Go To God When Bad News Hits

Family. Hope you are all doing. Well. It is now time for the word of God who want to skip some of what we've already been talking about because we have a particular question to ask all of you this morning. And that question is this how do you respond when you receive distressing news? Let me say that one more time. How do you respond when you receive distressing news? This is where we going to go into the work and we're going to remind you of the distressing news that King Hezekiah received from the king of Assyria who was seeking to take territory. That belong to King Hezekiah as he serve God, so I guess you could say Apostle, right? It belongs to God Hezekiah recognize that in the knowledge that it belongs to God. So when this king of Assyria who is on his way to try to lay claim of it makes that threat that's what causes King Hezekiah to go to God to ask God what say you about what this man is doing and saying about you. king of Assyria is not only coming to take that territory, but he's doing so incensed because Hezekiah stop to Sikh Allegiance with Egypt in the hope that the combined forces would overtake the king of Assyria now when Hezekiah hears this king of Assyria is he goes to the temple in distress? He is comforted by the prophet Isaiah who tells him and I just want to read that one part II Kings 19 so we can put it in context vs 6 and 7 because this is The prophet Isaiah speaking on God's behalf.

First six says I sent sent to them say to your master. Says the Lord do not be afraid because of the words that you would hurt with which the Servants of the king of Syria have reviled me or 7 says I myself will put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land. I will call him to Fall by The Sword in his own land. That's where the health isn't it and not only is compromise of Deliverance when the Lord that the Lord was going to put a spirit in him that suggests that guy was going to take him out of his mind can't get to the point where we think that we are Beyond. An influencer be a good or bad. Can come in and control our thought process. I think that we take that to lightly I think us believing that we indeed are in control of ourselves at all times if we were so arrogant to believe that I think this word here you would be hard to reconcile with that school of thought. If that's what you believe then but what is this word here for that? God said I got this and how I'm going to do it is I'm going to take control of his mom. And he was going to take control of this Mine by introducing a rumor. He's going to hear a rumor that's going to cause him to go back to his own land and when he goes back to his own land he's going to fall by the store how fantastic is that? Because that's exactly how the enemy tries to work in us to distract us from realizing our Union with God. and why wouldn't you try to do something that he seen. Successfully do because he tries to be So this is why we try to practice believe in a rumor. Can depending on how you respond and react to it control you? It can occupy your thoughts so much so that it overcomes your natural daily routine because you'll be so preoccupied with your response to that rumor. Amen, and this is exactly something that got it already started to put into work. We know that because of the king of Assyria was battling when Hezekiah his Messengers came to him. And now can you see him being popped up in his thoughts? believing that As he responds to the rumor. Did you need it to attack with quiche? That he is because he thought that he's doing this in the name of God. He thought he was the blessed one the anointed one to overcome. So now it's feeding this ego. This rumors have feeding this ego because he has to be the Conqueror. Can you see gas setting this up using them against himself? And isn't that so reminiscent or are are reflected. That's a better word of the word that says you the Creator who forget what you was going to do was leave you to yourself. And let you fall to all manner of negative impact as a result of you believing that lie. A man and for the future the complete future all the days of your life and it can be something very specific that God just says something like what he told of the king. You know, what? Tell the king everything's going to be alright. And you are going to be the one folks movie the Takeover. He goes, he tells the king. God says he's going to be all right, but he doesn't tell the king that God said that he was going to be the one who takes over the king subsequently dies. He gets put in power. And then you see this over and over when men get into positions of authority and got me have something that he is purpose and it's the relationship we had with jeruzalem of with Judah and Israel was permit to Generations. Is that subsequently there's some things that we play out in life as we make our journey and many of those things that God has promised are just it's not intended to be something that's permanent manifest in maintain forever. For God's purpose. God has a specific plan where you have a part in that plant and many times that goes try because even though God asked for Less in a position. Then we can get lifted up. We can start thinking that we're not it and go as far as to try to incriminate the very guy that put you in position. Very God that gave you the word and you can voice an opinion against that guy pray that God will bless you and then time passed and God declares. He's going to bless you and then you enter into that blessing and then you would promise. When you did not have that if you saw anyone that was distressed and needed a ride you would give him a ride to church are and someone needed a place to stay. You allowed all these things that he said that when those things are added to you then you transition and then everything that you've

