- God wants to hear from us; anytime, anywhere, and in any way.

- Disobedience leads us to pain.

- Whenever we stop focusing on who is beside us and start focusing on who is in us, powerful things begin to happen.

- If you are trying to avoid God's plan for you, there will always be a boat heading in the opposite direction. Satan will do everything he can to give you a way out of doing what God has called you to do.

- If you want the storm in your life to cease, you need to quit going the way you are going.

- From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.

Jonah 1:2

- Sometimes in life, you will work harder to disobey God than to do just what he asked.

- The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: "Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.'

Jonah 1:1-2

- But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish.

Jonah 1:3a

- Then the Lord sent a great wind on the sea, and such a violet storm arose that the ship threatened to break up.

Jonah 1:4

- The sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw cargo into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay, down and fell into a deep sleep.

Jonah 1:5

- The captian went to him and said, "How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish."

Joanh 1:6

- Once Jonah was thrown overboard, God provided a huge fish to swallow him. When we are thrown into our own storms, God will send something our way for us to draw closer to Him.

- God will always call you from something, to something.

- But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use to him. Romans 5:8 (The Message)

- God will always call you from something, to something.

- But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use to him. Romans 5:8 (The Message)

-Far too often, we will hear the voice of God for someone else much more clearly than we will hear it for ourselves.

-God will always call you to the place where you are no longer dependent on you.

-You have what it takes to answer God’s calling for your life.

-The biggest obstacle to us experiencing God move in our lives tomorrow is clinging too tightly to what God did yesterday.

-If God has called you to it, He will equip you through it

- Some detours take us around the block, others take us on a path that you did not plan on being on.

- Is your God big enough to do something you don’t think He can do?

- This is not a story about a big fish, it’s a story about a big God.

- Running with God will always take you to a better place.

- How will I respond when God ask me to do ____?