ISAIAH SAID WHAT?! 😱 Disappointed by People? | King Hezekiah Part 2 | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

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0:51 Speaker 2: we are looking at various lessons that we can take

0:53 Speaker 2: away from Second King, Chapter twenty, revolving around the story

0:56 Speaker 2: of Hezekiah. Yesterday I spoke to you about how this

1:00 Speaker 2: king has Akiah was in a very deadly situation. I

1:03 Speaker 2: really challenge you to go back to it, because if

1:05 Speaker 2: you are facing a deadly situation in your life, God

1:08 Speaker 2: has a word for you that will encourage you, bless you,

1:11 Speaker 2: and probably through that through that word, you might actually

1:15 Speaker 2: receive the miracle that you've been praying and hoping for

1:17 Speaker 2: as well. So the thing I want to talk about

1:19 Speaker 2: is when he is ill, the Bible says that the

1:23 Speaker 2: prophet Isaiah visited him. Think about this. If you are sick,

1:29 Speaker 2: what would you allow to see? You would be so

1:32 Speaker 2: happy if a pastor visited you. You would be so

1:36 Speaker 2: happy if a prophet visited you, or even more so,

1:42 Speaker 2: if you're sick, you would be even more filled with joy.

1:45 Speaker 3: If an ealing evangelist visited you.

1:48 Speaker 2: Right For example, if you wet to say, you know,

1:51 Speaker 2: like you're sick and you see that suddenly Benny Him

1:54 Speaker 2: visits you, You'll be like, oh my gosh, this healing

1:57 Speaker 2: evangelist through whom God has used to bless and heals

2:00 Speaker 2: so many people, he's visiting me. Or in Indian context,

2:04 Speaker 2: like you're saying, oh wow, doctor Paul Dinakaran is coming

2:07 Speaker 2: and visiting me.

2:08 Speaker 3: You'll be so filled with joy.

2:10 Speaker 2: Right, So I want you to understand the magnitude at twist

2:14 Speaker 2: you look at somebody and say, wow, this minister, this

2:17 Speaker 2: man of God, this healing evangelist, this prophet. That is

2:20 Speaker 2: how Prophet Isaiah was. He was a mighty prophet. He

2:25 Speaker 2: was a prophet in this place that it was well known,

2:28 Speaker 2: and this prophet is visiting the king in his deathbed.

2:33 Speaker 2: You may be feeling like, you know what if the

2:35 Speaker 2: prophet comes, I'm sure I'm going to get some good use.

2:38 Speaker 2: I'm sure the prophet is going to do a miracle.

2:40 Speaker 2: I'm sure the prophet is going to probably pray for me.

2:46 Speaker 2: But you're saying I wanted to understand. The prophet Isaiah

2:49 Speaker 2: went to visit him, and he gave the message to

2:51 Speaker 2: the king saying, this is what the Lord says, set

2:55 Speaker 2: your affairs in order for you are going to die.

2:58 Speaker 2: You're not going to recover from this. Oh, I want

3:04 Speaker 2: you to understand this.

3:05 Speaker 3: This is so powerful.

3:08 Speaker 2: When as the Kiyah was sick, the mighty Prophet came,

3:13 Speaker 2: probably is Sakiah would have felt very happy, Wow, the

3:16 Speaker 2: prophet has come. But when the prophet came, what did

3:21 Speaker 2: he do?

3:21 Speaker 3: He just told him, man, you gotta die.

3:26 Speaker 2: I mean, can you imagine how King Isakiah would have

3:29 Speaker 2: felt at that moment. All his oops were crushed because

3:33 Speaker 2: he thought, yes, my situation is bad, but God has

3:36 Speaker 2: sent a prophet to me.

3:37 Speaker 3: Maybe God is going to heal me.

3:39 Speaker 2: Maybe the prophet is going to pray for me, maybe

3:42 Speaker 2: I'm going to receive a miracle that I'm going to

3:44 Speaker 2: talk about.

3:45 Speaker 3: But what happened. The prophet does not even pray for him.

3:50 Speaker 3: Can you imagine the disappointment?

3:52 Speaker 2: Like you would think like Isaiah should have, at least

3:56 Speaker 2: on courtesy grounds, prayed for Heakiah.

3:59 Speaker 3: But Saya just came and said you're going to die.

4:02 Speaker 3: I mean, like how mean it would have felt.

4:05 Speaker 2: I mean, on a side note, this is a word

4:07 Speaker 2: for Christian leaders, ministers, or if you're someone ministering to people,

4:11 Speaker 2: this is a word for you, Okay, even if you're

4:13 Speaker 2: praying for the sake, or you're praying for somebody in

4:16 Speaker 2: a tough situation and you know by for knowledge that

4:20 Speaker 2: probably the person who's going to die, or you know,

4:22 Speaker 2: by for knowledge that they're going to go through tough times.