Did you do just the opposite so when you see that person that's trying to get to church you pass them. I've heard you say this before and what I'm thinking right now is something that I hadn't considered before when I've heard you say it. Why you do that? Why are you past the person that we know needs a ride? We're driving the car that we say God blessed us with. and I think that

it would suggest we get this. Lightheadedness that somehow we acquired these Blessings by herself and that they belong to us and not the guy that blessed us with it, which is a bit different than King Hezekiah also projects this human Frailty because even though we know God has given it to him. His first response is not to go to God is Axl Rose. Let me go to this team over in Egypt Ethiopia and let me join forces with him. And if we join forces together, we can take the king of Syria and it wasn't until God change the heart of that. He said no, I'm not going to join with you. And that King was looking out for himself. He wasn't concerned about Israel because I mean about Judah because Judah really couldn't help him. So he was actually the one that had the most to lose so he wouldn't Drew and left you to buy them self and so the representative because the walls of Jerusalem have been fortified and that and that had not been invaded is that now he's forced to go to the source, which you should have gone at first. So it shows that even with the man of God sometimes I initially but God's patience and his mercy and his grace that he allows us even though it is not the best. Us to make movement to ultimately come to him going back to that example is that you get a house and now you see someone that is in need, you know, they are are they demonstrated some Behavior nobody's in them and then you let them struggle just the same because it's no longer your issue. It's their issue. So we should have the bowels of our compassion towards people and we forget Who we were kind of like what the Apostle said when he says this is just to say that don't get too heady. Don't necessarily when he said he would do what you said you would he always comes up on the winning hand. We don't always come up immediately on the winning hand we evolve and then we progressed into better hands until we get to that place of Whitney, but that is a transitional experience that whole process. When he realizes that you're on your own. Now you turn your attention to God and we said Dentistry off of the Bible where the woman that had the issue of blood. She can come to God first come to Christ first. She went to doctor said she had expended when she was out and there was no other option then what should have been the first option but it wasn't but aggressively and this is another is that this is another issue. This is why you can't judge people by their condition because what their conditions are today don't reflect what the conditions of the first sin in hell.

What God intends to do with it? And then he has to do what he wants to do is just us who after we read a little bit and study little bit think that we know a little bit more because we think we are not as pliable doing those we know what God is doing. So we move many times stating that it's God only to find out later on that it's not now one of those reactive experiences acting in faith. We're react to the circumstances which is going to kill us in position us to Ashley function. Boxing and so that's what I see when I look at his Akai. I see the Strategic business which means that he is a man of logic because he's putting together ideas that would sound right to humanity. Is the natural but showing the Frailty of that Humanity when he gets distress when he realizes it's like having money that you know, it's so goddamn money was on the way. So if the money is on the way you can thank God for having the ability to go out and work for you. But you you can't just arbitrarily try to make it a miracle because it's not on when you get up to testify to the truth as the truth just like you tell a dream as a drink you speak what you know, you don't have to help it amp it up and then Pro. Take it and projected as though it's something that it's not just speak the truth and the truth will speak than for you because the truth only can speak what is in its nature. And so it comes to a state of Truth. He finally goes to God man confers with God's man which is like coming to God God's

and then that word does what he expected the Egyptian kings were to do so he gets that word but he gets it from the actual King from some human gets the comfort that he needs. So now his faith is Boost it because he is experienced the things that can be glorified as your king before your people that is not the petition that he says God has mischaracterized you this man have committed blasphemy because he says these things about you as though their true and they aren't So this is an issue of you not being glorified and I need you to move in this so you can be right lyanna and the response that God gives through. Isaiah reflect that I've heard what you had to say. I've heard the defamation of character that has been committed Against Me by the king of Assyria. Don't be afraid. I'll control I'm going to send out a rumor he's going to respond to it. It's going to cause him to return back to his own land and fall by his own relationship that he has because remember all the events with the King has been already establishing Chronicle is that so he's aware of how God has moved in and he's also aware that a similar event took place where a lying spirit of fear and God use the lion spear to go and to impression put an impression on the minds of those profits and made them all chill locks inside. So we already know and then establishes show you what I'm going to do. I'm going to put a lying Spirit. I'm going to let this distortion. Saturated because remember that King had become unstable every time we think that we can speak to God and over and speak on his behalf and project like we have the cheese that God then re-adjust things because if that's they were specially when we begin to talk about God deceiving the man of God who God has placed asking and without question his hand is coming to discipline is that so it says earlier on in 2nd Kings 18 that he prospered. So we knew that God's hand was on him the way that the land was flourishing but it was as an honor to God and in reflection of who got it yourself instead of glorifying God in our everyday living is a he not only took down idles, but he stopped most children one thing that they bow and they subscribe to is Moses as God's man and Moses image of a staff they can look at and then they had it reinforces what I said before and they would get healing and things of that nature.

