things to direct us.
Jonah 4:9
5 God will use your thorn to show you everything wrong with you.
Jonah 4:2
6 Jonah brought his gift to the assignment but his heart was left in the whale.
Jonah 2 & 3
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