DEFEATED TRAPPED AND UNHAPPY!

In the Bible Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish's belly.  - Jonah 2:1

Walking past my barn one day, I heard a frantic chirping inside.  When I investigated, I found a poor blue jay beating its wings against the window.   had it not cried and chirped, I would not have heard, but its cry for help prompted me to come, open the door wide, and allow it to fly out to freedom.

God's children get themselves into some unusual places and unhappy circumstances.   Consider the following incidents:

• Jonah in a fish's belly, running from God (Jon2:1).
• David in enemy territory, acting insane (1 Sam 21:10-15).
• Abram in Egypt, lying about his wife (Gen 12:10-13).
• Lot in Sodom, living with the wicked (Gen 13:12-13).
• Elijah in the desert, wallowing in self-pity (Ki 19:4).
• Peter in a courtyard, denying his Lord (Luke 22:55-62) 

God's children should not be found in such circumstances, but all too often they are.
Are you in a place you shouldn't be today?   Are you far from God, feeling defeated, trapped, and unhappy?
Then cry out to the Lord, confess your sin, and be restored by His abundant mercy (1 Jn 1:9).   He is waiting to hear your cry of repentance.M.r.De Hann, MD.

There is only One who knows
All the answers to my woes;
He will all my needs supply,
When in faith to Him I cry. - Morgan

NO PLACE IS BEYOND THE REACH OF GOD'S GRACE.

Psa 40:4  Blessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust, And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. MSG

Psa 40:4  Blessed are you who give yourselves over to GOD, turn your backs on the world's "sure thing," ignore what the world worships; NKJV

Psalms 40:4

Blessed is the man that makes the Lord his trust,.... For such are safe and secure in him, are possessed of all blessings of grace through him, have peace in their own souls now, and shall enjoy eternal happiness with him hereafter; 

and respected not the proud; such as the Pharisees, and all self-righteous persons, who trust in themselves and their own righteousness in sin and submit not to the righteousness of Christ, and despise others; to these who trust in Christ have no respect; they neither esteem them, nor imitate them; 

nor such as turn aside to lies; to idols, the lying vanities of the Gentiles; or to any doctrines injurious to the person, office, blood, righteousness, sacrifice, and grace of Christ; which are no other than lies, and which those who believe in Christ have no respect to, but abhor both them and the abettors of them.