Is there was nothing that could replicate God is in his nature. He's so just as he knows he also removed that as a place of worship for a item for worship because he said that doesn't that's not even indicative of who God really is. So he forbid them for even doing that cuz when you have a transformational experience and you have a reformer, he goes not only the adversary was doing in the other nations was doing and worshipping he goes back and reforms the way in which Jerusalem was going to worship. That's the beauty because sometimes we get locked into. Just this is what the Bible says. This is what the Bible says. This is what the Bible says no space for advancement you seen today is that we live in every time we see someone that God is using transformation looks even like he was not afraid to establish. What was even if it looked like it wasn't what God established for Israel and fourth of June he went as far as related to the Gentiles of establishing a format.

Isn't that was going on in there? So it just says that God has a leader and this leader has transformative. And it's not a free not fearful to go out in advance and it's for Progressive enough to realize that it did not work cuz I believe he was like, let me strategize and when it didn't pan out, he realized I missed it, but let me go because let me go to the man of God prophet of God who I know and then let's start this process all over so he was not afraid to step out since is that in the midst of your stress? Because life is stressful you do not have to be distress. You can rest like my former first lady sister wanted to say you can rest in your stress and be blessed despite all the mess that's going on is that but you have to rest and know that despite the stress that is trying to advance in your life. You are not worried because your your your faith is deeply rested in placed in the hands of God and God will cause the distress to dissipate and hopeful re-emerge in your heart as God comforts you by his men and women of God and by his word and then you can go into battle knowing who God is already declared that no weapon formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that rises against you in judgement.

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And I think that this is Food For Thought even today. King Hezekiah got everything out of God's way so that God could clearly be seen he didn't glorify himself as the reformer that you said that but that's what he did. That's not what he professed. It's what he did and And seeing what you did in hindsight characterize it as what he was a reformer, but he didn't classify himself as I don't even think that that's what he requires the people to see him at he was just doing that and the acts that he engaged. That removed things that were false worship things that the is the people of Israel had come to be comforted by and assisted by but as you said earlier, that's not real. That's not God so that we can clearly see God and begin to move. He prospers becomes this target of attack. He does strategize. I agree with you. I think that's what he did and I think you thought until it had a reaction. The reaction was the king of Egypt said no, but look at look at what God does this is why I love the study of the word of God because his character is revealed and Understanding God's character.

Spray and expect a God you don't know to move on your behalf. You ought to be able to say God just like you move that I know what you're capable and I'm asking that you do it now for the same reason because you have to be seen even in today's time. I'm not asking you to do this so that I'm perceived to be this special I'm saying that how you are being portrayed even in today's time is a misrepresentation of who you are. This is blasphemy, and I know you're real and I asked you to be real

