HOW TO SURVIVE AN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION? | King Hezekiah Part 1 | John Giftah | Biblical Teaching Podcast

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0:45 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

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0:50 Speaker 2: We're going to look at various lessons that we can

0:52 Speaker 2: take away from Second King, Chapter twenty, revolving around the

0:56 Speaker 2: story of the King Ezekiah. See. One of the things

0:59 Speaker 2: I want to start by is when you see the

1:02 Speaker 2: first verse, it says about that time I'm reading from

1:05 Speaker 2: the Nalty version. Alrighty, it says Hezekiah, the king became

1:09 Speaker 2: deadly ill. Okay. We're going to look at various aspects

1:12 Speaker 2: of this story in the next few days. But I

1:14 Speaker 2: want you to pay attention to this. Hezekiah is in

1:18 Speaker 2: a very bad shape. He is in a place where

1:21 Speaker 2: if you look at the different translations, it says that

1:23 Speaker 2: he is having some illness which is going to result

1:27 Speaker 2: in death. I don't know who I'm talking to, but

1:29 Speaker 2: some of you are watching or listening and you're saying, John,

1:32 Speaker 2: my situation is very deadly. Maybe you are facing a

1:36 Speaker 2: sickness which the doctors have said that you will never

1:39 Speaker 2: be able to recover. You need to learn to live

1:42 Speaker 2: with this for the rest of your life. Or maybe

1:44 Speaker 2: you're actually listening to this after a time, whence the

1:48 Speaker 2: doctors have actually told you that, you know what, you're

1:50 Speaker 2: not going to survive for more than this much of time,

1:54 Speaker 2: and you're saying, John, I do not understand how I

1:57 Speaker 2: can ever have any kind of a hope of living

2:01 Speaker 2: any longer than this. Or maybe you are not facing

2:04 Speaker 2: a physical death, maybe you're facing something else. Maybe death.

2:09 Speaker 2: Debt is affecting you. You're in a place where you

2:12 Speaker 2: feel like, oh my goodness, John, I'm struggling financially. I'm

2:17 Speaker 2: taken so many loans, I've taken so many things, and

2:20 Speaker 2: kids like all these things are coming against me, and

2:23 Speaker 2: I do not know what to do. Because I was

2:26 Speaker 2: reading about this investor the other day of how he

2:29 Speaker 2: went to this place where he felt like there was

2:32 Speaker 2: no way to turn around. He had gone too much

2:35 Speaker 2: in the death and he had no way out, and

2:38 Speaker 2: he ended up ending his life. Today, you may be

2:40 Speaker 2: contemplating those thoughts. You may be thinking, John, there's no

2:44 Speaker 2: practical way for me to ever recover from this. There's

2:47 Speaker 2: no way for me to ever see better days coming

2:50 Speaker 2: into my life. Maybe you made some mistakes that led

2:53 Speaker 2: you to where you are. Sometimes when we see about

2:55 Speaker 2: people who are incarcinated for a long period of time,

2:59 Speaker 2: or sometimes for or their entire lifespan, they are incarcinated

3:03 Speaker 2: and they feel like, you know what, I'm never ever

3:06 Speaker 2: going to get out of the portals of this prison

3:09 Speaker 2: anymore because of my choices. Maybe you are watching or

3:14 Speaker 2: listening from a person, or maybe you are watching listening

3:17 Speaker 2: from a situation which feels like I have to live

3:19 Speaker 2: with the consequence of my mistake for the rest of

3:22 Speaker 2: my life. Or maybe life just happened to you and

3:25 Speaker 2: you're in a very deathly state. But today I want

3:28 Speaker 2: to give you a word of hope. I want to

3:29 Speaker 2: give you a word of encouragement. I want to give

3:31 Speaker 2: you a word of challenge to tell you that you

3:34 Speaker 2: may be in a midst where it feels like your

3:36 Speaker 2: life is at stay, but we serve a God who

3:39 Speaker 2: can still turn the situation around in your life. God

3:44 Speaker 2: is a god of miracles. When you see Asakayah when

3:48 Speaker 2: he was in a deathbed, it felt like there was

3:50 Speaker 2: no way out for him. But what God did was

3:53 Speaker 2: he turned his life around and he was able to

3:56 Speaker 2: live fifteen more longer years. I want to tell you

3:58 Speaker 2: something their Saints of God. When I was forty five

4:01 Speaker 2: days old, the doctors told me that there was no

4:03 Speaker 2: way for me to be alive. They said that, you

4:06 Speaker 2: know what, we have come to the best of all

4:08 Speaker 2: our medical expertise. We come to the best of everything

4:11 Speaker 2: that we can do, but there's no way this baby

4:14 Speaker 2: is going to survive. You better call all the relatives

4:16 Speaker 2: and say that this baby is going to die. But

4:18 Speaker 2: I'm here to announce to you that the Lord who

4:21 Speaker 2: changed my life from being in the dead bed to

4:25 Speaker 2: coming here and ministering to you and to millions across

4:28 Speaker 2: the globe. I want to tell you that's the God

4:30 Speaker 2: who can turn the situation around in your life, whether

4:35 Speaker 2: you're facing a sickness, whether you're facing a financial trouble,

4:39 Speaker 2: whether you're facing some challenges in your relationship or your

