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Part 2.</news:title><news:keywords>holy spirit, LOVE, fellowship, mercy, wisdom, salvation, truth, Jesus Christ, merciful, between a rock and a hard place, slow to anger, laze around, confess our sins, resting, salvation is of the Lord, I am cast out of thy sight, the Lord spake unto the fish, in all sincerity and truth, of great kindness, do as we please, thou heardest my voice, then said I, out of the belly of hell cried I, when my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord, they that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy, slow my thoughts, quiet my soul, your peace and love are present, thank you for this tenderness, your love both surrounds and fills me, Lazy-Day Saturday Prayer, relax my muscles, increase my awareness of you today, I may know you all the more, I praise you for your unceasing nearness, deepen my breath, you can&#039;t be contained, I want to be with you now, worship worthless idols, I will look again toward thy holy temple, the weeds were wrapped about my head, the word of the Lord came unto Jonah a second time, it displeased Jonah exceedingly, take my life from me, it is better for me to die than to live, hatred of all non-Jews, seeking greater intimacy with God, relents from doing harm, Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God, out of the fish&#039;s belly, be productive or unproductive, revitalizing our souls bodies and spirits, enjoy our freedom day, the beauty of going to God in sincerity, God responds in a positive manner, the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah, Jonah was in the belly of the fish, three days and three nights, you cannot escape from God, God will always find us wherever we are, it&#039;s futile to try and escape God, cry out in repentance, I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord, wake up from our foolish disobedience, thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas, the floods compassed me about, always seek the Lord again, never stop seeking God despite our wrongdoing, God will never turn us away if we&#039;re sincere, the waters compassed me about, even to the soul, the depth closed me round about, I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, the earth with her bars was about me for ever, thou hast brought up my life from corruption, my prayer came into thine holy temple, I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving, pay that that I have vowed, the fish vomited Jonah upon the dry land, preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee, a pass free from jail, God seldom let&#039;s out of our original tasks, Jonah learned his lesson, Jonah arose and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord, Nineveh repented and the Lord showed them mercy, I knew thou art a gracious God, is it right to be angry, a false Jewish nationalism, true godliness</news:keywords></news:news></url></urlset>