4:25 Speaker 2: You know, even if you have to speak that, I

4:28 Speaker 2: pray that God will give you the wisdom to speak

4:31 Speaker 2: it with compassion.

4:33 Speaker 3: The Bible says speak the.

4:34 Speaker 2: Truth with love, but that was lacking with this prophet Isaiah.

4:39 Speaker 2: He just came and said you got to die, man.

4:41 Speaker 2: I mean, as a kind of could have felt like

4:43 Speaker 2: I already know I'm going to die. I didn't want

4:45 Speaker 2: you to come and repeat the same thing to me

4:47 Speaker 2: I did. I mean, I thought you would give me

4:48 Speaker 2: some good news.

4:51 Speaker 3: Today. I want to ask you this question.

4:53 Speaker 2: Other people in your life that you hoped would bless you,

4:56 Speaker 2: who hoped that they would stand by you. You were

4:59 Speaker 2: hoping that will encourage you. You are hoping that they

5:02 Speaker 2: will at least pray for you, but in reality, they

5:05 Speaker 2: just came and gave you some word which was not

5:08 Speaker 2: even having any sense of compassion, that was not even

5:11 Speaker 2: having any sensitivity to the need that I'm in. And

5:15 Speaker 2: they're just saying something and they're leaving. Do you feel

5:18 Speaker 2: disappointed by that?

5:21 Speaker 3: This is a word for you.

5:22 Speaker 2: If you're feeling disappointed by maybe a pastor or a leader,

5:27 Speaker 2: or a Christian, or maybe you're disappointed by a people.

5:31 Speaker 2: Maybe you're disappointed by your close ones, your family, your

5:33 Speaker 2: friends that you thought would stand by you, but instead

5:36 Speaker 2: of standing by you, they just came and gave you

5:38 Speaker 2: a word saying, hey, they're gonna die, and then they

5:41 Speaker 2: just leave. That's what this money profit did. I want

5:46 Speaker 2: to pray in Jesus if you're feeling like that, I

5:49 Speaker 2: pray right now in the name of Jesus, that you

5:51 Speaker 2: will be encouraged, that you will understand. That is why

5:56 Speaker 2: we should not look up to mad because man can

5:59 Speaker 2: put us down. Like sometimes we look up to certain

6:01 Speaker 2: people and be like, oh wow, this person is so good,

6:04 Speaker 2: this person is so good, and like I've seen this

6:06 Speaker 2: so many times when you see them on stage and

6:08 Speaker 2: you're like, oh wow, this person is so friendly, this

6:10 Speaker 2: person is so good, they are so spiritual, there so this,

6:13 Speaker 2: But when you try to meet them in person, they're

6:15 Speaker 2: so difficult to even have a conversation.

6:18 Speaker 3: I remember just.

6:19 Speaker 2: A couple of months ago, I happened to go to

6:22 Speaker 2: a prayer meeting where this particular minister came and she

6:25 Speaker 2: was preaching a very powerful word and she shared about

6:29 Speaker 2: her heart for souls and all of that. And then

6:33 Speaker 2: at the end of the meeting, somebody took me over

6:36 Speaker 2: to meet with her to say that this guy is

6:38 Speaker 2: also having a ministry, he has a heart for souls

6:41 Speaker 2: and all of that. So he took me to her,

6:44 Speaker 2: and that lady was like, what is your problem? I

6:49 Speaker 2: was like what, She's like, what is it? I said, No,

6:52 Speaker 2: I don't have any problem. I just came to say

6:54 Speaker 2: that I have a ministry. She's like, so what she

6:57 Speaker 2: was so cold to even have a normal conversation. You

7:02 Speaker 2: get what I'm saying, Like, at that point, I could

7:06 Speaker 2: have felt like, oh man, what is the point of this?

7:08 Speaker 2: You know, this is why I was telling you guys.

7:10 Speaker 2: You know, if you're into ministry, if you're you know,

7:13 Speaker 2: into dealing with people, encouraging people more, be they the

7:16 Speaker 2: sure that you are sensitive to people. Don't be cold.

7:19 Speaker 2: Don't be on that high standard like oh guys, you

7:22 Speaker 2: know you're looking down at people. Don't do that. Okay,

7:25 Speaker 2: that's what is a lesson from Isaiah. That's another sermon

7:28 Speaker 2: maybe we can cover later. But if you're feeling disappointed

7:32 Speaker 2: today as an individual, like as a kayah, where you

7:35 Speaker 2: feel like I was hoping this person would at least

7:38 Speaker 2: pray for me. I was hoping for a miracle, but

7:41 Speaker 2: this person crushed me.