That you move because this is wrong is wrong. What he's trying to do is wrong and. Don't worry. I got it. Remember that was the messenger for the king of Assyria and the king of us in Syria is Senate are up. So his messenger returns and finds the king of Assyria fighting against Slipknot before he had her here's the room before she had her that the king had left licorice. So you were fighting in the kiss when I went to go get the message. She told me to get to King Hezekiah has people that caulking of the car to go in the temple and receive his were so while King Hezekiah is receiving the word through the prophet Isaiah. . Was he when he was fighting in the kitchen when the king heard concerning King Jim hot. I know I'm saying that were wrong or that name wrong Ethiopia. See here's the rumor. He has set out to fight against you. So the rumor was that the king of Egypt that told him to call, you know, the rumor is by the time king of Assyria get sent that he said, yes, so he leaves where he was fighting to go fight against a threat that didn't exist because it was a room but it control them because it stopped him from doing what he was doing and distracted. Just as God said it would this is some good stuff to me. Amen. So he's end up when he hears this he sent Messengers again to Hezekiah thing because now he's like, okay, let me go handle that that I want you to send to King Hezekiah cuz now he's really incensed that somehow you convince them to come up against me. So here's the letter A man first ten bucks show you speak to King of the eye of Judah. Let your God on whom you rely deceive You by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria you have heard with the kings of Assyria have done to all lands destroying them other gods of the Nations delivered them the Nations that my predecessors destroyed go sign her and respa and the people of eating who were intellistar Where is the king of Hamas and the king of arpad the king of the city of seraphine the king of henna or the king of Eva? That's blasphemy upon blasphemy about blasphemy from a very proud and haughty King and it is contrary or actually is reflective of the word. Which king Hezekiah may have already known because it's in Psalms that are are Proverbs. I believe that goes before the fall. Amen. So in any event, this is the distressing news that we intended that we were asking about what we started this which is what is your response received distressing news. I want to set this up just a little bit too kind of gear your mind into this last nugget that we intend to give you off on today. Now King Hezekiah goes to the temple and distress is comforted by Isaiah and Hope And automatically gets challenged again. We just read 2nd Kings 19 verses 8 through 13. This threat was intended for King Hezekiah to change his mind. He was trying to see fear in King Hezekiah and this happened after God is already spoken to King Hezekiah. So you may have received the word from God that you believe in your heart was from God. But as soon as you receive it in your walkway, happy Here Comes Calamity to try to challenge the word that God has given you and now you are distressed because you don't know what to believe because the threat is so severe and so real it's intended to strike fear in your heart and was captured shoe hatching Hezekiah responded to this and panic it would have changed his position and that is with the enemy is trying to get you to do the enemy is trying to get you to change your position because he does not want you to realize the promise of God, but you have to understand With a petition that challenges the threat that has been me and it invokes got detention because the character has been misrepresented and you was a servant of God knows that what is being said isn't right what's being done? Is it right that I have to move on your behalf? Because you are representative of God and as a representative of God, you know, his glory has to come through. This is what happens as a result of being transparent in your living when you are transparent when it is not about you. It is about the true and living God that you serve gilded your life as his servant so that he can be seen when people see you they know something different about you. They don't can't understand why they can't understand why you are so prosperous.

Peace in the midst of stress and distress they don't know why every time they think you're about to fall a door has opened somewhere else and use it instead realize Victory. I'm talking to that person. I'm talking to that person that knows I have lived forgot. And what is happening is wrong as that person went to. And received a judgment from God that is from the king of kings. That is the ultimate lost. There is nothing that can go against that.

but you can't if you respond in tenant to the threat that comes against the Judgment that you have the Judgment that says God is moving on your life and that there is nothing that can happen to you without God's permission when you respond contrary to that knowledge. You can get yourself out of position.

people of God, no, please remember enough There is nothing that could come against the word of God and prevail. but you Can circumvent the blessing the word intended to be to you by your reaction in your response? Let's look at this threat. He emphasizes the strength that he thinks he has he gives all of these examples about what happened in the past and he's threatening to use that strength to destroy King Hezekiah.

But God I need somebody to say because here in verse 14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of The Messengers and he reads it. Then it goes up to the house of the Lord and you spread before the Lord and Hezekiah himself now praise before the Lord. He doesn't now he's spread this or I got evidence God. I got proof of what this man thinks he is and he prays to God and he said the god of Israel and throne above the chair of them You Are God Alone of all the kingdoms of Earth you have made heaven in their first Apostle.