4:42 Speaker 2: marriage or your family, and you think I have to

4:44 Speaker 2: live with this for the rest of my life. Maybe

4:46 Speaker 2: there is somebody in your family who is struggling because

4:50 Speaker 2: of some health conditions and you have to struggle because

4:54 Speaker 2: of being associated with them, Or maybe there are things

4:57 Speaker 2: that you're dealing with which feels like this is how

5:00 Speaker 2: my life is always going to be. I can never

5:02 Speaker 2: get an hedge in life. This is something I need

5:04 Speaker 2: to learn to live with. But I'm telling you we

5:06 Speaker 2: saw a God of miracles. Just last week, I had

5:12 Speaker 2: the opportunity to travel to the northeastern eastern part of

5:17 Speaker 2: India called Issam, and one of the things I want

5:20 Speaker 2: you to understand is it was the region in Assam

5:23 Speaker 2: and Magalaya. These are the states that I was traveling

5:26 Speaker 2: to and ministering in a couple of churches and healing

5:30 Speaker 2: meetings and and also a book conference and some local

5:34 Speaker 2: television channels and all of these things that happened. But

5:37 Speaker 2: I want you to understand during that period they brought

5:41 Speaker 2: in a person who had experienced some kind of paralysis

5:45 Speaker 2: so he could not lift his hand. Beyond this, he could.

5:49 Speaker 2: He had to be helped in by people to be

5:51 Speaker 2: brought to the prayer meeting, and they said, can you

5:55 Speaker 2: pray for him? And I'm telling you, honestly, I've seen

5:58 Speaker 2: many cases of so I know that God still he is.

6:02 Speaker 2: At the same time being genuinely, you know, being open

6:06 Speaker 2: with you. There are cases I prayed for and people

6:08 Speaker 2: I have not got healed. So I was like, God,

6:11 Speaker 2: I don't know. My compassion for them was great. I

6:14 Speaker 2: was like, God, I don't want this person to be

6:16 Speaker 2: like this pace healed and I just prayed for this

6:19 Speaker 2: person and from this level, immediately he was able to

6:23 Speaker 2: lift his hand. The person got healed instantly and he

6:27 Speaker 2: actually started walking a little saying, you know what, I'm

6:31 Speaker 2: able to walk by myself. See, I want you to understand.

6:34 Speaker 2: It felt like he had to live with this paralysis

6:37 Speaker 2: for the rest of his life. There have been cases

6:40 Speaker 2: of people who have been suffering with cerebral policy or

6:45 Speaker 2: certain cases where you feel like you have to live

6:47 Speaker 2: with this for the rest of your life, or maybe

6:50 Speaker 2: people who got into generational financial deaths. You know, the

6:55 Speaker 2: other day I came across an article about somebody who

6:59 Speaker 2: has been suffering for three generations of slavery in some

7:04 Speaker 2: part of the world because of financial death and I

7:07 Speaker 2: was like, listen to this. Maybe if they had a

7:10 Speaker 2: way out, they would love to have a way out,

7:13 Speaker 2: but then they are stuck. It is like, this is

7:16 Speaker 2: how their end is going to be. That is how

7:18 Speaker 2: it feels like today. You may be feeling like that

7:21 Speaker 2: this is the end for me. There is no way

7:24 Speaker 2: out for me. I remember this popular TV show, or

7:28 Speaker 2: I think it's also on Netflix or something. It's called

7:31 Speaker 2: The Orange is the New Black or something on those lines. Yes,

7:36 Speaker 2: the thing in that there is this person who's suffering

7:40 Speaker 2: from terminal cancer and they're all this entire show is

7:45 Speaker 2: all about those who are incarcinated for a long period

7:49 Speaker 2: of time and all of this. And she is happening

7:52 Speaker 2: to tell somebody else. She says, listen, even if you

7:57 Speaker 2: spend time behind bus, you have an opportunity to go

8:00 Speaker 2: out and live your life. But this is how my

8:04 Speaker 2: life is going to end behind bars with this terminal cancer.

8:09 Speaker 2: And you know, it's a very sober moment when she

8:12 Speaker 2: shares this see. You may feel like, oh, that's just

8:15 Speaker 2: a TV show, But think about this. Maybe in some

8:18 Speaker 2: way your life feels like that. You feel like, this

8:21 Speaker 2: is how I'm gonna die. This is how my life

8:23 Speaker 2: is going to end. I'm never going to come out

8:25 Speaker 2: of this death. I'm never going to see better days.

8:28 Speaker 2: I'm never going to see help, my health improved. I'm

8:31 Speaker 2: never going to see you know, things turning around. But

8:34 Speaker 2: I want to announce to you the same God who

8:37 Speaker 2: is able to bring Hezekiah from the deadbed and give

8:41 Speaker 2: him a new least of life, the same God who

8:44 Speaker 2: was able to turn my life around from deadbed, from

8:48 Speaker 2: a death sentence from the doctor to say, you know what,

8:50 Speaker 2: you're going to minister to multitudes. I'm there to announce

8:54 Speaker 2: to you. God is going to turn your life around.

8:57 Speaker 2: God is going to make your life be a child

9:00 Speaker 2: of blessing to multitudes in Jesus Mighty name. If you're

9:04 Speaker 2: watching listening saying John, I'm in a very deadly situation,

9:08 Speaker 2: I want to speak a word over you right now

9:10 Speaker 2: that your situation will be met by the presence of God,

9:13 Speaker 2: by the promise of God, and God will turn your

9:16 Speaker 2: life around for good and you will say, look what

9:19 Speaker 2: the Lord has done. He is a mighty God, a

9:21 Speaker 2: powerful God, and He's going to do wonders in your life.

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9:35 Speaker 2: this series and I will see you back next time.

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