7:43 Speaker 3: I challenge you to stop looking up to people.

7:46 Speaker 2: Stop looking up to people, because I remember as time

7:49 Speaker 2: when in ministry, when you're growing and as a budding minister.

7:53 Speaker 2: I so hope that you know, these ministers would also

7:56 Speaker 2: understand that, you know, we're all building God's kingdom together, right.

8:00 Speaker 2: I always tell people I'm not here to build my empire.

8:03 Speaker 2: I'm not here to build my name. It's all about

8:06 Speaker 2: building the name of Jesus and this kingdom. Right, I'm

8:08 Speaker 2: using my gifts. I'm using the gifts and talents and

8:11 Speaker 2: the revelations God has shared with me to bless the world.

8:14 Speaker 2: But at the same time, I'm not saying I'm indispensable.

8:17 Speaker 2: I believe that God has given me certain gifts that

8:19 Speaker 2: you can learn from, be encouraged to deified, and you

8:22 Speaker 2: can see that God is using.

8:24 Speaker 3: These to help you in your time if need.

8:26 Speaker 2: But at the same time, God may use somebody else

8:28 Speaker 2: for something else. You know, maybe you want to learn

8:31 Speaker 2: certain things you may learn through another minister. Maybe you

8:34 Speaker 2: need to grow in fellowship, you need to go through

8:36 Speaker 2: your church. And so they are different things, right. So,

8:39 Speaker 2: there used to be moments that'd be like, I thought

8:42 Speaker 2: these pastors or these ministry leaders would stand by me,

8:46 Speaker 2: encourage me, support me, But the response I would get

8:49 Speaker 2: would be so cool, you'd be so indifferent. I would

8:53 Speaker 2: feel like, oh my gosh, this is not the way

8:55 Speaker 2: I thought it should be. I thought we were all

8:57 Speaker 2: together to build the Kingdom of God. I used to

9:00 Speaker 2: be disappointed till one point I realized, stop looking up

9:04 Speaker 2: to people. People can disappoint you. Ministers can disappoint you.

9:08 Speaker 2: This is a word to tell you that if you're hurt,

9:13 Speaker 2: stop looking up to them. You know what Heekaiah did.

9:16 Speaker 2: Heekiah did not beg Isaiah saying hey, Isaiah, please pray

9:20 Speaker 2: for me. Hesakiyah did not tell Isaiah Isaiah, come on,

9:25 Speaker 2: speak to the Lord and change the word from.

9:28 Speaker 3: The Lord for me. That's not what Isakayah. Did you

9:31 Speaker 3: know what he did?

9:32 Speaker 2: The Bible says in verse two, when Isakaiah heard this,

9:35 Speaker 2: he turned his face to the wall and prayed.

9:38 Speaker 3: To the Lord. This is a word for you.

9:42 Speaker 2: Isekiah did not talk to Isaiah about the problem. Isekiah

9:48 Speaker 2: spoke to God about the problem.

9:51 Speaker 3: This is a word for you.

9:53 Speaker 2: If you're disappointed by people, if you're hurt because people

9:56 Speaker 2: are not standing by you. Instead of still holding onto

9:59 Speaker 2: people and and still running behind people, is so still

10:03 Speaker 2: chasing behind approvals and trying to win their favor and

10:06 Speaker 2: trying to make them to like you. I challenge you

10:09 Speaker 2: to make this conscious decision instead of turning to Isaiah,

10:14 Speaker 2: turn up to the Lord. Because when you look after

10:18 Speaker 2: the hills. From whence your health comes from. It comes

10:22 Speaker 2: from the Lord, the maker.

10:23 Speaker 3: Of heaven and earth. Today, I want to pray over

10:27 Speaker 3: you if.

10:27 Speaker 2: You're feeling hurt and disappointed by people, if you're feeling

10:31 Speaker 2: hurt by maybe even church leaders and ministers, and maybe

10:34 Speaker 2: you're hurt by people you looked up to, thinking these

10:37 Speaker 2: friends would have stood by me, but they just abandoned

10:40 Speaker 2: me in my time of need.

10:42 Speaker 3: I want to pray that.

10:43 Speaker 2: This word will encourage you to stop looking at your

10:47 Speaker 2: Isaiahs and start looking up to your God. Because from

10:51 Speaker 2: him will you find the strength, the miracle, and the

10:55 Speaker 2: breakthrough your need to fulfill the purpose that God has

10:58 Speaker 2: in stoff for you. I really challenge you to will

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