the god that you know, you're going to Hezekiah says in verse 16 incline your ear O Lord and gear open your eyes. Oh Lord and see hear the words of senator of which he has a mop the Living God truly olor. The kings of Assyria have laid waste the Nations and their land not only does he know that God is going to cheat is not diminishing the nature of the threat. Do you say I know who this enemy is? What he says about what he did in the past. It's a formidable. Enemy that is come up to attack. Verse 18 sub and the Pearl their gods Into the Fire though. They were no Gods, but the work of human hands wouldn't Stone and so they were destroyed like I'm not surprised that he was Victorious. They were victorious in the past. They haven't met you yet. So this is someone who said and Ponder and consider. Didn't respond in panic. But meditated thought about the God who served and who he was thought about the enemy that's coming and who he is and intelligently went before God. snap me present my case again because there's some new evidence that's coming that I need to put before you. Verse 19 says so now Lord save us. I pray you from his hand so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you will Lord Our God Alone. That was his prayer as he placed that letter before God a man. Ben Isaiah the Lord the god of Israel. I have heard your prayer to me about King senator of Assyria is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him. She despises you she scorns YouVersion. Zion. She tosses her head beyond your back daughter Jerusalem. Have you mopped and revolve against whom have you raised your voice and hopefully lifted your eyes against the Holy One of Israel by your Messengers. You are the Lord and you obsessed with my mini chariots. I have gone up the heights of the mountains to the far recesses of Lebanon. I failed its tallest eaters its choices cypresses. I entered its farthest Retreat its densest Forest Ida Wells and drink Foreign Waters. I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt. Have you not heard that I determined that long ago. I plan from Days of old. What now, I bring to pass that you should make fortify City crash into heaps of Ruin while their inhabitants shorn of strengths are dismayed and confound it. They have become like plants of the field and like tender grass like grass on the House Top blighted before it is from but I know your rising and you're sitting you're going out and coming in and your raging against me because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears. I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth. I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

What a response.

Everything you did. Ireland you And imma just use modern-day vernacular you got it twisted. You thought you were bigger than what you really are. And I saw it all and now it's time to respond. Oh, what a powerful and wonderful God we serve if you have no hope. If you have no hope in the god that you serve this word isn't for you. But if you believe like I believe that God exists even in today's time your hope, is it going I don't care how hot is a spirit any man or woman has I don't care how they may think that they are the all in all and be off. I don't care what type of demagogue they try to present themselves in these the coming-and-going God is allowed at all. God has the last thing I want to say the rest of what happens on next week, and I just wanted to make sure the people have that. Hope on today. No the god you going to know the enemy that's attacking you and know that if God is giving you a judgement. Nothing can come against it if he's giving you a word nothing and no one can come against it because God is in control of all opossum. You can see that God by his own admission establishes that he was the one that was responsible for even the adversaries success is he had already know ahead of time how much life to him and because we stand for him makes us out of cereal is that but God has put different people in different position. My mind goes to a time that I've read in the scripture where God has put Giants on the lamp and you kept the Giants because the the person that he had put in charge. Free stuff on a prosthetic message that he had given it to they weren't strong enough to maintain so occupied no other poop on it and dominating and take it until Divine and his chosen person mature enough and came to a point where they believe what the prophecy for truancy and then when they got in and they were ready and there was a God gave them pictures for calls other nations to be apprehensive in launching an attack. I see their positions and when I look at it all the way to do it in this because the blessing is in his name and despite the challenges that come in your life to try to distress us and get us to move off our position and God still gives us Victory. God also gives us what we know about the character in nature of our God and seek not to gather, you know glory to ourselves attention to ourselves, but seek to The purpose calls in the kingdom of God involved himself because now we are aligned with the purpose of God and we understand that purpose. So then all parties that God has in in vote their contribution it all comes together like a puzzle. Then we're able to see put people in place even our adversary so that he can demonstrate his glory so that she can have the attention on him so that he can do what he has purpose to do from the beginning when I first set of parents to manifest the promise that he made to them that their seed. The serpent would be brought down and the those that were a part of that family, which is the family of God, which is the Human family have the opportunity to be reconnected. And so God is all about reconnecting. The humanity to himself and all of those who are not allies of God adversarial to God then we brought down because God's word will not return to him void or unconscious. It will accomplish what he sent it in. The Bible says that word has gone out of our mouths and it's not going to come back to us because there's no reason to distress if you're saying what God is saying and you're using the name of Jesus and you are infused by the Holy Spirit No weapon formed against you is going to Pockets Prosper, but you will prosper because the purpose of God which is prosperity Spirit soul and body will totally incompetent Wheels is Kingdom. God bless you. Keeping my you been blessed by these messages. You can partner up with us. You can partner up with a customer. Also in your tie your contribution so that these messages can go through outdoor. Touch the lives of people in fraction. Goblet