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The Heart Beat of God

Jonah 4

17 November 2013

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The Heart Beat of God

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The Heart Beat of God

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The Heart Beat of God

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When we know what is the heart beat of God

1. We will be joyful over God who loves us. Jonah 4:1But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he

became angry.2 So he prayed to the Lord, and said, “Ah, Lord, was not this what I said when I was still in my country? Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish; for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness, One who relents from doing harm. 3 Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”4 Then the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

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When we know what is the heart beat of God

2. We will be grateful for a God who gives. 

Jonah 4 5 So Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city. There he made himself a shelter and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city. 6 And the Lord God prepared a plant[a] and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.

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When we know what is the heart beat of God

2. We will be grateful for God who gives

7 But as morning dawned the next day God prepared a worm, and it so damaged the plant that it withered. 8 And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

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When we know what is the heart beat of God

3. We will be mindful of God who saves.

Jonah 4: 11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

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When we know what is the heart beat of God

3. We will be mindful of God who saves.2 Peter 3

9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

1 Timothy 23 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

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Gerber Will Make Formula for One Boy Who Needs It to Live

April 06, 1990|From Associated PressNEW YORK — A Gerber research plant is retooling

to resume production for a market of one: a profoundly allergic 15-year-old boy who cannot live without a special baby formula the company stopped making five years ago.

For a few days this month, one quarter of the production space at the Gerber Products Co. research center in Fremont, Mich., will be devoted to making MBF, a formula that only Raymond Dunn Jr. needs and which Gerber is providing free.

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"People here are working on this on their own time," Gerber research director George Purvis said Thursday. "We all have our own jobs, and this is one we added on."

Raymond, who lives with his parents in the Catskills town of Yankee Lake, weighs 31 pounds. He was born with an abnormally small head and brain. He is severely physically and mentally retarded and cannot speak or see.

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And, since the age of 5, Raymond has been allergic to almost every form of nourishment. All that kept him alive was Gerber's MBF, an expensive, meat-based formula for allergic infants.

But in 1985, faced with declining sales, Gerber stopped making the brown liquid formula. The Dunns tried dozens of alternatives, but they all made Raymond sick.

Gerber agreed to reveal its formula and process for making MBF to any manufacturer who would supply Raymond, but none was willing or able.

"We scrounged around for every can of the stuff that was in existence," Purvis said, including many whose expiration date had passed. After obtaining a Food and Drug Administration waiver, Gerber began delivering them to the Dunns.

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The unsold backlog prolonged Raymond's life, but did not make it easier. Asthma kept him inside the house almost all of the time.

It seemed life couldn't get any more difficult until the day in July, 1988, when Carol Dunn, Raymond's mother, received a letter from Gerber. The firm said its MBF was all gone, leaving Raymond with less than a two years' supply.

Mrs. Dunn sought help in letters to political and business leaders, including President Bush, Donald Trump and the Princess of Wales. But Gerber seemed her only hope.

"I believed they wouldn't let me down because there's human beings in that corporation," she said. "I felt that, somehow, that Gerber would not let Raymond die."